Mourne country : landscape and life in south Down / by E. Estyn Evans ... ; with drawings by the author.
Evans, E. Estyn
Category
Books
Date
1951
Materials
Place of origin
Dundalk
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3220519
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 226 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 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]). Inscribed on p.[ii] "To darling Mumkari, with all love from Mairi 3.XII.51 "The silent valley breaths mysteriously singing its plaintive song among the hills."" Binding: publisher's green cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Evans, E. Estyn