BLACKWELL, Henry. Cambrian Gleanings: A Monthly Magazine for Welsh People
BLACKWELL, Henry. Cambrian Gleanings. A Monthly Magazine on Welsh Matters for the Welsh People the World Over. Edited and published by Blackwell. New York. 1914. 12mo. First edition and only. A scarce bound volume of the short-lived magazine, which spanned only January to September of 1914; each issue usually around 20pp, with bright orange card wraps, bound as one. Very good. Cloth a touch marked and bumped, binding tight, contents clean, the marbled endpapers delightful. Scarce.
Blackwell was born in Flintshire and, like his father, was a bookbinder in Liverpool. He moved to the USA in around 1877 with the idea of creating a super-bindery, and hoped to spread the joy of Welsh language across the nation. In the following decades, he founded and co-founded various clubs, institutions and groups, and created this magazine in 1914. The magazine, for the most part compiled for an American audience, considers the relationship between Wales and the US, with Welsh identity, custom, and language at the fore. There is a focus, too, on advancing the reader’s skill of the language, and various sections push Welsh language bookshops. An altogether unfamiliar thing; we can locate no copies in commerce.
BLACKWELL, Henry. Cambrian Gleanings. A Monthly Magazine on Welsh Matters for the Welsh People the World Over. Edited and published by Blackwell. New York. 1914. 12mo. First edition and only. A scarce bound volume of the short-lived magazine, which spanned only January to September of 1914; each issue usually around 20pp, with bright orange card wraps, bound as one. Very good. Cloth a touch marked and bumped, binding tight, contents clean, the marbled endpapers delightful. Scarce.
Blackwell was born in Flintshire and, like his father, was a bookbinder in Liverpool. He moved to the USA in around 1877 with the idea of creating a super-bindery, and hoped to spread the joy of Welsh language across the nation. In the following decades, he founded and co-founded various clubs, institutions and groups, and created this magazine in 1914. The magazine, for the most part compiled for an American audience, considers the relationship between Wales and the US, with Welsh identity, custom, and language at the fore. There is a focus, too, on advancing the reader’s skill of the language, and various sections push Welsh language bookshops. An altogether unfamiliar thing; we can locate no copies in commerce.
BLACKWELL, Henry. Cambrian Gleanings. A Monthly Magazine on Welsh Matters for the Welsh People the World Over. Edited and published by Blackwell. New York. 1914. 12mo. First edition and only. A scarce bound volume of the short-lived magazine, which spanned only January to September of 1914; each issue usually around 20pp, with bright orange card wraps, bound as one. Very good. Cloth a touch marked and bumped, binding tight, contents clean, the marbled endpapers delightful. Scarce.
Blackwell was born in Flintshire and, like his father, was a bookbinder in Liverpool. He moved to the USA in around 1877 with the idea of creating a super-bindery, and hoped to spread the joy of Welsh language across the nation. In the following decades, he founded and co-founded various clubs, institutions and groups, and created this magazine in 1914. The magazine, for the most part compiled for an American audience, considers the relationship between Wales and the US, with Welsh identity, custom, and language at the fore. There is a focus, too, on advancing the reader’s skill of the language, and various sections push Welsh language bookshops. An altogether unfamiliar thing; we can locate no copies in commerce.