Manuscript Fragment and Prints

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Rare Dic Aberdaron manuscripts notes. Two engraved portraits, one a steel engraving dated 1819 (an early version of the frontispiece portrait to The Memoir), and the other a full-length depiction of Jones by AB Burt (miniature painter, Chester), hand coloured and dated May 30th., 1823; a printed broadside titled Craniology. Outlines of the Life of Richard Roberts Jones which advertises the Burt engravings; three manuscript fragments: one in Greek headed The Order of Harps, eight small octavo pages with a drawing of a Harp on the final page, a transcription of the Lord's Prayer in three languages and a note in Greek signed by Jones dated February 3rd, 1824. All housed in a Fine custom box in black half morocco over blue marbled boards, gilt tooling, gilt title & tooling to morocco label on upper board, gilt tooling & titles to spine. (Box 403*296 mm). 0