Portrait of Socrates, :. being the Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Plato in an English translation.
Plato (c.428-c.348 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1938
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215732
Summary
Bibliographic description
lvi, 200 p. : front. (port.) ; 20 cm. Inscribed in pencil on inner flyleaf: "Reserve". Provenance: Inscribed on inner flyleaf: "To Lord & Lady Londonderry with every good wish from the author" [i.e. presented to Charles and Edith Londonderry by R. W. Livingstone]. 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 half mottled calf on marbled paper over boards; maroon leather spine labels, lettered in gilt [date on spine is 1838]. Gilt-top.
Makers and roles
Plato (c.428-c.348 BC), author Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1880-1960), editor