Bernard Shaw : his life and personality
Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson (1887-1964).
Category
Books
Date
1942
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215809
Summary
Bibliographic description
424p., [17] leaves of plates:. ill. ; 8vo. (22cm). Provenance: Inscribed on half-title: "Note well, O Circe, that the absence of your name from the index to this book proves that the author does not know everything about me. Where the days are longer and petrol less precious, pass this way and look in. G. Bernard Shaw. Ayot St. Lawrence, 19th January 1943" [Presented by George Bernard Shaw 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 polished mottled calf. Gilt armorial stamp displaying Vane-Tempest-Stewart marshalled with Chaplin under a marquess coronet with charges and motto (Metuenda corolla draconis). Gilt tooling on spine and green leather spine labels, lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers and gilt edges. Binder's stamp on front turn-in: "Bound by Baynton/Riviere Bath England".
Makers and roles
Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson (1887-1964).