Flower and bird posies.
Sir Arthur Herbert Church (1834-1915)
Category
Books
Date
1890
Materials
Place of origin
Shelsley
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215784
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 32 p. ; 19cm. Provenance: Loosely inserted index card, inscribed: "With all good wishes from [R?]ogey. I thought the flower part would appeal to you". 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: Nineteenth-century full grained green morocco, gilt centre-piece on covers. Lettered direct in gilt on spine. Gilt-top. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Sir Arthur Herbert Church (1834-1915) Robert Henry Soden-Smith (1822-1890)