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- [c. 1827] (Creation)
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iv, 196 ff. (original pagination 1-176, 1-10, 1-128, 1-33, 1-16) ; 230 x 185 mm.
Calf over boards with double gold fillets; 'TOUR IN WALES', 'R. C. H.' and '1801' (stamped in gold on spine); gilded page edges.
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Initials, [?1929], of T[homas] L[ister] P[arker] (1779-1858), antiquary, on f. 109 verso (Parker had associations with the Curzons of Hagley and Barons de Tabley of Tabley, both also known to Hoare); given by Parker to the architect Anthony Salvin (1799-1881), whose daughter, Emmeline Salvin (1833-1920), owned it in 1904 (f. ii).
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Edward Hall; Surbiton; Purchase; October 1955
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Transcripts, [c. 1827] (watermark 1825), in an unknown hand, of journals of tours in Wales and parts of England undertaken by Sir Richard Colt Hoare in 1793 and 1801-1803, taken from manuscripts now at Cardiff Central Library, MS 3.127 and MS 4.302.
The journals include a tour of North Wales, 12 April-1 August 1801 (ff. 1-88, original pagination 1-176), and tours of South Wales, 25 April-14 July 1802 (ff. 96-160, pp. 1-128), 1 May-7 July 1793 (ff. 164-180, pp. 1-33) and 14 May-11 June 1803 (ff. 183-190 verso, pp. 1-16). These are all published, in edited form, in The Journeys of Sir Richard Colt Hoare through Wales and England 1793-1810, ed. by M. W. Thompson (Stroud, 1983). An additional fragment of a tour from Hagley to Stourhead, 24-27 August 1802, is also included (ff. 91-95, pp. 1-10); this is not recorded by Thompson. Each individual tour is accompanied by a list of places visited (ff. 89-90, 162-163, 181-182, 191). A letter, 28 September 1904, from Emmeline Salvin, concerning the volume's provenance, has been tipped in on f. ii.
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- English
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English.
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Front cover and ff. i-iii detached from text; back cover and ff. 194-196 loose; several leaves cut out after ff. 88, 90, 163 and 190; covers rubbed and scuffed.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 16489C.
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October 2006.
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- English
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Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones