The pursuits of leisure : & other essays by Sir Ian Malcolm.
Malcolm, Ian, Sir
Category
Books
Date
1929
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222045
Summary
Bibliographic description
v, [3], 162 p. ; 22 cm. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "To Circe, with the love and hommage due to my archaeological president from Ian M. October 15, 1929" [i.e. presented to Edith, 7th Marchioness of Londonderry by the author]. 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 green cloth, gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Malcolm, Ian, Sir