1815 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, 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 Antiquity, Copiousness, Grammatical Perfection, with Remarks on it's Poetry; &c.

Description

Early Edition, Leather Binding

The second edition of Rev. John Walter's English-Welsh dictionary, first published in 15 parts 1770-1794. Complete in two volumes. 

Uniformly bound in full mottled calf. 

A large English-Welsh dictionary, wherein the idioms and phraseology are carefully translated, rendered by corresponding ones in the Welsh tongue. The author's manifesto A Dissertation on the Welsh Language (in which he praises the Welsh language) is also issued with this work to Volume II.

Based on the unpublished manuscript of an English-Welsh dictionary by William Gambold, completed in 1722. Walters’ aim was to enable Welsh writers to discuss all areas of scholarship in Welsh, and thus his dictionary derived its contents from literary as well as spoken sources of Welsh. He also coined several new words, many of which are still in use today.

Walters convinced printer Rhys Thomas to establish Glamorgan's first printing press at Cowbridge. It was this press which first printed Walter's Dictionary in 1770.