The crock of gold
James Stephens (1882-1950)
Category
Books
Date
1922
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3138055
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],298p. : ill.. ; 8vo. (21cm). 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 mottled calf, gilt tooling on spine. Green leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Gilt edges. Binder's stamp on upper pastedown: Bumpus Ltd. Oxford St. W.
Makers and roles
James Stephens (1882-1950) Wilfred Jones