A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Relating to Wales in the British Museum OWEN Edward 1853-1943 (compiled and Edited by) Publisher: The Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion Publish Year: 1900 Publish Place: London Illustrator: Unknown Category: Miscellaneous, Foreign Travel, Antiquarian Book, History, Reference Book No: 001076 Status: For Sale Book Condition: Very Good Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Jacket Condition: Unknown Binding: Hardcover Book Type: Unknown Edition: Fifth Edition Inscription: Unknown £50 Add to Basket Ask a question Refer to a friend Additional information 4 Volumes bound in 2. In half brown buckram with crazed boards. Corners slightly bumped. The spines have an old library label or mark to its base which has been removed, the edges are a little bumped, titles in gilt on a black leather labels, black speckled edges. Internally, evidence of library stamp to both feps, cream endpapers. Volume 1, (xxii), [2], 520 pp. Volume 2, (vii), [1], (lxvii), [1], 521-966 pp.The Cymmrodorion Record Series, No 4. (252*158 mm). OWEN, journalist, barrister, and antiquary, contributed regularly to the Trans. Hon. Cymm. Soc. and Arch. Camb.; the former society published his Catalogue of the MSS. relating to Wales in the British Museum., Parts I-IV. In 1896, his work on changes in land tenure in mediaeval Wales appeared as an Appendix to the Royal Commission 's Report on Land in Wales, followed by the publication (1910) of Ancient tenures of land in North Wales and the Marches jointly with A.N. Palmer (DWB, 727-8) of Wrexham. See NLW WBO for a full Bio.
