Five chromo-lithographic drawings, representing an Irish ecclesiastical bell, which is supposed to have belonged to Saint Patrick. And the several sides of the jewelled shrine in which it is preserved; accompanied by a historical and illustrative description.
William Reeves (1815-1892) Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore
Category
Books
Date
1850
Materials
Place of origin
Belfast
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221518
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 6 p., 5 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm. Price note in pencil: 10/6 vv1. Provenance: inscribed "To the Revd. John Scott Porter with the grateful thanks & compliments of the publishers. Belfast August 1850." Gilt armorial stamp on upper cover: Vane-Tempest-Stewart marshalled with Chaplin under a marquess coronet with charges and motto (Metuenda corolla draconis), as used by 7th Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry. Binding: twentieth-century marbled paper on boards; gold lettered, gold stamped device.
Makers and roles
William Reeves (1815-1892) Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore