PRICE, Rhys and Griffiths, E — Y Llysieu-lyfr Teuluaidd

Abertawy, E Griffiths, 1858. later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Front cover/spine detached, back cover loose. covers bumped and rubbed. Page edges browned, some minor foxing. Text in Welsh except plate descriptions which are in English. Price was a Congregational minister and received only three days of schooling. A weaver by trade, he devoted his leisure to reading and became a model of a self-taught man. As a preacher he had a rapid and easy-flowing delivery, with a style all his own. He was considered an authority on medical matters and his Llysieu-lyfr Teuluaidd 1840, was for long considered a standard work. He also wrote a number of poems of a didactic and revivalistic nature. Fair.