Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Category
Books
Date
1908
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3225588
Summary
Bibliographic description
vi, 303, [1] p. ; 17 cm. Former shelfmarks (on pastedown in pencil; not Mount Stewart): LB-B2 C6. Priced in pencil: 16/-. Pencil text marking and annotation. Pressed leaf (p.169). Provenance: twentieth-century flower and coronet bookplate, lettered 'Theresa' [i.e. Theresa, Marchioness of Londonderry , née Theresa Susey Helen Chetwynd-Talbot (1856-1919), m. in 1875 Charles 6th Marquess of Londonderry] ; with facing twentieth-century armorial bookplate: Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry KG (1878-1949)]. Monogram initials inscribed on endpaper: "TL July 1914" [Theresa Londonderry]. Binding: twentieth-century half red morocco, with red cloth on boards; two false bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered: Essays of Emerson.
Makers and roles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)