Ancient ballads and songs of the north of Scotland : hitherto unpublished / with explanatory notes by Peter Buchan.
Peter Buchan (1790-1854)
Category
Books
Date
1875
Materials
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222796
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v : port ; 21 cm. Bookseller's pencil markings rear of v.1. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Binding: nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper boards; gilt tooled spines; five false bands; gilt lettered and numbered red and black spine labels: Buchan's Ballads & songs.
Makers and roles
Peter Buchan (1790-1854)