Morning flight : a book of wildfowl / written and illustrated by Peter Scott.
Sir Peter Markham Scott (London 1909 – 1989)
Category
Books
Date
1936
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221336
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiii,[1],138p., plates : ill. (part. col.), port. ; 29cm. 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.
Makers and roles
Sir Peter Markham Scott (London 1909 – 1989)