Lord Balfour . a memory by Sir Ian Malcolm.
Sir Ian Zachary Malcolm (1868-1944)
Category
Books
Date
1930
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3131094
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii,[4],124p., plates : port. ; 21cm.. Provenance: Half-title inscribed: "To Circe [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915], in memory of a Great man and a great friend, from Ian Malcolm. June 27 1930."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 horse and a man. 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 purple morocco; gold-tooled facsimile of Balfour's signature.Lettered direct in gilt on spine. Marbled endpapers and gilt-top.
Makers and roles
Sir Ian Zachary Malcolm (1868-1944)