The new comprehensive dictionary : a new dictionary of the English language, containing over 100,000 definitions and copious supplements, edited under the direction of Alexander H. Irvine ; with an introduction by Ernest Weekley.
Irvine, Alexander Hyndman
Category
Books
Date
1958
Materials
Place of origin
Preston
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3065450
Summary
Bibliographic description
Reprint.. xvi,1264, 32 p., plates : col. ill; col. maps ; 21cm. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) set in a landscape with De Lazlo's portrait of Edith Lady Londonderry in the uniform of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in a medallion above, lettered at the bottom of the plate "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." . Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]) [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh and 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full red cloth, silver lettering on spine. Remains of dust-jacket between endpapers.
Makers and roles
Irvine, Alexander Hyndman Ernest Weekley