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A pocket book containing transcripts of folk songs from Jane Williams: Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg, Edward Jones: Musical and Poetical Relicks and other sources, with additional notes by David Lewis, 1858.

A volume written by Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) (1752-1824) and William Jones, Llangadfan (1726-1795) containing transcripts on the history and technical aspects of Welsh music, poetry, cerdd dant, etc., with transcribed examples of poetry. The volume also includes a letter from William Salesbury to Gruffydd Hiraethog (pp. 32-35), notes relating to William Salesbury (p. 35), and accounts of figures and events from Welsh history and legend.

An annotated selection by J. Lloyd Willliams from Edward Jones's Hen Ganiadau Cymru, published in 1820.

Miscellaneous papers including notes by Edward Jones, 'Bardd y Brenin' (1752-1824) on early Irish poetry and heraldry, Irish saints, and early Scottish music, and extracts by him from the 'Expurgatio Hibernica' by Giraldus Cambrensis from Holinshed's Chronicles, Vol.2; a transcript of a letter 9 January, 1826, from John H. Shelton, on behalf of the Western Literary and Scientific Institution, to Alexander Mills, soliciting a building site near Charing Cross; miscellaneous extracts from printed works and newspapers, and newspaper cuttings. Paper; 23 ff.t unnumbered; 325 x 203; boards. This volume was formerly Phillipps MS. 25197.