Metal-work and its artistic design.
Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820 - Cowbridge 1877)
Category
Books
Date
1852
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3030806
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], lii, 81 p., 50 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 51 cm. Price note in pencil: £1/10/-. Numbered in pencil: 13451. $zProvenance: stamped on titlepage: Museum of Science Edinburgh May 13 1871. With twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Binding: nineteenth-century half red, grained sheep, with red cloth on boards; five false bands; gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820 - Cowbridge 1877)