WALES / WELSH
WALES / WELSH
Political /Jurisprudential / Theatrical SATIRE 
[Broome, Ralph]. Letters from Simpkin the second to his dear brother in Wales, containing an humble description of the trial of William Hastings, Esq. with Simon's answer. Dublin: P. Byrne & J. Moore, 1788. 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25"). 46 pp. (lacking half-title). 
Click the images for enlargements. • ESTC N2497. Recent marbled-paper wrappers, front wrapper with paper title label. Lacking half-title. Title-page with lower corner neatly off, otherwise in excellent, clean condition. (3247)
The
“Mousetrap”
— But NOT
Agatha Christie's . . .
Holdsworth,
E. Muscipula, sive Cambro-Muo-machia. Londini: [Pr. by H. Hills?], 1709.
8vo. 8 pp.
Worth Having for the
Frontispiece Alone Holdsworth,
E. Muscipula, sive Kamro-Myo-maxia. Londini: [Pr. by H. Hills], 1709.
8vo. 15, [1 (ads)] pp.
• ESTC T60812?, N6124?; Foxon H287. Removed from a nonce volume. Very good copy.
PRICE'sHistory of Islam
Price, David. Chronological retrospect, or memoirs of the principal events of Mahommedan history, from the death of the Arabian legislator, to the accession of the Emperor Akbar, and the establishment of the Moghul Empire in Hindustaun. London: J. Booth; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown; and Black, Parry, & Kingsbury, 1811–20. Large 4to (29.8 cm). 3 vols. in 4. I: xvi, 606, [8] pp. II: xvi, 716 pp.; 1 oversized, fold. col. map. III: xv, [1], 483, [1] pp. IV: [2], [485]–998 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. The work was printed by several different hands, all in Wales, and one was a woman printer: Vol. I was done by George North of Brecknock, vol. II by Henry Hughes of Brecon, and vols. III and IV by Priscilla Hughes, also of Brecon and presumably heir to Henry. Vol. II opens with a hand-colored oversized, folding map.
485
Stunning Views
of
England,
Scotland,
& Wales
EACH
IMAGE Hand-Captioned Storer, James Sargant. Antiquarian and topographical cabinet, containing a series of elegant views of the most interesting objects of curiosity in Great Britain. London: W. Clarke, J. Carpenter, & H.D. Symonds, 1807–11. 8vo. 10 vols. I: [approx. 112] pp.; 56 plts. II: pp.; 49 plts. III: [approx. 110] pp.; 55 plts. IV: [approx. 92] pp.; 46 plts. V: [approx. 86] pp.; 43 plts. VI: [approx. 106] pp.; 53 plts. VII: [approx. 98] pp.; 49 plts. VIII: [approx. 86] pp.; 43 plts. IX: [approx. 110] pp.; 55 plts. X: [approx. 72], [16 (index)] pp.; 36 plts. (15 plts. lacking of 500).
Click the images for enlargements. hand-inked calligraphic captions. Those images depict such scenic high spots as Dunstaple Priory in Bedfordshire, Roman remains in Brecknockshire, the “great oak” at Silton, a Crusader monument in Winchester Cathedral, Tintern Abbey (of course), and many, many churches and castles; they were engraved by J. Greig, W. Angus, W. & G. Cooke, and J. Storer after drawings by various hands. Each plate is accompanied by a letterpress description, generally about two pages long.
A luxurious, in fact in its way spectacular, production. (22855)
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