Wild sports of the West. : With legendary tales and local sketches. By the author of "Stories of Waterloo.'[sic] [...] in two volumes.
William Hamilton Maxwell (1792-1850)
Category
Books
Date
1832
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3087770
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.,plates : ill. ; 8vo. (22cm). 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 half green calf on marbled paper over boards, brown and red leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Gilt-top. Binder's stamp "Bound by Bagguley, Newcastle, Staffs."
Makers and roles
William Hamilton Maxwell (1792-1850)