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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Edges of rear cover are very slightly browned. ; Approx. 7" wide by 8 7/8".

Hardback in Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket. Brown cloth boards with black lettering to front. 53 pages. Previous owner's name neatly written in ink to the front end papers. Light foxing to one or two pages. This book is published by The Denbighshire County Library, reprinted from ,' The Bibliography of Denbighshire Part 3' and is limited to 55 copies. Thomas Gwynn Jones ( better known as T Gwynn Jones) was a leading Welsh poet, scholar, literary critic, novelist and translator. Very scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Cheltenham: Printed for G.A Williams; S. Bettison, Duffield and Weller, E. Roberts, S.C. Harper, E. Matthews, and W. Porter; Bath: Meyler and Collings; London: Longman and Co. and G.B. Whittaker, n.d. [c.1830]. 210,[2]pp. Illustrated with tissue-guarded folding map frontispiece & nine plates (two of these folding. §Printed by J.J. Hadley, Minerva Press. §BL holds a similar version, but with a seemingly slightly differing pagination. Frontispiece & folding plates professionally laid down on canvas. Map following title dated 1824. Neatly rebound c.1880 in quarter calf, contrasting label, gilt lettering & decoration, top edge gilt, matching polished marbled boards & endpapers. Handsome monogram bookplate of one J.T.S. to front pastedown, along with Nottingham bookseller's ticket. Tipped on preliminary blank (1 cm. circular show-through from glue to verso) is a sheet of paper with hand-printed presentation inscription to the Cheltenham bookseller & sometime director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature Alan Hancox & his second wife Sheelagh from Roger Black(?). A few scattered leaves printed on inferior paper & showing slight browning. 2 cm. x 1 cm. paper repair to upper margin of one textual leaf, clear of text. A very good copy.

1p., 16mo. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Reads: 'Dear Sir, | I got your last no. all right. I meant one particular day to pay you, and at the end of the day forgot whether I had or had not written to do so - coming to the erroneous conclusion that I had.' Postscript: 'No. 4 received and paid for also'. From the Ramsay papers.