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The Bardic Museum, of primitive British Literature; and other admirable rarities; forming the Second Volume of the Musical, Poetical and Historical Relicks of the Welsh Bards and Druids ... containing the Bardic Triads; Historic Odes; Eulogies; Songs; Elegies ... with English translations and historic illustrations: likewise the ancient War-tunes of the Bards ... To these national melodies are added new Basses; with Variations, for the Harp, or Harpsichord; Violin, or Flute;
By Edward Jones, Bard to the Prince.
London: Printed by A. Strahan, Printer-Street, for the Author; 1802. (Price 1/. 5s.) Entered at Stationer's Hall.
Book; small folio (340 x 250mm, 13¼ x 9¾"), text and sheet music with lyrics complete as issued. With hand coloured etched frontispiece by Rowlandson after Ibbetson and J. Smith, of figures gathered around a harpist playing on a hillside. Unmarked blue paper-covered binding with calf spine. Binding chipped, scuffed and rubbed; paper covers tearing. Spine largely worn away, front cover disbound. Sheets slightly foxed, some offsetting to music sheets.
Edward Jones (1752 - 1824), known as Bardd y Brenin, or the King's Bard, was a musician and Welsh writer. He taught music to many persons of rank and was appointed bard to the Prince of Wales, an honorary office, in 1783. In 1784 he published ‘Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, preserved by Tradition and Authentic Manuscripts from very remote Antiquity, with a Collection of the Pennillion and Englynion, Epigrammatic Stanzas or native Pastoral Sonnets of Wales, a History of the Bards from the Earliest Period, and an Account of their Music, Poetry, and Musical Instruments,’ London, folio, in 2 parts; republished with additions in 1794. This companion volume was issued in 1802. These works, largely based on the author's original researches among unpublished Welsh manuscripts, rescued and preserved some of the oldest Welsh airs extant. In many ways Jones can be said to have invented Wales as the 'land of song', while defining its people as 'aboriginal Britons' and as the oldest musical nation in Europe. A scarce Rowlandson image.
British Library: 004439254.
[Ref: 10521] £500.00
By Edward Jones, Bard to the Prince.
London: Printed by A. Strahan, Printer-Street, for the Author; 1802. (Price 1/. 5s.) Entered at Stationer's Hall.
Book; small folio (340 x 250mm, 13¼ x 9¾"), text and sheet music with lyrics complete as issued. With hand coloured etched frontispiece by Rowlandson after Ibbetson and J. Smith, of figures gathered around a harpist playing on a hillside. Unmarked blue paper-covered binding with calf spine. Binding chipped, scuffed and rubbed; paper covers tearing. Spine largely worn away, front cover disbound. Sheets slightly foxed, some offsetting to music sheets.
Edward Jones (1752 - 1824), known as Bardd y Brenin, or the King's Bard, was a musician and Welsh writer. He taught music to many persons of rank and was appointed bard to the Prince of Wales, an honorary office, in 1783. In 1784 he published ‘Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, preserved by Tradition and Authentic Manuscripts from very remote Antiquity, with a Collection of the Pennillion and Englynion, Epigrammatic Stanzas or native Pastoral Sonnets of Wales, a History of the Bards from the Earliest Period, and an Account of their Music, Poetry, and Musical Instruments,’ London, folio, in 2 parts; republished with additions in 1794. This companion volume was issued in 1802. These works, largely based on the author's original researches among unpublished Welsh manuscripts, rescued and preserved some of the oldest Welsh airs extant. In many ways Jones can be said to have invented Wales as the 'land of song', while defining its people as 'aboriginal Britons' and as the oldest musical nation in Europe. A scarce Rowlandson image.
British Library: 004439254.
[Ref: 10521] £500.00
Conway Castle.
From the Original drawing by P.I. De Loutherbourg R.A.
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, Jan.y 1 1805.
Coloured aquatint. 310 x 390mm, 12¼ x 15½". Tears in edges.
Conwy Castle, from 'Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain' by Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740 - 1812).
Abbey Scenery 9 or 10.
[Ref: 26430] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
From the Original drawing by P.I. De Loutherbourg R.A.
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall, Jan.y 1 1805.
Coloured aquatint. 310 x 390mm, 12¼ x 15½". Tears in edges.
Conwy Castle, from 'Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain' by Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740 - 1812).
Abbey Scenery 9 or 10.
[Ref: 26430] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Ileen Oge. Wan was her cheek which hung on my shoulder, / Damp was her hand, no marbel was colder, / I felt that I never again should behold her, / Ah Vurneen delish ileen oge. Gem. 21.
W. Clerk, lith, 202 High Holborn.
Published by T. Paine, Bride Lane, Fleet St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼").
An Irish soldier takes his leave of his love, Ileen Oge, to fight overseas. Having saved his pay for their reunion, he returns to find her dead. An illustration of a ballad.
[Ref: 49491] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
W. Clerk, lith, 202 High Holborn.
Published by T. Paine, Bride Lane, Fleet St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼").
An Irish soldier takes his leave of his love, Ileen Oge, to fight overseas. Having saved his pay for their reunion, he returns to find her dead. An illustration of a ballad.
[Ref: 49491] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Jenny Jones. Yes, indeed, and all countries so foreign and beautiful, / That little valley I prize far above, / For indeed in my heart, I do love that Llangollen, /And sweet Jenny Jones too, in truth I do love. Gem. 9.
W. Clerk, lith, 202 High Holborn.
Published by T. Paine, Bride Lane, Fleet St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼").
A Welsh rover returns to his childhood sweetheart in Llangolen. Behind is the Chirk Aqueduct. An illustration of a ballad.
[Ref: 49490] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
W. Clerk, lith, 202 High Holborn.
Published by T. Paine, Bride Lane, Fleet St. [n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet 260 x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼").
A Welsh rover returns to his childhood sweetheart in Llangolen. Behind is the Chirk Aqueduct. An illustration of a ballad.
[Ref: 49490] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Peasants of the Vale of Llangollen.
H.W. Bunbury Esq.r del.t. J. Baldrey Sculp.t.
London, Pub'd Nov.r. 2; 1783, by W. Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller No. 158 New Bond Street.
Pair of stipple engravings, both sheets 285 x 280mm (11¼ x 11"). Both trimmed to platemark.
Pair of stipples depicting Welsh rural life after Henry Bunbury (1750-1811), amateur artist who enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. Tim Clayton writes: 'Prints by Bunbury and his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it.' These plates were originally published by the printmaker Joshua Kirby Baldrey in 1781 (for which see ref. 1069)- these are slightly later reissues after the plates had been sold on.
For the individual (coloured) prints see refs. 1068 and 1069.
[Ref: 37969] £320.00 view all images for this item
H.W. Bunbury Esq.r del.t. J. Baldrey Sculp.t.
London, Pub'd Nov.r. 2; 1783, by W. Dickinson, Engraver & Printseller No. 158 New Bond Street.
Pair of stipple engravings, both sheets 285 x 280mm (11¼ x 11"). Both trimmed to platemark.
Pair of stipples depicting Welsh rural life after Henry Bunbury (1750-1811), amateur artist who enjoyed a successful career as a designer for printsellers. Tim Clayton writes: 'Prints by Bunbury and his imitators were conspicuously 'polite' and appealed, like novels, 'To the Fashionable World and Polite circles'. Of good family, amply endowed with social skills, a beautiful wife and connections in high society, Bunbury's appeal was not solely aesthetic' and his admirers 'recognized his comic talent, his informed enthusiasm for literature, and his ability to draw a momentary pang with something of the sensitivity with which Sterne could write it.' These plates were originally published by the printmaker Joshua Kirby Baldrey in 1781 (for which see ref. 1069)- these are slightly later reissues after the plates had been sold on.
For the individual (coloured) prints see refs. 1068 and 1069.
[Ref: 37969] £320.00 view all images for this item
Milford Haven and the Islands Adjacent most Humbly dedicated and presented to S.r Hugh Owen Bar.t by Cap,t G. Collins, Hydrographer to their Majesties.
[London: Mount & Page, c.1750.]
Coloured sea chart. 450 x 575mm (17¾ x 22½"). Splits in centre fold taped. Slight stain centre right margin.
A sea chart of western Wales, originally published in ''Great Britain's Coasting Pilot'' by Captain Greenvile Collins in 1693. This was the first English sea atlas of English waters, but many of the charts appeared in other sea atlases until the 1770s.
[Ref: 62547] £160.00
[London: Mount & Page, c.1750.]
Coloured sea chart. 450 x 575mm (17¾ x 22½"). Splits in centre fold taped. Slight stain centre right margin.
A sea chart of western Wales, originally published in ''Great Britain's Coasting Pilot'' by Captain Greenvile Collins in 1693. This was the first English sea atlas of English waters, but many of the charts appeared in other sea atlases until the 1770s.
[Ref: 62547] £160.00
Peasants of the Vale of Llangollen.
H.W. Bunbury Esq.r del.t. J. Baldrey Sculp.t.
London, Pub'd Nov.r. 1; 1781, by J. Baldrey, No.37 Green St. Gros.r Sq.r & Sold by J. Wilkinson Cornhill.
Coloured stipple. 280 x 285mm (11 x 11¼").
[Ref: 1069] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
H.W. Bunbury Esq.r del.t. J. Baldrey Sculp.t.
London, Pub'd Nov.r. 1; 1781, by J. Baldrey, No.37 Green St. Gros.r Sq.r & Sold by J. Wilkinson Cornhill.
Coloured stipple. 280 x 285mm (11 x 11¼").
[Ref: 1069] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Peasants of the Vale of Langollen.
H.W. Bunbury Esq.r del.t. J. Baldrey Sculp.t.
London, Publish'd Nov.r. 2; 1783, by W. Dickinson Engraver & Printseller No.158 New Bond Street.
Coloured stipple. 280 x 285mm. Tear to image at left.
[Ref: 1068] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
H.W. Bunbury Esq.r del.t. J. Baldrey Sculp.t.
London, Publish'd Nov.r. 2; 1783, by W. Dickinson Engraver & Printseller No.158 New Bond Street.
Coloured stipple. 280 x 285mm. Tear to image at left.
[Ref: 1068] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Welsh Moutain Ponies.
J. Trasott, Nelson Sq.e
A very rare etching. 260 x 382mm. 10¼ x 15".
Welsh mountain ponies are known for their good nature; their movement is bold and free, and often characteristically fast, especially at the trot. The Welsh Pony is reputed to be trustworthy and to have a good disposition, but is also spirited and enduring. They are known for their stamina and soundness; they generally have even temperaments and friendly personalities. They are usually easily trained, in part due to their high level of intelligence.
[Ref: 20237] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
J. Trasott, Nelson Sq.e
A very rare etching. 260 x 382mm. 10¼ x 15".
Welsh mountain ponies are known for their good nature; their movement is bold and free, and often characteristically fast, especially at the trot. The Welsh Pony is reputed to be trustworthy and to have a good disposition, but is also spirited and enduring. They are known for their stamina and soundness; they generally have even temperaments and friendly personalities. They are usually easily trained, in part due to their high level of intelligence.
[Ref: 20237] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
![Rhossili [in pencil].](jpegs/62611.jpg)
Rhossili [in pencil].
A J Lavender [in pencil].
[n.d. c.1930]
Etching with artists signature, 175 x 225mm (7 x 8¾"), with large margins.
A view of Rhossili Bay on the southwestern tip of the Gower Peninsula in Wales.
[Ref: 62611] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
A J Lavender [in pencil].
[n.d. c.1930]
Etching with artists signature, 175 x 225mm (7 x 8¾"), with large margins.
A view of Rhossili Bay on the southwestern tip of the Gower Peninsula in Wales.
[Ref: 62611] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
![[Snowdon] The nervous family refuse to take a nearer view of the chasms below.](jpegs/58530.jpg)
[Snowdon] The nervous family refuse to take a nearer view of the chasms below.
Eng.d & Pub.d by Newman & Co. 48 Watling Street.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. Sheet 185 x 230mm (7¼ x 9"), folded vertically as normal.
A writing sheet with a satire on a family of sightseers climbing Snowdon.
[Ref: 58530] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Eng.d & Pub.d by Newman & Co. 48 Watling Street.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. Sheet 185 x 230mm (7¼ x 9"), folded vertically as normal.
A writing sheet with a satire on a family of sightseers climbing Snowdon.
[Ref: 58530] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
![[Snowdon] The nervous family refuse to take a nearer view of the chasms below.](jpegs/58529.jpg)
[Snowdon] The nervous family refuse to take a nearer view of the chasms below.
Eng.d & Pub.d by Newman & Co. 48 Watling Street.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. Sheet 100 x 115mm (4 x 4½"). Trimmed close to image.
A satire on a family of sightseers climbing Snowdon. It was published as an illustration on a writing sheet.
[Ref: 58529] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)
Eng.d & Pub.d by Newman & Co. 48 Watling Street.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. Sheet 100 x 115mm (4 x 4½"). Trimmed close to image.
A satire on a family of sightseers climbing Snowdon. It was published as an illustration on a writing sheet.
[Ref: 58529] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT)
The Second Booke: Contayning The Principalitie of Wales. Delivering An exact topographie of the Covnties. Diuisions of their Cantreves and Commots. Descriptions of their Cities and Shire-Townes. With A Compendiovs Relation of Things Most Memorable In Every of Them.
Performed by Iohn Speed.
London. Printed by Thomas Snodham, for John Sudburie and George Humble. 1616. Cum Priuilegio.
Letterpress and woodcut. 416 x 266mm. 16 x 10½". Water-staining. Nick & crease lower left-hand corner.
Frontispiece with the Royal coat of arms to John Speed's (1552-1629) Welsh section of "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine"; which was first published c.1610 and contained the first set of individual county maps of England and Wales. These maps also had town plans on them.
[Ref: 20859] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Performed by Iohn Speed.
London. Printed by Thomas Snodham, for John Sudburie and George Humble. 1616. Cum Priuilegio.
Letterpress and woodcut. 416 x 266mm. 16 x 10½". Water-staining. Nick & crease lower left-hand corner.
Frontispiece with the Royal coat of arms to John Speed's (1552-1629) Welsh section of "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine"; which was first published c.1610 and contained the first set of individual county maps of England and Wales. These maps also had town plans on them.
[Ref: 20859] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Welsh Wedding, Running Away With the Bride.
J.C. Rowland Del. J. McGathey, Lith. Paradise S.t Liverpool.
Published by T. Catherall, Eastgate Row, Chester. June 1st
Rare tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"), with very large margins.
A bride and groom symbolically 'abscond' from a village, 'chased' by well-wishers. The bride wears a the traditional stovetop hat.
[Ref: 55947] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
J.C. Rowland Del. J. McGathey, Lith. Paradise S.t Liverpool.
Published by T. Catherall, Eastgate Row, Chester. June 1st
Rare tinted lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"), with very large margins.
A bride and groom symbolically 'abscond' from a village, 'chased' by well-wishers. The bride wears a the traditional stovetop hat.
[Ref: 55947] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Welsh Costumes. [Marked under each figure:] Cottager. Farmer's Wife. Labourer's Wife. Farmer's Daughter. Markey Boy. Cottager's Daughter.
H. Jones, Del. J.H. Lynch, lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to The Queen.
Published by T. Catherall, Eastgate Row, Chester. July 1st. 1851.
Lithograph, sheet 270 x 335mm (10½ x 13").
Traditional Welsh Costume of the 19th century.
[Ref: 61493] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
H. Jones, Del. J.H. Lynch, lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to The Queen.
Published by T. Catherall, Eastgate Row, Chester. July 1st. 1851.
Lithograph, sheet 270 x 335mm (10½ x 13").
Traditional Welsh Costume of the 19th century.
[Ref: 61493] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Welch Costumes, Taken On A Market Day in Wales.
Rb.t S. Groom & C.o Lith.rs 44, Paternoster Row, London.
Published by Hugh Humphreys, Castle Square, Carnarvon. [n.d. c.1853]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 270 x 355mm (10¾ x 13").
Seven figures wearing Welsh national costumes, an elderly woman on the left leads a piglet on rope to a pond, another woman on the right carrying a cooking pot on her head, others knitting or carrying baskets and umbrella; cottage seen behind. A small man is in the foreground is either a dwarf or a child.
[Ref: 61492] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Rb.t S. Groom & C.o Lith.rs 44, Paternoster Row, London.
Published by Hugh Humphreys, Castle Square, Carnarvon. [n.d. c.1853]
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 270 x 355mm (10¾ x 13").
Seven figures wearing Welsh national costumes, an elderly woman on the left leads a piglet on rope to a pond, another woman on the right carrying a cooking pot on her head, others knitting or carrying baskets and umbrella; cottage seen behind. A small man is in the foreground is either a dwarf or a child.
[Ref: 61492] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
![Welsh Costumes. Farmer's Daughters. Farm Servant. Market Woman. Farmer's Wife. [&] Welsh Costumes. The Bidding.](jpegs/58226.jpg)
Welsh Costumes. Farmer's Daughters. Farm Servant. Market Woman. Farmer's Wife. [&] Welsh Costumes. The Bidding.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Pair of ink and grey wash sketches on card. Each 100 x 135mm (4 x 5¼"). Laid on album paper.
[Ref: 58226] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1860.]
Pair of ink and grey wash sketches on card. Each 100 x 135mm (4 x 5¼"). Laid on album paper.
[Ref: 58226] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Welsh Peasants.
Painted by R. Westall R.A. Engraved by Ant.y Cardon.
Published Oct.r 1799 by I.B. Smith Engraver in Mezzotinto to his R.H. the Prince of Wales No. 31 King Street Covent Garden London.
Coloured stipple, rare. 387 x 420mm (15¼ x 16½").
A family and goats sitting outside a cottage, a young woman looking and gesturing to left, towards a young man, who walks away, downhill to left, carrying a bundle on a stick over his shoulder and covering his face with his hands, while another woman stands beside the first, looking down and an elderly couple sit behind them, watching, the man with his hand on the woman's knee to console her;
[Ref: 29033] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by R. Westall R.A. Engraved by Ant.y Cardon.
Published Oct.r 1799 by I.B. Smith Engraver in Mezzotinto to his R.H. the Prince of Wales No. 31 King Street Covent Garden London.
Coloured stipple, rare. 387 x 420mm (15¼ x 16½").
A family and goats sitting outside a cottage, a young woman looking and gesturing to left, towards a young man, who walks away, downhill to left, carrying a bundle on a stick over his shoulder and covering his face with his hands, while another woman stands beside the first, looking down and an elderly couple sit behind them, watching, the man with his hand on the woman's knee to console her;
[Ref: 29033] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Welch Peasants.
H. Bunbury Esq.r. Delin.t. J. Baldrey Fecit.
London, Publish'd Aug.st 20th 1788 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Oval stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet 325 x 250mm (12¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A pair of rustic women, carrying a tub and a ewer.
[Ref: 42028] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
H. Bunbury Esq.r. Delin.t. J. Baldrey Fecit.
London, Publish'd Aug.st 20th 1788 by W. Dickinson, Engraver, Bond Street.
Oval stipple, printed in sepia. Sheet 325 x 250mm (12¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate.
A pair of rustic women, carrying a tub and a ewer.
[Ref: 42028] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Welsh Shepherd.
Ls. S.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Scarce etching. Plate: 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼''), with large margins. Creasing and foxing.
A portrait of a Welsh shepherd and his dog in a landscape.
Ex: Collection of Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 51011] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Ls. S.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Scarce etching. Plate: 220 x 135mm (8¾ x 5¼''), with large margins. Creasing and foxing.
A portrait of a Welsh shepherd and his dog in a landscape.
Ex: Collection of Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 51011] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)