The book of ballads / edited by Bon Gaultier and illustrated by Doyle, Leech and Crowquill.
Sir Theodore Martin (1816-1909)
Category
Books
Date
1870
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3225583
Summary
Bibliographic description
Eleventh edition. v, [3], 256 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Provenance: twentieth-century small armorial bookplate, with Viscount's coronet, tree crest: [Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham (1872-1950)]. Autograph letter signed affixed to rear endpaper from Mildred [Hogg, 2nd wife of Douglas: i.e. Mildred Margaret Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, née Dew (d. 1964)] to 'Circe' [i.e. Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry, née Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959)]; dated Nov: 6.50; headed: Carter's Corner Place, Hailsham, Sussex; presenting this book as "memento of Douglas". Binding: nineteenth-century blue morocco; ornately gold tooled boards and spine; five false bands; gold lettered spine label.
Makers and roles
Sir Theodore Martin (1816-1909) William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865)