Parrots and parrot-like birds in aviculture / by the Marquess of Tavistock ; with eight plates in colour by E.J. Boosey.
Hastings William Sackville Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford (1888-1953)
Category
Books
Date
1929
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221630
Summary
Bibliographic description
298 p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm. 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]); ms. dated beneath: 1940. Inscribed on flyleaf: Bedford Nov.28th 1949. With extract from typescript letter signed, affixed beneath: "Before the war I went to a great amount of trouble to write a supplement ... lost or it got destroyed ..." With note on macaws and fish. Binding: green publisher's cloth, gold lettered.
Makers and roles
Hastings William Sackville Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford (1888-1953), author Boosey, E. J, illustrator