Memoirs of the Martyr King . being a detailed record of the last two years of the reign of His Most Sacred Majesty King Charles the First (1646-1648-9) by Allan Fea.
Allan Fea (1860-1956)
Category
Books
Date
1905
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3096429
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx,[2],277,[1]p.,plates : ports., facsims., geneal. tables ; 33cm. With loosely inserted leaf of publisher's advertisement in the index. Number "206", signed by the author. Provenance: 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 racehorse(Hermit, after a painting by Robert Nightingale?) and a man (Lord Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess Londonderry after a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence). Banner lettered "Edith Castlereagh" around image of Diana Chasseresse [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century gold-tooled calf [sheep?] binding, elaborately decorated, with the arms of Charles I, in faux seventeenth-century style. Gilt-top. Gilt patterned endpapers.
Makers and roles
Allan Fea (1860-1956)