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- [1825] / (Creation)
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iv, 40 ff. (paginated 1-79; blank from p. 75) ; 230 x 185 mm. Bound in green morocco with blind tooling, double gold fillet on covers and gold-stamped decoration on spine; 'POEMS' in blind and 'MS' in gold on spine; marbled endpapers.
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'Some of the Earlier Poems of John William Bythell' on f. iv.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Dylans Bookstore; Swansea; Purchase (with NLW MS 23703B and Papurau'r Parchedig E. R. Williams, Patagonia); November 1997; B1997/43.
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Scope and content
A manuscript volume, [1825] (watermarks 1822, 1824), containing autograph drafts of poems, some of Welsh interest, by John William Bythell, attorney, of Shoplatch, Shrewsbury, with numerous emendations and deletions in pencil.
A few of the poems had previously appeared in The Salopian Journal and the Shrewsbury Chronicle; many were later published in his Salopia, The News-Room and Other Poems (London & Shrewsbury, 1841). Included is a parody of a poem by Thomas Moore (pp. 18-20).
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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English.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23704C.
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- Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852. (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
May 2009.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description revised by Rhys Morgan Jones;