AN AUTUMN IN WALES (1856)
Written by Julius Rodenberg, William Linnard
Published by D. Brown & Sons Limited
in 1985
ISBN: 0905928318
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AN AUTUMN IN WALES (1856)
Written by Julius Rodenberg, William Linnard.
Stock no. 1326898
1st ed.
1985.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Country and people, tales and songs. Originally written in German and published in 1858 the work was translated and first published in English in 1985 by Linnard. Red glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0905928318. Spine faded. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Pale page browning and foxing to top edge of textblock else contents clean.
Front cover
Contents
- Dedication
- To the Reader
- On the banks of the Mersey
- Over river, valley and hill
- The Farm
- On Welsh History
- The schoolmaster of Llanfaiorfechan
- Conway and Llandudno
- Mother Moll
- Kymric Mabinogion: Welsh folk tales as an intermezzo
- 1. Welsh fairies and ghosts
- 2. Fairy castles
- 3. Tales of house and farm
- 4. Tales of forests, fields and meadows
- 5. Tales of rocks and caves
- 6. Tales of the lakes
- Annus Domini
- A mythology of death
- Welsh poetry and music
- Penillion: songs and epigrams of the welsh
- Penillion of lover
- Penillion of lamentation and mockery
- Penillion of practical wisdom and contemplation of nature
- Bangor
- Caernarvon and Llanberis
- From Capel Curig to Llangollen
- Sarah's wedding
- Departure and homecoming
- Appendix: Welsh melodies
- 1. Toriad y Dydd
- 2. Codiad yr Hedydd
- 3. Ar Hyd y Nos
- 4. The enchanted fiddlers melody
- Editorial Notes