Mediaeval latin lyrics
Helen Jane Waddell (1889 - 1965)
Category
Books
Date
1929
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3111735
Summary
Bibliographic description
vii,352p. ; 23 cm. Copy no. 95 (of 100), signed by Helen Waddell. Provenance: Inscribed: "Presented by the Students of Victoria College, Belfast 1929"; and (in a different hand, writing in red ink): "For Desirée. Mount Stewart. July 12. 1934. Helen Waddell". 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: Twentieth-century publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Gilt-top.
Makers and roles
Helen Jane Waddell (1889 - 1965)