Gilpin, William.

OBSERVATIONS ON THE RIVER WYE, And Several Parts of South Wales, &c. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; Made In the Summer of the Year 1770.

London : printed for R. Blamire, in the Strand, 1792. 3rd Ed. 152pp. + [i] publ. advert. 17 tinted aquatint plates. Some light browning, marbled e.ps., inner gilt dentelles, contemporary mottled calf, intricate gilt tooling to edges of boards, corners sl. rubbed, joints lightly cracked, gilt tooled bands and motifs with modern gilt lettered title label to spine with loss at head and tail and with sm. ink stain.
¶ Abbey lists 16 plates, Prideaux lists 17, in our experience issued with anywhere between 15-17 plates. ESTC T41848; Abbey Scenery 546 (First Edition); Prideaux p.337 (First Edition). William Gilpin (1724–1804) English artist, Church of England cleric, schoolmaster and author. Gilpin travelled widely in Britain, with his notebook and sketching materials, in order to identify locations which offered that particular kind of beauty in landscape 'which is agreeable in a picture'. Picturesque tourism constituted 'a new object of pursuit', as he wrote the practice recommended was 'that of not merely describing; but of adapting the description of natural scenery to the principles of artificial landscape'.

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(Glamorgan County History Trust Limited).

GLAMORGAN COUNTY HISTORY Volume III [only of 6]: The Middle Ages. The Marcher Lordships of Glamorgan and Morgannwg and Gower and Kilvey from the Norman Conquest to the Act of Union of England and Wales. Edited by T.B. Pugh.

Cardiff: Distributed for the Glamorgan County History Committee by University of Wales Press, 1971. 1st Ed. 4to. [xx] + 704pp. Frontis., 23 plates from photos., 6 maps including 1 folding, 7 text figures. Sl. chipped d/w. faded to spine.

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(Glamorgan County History Trust Limited).

GLAMORGAN COUNTY HISTORY. Volume I [only of 6]: Natural History. Edited by W.M. Tattersall. Foreword by the Earl of Plymouth.

Cardiff: Printed and published for the Committee by William Lewis (Printers) Limited, 1936. 1st Ed. 4to. [xx] + 444pp. Frontis., 4 folding maps, 39 plates, 27 text figures. Sl. faded and rubbed d/w.

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Green, Francis (Compiler).

CALENDAR OF DEEDS & DOCUMENTS.

National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1921-31. 3 vols. Thick 8vo. Light age toning, original gilt lettered terracotta cloth, minor wear.
¶ One of a Limited Edition of 500 Copies. Covering the Coleman Deeds, the Crosswood Deeds, and the Hawarden Deeds.

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Gwyn, David.

WELSH SLATE. Archaeology and History of an Industry. Foreword by Professor R. Merfyn Jones.

RCHM Wales, 2015. 1st Ed. 4to. 291pp. + [v]. 243 figures including many in colour and from photos. E.p. map, good in original coloured pictorial boards very sl. rubbed to corners.

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Hamer, W. Bowen.

RADNORSHIRE in History, Topography and Romance. A Collection of Articles and Stories relating to the County. With a Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Sir D. Brynmor Jones.

Llandrindod Wells The Radnorshire Standard Co. Ltd., 1914. 1st Ed. Sm. 8vo. xxvii + 213pp. Many ills. Some light browning, original gilt rule edged gilt lettered cloth, spine sunned and bumped.

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Harries, Frederick.

FAMOUS WRITERS AND WALES.

"Glamorgan County Times," Office, Pontypridd, 1925. [viii] + 186pp. + [ii]. Dec. head and tail pieces. F.e.ps. browned, black lettered red cloth faded to spine with fading intruding sl. along top-edge of boards.

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Hicklin, John (Editor).

EXCURSIONS IN NORTH WALES: A Complete Guide to the Tourist Through That Romantic Country; Containing Descriptions of Its Picturesque Beauties, Historical Antiquities and Modern Wonders.

London: Whittaker and Co ..., 1848. Sm. 8vo. ix + 208pp. Frontis (foxed, 3 plates, repaired colour folding map (affixed to pastedown). Lower hinge cracked, light browning, original gilt lettered blind embossed green cloth, light discolouring, spine faded.
¶ Ex-libris Sir Thomas Davies Lloyd, (1820-1877), baronet, landowner, and politician. Lloyd claimed descent from ancient Welsh families and placed great emphasis on these connections. He rebuilt Bronwydd as a Victorian Gothic fantasy 1853–1856.

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Hillmans, A.

TWELVE VIEWS ON THE WYE.

N.p., N.d. c.[1842]. Thin landscape 8vo. 12 engravings. Some foxing, original gilt lettered blind embossed cloth, some foxing.
¶ New Railway Bridge Chepstow, Chepstow from the Bridge, Chepstow Castle, Piercefield, The Wyndcliff Monmouthshire, View from the Wyndcliff Monmouthshire, Tintern Abbey Monmouthshire, Tintern Abbey, Tintern Abbey (Interior View), Raglan Castle, Goodrich Court on the Wye, Ross.

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"Hopcyn" [James, Lemuel J. Hopkin] and "Cadrawd" [Evans, T. C.].

HEN GWNDIDAU, CAROLAU, A CHYWYDDAU Being Sermons in Song in the Gwentian Dialect by Forty-Two Bards of Tir Iarll of the Tudor Period ...

Bangor: Jarvis & Foster, 1910. 1st Ed. Thick 8vo. [lxxviii] + 316pp. Many plates. E.ps. spotted, f.e.ps. browned, sporadic spotting throughout, ex.-libris Rev. Prof. J. Oliver Stephens, original gilt lettered green cloth with gilt device to upper board, some minor soiling and rubbing, upper board sl. scratched, t.e.g.

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(Howel Dda).

THE LAWS OF HOWEL DDA. A Facsimile Reprint of Llanstephan Ms. 116 in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Edited by Timothy Lewis.

Published for the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales by Henry Sotheran & Co., 1912. Royal 8vo. xviii + 121pp. + [i]. Frontis. Some sporadic spotting, gilt lettered green cloth with gilt armorial device and blind ruling to upper board, t.e.g. rest uncut.
¶ University of Wales, Welsh Texts No. I. One of a Limited Edition of 529 Copies.

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Howse, W.H.

PRESTEIGNE. Past and Present.

Hereford: Jakemans Limited, 1945. 1st Ed. 141pp. + [iii]. 17 ills. from photos., folding map. E.ps. lightly spotted, gilt lettered light blue cloth, corners sl. bumped, minor rubbing to edges and spine.

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Hutton, W.

REMARKS UPON NORTH WALES, Being the Result of Sixteen Tours Through that Part of the Principality

Birmingham Printed for and sold by Knott & Lloyd ..., 1803. 1st Ed. xii + 224pp. + [iv]. Frontis., 3 folding profiles. Some browning, modern e.ps., amateur rebind in modern calf backed marbled boards, blind motifs to spine.
¶ William Hutton (1723–1815) ODNB ‘.... in the first decade of the nineteenth century he published works on Hadrian's Wall, north Wales, Scarborough, and a trip to Coatham, in each instance drawing on his own experience or on his holiday excursions ... His topographical writing was always clear ...’

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Innes, John.

"OLD LLANELLY." With Section by Miss Innes, Archdeacon Bevan, and Arthur Mee.

Cardiff: Printed by the Western Mail, Limited, 1902. 1st Ed. Slim Royal 8vo. xii + 175pp. Frontis., profusely illus. with drawings, photos. etc., 6 maps and plans including 1 folding. F.e.ps. lightly browned, original gilt lettered blue cloth, soiled and sl. rubbed, corners head and tail of spine sl. bumped.

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Jones, J. Morris and Rhys, John.

ANECDOTA OXONIENSIA. The Elucidarium and Other Tracts in Welsh From Llyvyr Agkyr Llandewivrevi A.D. 1346 (Jesus College Ms. 119).

OUP, 1894. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xxviii + 298pp. Rubric title, 2 collotype plates. Stain to margin at tail of fore-edge upto pp. xxii, some very light browning, marbled boards and edges, contemporary half morocco with cloth boards, some discolouring to cloth, gilt filleted raised bands with gilt lettering to spine.

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