An English and Welsh Dictionary: wherein, not only the words, but also, the idioms and phraseology of the English language, are carefully translated into Welsh, WITH: With: A Dissertation on the Welsh Language

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The Classic Dictionary. VG, 1815, Two volumes in modern half calf, over red marbled boards, some blind tooling. Spines, blind & gilt tooling, gilt titles. Internally, Vol 1, 1815, [7], (viii-xiv), [7] subscribers list, [1], [1], 2-784 pp. Vol 2, 1815, [2], [1], 2-698 pp. Dissertation, [3], 4-22 pp. (262*212 mm). (Allibone 2563. Lowndes 2826 for the 1st). Title continues: by proper and equivalent words and phrases: with a regular interspersion of the English proverbs, and proverbial expressions, ranged in their alphabetical order, and rendered by corresponding ones in the Welsh tongue. To which is subjoined a dissertation on the Welsh language, pointing out it's [sic] antiquity, copiousness, grammatical perfection, with remarks on it's [sic] poetry Walters, Church of England clergyman and lexicographer, whose most important work was an English-Welsh Dictionary, which was published in fifteen parts between 1770 and 1794. From 1770 to 1776 the parts came out regularly, but by 1776 progress had slowed down owing to financial difficulties. Walters complained that many of the subscribers (who included Samuel Johnson, William Seward, and Mrs Thrale) did not pay for the parts as they were published! see ODNB for a full bio. & NLW online. An excellent example.