Robert the Bruce and the struggle for Scottish independence.
Maxwell, Herbert, Sir
Category
Books
Date
1897
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215835
Summary
Bibliographic description
xix, 387 p. :. frontis., ill., plates, 2 maps (1 fold.) ; 20 cm. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of "G. Harvey Johnston" [prob. George Harvey Johnston (1860-1921), author]. 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: Nineteenth-century publisher's full maroon cloth, gilt tooling and lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Maxwell, Herbert, Sir