Facsimile & text of the Book of Taliesin
By: reproduced & ed. by J. Gwenogvryn Evans.
Contributors: Evans, J. Gwenogvryn, ed.
Series: Series of Welsh texts
Publisher: N. Wales
Published: 1915
Place of publication: Llanbedrog
Language: eng; wel
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Welsh poetry -- 1100-1400; Names, Geographical -- Wales; Wales -- Historical geography
Notes: Appended to this copy are (printed on vellum paper): "A list of books used" and "Additional subscribers" (1 leaf); "List of subscribers" (p. [170]-177)
A companion volume, "Poems from the book of Taliesin," containing an amended text with translation into English, issued by the editor in 1915.
Issued to subscribers only. "Eight hundred copies of this work were printed at the private press of the editor in 1900-04; nos. 1-125 on Japanese vellum paper; 126-275 on toned linen-made paper; 276-450 on decklededge paper: 451-800 have text only. no. 359." List of subscribers indicates a different manner of issue: "Facsimile and text--Patrons' edition, nos. 1-100 ... Facsimile and text--Library edition, nos. 126-225 ... Facsimile and text--Students' edition, nos. 276-475."
Half-title: Llyvyr Taliessin. Vol. IX of the Series of old Welsh texts.
Introduction (with notes on geographical names in Wales) dated March 20, 1915.
Facsimile (on vellum paper) interleaved with text. Pagination includes 2 blank pages, 49-50, the original ms. lacking these 2 pages besides p. 1-2 and "a quire or more" at the end.
"Taliesin lived between 1105 and 1175, or thereabouts. The Daroganeu, the theological poems, and those referring to John and Richard, as well as their Kymric contemporaries, are, in my opinion, by some other poet, or poets."--Introd., p. xxix.