A history of Ireland and her people. volume I[-II] ...
Eleanor Hull (1860-1935)
Category
Books
Date
1926 - 1931
Materials
Place of origin
Dublin
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215446
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill. ; 22cm. Marginal pencil marks in chapter on pre-Christian Ireland in vol. 1. Various Mount Stewart weather report cards used throughout as bookmarks in vol. 1. Loosely inserted handwritten note with page references between pp. 226-7 in vol. 1, together with a 2-page [undated] letter to 'Edie', signed 'IL'[? possibly Lady Isobel Linda (1911-1962)] from Assynt, Evanton [Ross-shire]. $z Provenance: vol. 2, upper pastedown: 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 red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Maroon endpapers. Text-blocks sagging; water-damaged.
Makers and roles
Eleanor Hull (1860-1935)