Search Results: Manuscripts MSS from Madoc Books

Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. GILPIN William?. A very rare collection of 31 original watercolours by or probably after William Gilpin In early 19th C half calf, over worn marbled boards, some gilt tooling, corners & edge bumped & worn. Spine, decorative gilt tooling, gilt titles to black calf label, edges bumped & worn with some loss. Internally, blue marbled endpapers, 31 leaves of original watercolours, (18 of which are in full colour, remainder in pen and ink gray/black or sepia), (29 being of a topographical nature, with the remaining 2 being coloured armourial? plus a few leaves of MS text copied from Pennant's Tours. The water colours are nearly all ovals, mostly with ms. captions. 6 are of Welsh subjects. There are several un-captioned which could be anywhere. First editions of Gilpin's tours start in 1789 (Highlands of Scotland) and finish with Picturesque Beauty (1792). There are later editions, of course. But the watermarks on the… Read More

Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. VARLEY John. c1823-1832, Oblong quarto. Eighteen mounted drawings in a contemporary half red roan album, with the original stationer's label of H. Ziegler and Co. Some additional pages are blank and others show traces of drawings being removed. Neatly re-backed retaining the original spine, new silk ties, 1889 book label to fpd, ink note Sketches by Hohn Varley Collated by E Sterry to ffep, Hartland Library presentation label from AG Hartland to verso ffep. Of most interest are four sheets of drawings of portrait heads, which rather than preparatory sketches for finished pictures are more likely to be demonstrations of Varley's interest in visionary images and astrological influences on appearance. In 1818 William Linnell introduced Varley to William Blake and they remained firm friends until Blake's death. Linnell records that it was Varley who excited Blake to see or fancy portraits of historical personages. During their… Read More

1874. Soft cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. In contemporary marbled soft paper covers, ms title to upper cover, cotton ties to spine. Internally, title, dedication, preface, map (indicating route), index, followed by 82 pages (18 Chapters) of neat, legible copperplate script, detailing a journey by 2 young gentlemen through North Wales in 1872, and includes a visit to the Eisteddfod, crease to front cover. Includes anecdotes about the differences between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, rural life, poverty and travel. The author was the father of the suffragette Grace Chappelow (1884-1971). (322*204 mm).

32, Millgate, Wigan: Thomas Birch, 1876. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Important Author's MS correspondence Printed text with autograph manuscript pages and corrections, for the History, 94 pp of manuscript notes interleaved with text, without title, 8vo (1870s), bound into green cloth covers gilt titles. And a small quantity of related correspondence, loose in a modern green cloth box (many from Mr Eyton), gilt titles & binding by Delrue VG+, evidence of bookplate removal to ffep. (250*156 mm). BRIDGEMAN, cleric, antiquary and genealogist, whose useful History of the Princes of South Wales - not a history in the usual sense but rather a storehouse of genealogical information. See NLW WBO for a full Bio.

No Binding. Near Fine. BURT AB. Rare Dic Aberdaron manuscripts notes. Two engraved portraits, one a steel engraving dated 1819 (an early version of the frontispiece portrait to The Memoir), and the other a full-length depiction of Jones by AB Burt (miniature painter, Chester), hand coloured and dated May 30th., 1823; a printed broadside titled Craniology. Outlines of the Life of Richard Roberts Jones which advertises the Burt engravings; three manuscript fragments: one in Greek headed The Order of Harps, eight small octavo pages with a drawing of a Harp on the final page, a transcription of the Lord's Prayer in three languages and a note in Greek signed by Jones dated February 3rd, 1824. All housed in a Fine custom box in black half morocco over blue marbled boards, gilt tooling, gilt title & tooling to morocco label on upper board, gilt tooling & titles to spine. (Box 403*296 mm).

1866. Hardcover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. GMB?. Eighty Three Attractive Hand Drawn Maps of the English & Welsh Ports, coloured in outline VG+, 1866-1881, large oblong, half calf over contemporary maroon cloth, contemporary gilt title & tooling to black morocco label, some blind tooling. Spine, gilt titles & tooling. Internally, eighty-three manuscript, scaled maps, on thick paper, coloured in outline (including a map of England & Wales), showing major canals & railways, maps 1-77 signed by 3 initials (GB?), some dated 1866 to 1881, 1 corner tip with old paper repair. (sheets 372*582 mm).

1871. Hardcover. Near Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. RIMER John. 84 original pen and ink drawings Oblong folio, full padded red morocco, brass bound with clasps, 84 original pen and ink drawings, finished in black/grey/ sepia and white water colour as heightening, each drawing oblong 4to mounted on the page. (267*363 mm) The album was produced as a wedding present 1846-71 by John Rimer for his wife. There are additionally several decorated biographical caligraphic leaves listing major events of their married life, with vignette illustrations. The illustrations are of places significant in their life together. All the plates are topographical, starting in Hornsea Church (North London) and covering named locations in Cambridge, London, UK, Pyrenees, Italy, Switzerland, and 5 Welsh (Caernarvon Castle, Beddgellet, Pont Aberglaslin, Llanberis, Pont Gwryd - Snowdon in the distance. All the scenes are signed John Rimer and have delightful highly decorative borders of twining flowers,… Read More

Caernarvon. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. [PARRY Mr]. Manuscript, in limp white vellum, with vellum ties (1 damaged). Internally, title page followed by 6 leaves of attractive calligraphic text (87 lines), each leaf with a coloured initial letter, and a guard, followed by 4 blank leaves, not dated but c1930, extracted from Shakespeare's Tempest, Act V, Scene 1. (251*163 mm).