Trees and shrubs hardy in the British Isles
William Jackson Bean (1863-1947)
Category
Books
Date
1950
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3138141
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v.,plates : ill. ; 23cm. With an index to Volume I laid in. Vol. I has a cutting from the dustjacket pasted onto endpaper. 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]), manuscript note on pastedown of Vol. I: August 1950. Binding: Publisher's green cloth with tree design on cover, green-top. As issued.
Makers and roles
William Jackson Bean (1863-1947)