Animal portraiture, by R. Lydekker, B.A. F.R.S. with fifty studies in full colour reproduced from the original paintings.
Richard Lydekker (1849-1915)
Category
Books
Date
circa 1912
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221934
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 104, [2] p. 50 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 38 cm. Remnants of an inscription in pencil on upper pastedown(erased). 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 brown cloth, large illustrated cloth on-lay, lettered in gilt, on upper cover, gilt lettering and illustration on spine. Gilt-top.
Makers and roles
Richard Lydekker (1849-1915) Kuhnert, Wilhelm, 1865-1926