£200.00

Machynlleth: Argraffwyd a chyhoeddwyd gan Evan Jones. 1888.

First edition. 164x102mm. pp. xi [1bl], 256. Bound in brown cloth patterned to look like snakeskin. Fading to spine and bumping and wear to head and foot of spine. Internally a little soiled and foxed in places and one or two leaves are slightly loose but holding.
An early Welsh directory of earmarks of sheep. On page xi is a key or directory of the types of marks used. These are described in words next to diagrams illustrating the types of mark. There are then over 2000 farms and villages mentioned with a description of the ear mark found there. Next to each one is the outline of the shape of a sheep's ear on which, using the key and the description, the specific mark can be drawn. Thus, a detailed encyclopaedia of sheep is produced. Unusual and completely wonderful.