£220
Wales. The Reverend Francis Taynton (1799-1869/70), his manuscript pocket book cum diary, records and extracts dated from 1811-1870, approx. [105] ff of MS, compiled and inscribed while incumbent of the parishes of Ystradowen and Talygarn, Vale of Glamorgan, and later resident of Cowbridge, Taynton seems to have been an obsessive chronicler, as well as his clerical chronology 'Dates respecting my Profession', which includes being thwarted in a living by Bishop Copleston of Llandaff, further records pertain to his horse dealings, the dates and locations of his tours, operas, concerts, and plays attended and watched, as well as more mundane matters, e.g. his height and weight over his lifetime, the weather, his various crops and his income, as well as his mother's, more interesting financial details include the cost and employment of workmen, builders, painters and wallpaper. In 1853 the dreaded cholera strikes, which the vicar puts down to the impure air from the drains at the supper rooms at the Bear over the Stables [?pub], etc., some blank leaves, early 19th c sombre roan, blind-rolled anthemion border, some splits and losses, but holding, speckled edges, marbled endpapers, 12mo
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