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Sir Lawrence Weaver (1876 - 1930)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3114951
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv, [2], 173, [3] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., ports., plans ; 20 cm. 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]). Onscribed on flyleaf: To Lady Londonderry with the author's kindest regards August 1923" [i.e. Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry, née Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959) from Sir Lawrence Weaver]. Binding: publisher's quarter green cloth, buff paper on boards, lettered in black.
Makers and roles
Sir Lawrence Weaver (1876 - 1930), author Country Life Limited