The romantic story of the Highland garb and the tartan
J. G. Mackay (1869-1942)
Category
Books
Date
1924
Materials
Place of origin
Scotland
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3138311
Summary
Bibliographic description
208p.,plates : ill.,ports. ; 26cm. 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 blue cloth, gilt lion rampant as centrepiece, chamfered edges, gilt lettering on spine, gilt-top and grey endpapers. Text-block sagging.
Makers and roles
J. G. Mackay (1869-1942) Norman Macleod