Carmina Gadelica . hymns and incantations With illustrative notes on words, rites, and customs, dying and obsolete: orally collected in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and translated into English by Alexander Carmichael.
Alexander Carmichael (1832 - 1912)
Category
Books
Date
1900
Materials
Place of origin
Scotland
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3138096
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.,plate . port. ; 4to. Pencil notes on endpaper: "2 vols 5/7/6" "Iain Camshron [?]". "Mitchison 21/6/46" "B1278". 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 buff paper boards, red leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Gilt-top, maroon endpapers. Water-damaged.
Makers and roles
Alexander Carmichael (1832 - 1912), editor