The endless adventure by F.S. Oliver.
Frederick Scott Oliver (1864-1934)
Category
Books
Date
1930
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221977
Summary
Bibliographic description
Copyright [edition]. xii,428p.,plates : ports.; 8vo. (22cm). 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], inscribed at the bottom "1930". Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full blue cloth, printed paper spine label. Spare spine label tipped in at the end.
Makers and roles
Frederick Scott Oliver (1864-1934)