West Irish folk-tales and romances / with introduction and notes and appendix containing specimens of the Gaelic originals phonetically spelt. collected and translated by William Larminie :
Larminie, William
Category
Books
Date
1898
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221972
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxviii, 258 p. ; 8vo (21 cm). Bookseller's label to foot of front pastedown: 'Galloway & Porter ... Cambridge'. 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: nineteenth century publisher's full blind-patterned brown cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Larminie, William