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Borlase (William)

1696–1772
antiquarians
Ludgvan

Cornish clergyman, geologist, naturalist and antiquarian; author of works such as The antiquities of Cornwall (first published in 1754) and The natural history of Cornwall (1758).

Borlase, William, Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall: consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, druid-superstition, customs, and remains of the most remote antiquity in Britain [...], 2nd ed., London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichol for S. Baker and G. Leigh, 1769.

Incl. on pp. 415-464 a revised version of the ‘Cornish-English vocabulary’, which is largely based on Edward Lhuyd’s dictionary in the Archaeologia Britannica.

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Borlase, William, The natural history of Cornwall, Oxford: Printed for the author by W. Jackson, 1758.

Full title: The natural history of Cornwall: the air, climate, waters, rivers, lakes, sea and tides ; of the stones, semimetals, metals, tin, and the manner of mining ; the constitution of the stannaries ; iron, copper, silver, lead, and gold, found in Cornwall. Vegetables, rare birds, fishes, shells, reptiles, and quadrupeds: Of the inhabitants, their manners, customs, plays or interludes, exercises, and festivals ; the Cornish language, trade, tenures, and arts. Illustrated with a new sheet map of the county, and twenty-eight folio copper-plates from original drawings taken on the spot. The section ‘Of the inhabitants’ (ch. 26), begins on p. 291; that on the Cornish language on p. 313.

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Borlase, William, Observations on the antiquities, historical and monumental, of the County of Cornwall: consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, druid-superstition, customs, and remains of the most remote antiquity, in Britain, and the British Isles, 1st ed., Oxford: W. Jackson, 1754.

Incl. on pp. 374-413 a ‘Cornish-English vocabulary’, which is largely based on Edward Lhuyd’s dictionary in the Archaeologia Britannica.

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See also: LudgvanLudgvan

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