The causal and the casual in history.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940)
Category
Books
Date
1929
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215933
Summary
Bibliographic description
46 p. ; 19cm. Provenance: Inscribed on inner flyleaf: "Circe with love from B. B. Xmas 29" [presented by the author (known as John '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 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)