Days with the golden eagle / by Seton Gordon ... in collaboration with his wife ; introduction by his Grace the Duke of Portland ... ; photographs by the author and his wife ; headpieces and coloured plates by J.C. Harrison.
Seton Paul Gordon (1887-1977)
Category
Books
Date
1927
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221317
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx, 176 p., plates : ill. ; 24cm. 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]); dated by hand: 1928. Inscribed on fly-leaf: Seton Gordon Mount Stewart August 1935. Binding: black publisher's cloth, gold lettered, gold embossed cover device.
Makers and roles
Seton Paul Gordon (1887-1977), author Evelyn Audrey Pease, Mrs S. P. Gordon, illustrator