9781901409031 - Morton Nance Memorial Edition (New Cornish Dictionary/Gerlyver Noweth Kernewek) (5 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condición: Very good.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. Morton Nance Memorial Edition [xii,] 200 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 9781901409031, 1901409031 OCLC 1554290844 ; blue cloth in photographic dustjacket ; A reprint, with addenda, of 'A new Cornish-English dictionary' and 'A new English-Cornish dictionary', originally published in 1938; Cover and spine titles: A new Cornish-English and English-Cornish dictionary ; Robert Morton Nance was a British writer and leading authority on the Cornish language, a nautical archaeologist, and joint founder of the Old Cornwall Society. Nance wrote many books and pamphlets on the Cornish language, including a Cornish dictionary, which is a standard work, and edited magazines and pamphlets about Cornwall, including Old Cornwall, the journal of the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. Nance was also a nautical archaeologist of distinction and was an originator of the Society for Nautical Research. His insight and learning were displayed in his book Sailing-ship Models which appeared in 1924. He studied art in Britain and France and was both a painter and a skilled craftsman.Nance began studying the Cornish language in 1904 from Henry Jenner's A Handbook of the Cornish language, although he would later steer the language revival towards mediaeval Cornish. n 1909, Nance and Jenner met in Falmouth while the former was researching. They became friends and spent the next decade researching Cornish and collecting tidbits of traditional Cornish. These were published in a series of papers which were read both to the Royal Institution of Cornwall and the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.Jenner and Nance formed the first Old Cornwall Society in St Ives in 1920. Its motto was "Cuntelleugh an Brewyon us Gesys na vo Kellys Travyth". By 1924, there were sufficient Old Cornwall Societies for a Federation, with Jenner as its president and Nance as its recorder. n 1929, he published Cornish for All, a work which detailed a version of Cornish based on the Ordinalia and other mediaeval texts, creating the Unified Cornish spelling system and defining the next phase of the Revival. Before his death in 1959, he remarked: "One generation has set Cornish on its feet. It is now for another to make it walk."; AS NEW. Book.

Condición: Sehr gut. 14.5cm x 22.5cm. 200 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and protective Mylar covering. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. This Cornish Dictionary is a reprinted Memorial Edition to mark the fortieth anniversary of the death of Robert Morton-Nance (1873-1959). It also marks the 70th anniversary of the publication by Nance of "Cornish for All" which created a unified system of spelling, making Cornish more accessible. (Matthew Geden, Time Traveller's Bookshop).

Condición: Used: Good. Occasion - Bon Etat - Avec jaq - Morton nance mémorial edition (1999) - Grand Format.