Mine eyes to the hills : an anthology of the Highland forest /. arranged by Patrick R. Calmers ; illustrated by V. R. Balfour-Browne.
Patrick Reginald Chalmers (1872-1942)
Category
Books
Date
1931
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221308
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, 368 p., plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. Loose insert (p.45): 'Amid the high hills' by Sir Hugh Fraser, printing specimen [4]p. folder. 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 beneath: "General Cameron, Christmas 1931". Binding: publisher's brown cloth, gold lettered spine, gold upper cover stamped stag's head.
Makers and roles
Patrick Reginald Chalmers (1872-1942) Vincent Robert Balfour-Browne (1880 - 1963)