Chronicles of Holland House, 1820-1900.
Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester, OBE, GBE, FSA (1874-1959).
Category
Books
Date
1937
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3086200
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi,554p.,plates : ill.,ports.,plans ; 8vo. (22cm). Author's compliments slip laid in (no further markings or inscriptions). 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 red cloth, gilt illustration and lettering on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine. Pink-top.
Makers and roles
Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester, OBE, GBE, FSA (1874-1959).