Happy hours in an Irish home.
Trefusis, Jane Grey Forbes
Category
Books
Date
1938
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215805
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 161, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22cm. Provenance: Inscribed on upper flyleaf: "To "Herself" with best wishes from a kinswoman, Jane Grey Clinton" [presented by the author 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 full beige cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Gilt-top. [As issued?]
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Trefusis, Jane Grey Forbes