Historical Memoranda of Breconshire...

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2 Vols some, bound as 1, 1st ed, VG. In half brown cloth over blue speckled boards, edges rubbed very slightly. Spine, ms title. Internally someone has traced the title onto the fep in red ink, pages have 2 holes at inside edge as though meant for 2 ring binder - both volumes. Vol 1, 1903, [4], [4], 5-208 pp, [1] [1], 1 pl (folding). Vol 2, 1904, [5], (vi) only, [1], 2-204 pp, [1]. special note on the River Usk and the Canal, BOUND with [1], 2-80 pp, The Great Forest of Brecknock cap IV The Forest Award, The Waun Tinker Lawsuit, The Limestone quarries etc. Very scarce. (see Forest of Brecknock by same author) Lloyd, municipal reformer and antiquary, published Historical Memoranda of Breconshire in two volumes in 1903 and 1904, and The Great Forest of Breconshire in 1905. Lloyd collated the papers of Henry Maybery, the Brecon attorney engaged by several of the early south Welsh ironmasters, and published The Early History of the Old South Wales Ironworks in 1906. See ODNB for a full Bio.