Mr. Gould's tropical birds : comprising twenty-four plates selected from John Gould's folios, together with descriptions of the birds taken from his original text / edited and introduced by Eva Mannering.
John Gould (1804-1881)
Category
Books
Date
1955
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221407
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi p., [24] plates : col. ill. ; 41 cm. Numbered: 11 of limited edition of 1000. 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: "With fond love from Betty January 1959". Binding: publisher's quarter orange cloth, with cream paper boards, lettered in red; in slipcase.
Makers and roles
John Gould (1804-1881) Eva Mannering