Lost splendour / by Prince Felix Youssoupoff ; translated from the French by Ann Green and Nicolas Katkoff.
Prince Feliks Feliksovich Sumarokov Yelstov, Prince Yusupov (1887-1967)
Category
Books
Date
1953
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3046344
Summary
Bibliographic description
288 p., plates : ill., ports., geneal. tables ; 21 cm. Blurb from dust jacket and colour illustration of Yusupov coat of arms pasted to rear endpapers. 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]). Inscribed: "To Lady Londonderry with much love from Moose. Christmas 1953." [i.e. from Millicent Kinsey, nanny to Lady Rose and Elizabeth Keppel]. Binding: pink publisher's cloth, silver decorated and silver lettered on blue spine block.
Makers and roles
Prince Feliks Feliksovich Sumarokov Yelstov, Prince Yusupov (1887-1967), author