The ancient Irish epic tale "Táin Bó Cúalnge" "The Cualnge cattle-raid" . now for the first time done entire into English out of the Irish of the Book of Leinster and allied manuscripts by Joseph Dunn ...
Joseph Allan Elphinstone Dunn (1872-1941)
Category
Books
Date
1914
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3138119
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxxvi,382p., plates : ill. ; 27cm. Inscribed on t.p.: "Thawin Bo Huln Ya" [i.e. pronuciation of title]. 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 cloth, black lettered on upper cover, gilt lettered on spine. Edges untrimmed. Water-damaged.
Makers and roles
Joseph Allan Elphinstone Dunn (1872-1941)