An unrecorded miracle of St. Columba
Sir Harold Edwin Boulton (1859-1935)
Category
Books
Date
1930
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3138074
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],41,[1]p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. 4vo (21cm). Author's presentation copy. Inscribed: "The Marchioness of Londonderry from Harold Boulton July 1930. With a letter from the author to Lady Londonderry laid in, dated Dec 9 1933. Begins: "How very rash! If not Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark I felt it was without something essential ... Barring my great disappointment shared by others, it was a howling success ..." 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 7th Marquess of Londonderry]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Binding: Twentieth-century half mottled calf on marbled paper over boards; Gilt armorial stamp displaying Vane-Tempest-Stewart marshalled with Chaplin under a marquess coronet with charges and motto (Metuenda corolla draconis) [Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry]. Gilt-tooled spine; green leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Bookbinder's ticket on lower pastedown: W. Erskine Mayne 3, Donegall Sq. W. Belfast.
Makers and roles
Sir Harold Edwin Boulton (1859-1935) Archibald McDonald Arild Rosenkrantz ( Frederiksborg Castle 1870-1964)