Scotland as it was and as it is
George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823 - 1900)
Category
Books
Date
1887
Materials
Place of origin
Scotland
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3138061
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxi,[1],500p.,plates : ill. ; 8vo. (23cm). Occasional pencil marginal annotations. 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: Nineteenth-century publisher's full blue cloth, gilt embossed design on front cover, gilt lettered on spine; black endpapers. As issued.
Makers and roles
George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823 - 1900)