A descriptive catalogue of the antiquities of stone, earthen, and vegetable materials in the museum of the Royal Irish Academy by W.R. Wilde, M.R.I.A., Secretary of Foreign Correspondence to the Academy ; illustrated with numerous wood engravings.
Royal Irish Academy
Category
Books
Date
1857
Materials
Place of origin
Dublin
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222429
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 246, 10 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Provenance: Gilt armorial stamp displaying Vane-Tempest-Stewart marshalled with Chaplin under a marquess coronet with charges and motto (Metuenda corolla draconis) [used by Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century full marbled paper over boards, gilt armorial stamp on upper cover, gilt lettering on upper cover. Marbled endpapers, gilt-top. Original covers bound in.
Makers and roles
Royal Irish Academy Sir William Robert Wilde (1815 - 1876)