The massacre of Glencoe.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940)
Category
Books
Date
1933
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215914
Summary
Bibliographic description
176 p. :. ill.;. 19cm. Inscribed on inner flyleaf: 'Circe with love from J. B. this title of "old unhappy far-off times" June '37' [presented by the author 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 polished full mottled calf, gilt tooling on spine. Green leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Gilt-top. Bookbinder's ticket on lower pastedown: "W. Erskine Mayne, 3 Donegall Sq. W., Belfast"
Makers and roles
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940)