Annerch ir Cymru, iw galw oddiwrth y llawer o bethau at yr un peth angenrheidiol er mwyn cadwedigaeth eu heneidiau. Yn enwedig at y tlodion annysgedig, sef y crefftwyr, llafurwyr a bugeiliaid, y rhai o ifel radd, o'm cyffelyb fy hunan, hyn er eich cyfarwyddo i adnabod Duw a Christ, (yr hyn yw bywyd tragwyddol) yr hwn sydd yn dduw unig ddoeth. A dyfeu ganddo ef, fel y deloch yn ddoethach nach athrawon. O waith Ellis Pugh. [Two lines in Welsh from Jeremiah]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pugh, Ellis, 1656-1718 24777

Contributor:

Hugh, John

Language:

Welsh

Physical Description:

[2],iii-x,3-111,[1]p. ; 4°.

Place of Publication:

Argraphedig yn Philadelphia, Ymhensilfania : gan Andrew Bradford, MDCCXXI. [1721]

Notes:

The first book printed in the Welsh language in America.

Translated into English as: A salutation to the Britains, to call them from the many things, to the one thing needful, for the saving of their souls .., Philadelphia, 1727 (Evans 2950).

The testimony of the Monthly Meeting at Gwynedd, in the county of Philadelphia, concerning Pugh, p. vi-x, signed: John Hugh [and fifteen others].

Two states noted. In the first, gathering a is incorrectly imposed; pages are in the order iii, viii, ix, vi, vii, iv, v, x. In the second, gathering a is imposed correctly.

Page [112] has three printer's ornaments, but is otherwise blank.

Local Notes:

Library copy: state unknown

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 2286; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 173