A history of the County of Down : from the most remote period to the present day : including an account of its early colonization, ecclesiastical, civil, and military polity, geography, topography, antiquities and natural history /. by Alexander Knox.
Alexander Knox (1849 - 1912)
Category
Books
Date
1875
Materials
Place of origin
Dublin
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3114657
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 724 p. : ill., folded col. map ; 22 cm. Provenance: twentieth-century monogram bookplate with initial ‘E' against a rose inside a marquess's coronet and framed by a double L.; inscribed on half title: "E Londonderry" [i.e. Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry, née Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Former inscription facing: "Presented to Dr. William Irwin with the compts. & kind remembrance of the author." "Marquis [5th Marquess] of Londonderry" in original list of subscribers. Binding: publisher's brown cloth, with black ornament embossed, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Alexander Knox (1849 - 1912)