Ecclesiastical antiquities of Down, Connor, and Dromore, . consisting of a taxation of those dioceses, compiled in the year MDCCCVI,; with notes and illustrations. By the Rev. William Reeves ...
William Reeves (1815-1892) Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore
Category
Books
Date
1847
Materials
Place of origin
Ireland
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3138007
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv,436p. ; 4to. With five Mount Stewart weather report cards for Dec. 1948 and Jan. and Feb. 1949 laid in as bookmarks; Mount Stewart embossed envelope and envelope address to the Marchioness of Londonderry (2 Feb 1949) also laid in. Single sheet of type-script with local history inserted between pp. 148-9. 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 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 full polished calf, gilt armorial centrepiece (Vane-Tempest-Stewart paired with Chaplin); gilt edges. Green and black leather spine labels. Bookbinder's stamp on upper pastedown: "Bumpus 122 Oxford St." Text-block sagging, upper board warped. Grazing damage to inside upper board.
Makers and roles
William Reeves (1815-1892) Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore