Sonnets and verse
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3116482
Summary
Bibliographic description
x,166p. ; 26cm. Copy no. 424. 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: Twentieth-centuryfull polished mottled calf, gilt fillet forming a border, gilt tooled on spine. Green leather spine labels, lettered in gilt. Gilt-edges. Bookbinder's stamp on upper turn-in: "Bumpus Ltd. Oxford St.".
Makers and roles
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)