This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...Though now but an " inconsiderable village," and populous only on market-days, there are so many evidences, in so many neighbouring places, of a large expenditure of wealth, that it is easy to believe the statements of early Welsh writers to be by no means greatly exaggerated. The "School" suffered much from the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...Though now but an " inconsiderable village," and populous only on market-days, there are so many evidences, in so many neighbouring places, of a large expenditure of wealth, that it is easy to believe the statements of early Welsh writers to be by no means greatly exaggerated. The "School" suffered much from the incursions of Saxons and Danes, and was destroyed by the Norman invaders. In 1111 it was restored, though " probably on a reduced scale: " but there is no doubt that it continued to exist as a college down to the Reformation. Hollinshed relates a strange history of Edgar's sacrilege in robbing Llantwit Church of St. Iltutus' bell; his consequent vision; his restitution of the bell; and his death within nine days after. The bell now surmounts the Town-hall--an ancient building, standing on the site and partly on the foundations of a ruin much older--and contains this inscription in antique characters--"Ora pro nobis Sancte lllute." The only information concerning it we could obtain from the sexton was, that, "small as it seemed, it weighed a hundredweight!" For a description of this singular and deeply interesting locality we can do no better than borrow from a little volume, "Siluriana," compiled by David Lloyd Isaac: --"The group of buildings at Llantwit of the present day is one of the most interesting in the Principality. The site is in a deep valley, below the town. The strange, elongated pile of the church, itself a remarkable conglomeration of distinct buildings, is flanked at the south entrance by a bold fragment of what was once a gate-house; and crowning the crest of an opposite hill is the dilapidated structure of the old tithe-barn, surrounded by other scattered remains of sch...
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Add this copy of The Book of South Wales, the Wye, and the Coast to cart. $200.00, Sold by Cultural Connection rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cape Coral, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1861 by Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co..
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1861, Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co.
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Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co.
Published:
1861
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English
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12221208716
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Gorgeous green cloth binding blindstamped on front and back covers and stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. First thus-published periodically in the columns of the "Art Journal" two years previously. 8vo 9 1/8" x 6 7/8". Includes 252 GREAT original engraved illustrations. The illustrations to this book are chiefly from the drawings by the following artists: J.D. Harding; F.W. Hulme; E.M. Wimperis; W.S. Coleman; E.A. Brooke; D. H. McEwen; Commander May, R.N. and Birket Foster. Engraved principally by Messrs. Dalziel, Nicholls, Mason, Jackson, Butterworth and Heath, Palmer and Johnson. xi, 512 pages plus 4 pages of ads at back. According to the introduction it is useful as a companion-guide to the region. The tour of South Wales follows generally the route of the South Wales Railway but frequently making excursions from the line to the valley and river-sides. Page edges covered in bright gilt. Several maps. Laid in at page 520 is an engraving of Milford Haven rougly the same size as the book published March 1, 1794 by J. Sewell Cornhill and engraved by Thomas. Lengthy newspaper clipping of "Haverfordwest and its Story" dated 30 Sept. 1882 from the Times & Mirror is laid-in at page 256. Also Laid-in is a folded 13" x 13" relatively modern sheet with 60 squares each enclosing a word in English and Welsh and also a picture. Pages are bright and clean. Tightly bound. A very nice copy. Very good or better condition.
