Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ, nunc vulgo dictæ Cambro-Britannicæ, a suis Cymraecae vel Cambricae, ab aliis Wallicæ, et linguæ Latinæ, dictionarium duplex

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One of the most important seventeenth-century sources for the Welsh language. The first edition of this Welsh dictionary. In attractive, modern (to style), full boxed calf, blind edge tooling. Spine, raised bands, gilt title to maroon morocco label. Internally, not paginated but 199 leaves (ms pencil numbered), (signatures: *1-**4, A-P3, Aa-Iii6, some professional gutter repairs, occasional contemporary margin notes, contemporary ink name to fpd (Evan Jones) & ep (Edward? Williams), new 'old' endpapers, text block edges reddened, bound (as normal) without the inserted leaf of commendatory verses, small binders stamp to epd, 3 columns per page. (259*176 mm). (ESTC S122150. STC 6347. Livri Wallia 1551). Davies presents the dictionary not merely as a vocabulary but as a repository of 'venerable British antiquities', reflecting the antiquarian as well as linguistic purpose of the work.