The gardener's chapbook.
Euan Hillhouse Methven Cox (b.1893)
Category
Books
Date
1931
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215813
Summary
Bibliographic description
ix,[1],258,[3]p., plates : ill. (some col.) ; 8vo (19cm). Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf: "With love & best wishes from Romaine and Robin Xmas 1931" [i.e. presented to Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915, by her daughter-in-law (d. 1951) and son, future 8th Marquess of Londonderry (1902-1956)]. 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 half green morocco on green cloth over boards, lettered direct in gilt on spine. Gilt-top; blue endpapers.
Makers and roles
Euan Hillhouse Methven Cox (b.1893)