Saints and their emblems / by Maurice & Wilfred Drake ... ; illustrated by XII plates from photographs and drawings by Wilfred Drake ; with a foreword by Aymer Vallance.
Drake, Maurice
Category
Books
Date
1916
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221647
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiii, [1], 235, [5] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. Loosely inserted scrap paper page markers, pp. 43 & 97. 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]). Manuscript note inserted on back of blank envelope: "In memory of Belgium and Holland. April, 1923, from H. the H." Binding: publisher's quarter white cloth, with grey paper boards, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Drake, Maurice Drake, Wilfred