Golspie : contributions to its folklore / by Annie and Bella Cumming, Jane Stuart, Willie W. Munro, Andrew Gunn, Henri J. MacLean, and Minnie Sutherland (when pupils of Golspie School ; Collected and edited by Edward W. B. Nicholson ... Bodley's Librarian in the University of Oxford. With illustrations chiefly from photographs by A. M. Dixon.
Edward Williams Byron Nicholson (1849-1912)
Category
Books
Date
1897
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222063
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 351, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates :. ill. (some fold.) ;. 8vo (20 cm). Occasional marginal annotation. 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 smooth blue-green cloth, gold lettered spine with cat motif, vignette with musical score to upper cover.
Makers and roles
Edward Williams Byron Nicholson (1849-1912)