A social history of ancient Ireland ...
Patrick Weston Joyce (1827-1914)
Category
Books
Date
1913
Materials
Place of origin
Ireland
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3138149
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.,plates : ill., map ; 8vo.(22cm). With Mount Stewart weather report cards for 1942 and 1944, envelopes and scraps of paper laid in as bookmarks. In v.2 p.282 a leaf of MS and typewritten notes. 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, gilt lettered and embossed; as issued. Head of spine damaged; text-blocks sagging.
Makers and roles
Patrick Weston Joyce (1827-1914)