The stories of Wagner's operas by Joseph Walker McSpadden. Illustrations by Ferd. Lecke and Hermann Hendrich.
Joseph Walker McSpadden (1874-1960)
Category
Books
Date
1915
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222250
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 282 p., 16 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 22cm. Small slip of paper inserted before the story of Tannhäuser. Provenance: Twentieth-century monogram bookplate with initial ‘E' against a rose inside a marquess's coronet and a framed by a double L [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full green cloth, gilt illustration and lettering on upper cover and spine. Gilt-top.
Makers and roles
Joseph Walker McSpadden (1874-1960) Lecke, Ferd Hermann Hendrich (1856-1931)