A Perthshire naturalist : Charles Macintosh of Inver / by Henry Coates ; introduction by J. Arthur Thomson & Patrick Geddes ; with a chapter on Scottish folk-music by Herbert Wiseman.
Henry Coates (1880-1963)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222098
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx, 244 p., [33] leaves of plates : ill., music ; 8vo (23 cm). 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: untrimmed in twentieth-century quarter brown cloth, over beige cloth boards, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Henry Coates (1880-1963) Herbert Wiseman (1886 - 1966) Sir John Arthur Thomson (1861-1933) Sir Patrick Geddes, FRSE (1854-1932)