The legends of flowers = (Leggende dei fiori) by Mrs. Alexander Kennedy; translated from the Italian of Paolo Mantegazza. With frontispiece in colours and twenty-two decorative headpieces by A. Gatlish.
Mantegazza, Paolo, 1831-1910
Category
Books
Date
1930
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221976
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 199, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (1 col.);. 19 cm. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "For mumkari with best love from Mairi Nov. 1935" [i.e. presented to Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915, by her youngest daughter Mairi Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1921-2009)]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full blue cloth, illustrated paper on-lay, gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Mantegazza, Paolo, 1831-1910 Kennedy, Alexander, Mrs Gatlish, A