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- [1805] (Creation)
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220 ff. (text mostly on rectos) ; 225 x 180 mm.
Paper over boards; 'MADOC' (in gold on red leather label on spine).
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Robert Southey (1774-1843), poet and reviewer, was born in Bristol. He was appointed poet laureate in 1813.
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Thomas Pennant, naturalist, antiquary and traveller, was born on the Downing estate in Flintshire. He was educated at Wrexham and London before entering Queen's College, Oxford aged eighteen. Thomas developed a love of the natural world at school and began travelling whilst at Oxford; in the following years he travelled widely throughout Britain and Europe. The Outlines of the Globe was Thomas's most ambitious literary project. The work originally took up twenty-two volumes but only four of these were published - two by Pennant himself and two by his son, David.
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Castle Bookshop; Montgomery; Purchase; May 2006.
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A volume, [1805] (watermark 1800), in the hand of 'J.W.L.' [probably Sir James Winter Lake, bart], containing an outline of Robert Southey's poem 'Madoc'.
The outline consists of a prose summary of the contents of parts one (ff. 7-111) and two (ff. 113-218) of the poem, as first published in Robert Southey, Madoc, 2 vols (London, 1805), with numerous quotations from the text throughout. A list of characters (ff. 4-5) and closing notes (ff. 218-219) are based on Southey's Preface. Also included are some of Southey's notes on Bards from the appendix to Vol. 1 (ff. 66-68); a description of the beaver from Thomas Pennant, History of Quadrupeds, 2 vols (London: B. White, Fleet Street, 1781, ESTC T113535), pp. 383-387 (ff. 71-76); several ink and watercolour drawings (ff. 2 verso, 5, 6, 7, 70 verso, 75 verso, 112, 113, 219), some based on plates in the printed work; and four prints which have been pasted into the volume (ff. 3 recto-verso, 6 verso, 85 verso). The volume was written to commemorate 'the departure of an affectionate son to Prince of Wales's Island [now Penang, Malaysia] in the East Indies on Sat[urda]y April 20 1805' (see f. 3); the new chaplain assigned to Penang in 1805 was the Rev. Atwill Lake, son of Sir James Winter Lake, Edmonton, Middlesex.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
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English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Leaves excised after ff. 3, 220; f. 6 excised, with a new leaf pasted onto the stub.
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Original title.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23947C.
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- Southey, Robert, 1774-1843. Madoc. (Subject)
- Madog ab Owain Gwynedd, 1150-1180? -- Poetry. (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
October 2011.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones.