Some English gardens : after drawings by George S. Elgood, R.I. ; with notes by Gertrude Jekyill ...
Gertrude Jekyll (1843 - 1932)
Category
Books
Date
1910
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3089470
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 130, [1] p., plates : col. ill. ; 36cm. 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]). Binding: blue publisher's cloth, gold lettered.
Makers and roles
Gertrude Jekyll (1843 - 1932) George Samuel Elgood (Leicester 1851 - 1943)