History, British – Dugdale (Sir William), Monasticon Anglica...

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History, British – Dugdale (Sir William), Monasticon Anglicanum sive Pandectae Coenobiorum Benedictinorum, Cluniacensium, Cisterciensium, Carthusianorum, a Primordiis ad Eorum Usque Dissolutionum, 1st edn., London, 1655-1673 4to, 3 Vols., numerous engr. plates after Wenceslaus Hollar etc.; bound old full leather, six raised bands and gilt titles to spine, bookplates W. E. Powell of Nanteos, Vol. I: Hodgkinson 1655, 11251pp, Vol. II: London, Alice Warren, 1661, 1057pp and indices; Vol. III: London, Thomas Newcomb 1673 392pp, repaired (3)

***Provenance: this set of Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum was acquired by William Edward Powell (d. 1854) who was MP for Cardiganshire from 1816-1854 and who had served as High Sheriff of Cardigan in 1810. His family, the Powells of Llechwedd Dyrus, had inherited the estate at Nanteos, Cards., from the heirs the Royalist Col. John Jones in the early 18th century. In 1738 the present seat was begun by Thomas Powell, also MP for Cardigan, in provincial Baroque style but with a fine Rococo interior, finished nearly 20 years later. W. E. Powell added a stable block (by Edward Haycock of Shrewsbury) in 1832 and made further alterations in 1841 by W. R. Coultart. Powell’s descendant in the later 19th century, George, was also an antiquary and collector, but the hall was sold by the heiress of the last Powell in 1967 and is now an hotel.