The interpreter's house : the Chancellor's Installation Address delivered before the University of Edinburgh, July 20th 1938.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940)
Category
Books
Date
1938
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215905
Summary
Bibliographic description
37, [1] p. ; 19cm. Signed by author on t.p. Provenance: Inscribed on inner flyleaf: "Circe from B.B. Aug. 14. 38" [presented by ?John Buchan (Buchan the Buck in the Ark Club) to Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. 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 half mottled calf on marbled paper over boards. Brown leather spine labels, lettered in gilt. Gilt-top. Original boards bound in at the end.
Makers and roles
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940)