; Glimpses of Sea & Mountain in Wales
Oswestry: Cambrian Railways, n.d. [dated 1908 on leather backstrip but as 1914 in OCLC]. Hardcover. 32p. Contemporary 1/2 leather with oriiginal wrappers bound in. 16 cm. as now bound. Top edge gilt on pages. Binding scuffed and somewhat worn wih front joint splitting a bit at top. Contents virtually as new. Bookplate of Henry Blackwell inside front cover on marbled endpaper.on mabled pastedown.Presumably printed by McCorquodale & Co., Ltd., London whose name appears on the last, otherwise blank, interior page. OCLC locates one copy (National Library of Wales). Henry Blackwell, of Welsh lineage, was a famous bookbinder (but not of this book) in New York. He was also a noted collector of Welsh books and of bookplates. The National Library of Wales dates their copy as 1914 and identifies the publisher as Woodall, Minshall, Thomas & Co. in Oswestry. We see nothing in this item about that publisher. Could there have been two editions of this little item? If so, were there changes in the text or in the group of advertizers on the last several pages? Very Good. Item #95934
Price: $400.00