Alexander of Asia.
Marta Lucia Lahovary, Princess Bibesco (1886-1973)
Category
Books
Date
1937
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215837
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, [2], 111, [1] p. ; 19cm. Provenance: Inscribed on inner flyleaf: "To Circe from her Marthe the Martin London 1935" [i.e. 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 pictorial cloth, lettered in black and red on upper cover and spine.
Makers and roles
Marta Lucia Lahovary, Princess Bibesco (1886-1973) Enid Bagnold (1889 - 1981)