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CARADOC of Llancarfan. The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales: A part of the most famous Yland of Brytaine, written in the Brytish language aboue
CARADOC of Llancarfan. The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales: A part of the most famous Yland of Brytaine, written in the Brytish language aboue two hundreth yeares past: translated into English by H[enry] Lhoyd Gentleman. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border; numerous woodcut portraits, escutcheons, and initials. [16], 22 (of 24), 401, [11] (of [15]) pages; lacks A8 (blank) and G1.4 (index leaf and final blank). Black letter. Small 4to, 18th-century calf gilt with morocco lettering piece, worn, covers detached; some marginal dampstaining, traces of mold toward end, scattered contemporary marginalia, title heavily soiled, next leaf trimmed close without text loss (possibly supplied?), blank lower margin of last leaf excised. (London: Rafe Newberie and Henrie Denham, 1584)
- Notes: first edition of an annalistic history of Wales by a 12th-century monk, incidentally claiming the discovery of America for the Welsh, with an account of Madoc's voyage to Florida on pages 228-29. Alden 584/9; Sarton II, 257; STC 4606.
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