File NLW MS 10261B. - English-Welsh dictionary,

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NLW MS 10261B.

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English-Welsh dictionary,

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  • 1771, 1786, [19 cent.] / (Creation)

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William Evans.

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'D. Hughes, 1786' on title-page.

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A copy of William Evans: A New English-Welsh Dictionary ... Carmarthen, 1771, with additions and substitutions which suggest its use as a basis for another dictionary.

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English, Welsh.

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Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), p. 206.

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See also NLW MS 12623B, which contains an interleaved copy of William Evans's New English-Welsh Dictionary (Carmarthen, 1771), with copious manuscripts additions, probably in the hand of the Reverend Charles Newling, headmaster of Shrewsbury School, 1754-1770; and NLW MS 21403E, which contains a proposal 'to Publish, by Subscriptions, A Second Edition of the Late Reverend William Evans's English-Welsh Dictionary, Improved and enlarged by the Addition of near 1000 Words, By, the Reverend Mr Richards, Formerly of Coychurch, Glamorganshire', Carmarthen, dated 8 September 1810.

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Formerly Cynddelw MS 46.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 10261B.

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vtls004554155

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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  • Text: NLW MS 10261B.