Cylchgronau Cymru

Chwiliwch trwy dros 450 o deitlau a 1.2 miliwn o dudalennau

Prilannau Sanctaidd, 1658. Llwybr Hyffordd, 1682, and Flores Poetarum Britannicorum, 1710, for 31/ Seventeen copies of Y Saint Greal were sold for 20/ Reynolds's Display of Heraldry, 1739, and two other books, 23/ Llwyd's Archcvologia, 1707, 50s. The Library con- tained a large number of Welsh books which were cata- logued in this way, 15 parcels Miscellaneous Theological and other books.' One can, of course, only exercise one's imagination as to the contents of these parcels, but judging from the number of the Canon's books which are to be met with in second-hand book-shops, one is safe in assuming that many rare Welsh books were included in the miscellaneous bundles. Many of his letters to Mr. Wynne of Peniarth are scattered throughout the Peniarth Collection of MSS., proving, not only that he was of great assistance to Mr. Wynne in the compilation of his catalogue, but also that he had a fuller knowledge of the Welsh MSS. in that collection than any contemporary scholar. He also prepared notes for a new edition of his Dictionary of Emi- nent Welshmen, which came into the possession of the late Mr. Edward Owen, of Ty Coch, and is now in the National Library. Notes on Charles Heath, of Monmouth: Author, Printer, and Publisher, eir. 1788-1831. Charles Heath, Printer, Monmouth, was born at Hurcott, near Kidderminster, Worcestershire, in the year 1761, and, at an early age settled in the town of Monmouth as a Printer, during the latter part of the eighteenth century. In a printed note on the cover of his Excursion down the Wye, 1808, he says he had then been resident at Monmouth twenty years, so that, approximately speaking, that would fix his going there about 1788. Being endowed