A queen of tears : Caroline Matilda, queen of Denmark and Norway ...
William Henry Wilkins (1860 - 1905)
Category
Books
Date
1904
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3137864
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates : ill., ports. ; 22cm. 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 horse and Castlereagh portrait. 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 half vellum, with white cloth boards, gold lettered spine. Stamped: Bagguley, binder, Newcastle, Staffs.
Makers and roles
William Henry Wilkins (1860 - 1905)