Memoir Of Richard Robert Jones Of Aberdaron In The County Of Carnarvon In North Wales Exhibiting A

by William Roscoe

$450 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: printed for T. Cadell and J. & A. Arch, 1822. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. 4 , 50; original paper-backed marbled boards, paper label on spine; some cracking to the spine, else very good. Mr. Jones was likely autistic, with Savant Syndrome, whose genius was the acquisition of language. He was able to read the Bible in his native Welsh at nine, and in Latin at fifteen. By nineteen he had mastered Hebrew and shortly thereafter French and Italian.

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