Father and son : a study of two temperaments.
Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928)
Category
Books
Date
1912
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215723
Summary
Bibliographic description
Booklover's edition, with new illustrations. xi, [1], 373, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21cm. Inscribed in pencil on flyleaf: "Reserve". Provenance: inscribed: "To the divine Circe from her infatuated Gos-hawk, New Year's Day 1927." [i.e. presented to Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles 7th Marquess of Londonderry, by the author Edmund Gosse (1849-1928)]. On lower pastedown (pasted in upside down): 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 polished calf, gilt tooled on spine. Red and brown leather spine labels, lettered in gilt. Gilt-top. Gilt doublure. Bookbinder's stamp on turn-in: "Bumpus Ltd Oxford St. W"
Makers and roles
Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928)