The Odyssey of Homer.
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1913
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215833
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv, 429, [1] p. ; 20 cm. Provenance: Inscribed on second flyleaf: "Edith with fullest love Christmas [?] 1917 from [??]. 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]). Binding: Twentieth-century grained red morocco, lettered direct in gilt on spine. Brown endpapers, gilt-top.
Makers and roles
Homer (800 BC - 701 BC) Samuel Henry Butcher (1850-1910) Walter Andrew Lang (1844-1912)