A journey to Damascus through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petraea, Palestine, and Syria.
Frederick William Robert Stewart, 4th Marquess of Londonderry, KP, (1805-1872)
Category
Books
Date
1847
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215767
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo (20cm). 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 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]. Also a gilt cypher stamp on upper cover: E and a rose between mirrored 'C's held by a viscount's coronet. Binding: Twentieth-century half dark blue grained morocco on blue marbled paper over boards, gilt cypher stamp at head of upper cover, gilt lettered on spine [date of publication given as '1874']. Gilt-top and marbled endpapers. Binder's stamp on verso inner flyleaf: "Bagguley Newcastle-under-Lyme".
Makers and roles
Frederick William Robert Stewart, 4th Marquess of Londonderry, KP, (1805-1872)