The poems of Sir John Suckling.
Sir John Suckling (1609-1641)
Category
Books
Date
1896
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215691
Summary
Bibliographic description
cxvii, [3] p. ; 8vo. (23cm). Provenance: Inscribed "28.xi.99 from S. [?] Stopford". Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (dated 1910), bearing arms of Vane-Tempest-Stewart impaling Chaplin. Banners with motto (1) in Scottish Gaelic ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]), (2) Knowledge is the antidote to fear. Open book entitled "Of gardens by Bacon". Images of a horse and a man. Banner lettered "Edith Castlereagh" around image of Diana Chasseresse [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles 7th Marquess of Londonderry]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full grained red morocco, Arts & Crafts gilt floral border, doublure and spine tooling. Lettered direct in gilt on spine. Gilt-top. Bookbinder's ticket: Bumpus 132 Oxford St. W.
Makers and roles
Sir John Suckling (1609-1641) John Gray (1866-1934) Charles de Sousy Ricketts (Geneva 1866 - London 1931)