The wild bird's nest: poems from the Irish.
Frank O'Connor (1903-1966).
Category
Books
Date
1932
Materials
Place of origin
Dublin
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215871
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 39, [3] p. ; 22 cm. 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). Binding: Twentieth-century half mottled calf on marbled paper over boards. Green leather spine labels, lettered in gilt. Gilt-top.
Makers and roles
Frank O'Connor (1903-1966). George William Russell (Lurgan Armagh 1867 - 1935) A. E (1867-1935)