• Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 21861B.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004249238
      (alternative) (WlAbNL)0000249238
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1819-1919 /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • iii, 50 ff. ; 200 x 160 mm. Half-leather and marbled paper, rebacked at NLW.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A volume containing recipes, household and medicinal but mainly relating to the craft of bookbinding (ff. 5-10); a list of books lent, 1827-1837, from an unspecified library, with observations on their condition (inverted text ff. 44 verso-7 verso); notes on the rudiments of music (ff. 2-4, originally pasted together onto f. 1); with late nineteenth and early twentieth-century additions by William Morris, Cydweli.

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 21861B.

Other Finding Aids

The description is also available, together with a detailed list of contents, in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume VIII (Aberystwyth, 1999).

Custodial History

'John Davies, Binder, Carmarthen' and 'John Davies's Receipt Book 1819' on f. 1; 'Willie Morris Age 15' on f. 25; 'Willie Morris Kidwelly' on f. 26.

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