Windfalls : stories, poems, and plays by Sean O'Casey.
Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)
Category
Books
Date
1934
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221761
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 200, [2] p. ; 20 cm. Provenance: Inscribed on second flyleaf "This copy of Windfalls to Circe from Sean in remembrance of many graceful kindnesses. Chalfront St Giles, 1934" [i.e. presented by the author to Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) set in a landscape with De Lazlo's portrait of Edith Lady Londonderry in the uniform of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in a medallion above, lettered at the bottom of the plate "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." . Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]) [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915] Also inscribed on the bookplate "9/9/35" [reading date?]. Binding: Twentieth-century full polished mottled calf. Black leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Gilt edges. Binder's stamp on turn-in "Bound by Riviere & Son, London".
Makers and roles
Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)