W. B. Yeats 1865-1939.
Hone, Joseph M
Category
Books
Date
1942
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215807
Summary
Bibliographic description
ix, [1], 503, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22cm. 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 Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Gilt armorial stamp displaying Vane-Tempest-Stewart marshalled with Chaplin under a marquess coronet with charges and motto (Metuenda corolla draconis) [associated with Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century half mottled calf on marbled paper over boards. Gilt armorial stamp on upper cover. Gilt tooling on spine. Green leather spine labels, lettered in gilt. Gilt-top, marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Hone, Joseph M