Hill birds of Scotland / by Seton Gordon, ... Illustrated.
Seton Paul Gordon (1887-1977)
Category
Books
Date
1915
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221325
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 300, 8p. plates : ill. ; 23cm. Imperfect: wants the 8 advertisement pages. Pencil price note: 12/6 net. 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 cover pictorial.
Makers and roles
Seton Paul Gordon (1887-1977)