The singing caravan . a Sufi tale by Robert Vansittart.
Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart (1881-1957)
Category
Books
Date
1919
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3129229
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 168, [2]p. ; 23 cm. Second impression, September 1919. Provenance: Inscribed: "To Circe [i.e. Edith Lady Londonderry] from the Vampire [the author]. March 1932". Autograph letter from the author to Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry tipped in. 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 7th Marquess of Londonderry]. 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 hald mottled calf on marbled paper over boards, black leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Gilt-top. Bookbinder's ticket on lower pastedown: "W. Erskine Mayne, 3, Donegall Sq. W., Belfast".
Makers and roles
Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart (1881-1957)