Books - Welsh Language Bible

Welsh language bible with heavy boards, original leather binding with stamped and tooled ornament to both covers; inside front cover with pasted note listing births of children to David and Margaret Davies from 1856 1869 with subscript 'Mary Davies Corffenaf 23 1875' (i.e. 23rd July); numerous pencilled notations and calculations; separate first leaf with multiple signatures by David Davies'; loose leaf dated 1838 with prayers; church service paper for Eglwys Moriah, New York for 1919; private letter dated 9th January 1920 requesting the price of a bible; numerous other loose leaves with calculations and private correspondence. 3.15 kg, 26 x 21.5 cm

Covers worn, scuffed and rubbed; usage wear to the covers and foredge; text largely complete, many manuscript additions, pressed flowers etc.

Ex libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.

Group comprising: The Oxford Library of Classic English Short Stories, 1900-1975, London, 1990, 2 volumes in slipcase; Freud, Sigmund, On Dreams, London, 1952, new translation; Russell, Bertrand, Authority and the Individual, Reith Lectures, 1949; Moore, T. Inglis, Selected Poems of Henry Kendall, 1975, reprint; Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution, Epochs of Modern History, London, 1878; Macartney, Frederick T., The Collected Verse of A B Paterson, Sydney, 1961, 28th printing; Hudson, W. H., Green Mansions, Collins, 1957, later edition; Adams, David, The Letters of Rachel Henning, Sydney, 1942, illustrated (2 copies) and Mr Middleton's Garden Book, Daily Express, nd, illustrated (spine torn away); mostly hardback. 4.8 kg total, 15.5 x 11 - 27 x 22 cm

Generally good or better condition; last with loose binding and defective spine.

The property of Mr and Mrs PR of East Sussex. Thence by descent to family members.

Stow, J., A Survey of London: Containing the Originall, Antiquitie, Encrease, Moderne estate and Description of that Citie, London, 1618; full calf (crudely repaired to spine) with blind panel tooling to front cover; text set in blackletter and Roman type with prefatory dedication and catalogue of sources ("A catalogue of svch avthors of Reuerend Antiquitie as doe auouch the matters contained in this Booke: Not Alphabetically set downe, but according as they stand inserted") by Anthony Munday ("A.M. sendeth his hearty and humble dutie"); iv pp. + 974 pp. + 2 pp.; pencilled dealers' notations to inside front cover; last page absent, a listing of City companies at the Mayor's feast ending at '52 Tylers, the VVardens, and one person, one messe'. 828 grams, 18.2 x 14.5 cm

Fair condition; text block split, needs re-backing. Scarce.

Ex libris David M. Miller. Property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.