Bards of the Gael and Gall . examples of the poetic literature of Erinn done into English after the metres and modes of the Gael by George Sigerson, M.D. ... With memorial preface by Dr. Douglas Hyde.
George Sigerson (1839-1925)
Category
Books
Date
1925
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3138075
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxviii,431,[1]p.,[1] leaf of plates : port. ; 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 publisher's full green embossed cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine; green endpapers. As issued.
Makers and roles
George Sigerson (1839-1925) Douglas Hyde (1860-1949)