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  • This is a journal kept by Miss Jinny Jenks of Enfield during her tour of North Wales in the summer of 1772. She spends most of her time in the Vale of Clwyd and describes the scenery, the people and the houses in which she stays. Jinny Jenks' enthusiasm for the country and the people is apparent in her writing and she often expresses her desire to return to Wales. It is not known whether she ever had the opportunity to do so and according to a note at the back of this manuscript, Jinny Jenks died six years after this journal was written, in 1778, aged 41.
A Tour in North Wales by Jinny Jenks, 1772, title page
  • Journal of a weekend excursion from Liverpool to North Wales in 1820 written by Richard M. Jackson and addressed to 'Miss M. Jackson for her approval and revisal by her affectionate brother'. R. M. Jackson travelled in the company of three friends. Their itinerary took them to Parkgate, then by ferry boat over the river Dee to Bagillt, then on to Holywell, Caerwys, Denbigh, Llanrhaeadr, Ruthin, Mold, Flint and back to Liverpool via Parkgate. In the course of their travels they visited St. Winifrede's Well at Holywell and the castles at Denbigh, Ruthin and Flint. Two of the party also climbed Moel Fama on the return journey.
A weekend excursion in North Wales, by Richard M. Jackson, 29-31 July 1820 [title page, image 1 of 18]
  • Plate 4: 'Bala Lake'.
Watercolour sketches from William Fowler's Tour of North and South Wales, 1869 [image 1 of 11]
  • This coloured engraving of Rhuddlan castle by Moses Griffith appears on the frontispiece of the volume, 'A Journey to Snowdon' by Thomas Pennant (1781). The volume formed part of the series 'A Tour in Wales'. Ten large extra-illustrated copies of the volume 'A Journey to Snowdon' were printed and this copy is one of the three which are known to have survived. The volume features a number of coloured engravings by Moses Griffith (1747-1819) and additional watercolours by J. Harris (d.1834).
Thomas Pennant, 'The Journey to Snowdon' (London, 1781), frontispiece [image 1 of 22]
  • This anonymous diary contains a range of beautiful caricatures and illustrations of scenes in north Wales. It is titled 'Rough notes of a few days walk in Wales, by one of the walkers'.
19th century illustrated walker's diary, front cover [image 1 of 14]
  • The full title of this book reads 'A picturesque description of North Wales: embellished with twenty select views from nature. Published by Thomas McLean.' It was printed in London at the Columbian Press in 1823 and this copy came to Wales in 1846 as part of Thomas Phillips' donation to St David's College, Lampeter. In all, Thomas Phillips donated some 22,500 books to Lampeter, which, when added to the collections given and bequeathed by Bishop Burgess and the Bowdler family, made the library of the infant college the largest and most comprehensive in Wales. Only the plates are displayed on the following pages but the accompanying text has been transcribed and can be viewed underneath the images. The preface to the volume reads as follows: 'At a time when the whole of the public attention seems to be engrossed by the attractions of foreign countries, whilst travellers of every class, possessing or wholly devoid of taste, are leaving their homes by thousands and tens of thousands in search of the picturesque and beautiful, it may be difficult, but no less laudable, to endeavour to draw back some small portion of regard for those luxurient and exquisite scenes that abound throughout the British Isles - scenes that cannot be surpassed, and very many of them unequalled. It is certainly to be regretted, that in the present day so many should be found, perfectly ignorant of the beauties of our own Islands, yet most eloquently fluent upon the merits of French and Italian scenery, &c. Nor is any thing more common than to meet on every part of the Continent, 'soidisant' people of taste, who have seen no other part of the British Dominions than the place which had the 'honour' to give them birth, and possibly twenty miles around it. An elegant writer has remarked, that,
'Views in North Wales', published by Thomas McLean, 1823, front cover [image 1 of 21]