Output details
30 - History
Aberystwyth University
Article title
Peter Williams a'r Beibl Cymraeg
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
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Title of journal
Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
Article number
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Volume number
14
Issue number
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First page of article
58
ISSN of journal
0959-3632
Year of publication
2008
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This article considers the early, somewhat troubled, history of the publication of the Welsh Bible in London before examining the significance of the Peter Williams edition, published in 1770, the first edition of the Bible to be published in Wales, an important milestone in the development of the eighteenth-century print industry in the country. Despite initial controversy over the theology of some of the explanatory notes, Williams’s edition became a publishing phenomenon, with three editions appearing before 1800 and a further thirty-five before 1900.