Mermaids and mastodons : a book of natural & unnatural history / Richard Carrington ; with illustrations by Maurice Wilson and others.
Richard Carrington (b.1921)
Category
Books
Date
1957
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3225532
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Loosely inserted page markers: 3,11,85,87, including inscriptions 'Margaret the Mermaid of Mahee - Lady Margaret Stewart" and "Sir Philip Sassoon - Philip the Phoenix". Provenance: inscribed "To Circe with love & best wishes from H the H Christmas 1956. More strange beasts for the 'Ark'!" ['Circe', i.e. Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry, née Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959)]. Binding: blue publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine; with dust jacket.
Makers and roles
Richard Carrington (b.1921)