The immortal Isles / by Seton Gordon ; with 24 headpieces and 6 coloured illustrations by Finlay Mackinnon and photographs by the author.
Gordon, Seton Paul
Category
Books
Date
1926
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221315
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx,227p, [32]p of plates : ill., 1 port. ; 23cm. 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 fly-leaf: Seton Gordon / 1935. Binding: blue publisher's cloth, gold lettered, gold stamped thistle motif.
Makers and roles
Gordon, Seton Paul