Gayton Wake,

Llwyd (Richard)

Gayton Wake,

or Mary Dod; and her List of Merits. A Poem in Four Parts.

Description: FIRST EDITION, half-title, advertisement leaf at end; occasional toning, the odd spot but a very good clean copy; pp. xxiii, [1], 62, [2], 8vo; original boards, old ink ms. title on cover and spine; a little rubbed with the backstrip neatly repaired; presentation inscription: "From the Author to the Miss Gleggs" to head of title, contemporary ownership inscription to pastedown, book-label of J.O. Edwards.

Publication Details: Chester: Printed by J. Fletcher and sold in London by E. Williams [...] Bookseller to the Duke and Duchess of York, and Bookseller to Wales. 1804.

Notes: First edition of this provincially printed book of Welsh verse, in original boards, inscribed by the author. Gayton is a village on the Wirral side of the Dee Estuary, close to Chester. As the helpful preface explains, 'the 'Wake' of the title is a 'well-known rural festival, generally held on the Saint's day, to which the parish church is dedicated [...] This is a sort of Carnival, when nothing but eating, drinking, and good-fellowship abound; it is then the lads and lasses assemble, in their holiday finery, and, with hearts lighter than their heels, dance away the cares of the year. Richard...moreFirst edition of this provincially printed book of Welsh verse, in original boards, inscribed by the author. Gayton is a village on the Wirral side of the Dee Estuary, close to Chester. As the helpful preface explains, 'the 'Wake' of the title is a 'well-known rural festival, generally held on the Saint's day, to which the parish church is dedicated [...] This is a sort of Carnival, when nothing but eating, drinking, and good-fellowship abound; it is then the lads and lasses assemble, in their holiday finery, and, with hearts lighter than their heels, dance away the cares of the year. Richard Llwyd (1752-1835) the Bard of Snowdon, worked as a steward and secretary in Conwy, and became an acknowledged expert on Welsh heraldry and genealogy. In 1800, he published his poem Beaumaris Bay, which was followed by the present work. HIDE

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Price: £550

Subject: Literature

Published Date: 1804.

Stock Number: 76305

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