A Description of Caernarvonshire (1809–1811)

1952 First Edition  Hardback 8vo  xv + 383pp + folding frontis map +  6 folding maps and 24 figs. All called for. Original publisher’s grained maroon cloth with gilt-stamped title, author, and series data to the spine. Cloth covers mottled by damp staining. Not affecting text. Light, localized spotting and natural age-toning are visible on the title page margins and prelims, but the inner leaves remain clean.

Edited by Emyr Gwynne Jones from the original 19th-century manuscript preserved in the Library of the University College of North Wales, this volume serves as a comprehensive topographical, statistical, and social survey of Caernarvonshire compiled between 1809 and 1811. Edmund Hyde Hall provides exhaustive contemporary descriptions of individual parishes, agrarian systems, early slate quarrying operations, local antiquities, land tenure structures, and demographic shifts across North Wales during the Napoleonic era.

A 1952 first edition publication of Edmund Hyde Hall’s comprehensive 1809–1811 manuscript survey of Caernarvonshire. It offers an essential primary data source for the topography, economy, and social history of early 19th-century North Wales.