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An “ex libris” or bookplate from Swansea Training College, showing a castle gate with raise port-cullis, and with the motto “Gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche” from Chaucer’s Clerk, and a Welsh motto, Ni wyr na dder llen o, which is from an old Welsh proverb, Gwell gŵr na ddarllen or Gwell gŵr na ddarllen o, meaning Better an active man than a well-read one, or, doing is better than just reading.

Swansea Training College was founded in 1872 as the first women-only teacher training college in Wales. Today it forms part of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD).

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The bookplate is in my copy of Cotgrave’s English/French dictionary from 1650, which I bought in a Toronto book fair.

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