Animals and other people / by Louis Bromfield ; drawings by Paul Laune.
Louis Bromfield (1896-1956).
Category
Books
Date
1956
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3069806
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Portrait cut (from dust jacket?) of man and dog 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]). Inscribed: "To Lady Londonderry who herself is "teched" (see p.xi) with much love from Moose. 3.XII.56" [i.e. Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry, née Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959) from Millicent Kinsey, children's nanny]. Binding: red publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Louis Bromfield (1896-1956).