Tales from the new Mabinogion.
Collins, W. J. Townsend
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215748
Summary
Bibliographic description
80 p. : ill. ; 20cm. 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 half polished mottled calf on marbled paper over boards. Gilt armorial stamp displaying Vane-Tempest-Stewart marshalled with Chaplin under a marquess coronet with charges and motto (Metuenda corolla draconis). Black leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Gilt-top. Bookbinder's ticket on lower pastedown: "W. Erskine Mayne, 3 Donegall Sq. W., Belfast".
Makers and roles
Collins, W. J. Townsend Frederick Charles Richards (1878-1932)