Saint Joan: . a chronicle play in six scenes and an epilogue. By Bernard Shaw.; with sketches by C. Ricketts.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Category
Books
Date
1924
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3081195
Summary
Bibliographic description
v, [1], 182, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 39cm. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "Circe from Biddy Xmas 1924" [presented to Edith 7th Marchioness of Londonderry by a fellow Ark Club member?]. 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, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's quarter cream bloth on illustrated paper over boards. Printed paper spine label.
Makers and roles
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), author Charles de Sousy Ricketts (Geneva 1866 - London 1931), illustrator