Wakeman's handbook of Irish antiquities.
William Frederick Wakeman (1822 - 1900)
Category
Books
Date
1903
Materials
Place of origin
Dublin
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221791
Summary
Bibliographic description
Third edition by John Cooke. xvi, 414 p. : ill., plan ; 20 cm. Provenance: 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 publisher's full green cloth, gilt illustrated centre-piece (Celtic cross), gilt lettering on spine. Gilt-top.
Makers and roles
William Frederick Wakeman (1822 - 1900) John Cooke