The Mabinogion, from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest and Other Ancient Welsh Manuscripts; with an English Translation and Notes by Lady Charlotte Guest. Part I. Containing The Lady of the Fountain

Overview:

  • Title: The Mabinogion, from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest and Other Ancient Welsh Manuscripts; with an English Translation and Notes by Lady Charlotte Guest. Part I. Containing The Lady of the Fountain
  • Author: uncredited
  • Year: 1838
  • Publisher: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans
  • Binding: unknown
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: The Mabinogion, from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest and Other Ancient Welsh Manuscripts; with an English Translation and Notes by Lady Charlotte Guest. Part I. Containing The Lady of the Fountain
  • Notes:
    • Data from Google Books scan which is Volume I of the 1849 edition which reprints Parts I and II in a common binding, reproducing their title pages. This edition has been taken as a source of information about the contents of the original parts but not their page numbering. The 1849 edition also includes an Introduction which can't have been included in the original, at least not in the same form, since it is dated 1848.
    • The reproduced title page reads in full: "THE MABINOGION, / FROM THE Llyfr Coch o Hergest AND OTHER ANCIENT WELSH MANUSCRIPTS: / WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND NOTES / BY LADY CHARLOTTE GUEST / PART I. / CONTAINING THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN. / LONDON: LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER ROW; AND W. REES, LLANDOVERY. / MDCCCXXXVIII."
    • Preceded by a dedication to the author's children Ivor and Merthyr, signed "C. E. Guest."
    • In the notes, Guest includes the entirety of the related romance "Li Romans dou Chevalier au Lyon."
    • Bilingual edition.