Search Results: Authors starting with U from Madoc Books

Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong. Early photographs of a North Wales village In red morocco cloth, edges bevelled & worn, black ink bordering, gilt title. Spine, no title, edges bumped, upper board cracked at base. Internally, 53 B&W photographic images of Betws y Coed, not dated but circa late 1800's, 1 per page, image size roughly 150*100 mm, most with ink ms title. (222*250 mm).

1854. Boxed. Very Good. Unknown Artist. A series of eleven pencil drawings, some highlighted with watercolour, principally of Dolgellau; Llanbadarn Fawr and Barmouth, minimal amount of foxing, the views, each 36 * 25 cm, mounted on larger sheets with manuscript titles below. Although unsigned the drawings are ably executed with attention paid to good topographical accuracy and detailing that include several inhabitants in traditional dress. From the dates appended it is clear that the artist stayed in the vicinity for several months and may even have resided at the house Bryn Neyfeyd to the south west of Dolgellau. The caption titles read as follows:- Old Church at Llanbadafn Fawr, N Wales 1854. Llanbadarn Fawr, N Wales 1854. Bridge at Dolgelly, N Wales, August 1854. Bridge & Town at Dolgelly N Wales, August 1854. Bridge at Dolgelly N Wales, 1854. Mill at Dolgelly, 1854. Bryn Neyfeyd, Dolgelly, September 1854. Cottage near Dolgelly, 1854. Lynn Lynnoch near… Read More