Irish fairy tales / by James Stephens ; illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
James Stephens (1882-1950)
Category
Books
Date
1920
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221598
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], x, 318 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Signed on first leaf edition statement: Arthur Rackham. 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: publisher's quarter vellum, with buff paper boards; gilt lettered, gilt pictorial.
Makers and roles
James Stephens (1882-1950) Arthur Rackham (Lewisham 1867 – Limpsfield 1939)