Tales Of The Cymru;
£40.00
Publisher
Longmans, Paternoster Row; and Hughes, St, Martin-Le-Grand; Brewster, Cambrian Office, Swansea; and Thomas Llanelly.
Place
London
Date
1848
Synopsis
With notes illustrative and explanatory
Item Description
8vo, in fours. 6.75 x 4.5 inches. xii + [11] -186 pp. Bound in contemporary green cloth,gilt, boards with blind stamped borders enclosing central decoration, spine decorated gilt. spine sunned with damage at head and tail; otherwise a very good copy. Later pencil note on subscribers, with signature, on front pastedown. Anglo-Welsh poetry edited with substantial notes by James Motley (1822-59). Born in Leeds, he spent time in South Wales, where his father had mining interests. He travelled to South East Asia to supervise a mining enterprise and settled in Borneo as superintendent of a coal mine until, he lost his life in a local uprising. A scarce title.
[Stock No. 29413]
