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London: At No 50. In the Strand, Near York Buildings.: T Evans, 1774. 4th Edition . Full-Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG, 4th ed, 1774. In basket weave calf, gilt edge tooling, corners rubbed. Re-spined, original laid down, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, [42], (i-xlii), [1], 2-396 pp, [16] table, 1 woodcut to titlepage which is in red & black inks, lacks the folding plate, gilt tooling to board edges & turn-ins, red marbled endpapers, text block edges marbled blue. (1st edition was published in 1584, 2nd in 1697, 3rd in 1702, 4th in 1774). (Folio, 131*210 mm). (ESTC T144806. Sabin 372. Allibone 336) Title continues: Written Originally in British, By Caradoc of Lhancarvan, Englished By Dr Powell and Augmented By W Wynne to Which is Added a Description of Wales By Sir John Price. WYNNE, historian, whilst at Oxford, was one of the circle of Edward Lhuyd (q.v.). In 1697, he published a History of Wales - really a…
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THE HISTORY OF WALES Written Originally in British, By Caradoc of Lhancarvan
by LHANCARVAN, Caradoc of
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London: T. Evans, 50 The Strand, 1774. Englished By Dr Powell and Augmented By W Wynne to Which is Added a Description of Wales By Sir John Price. Title page in red and black inks, Druid vignette to the title-page, xlii, [1], 2-396 pp, [16] table, 1 pl (folding genealogical sheet in fine condition). 'A new edition greatly improved and enlarged with pedigrees of families'. Re-bound in a fine nineteenth century half calf tan binding with 5 raised bands and gilt gilt decorated compartments. Brown morocco label, gilt. Pebble grained tan cloth with the signature of Henry Salisbury Milman to the free end-paper. 20.5 x 13cm. Nice margins but a trifle cropped on re-binding. Ink stamp of Wm Allen Jones to the reverse of the dedication page. Engraving on the title page of The Chief Druid.. a new Edition. hardcover. Fine. large 8vo.
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The History of Wales.
by CARADOC Of Lhancarvan d 1147. (POWELL David 1552?-1598. PRICE John Sir 1502?-1555. WYNNE W 1671-1704. Editors)
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The Historie (History) of Cambria, Now Called Wales
by CARADOC Of Lhancarvan (d 1147) (Dauid Powel-Editor) David Powel
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London: Rafe Newberrie and Henrie Denham, 1584. First Edition. . Hardcover. Poor. This is a very defective copy of the first edition of an important Welsh book which ran to 5 subsequent editions. Title page and pages 1-8 of the preface "to the reader' are missing and bound in in manuscript, as are pages 13-16. Then a "description of Cambria numbered" 15-18 in manuscript. Then pages 3-22 of "the description of wales" are original. Then pages 1-54 orginal (55-8 manuscript) , 59-112 original (113-4 manuscript) then 115-126 original (127-8 manuscript) 129-190 original (191-192 manuscript)193-382 original (383-400 manuscript) 401 original, then an unumbered page. Index in manuscript. So there are 41 missing pages + index. The first edition is the only one which went to 401 pages hence it must be the first edition. There are many notes in the text as well, in what appears to be a contemporary hand in a mix of latin, welsh and english, which perhaps is not surprising as this…
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