parch david davis (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. HARVEY. BOND. (illustrator). First Edition. In contemporary brown boards, ink name & date to top center (Morgan 1882), corners & edges a little bumped & worn. New paper spine, ink title to white paper label. Internally, frontis, [4], (v-viii), [1], 2-210 pp, remains of bookseller label to fpd, plus some pencil notes, tissue guarded portrait frontis, some chips to front edge, ink name to title page head (? Morgan), printed by F Fagg of Swansea, some light browning and soiling to page edges, minimal foxing to blanks. Pages 184-210 are a subscribers list. Arian Minister, poet and schoolmaster, sometimes known as Davis Castellhywell. (for a full Bio see William's Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen p112), also online at NLW. COPAC shows various holdings and later editions of 1876 and 1927. Title continues: Yn cynnwys amryw gyfansoddiadau o ei eiddo ei hun, a chyfieithiadau allan o waith rhai o'r prydyddion enwocae yn y iaeth Saesonaeg; Addison, Young, Gray, Barbauld, Pope, etc.

Zustand: Very Good. Full red leather binding with gilt ruled compartments to spine. Cracking to front joint but securely bound. Slight wear to ends of spine and corners of boards. A few pages have been folded to the upper corner. A few light marks to text. Two Welsh language titles bound as one. First book includes a list of subscribers. Contemporary owner's name to first blank, inscriptions to following blank. Cropped name to upper margin of first title page and to two upper margins within the text. Engraved frontis to first book. Scarce. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 4.5 x 6.5 inches (11 x 16 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: viii, 210; 168 1st Edition / 1st Edition, 3rd Impression.