The wild orchids of Britain / by Jocelyn Booke ; drawings from the living plants by Gavin Bone ; additional drawings by Muirhead and Stephen Bone.
Bernard Jocelyn Brooke (1908-1966)
Category
Books
Date
1950
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221353
Summary
Bibliographic description
140 p., 40 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 35 cm. Numbered: 21 [of 1140]. Signed: Jocelyn Brooke. 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: August, 1950. Binding: publisher's 'special' binding of 40, with vellum on boards, gold lettered.
Makers and roles
Bernard Jocelyn Brooke (1908-1966), author Gavin David Bone (1907-1942), illustrator