Malkin, Benj. Heath. - THE SCENERY, ANTIQUITIES AND BIOGRAPHY OF SOUTH WALES, From Materials Collected During Two Excursions in the Year 1803.

T.N. Longman and O. Rees ..., 1804. 1st Ed. 4to. vii + 634pp. + [ii]. 12 tinted litho. plates drawn on the spot and engraved by Laporte, folding map (repaired to verso). Some light spotting, marbled e.ps. and edges, hinges taped, double gilt rule edged diced calf boards, minor wear and marking, rebacked in modern gilt fillet tooled calf with gilt lettered label. ¶ An early example of a lithographically illustrated work. Benjamin Heath Malkin (1769–1842), schoolmaster and antiquary. ‘... Malkin’s best known work is an account of his travels in South Wales in 1803, published as [the above] which was described by R.T. Jenkins as ‘by far the best of old Travel books on South Wales -acute and interesting in its observation, usually tolerant in its judgements, with a substantial knowledge of Welsh history and (upto a point) of Welsh literature.’’ Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales.

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