Birds and beasts of the Greek anthology by Norman Douglas.
Norman Douglas (1868-1952)
Category
Books
Date
1927
Materials
Place of origin
Florence
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221967
Summary
Bibliographic description
219 p., [1] leaf of plates : front. ; 23 cm. No. 27 of limited edition signed by the author. 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 blue paper over boards, white printed paper spine label. Leaves untrimmed; deckle eges.
Makers and roles
Norman Douglas (1868-1952)