Thomas Gainsborough.
Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1845–1916)
Category
Books
Date
1903
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215772
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiii, [1], 133, [3] p., frontis. port, plates : ill., plates, port. ; 21cm. 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]. Binding: Twentieth-century half red morocco on buff marbled paper over boards, gilt tooled and lettered on spine. Green marbled endpapers, gilt-top. Binder's stamp on verso flyleaf: "Bagguley Newcastle-under-Lyme".
Makers and roles
Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1845–1916), author