Legends of saints & sinners . collected and translated from the Irish by Douglas Hyde ...
Douglas Hyde (1860-1949)
Category
Books
Date
circa 1915
Materials
Place of origin
Ireland
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3138297
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv,295,[1]p.,[1] leaf of plates ; 8vo. (18cm). 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 full green calf [or sheep?], gilt fillets on boards, gilt-lettered on spine. Green marbled endpapers [as issued?]
Makers and roles
Douglas Hyde (1860-1949)