Two plays : Juno and the Paycock; The shadow of a gunman, by Sean O'Casey.
Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)
Category
Books
Date
1926
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221764
Summary
Bibliographic description
Reprinted April 1926.. viii,198, [2]p. ; 20cm. Provenance: Inscribed "To Lady Edith Londonderry with best wishes and regards from Sean O'Casey. May 1926". 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]. Binding: Twentieth-century full polished mottled calf. Black leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Gilt edges. Book binder's stamp: Bumpus Ltd. Oxford St. W.
Makers and roles
Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)