Bibliography
William
Borlase b. 2 February 1696–d. 31 August 1772
Works authored
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Incl. on pp. 374-413 a ‘Cornish-English vocabulary’, which is largely based on Edward Lhuyd’s dictionary in the Archaeologia Britannica.
