Amid the high hills / By Sir Hugh Fraser
Sir Hugh Fraser (1860-1927)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221316
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 224 p., [32] leaves of plates. ill. (some col.) ; 23cm. Endpaper has price in pencil: 13/-. Loose insert: publisher's advertisement folder ([4]p): Books on golfing, fishing, shooting ... 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]). Binding: blue publisher's cloth, gold lettered and decorated.
Makers and roles
Sir Hugh Fraser (1860-1927)