The Royal Tribes of Wales....

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G, 2nd ed, 1887, 12 pls. Green cloth, stain to upper board, lower corner, corners and edges lightly bumped and worn, blind tooling. Spine has title and tooling in gilt, edges bumped and a little worn, small mark. Internally, dark endpapers, evidence of removed bookplate, light foxing to prelims, hinges just cracked, ink name to half title (Dc Richards 1880), occasional oval lib stamp, (xvi), 219 pp, 12 pl (portraits), [1]. Title continues: To Which is Added an Account of the Fifteen Tribes of North Wales with Numerous Additions and Notes, Preface and Index. YORKE, of Erddig (or Erthig ), Wrexham, antiquary, whose heraldic interests found expression in the embellishment of his entrance hall with the arms of the chief North Wales families, but his project of following up the Royal Tribes with the work on the Fifteen Common Tribes was frustrated by his death. See NLW WBO for a full Bio.