William Augustus Duke of Cumberland : his early life and times (1721-1748) by the Hon. Evan Charteris ... with illustrations.
Sir Evan Edward Charteris (1864-1940)
Category
Books
Date
1913
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3061683
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi, 376, 16p., plates : ill., ports., plans, maps ; 23cm. Provenance: twentieth-century monogram bookplate with initial ‘E' [i.e. Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry, née Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915] against a rose inside a marquess's coronet and framed by a double L. Loose insert (p.v): 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 horse and Castlereagh portrait. Banner lettered "Edith Castlereagh" around image of Diana ... 1915]. Binding: black publisher's cloth binding, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Sir Evan Edward Charteris (1864-1940)