A tour in Sutherlandshire, with extracts from the field-books of a sportsman and naturalist. By Charles St. John, Esq. ... With woodcuts. In two volumes. ...
Charles St. John (1809-1856)
Category
Books
Date
1849
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3114949
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates : ill. ; 12mo. Bookseller's pencil notes, v.1. Flyleaf torn out, v.1. Publisher's list of new publications bound in at rear of v.2 (16p.). 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]). Binding: publisher's green cloth case, blind embossed, with gold hawk pictorial on upper cover, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Charles St. John (1809-1856), author