Wild sports and natural history of the Highlands / by Charles St. John, with introduction and notes by the Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, bt. Fifty illustrations, twenty-eight being reproduced in colour from pictures by G. Denholm Armour & Edwin Alexander ...
St. John, Charles
Category
Books
Date
1919
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221704
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxix, [1], 471, [5] p., plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 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]). Inscribed: Circe, Xmas, 1920. Binding: green publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
St. John, Charles The Hon. Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, 7th Baronet Maxwell (1845-1937) George Denholm Armour (North Lanarkshire 1864 - 1949) Edwin John Alexander (Edinburgh 1870 - Musselburgh 1926)