Les huit paradis.
Marta Lucia Lahovary, Princess Bibesco (1886-1973)
Category
Books
Date
1936
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215909
Summary
Bibliographic description
174, [2] p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Provenance: Inscribed on inner flyleaf: "To the Marchioness of Londonderry. To Circe in the way of a Xmas card. Hommage à la Sorcière de la part du Martini-Pêcheur, Marthe 1936-1937." [Presented by the author to Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Provenance: 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 mottled calf on marbled paper over boards. Red leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Gilt-top.
Makers and roles
Marta Lucia Lahovary, Princess Bibesco (1886-1973) Grillon, Roger