Tales of travel
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859 - 1925)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3128215
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii,344p. plates: ill..,ports., fold. facsim. ; 23 cm. 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, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full blue cloth, gilt centre-piece on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859 - 1925)