The story of Edinburgh castle by Louis Weirter ... with an introduction by Professor Patrick Geddes. With sixteen collotypes and an etched frontispiece by the author, also eight drawings in line by Monro S. Orr, and end-papers designed by Otto Schlapp PhD.
Louis Weirter (Edinburgh 1873 - London 1932)
Category
Books
Date
1913
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221890
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 253, [1] p., mounted plates : ill. ; 28 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 grey embossed full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers.
Makers and roles
Louis Weirter (Edinburgh 1873 - London 1932), author Orr, Monro S, illustrator Sir Patrick Geddes, FRSE (1854-1932), illustrator