Manuscripts MSS from Madoc Books

1871. Hardcover. Near Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. RIMER John. 84 original pen and ink drawings Oblong folio, full padded red morocco, brass bound with clasps, 84 original pen and ink drawings, finished in black/grey/ sepia and white water colour as heightening, each drawing oblong 4to mounted on… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. VARLEY John. c1823-1832, Oblong quarto. Eighteen mounted drawings in a contemporary half red roan album, with the original stationer's label of H. Ziegler and Co. Some additional pages are blank and others show traces of drawings being removed. Neatly re-backed retaining the original spine, new silk ties, 1889… Read more about this item

1866. Hardcover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. GMB?. Eighty Three Attractive Hand Drawn Maps of the English & Welsh Ports, coloured in outline VG+, 1866-1881, large oblong, half calf over contemporary maroon cloth, contemporary gilt title & tooling to black morocco label, some blind tooling. Spine, gilt titles &… Read more about this item

Caernarvon. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. [PARRY Mr]. Manuscript, in limp white vellum, with vellum ties (1 damaged). Internally, title page followed by 6 leaves of attractive calligraphic text (87 lines), each leaf with a coloured initial letter, and a guard, followed by 4 blank leaves, not dated but c1930, extracted from… Read more about this item

No Binding. Near Fine. BURT AB. Rare Dic Aberdaron manuscripts notes. Two engraved portraits, one a steel engraving dated 1819 (an early version of the frontispiece portrait to The Memoir), and the other a full-length depiction of Jones by AB Burt (miniature painter, Chester), hand coloured and dated May 30th., 1823; a printed broadside titled Craniology. Outlines of… Read more about this item

32, Millgate, Wigan: Thomas Birch, 1876. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Important Author's MS correspondence Printed text with autograph manuscript pages and corrections, for the History, 94 pp of manuscript notes interleaved with text, without title, 8vo (1870s), bound into green cloth covers… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. GILPIN William?. A very rare collection of 31 original watercolours by or probably after William Gilpin In early 19th C half calf, over worn marbled boards, some gilt tooling, corners & edge bumped & worn. Spine, decorative gilt tooling, gilt titles to black calf label, edges bumped &… Read more about this item

1874. Soft cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. In contemporary marbled soft paper covers, ms title to upper cover, cotton ties to spine. Internally, title, dedication, preface, map (indicating route), index, followed by 82 pages (18 Chapters) of neat, legible copperplate script, detailing a journey by 2 young gentlemen through North Wales in 1872,… Read more about this item