Wild life of the world : a descriptive survey of the geographical distribution of animals by R. Lydekker, F.R.S. Illustrated with over six hundred engravings from original drawings and one hundred and twenty studies in colour.
Richard Lydekker (1849-1915)
Category
Books
Date
1916
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221831
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plates :. ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm. Contains several inscribed loosely inserted pieces of paper with names of some of the Ark Club members. Vol. 3 has a loosely inserted Radio Times Hulton Picture Library photograph of Andrew W. Mellon (1855-1937) with his son Paul Mellon (1907-1999) and daughter Ailsa Mellon [Ailsa Mellon Bruce (1901-1969)], as well as Sir Robert Horne [i.e. Robert Stevenson Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan (1871-1940)]. There is a note attached to the photograph "Sir Robert Horne; Horne the Hornbill". 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]. Gilt armorial stamp displaying Vane-Tempest-Stewart marshalled with Chaplin under a marquess coronet with charges and motto (Metuenda corolla draconis) on upper cover of vol. 3. Binding: Twentieth-century half green morocco on green cloth over boards, lettered direct in gilt on spine. Marbled endpapers, gilt-tops. Vol. 3 has gilt armorial centre-piece on upper cover.
Makers and roles
Richard Lydekker (1849-1915)