Observations on the Snowdon Mountains.

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1st ed, Good. In contemporary half calf with brown marbled boards, some blind tooling, worn, corners and edges bumped and worn. Spine, blind tooling, no title, edges bumped and wornl. Internally, red marbled endpapers, hinges weak, [4], [1], 2-193 pp, [1], [6] index & errata, ink names and stamp to ffep, contemp ink name to tp also small oval stamp (JE Williams), printed by S Collingwood, Oxford, between each leaf of text there is a blank blue leaf for notes?, occasional MSS note. (Libri Walliae 5524. COPAC WorldCat) Title continues: With Some Account of The Customs and Manners of the Inhabitants to Which is Added a Genealogical Account of the Penrhyn Families. WILLIAMS , 'of Llandygìi ', antiquary, author, prominent official at Cae-braich-y-cafn quarry. Whose retirement gave him leisure to indulge his literary tastes, and in 1802 his Observations on the Snowdon Mountains ,was published, at Oxford, which contains interesting notes on local customs and folk-lore, including a long chapter on the descent of the Penrhyn family [by John Thomas], printed by S Collingwood. See NLW WBO