Shrubs for the milder counties by W. Arnold-Forster ; foreword by Lord Aberconway ; with a chapter on magnolias by G. H. Johnstone.
William Edward Arnold-Forster (1886-1951)
Category
Books
Date
1948
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3066038
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 367 p., plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Slips of paper used as bookmarks. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) set in a landscape with De Lazlo's portrait of Edith Lady Londonderry in the uniform of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in a medallion above, lettered at the bottom of the plate "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." . Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]) [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh and 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915] Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full green cloth, white lettering on upper cover and spine.
Makers and roles
William Edward Arnold-Forster (1886-1951) Henry Duncan McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway (1879 - 1953) G. H. Johnstone