Newmarket: its sport and personalities
Frank Siltzer
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3086178
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv,279p.,[32] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. (23cm). Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "C. From Dorothe 13th May 1923" [i.e. Dorothé Mabel Plunket née Lewis (1900-1938), illegitimate daughter of Charles, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, by the actress Fanny Ward]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate showing Vane-Tempest-Stewart arms marshalled with Chaplin, motto "Metuenda corolla draconis, with two supporters, all underneath a marquess's coronet with helmet and griffin passant crest, flanked by two badges, lettered in banner "Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry KG". Signed "W. & A. Mussett fecit; Lincoln's Inn, London". [i.e. Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915 (1878-1949)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full calf, double rule forming a border. Five false raised bands, maroon leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelle on inside boards, marbled endpapers, gilt-top. Stamped on verso flyleaf "H. Sotheran [140?] Strand London".
Makers and roles
Frank Siltzer