General Sir John Cowans ... the Quartermaster-General of the Great War /
Desmond Chapman-Huston (1884-1952)
Category
Books
Date
1924
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3121400
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24cm. Slip inserted at v.1 title, inscribed: "Sir John Cowans the Mandrill / his portrait". One pencil correction & marking: v.2, p.136. 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]). Inscribed: "To The Marchioness of Londonderry, the creator of the Women's Legion, in gratitude & admiration from Desmond Chapman-Huston: Decr. 1924." Binding: blue publisher's cloth, gold lettered.
Makers and roles
Desmond Chapman-Huston (1884-1952) Owen Rutter (1889-1944)