The charm of birds / by Viscount Grey of Fallodon; woodcuts by Robert Gibbings.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Falloden (1862-1933)
Category
Books
Date
1927
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221305
Summary
Bibliographic description
[Limited edition]. [2], xii,243, [1] p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Numbered no. 17 [of 250]. Signed: Grey of Falladon. 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]); plate dated in ink: 1928. Endpaper inscribed "Edie from Dick Xmas 27" [i.e Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry, née Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959)]. Binding: white publisher's cloth, gold lettered.
Makers and roles
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Falloden (1862-1933) Robert John Gibbings (Cork 1889-1958)