Guide to St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh. :.Historical and descriptive. With illustrations.
Category
Books
Date
1905
Materials
Place of origin
Armagh
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215454
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second edition.. 158, [2] p., plates : ill. ; 21cm. With a letter from Michael Card, Armagh to Lady Londonderry, dated 23 January 1924, offering this copy of the guide to Armagh Cathedral. 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 quarter green calf on green cloth over boards, maroon spine label, lettered in gilt. Gilt armorial centre-piece. Edges sprinkled red. Rebacked with re-use of original spine cover.