Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica, 1790 [or, An essay to preserve the ancient Cornish language]
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Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica, 1790 [or, An essay to preserve the ancient Cornish language]
（English linguistics, 1500-1800 : a collection of facsimile reprints, no. 362）
Scolar Press, 1972
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"A Scolar Press facsimile."
Original t.p.: Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica; or, An essay to preserve the ancient Cornish language; containing the rudiments of that dialect, in a Cornish grammar and Cornish-English vocabulary, compiled from a variety of materials which have been inaccessible to all other authors. Wherein the British original of some thousand English words in common use is demonstrated; together with that of the proper names of most towns, parishes, villages, mines, and gentlemen's seats and families, in Wales, Cornwall, Devonshire, and other parts of England
Facsimile reprint of 1st ed., Sherborne, W. Cruttwell, 1790
"Much of the matter was taken whole sale from the collections of Thomas Tonkin and William Gwavas."--Dict. nat. biog
Includes several letters written by Edward Lhuyd to Thomas Tonkin
