Looking back : The autobiography of the Duke of Sutherland.
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland (1888-1963)
Category
Books
Date
1957
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215759
Summary
Bibliographic description
228 p., plates :. ill., geneal. table ;. 23cm. Provenance: Inscribed on upper flyleaf: "To Edie with love from the author Dec. 1957" [i.e. presented to Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. 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]). Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Text-block sagging.
Makers and roles
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland (1888-1963)