Charles II
Osmund Airy (1845 - 1928)
Category
Books
Date
1901
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3015380
Summary
Bibliographic description
v,282p.,[40] leaves of plates : ill. : 33cm. Copy on fine paper (no. 817 of 1250). Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (dated 1910), bearing arms of Vane-Tempest-Stewart impaling Chaplin. Banners with motto (1) in Scottish Gaelic ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]), (2) Knowledge is the antidote to fear. Open book entitled "Of gardens by Bacon". Images of a racehorse(Hermit, after a painting by Robert Nightingale?) and a man (Lord Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess Londonderry after a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence). Banner lettered "Edith Castlereagh" around image of Diana Chasseresse [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century full maroon morocco, gilt panel stamped boards, gilt tooled and lettered on spine, gilt-top. Gilt-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Binder's stamp on turn-in: "Bagguley Newcastle-under-Lyme".
Makers and roles
Osmund Airy (1845 - 1928)