King Arthur's Avalon : the story of Glastonbury / Geoffrey Ashe.
Ashe, Geoffrey
Category
Books
Date
1957
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3069804
Summary
Bibliographic description
384p. ; 22cm. Pencil ms. note on flyleaf: "The statements about the Church in Scotland are most eroneous and show a great want of knowlege [sic]". Loose insert (p.63): picture postcard of Portscatho, Cornwall; addressed on reverse to Miss Millicent Kinsey, Mount Stewart, ... ; with autograph note to 'Moosie' signed from 'Derek' [presumably Derek William Charles Keppel, Viscount Bury (1911-1968), m. Mairi Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1940)]. Blurb from dust jacket pasted to rear pastedown. Provenance: 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: green publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Ashe, Geoffrey