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- [1867] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
41 ff. (blank from 33 verso; tissue guards between most leaves) : Card ; 225 x 180 mm. (written area c. 160 x 115 mm.)
Bound in contemporary brown morocco over boards; five raised bands on spine; gold fillets and black tooling on spine and covers; 'OUR WANDERINGS IN WALES' (in gold on spine and front cover); gold tooling on turn-ins; purple moiré silk pastedowns and end-papers; gilded and gauffered page edges.
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Archival history
Previously sold as lot 556 in Lawrences Auctioneers, Crewkerne, Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photography auction, 8 March 2019.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bernard Quaritch Ltd; London; Purchase; February 2020; 991029042902419.
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Scope and content
A volume containing humorous prose (ff. 4-16 verso) and poetry (ff. 19-33), [1867], by a young woman identifying herself as 'Angelina Workington' (f. 9), for her uncle, 'Slatey Hughes Esquire', as a memento of their visit to Llandudno and the surrounding area in July 1867.
The volume consists of a fanciful prologue (ff. 4-6), followed by equally fanciful accounts of excursions to the Great Orme (ff. 9-10 verso, 12-13 verso) and Capel Curig (ff. 14 recto-verso, 16 recto-verso), and poems entitled 'Ffos Noddyn' (ff. 19-20), 'A Growl from Gelert's Ghost' (ff. 22-25), 'The Streamlet's Song' (ff. 27-29) and 'Excelsior' (ff. 31-33). The manuscript is written mainly in black ink, with some words in red, blue, green and gold paint. In addition there is an illuminated title page (f. 2) and dedication (f. 3), with further illuminations or decorative initials on ff. 4, 8, 9, 16, 19, 22, 31; together with five pen drawings (ff. 7, 11, 15, 17, 22) and a photograph of the Great Orme, Llandudno (pasted in on f. 8). The name 'Angelina Workington' is presumed to be a pseudonym; the writer may actually be the Isabella Slater to whom the volume was gifted in 1862 (see f. 1).
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Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Spine and corners rubbed.
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Note
Original title: 'Our Wanderings in Wales. By a Mountain [Goat]' (f. 2).
Note
'Isabella Slater January 1st 1862, From W. S.' (ink on f. 1).
Note
'T4458' on rear end-paper.
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Name access points
- Hughes, Slatey (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
October 2021.
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Jones.