Creator
Rowland Jones
Title
The Circles of Gomer . . . with an English Grammar.
Coverage
London
Publisher
S. Crowder et al.
Date
1771
Description
An amateur philologist, Jones (1722?–1774) became convinced that Welsh held the key to the primeval speech prevalent before the events at the Tower of Babel. He wrote several books advancing this idea. During his lifetime, Jones’s notions were considered outlandish, just as his prose style was. “He talks,” said a reviewer in 1764, “like a druid rising out of the grave after 1,800 years’ sleep.”