A princess of intrigue : Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, duchesse de Longueville, and her times / by H. Noel Williams ...
Hugh Noel Williams (1870 - 1925)
Category
Books
Date
1907
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3220427
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Imperfect: vol. 1 only. Priced in pencil: 2 vols 24/-N. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: The Times (Book Club), 376-384 Oxford St., London. Inserted on attached thread: Times Book Club subscriber postcard with price information. Provenance: twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (dated 1910), bearing arms of Vane-Tempest-Stewart impaling Chaplin. Banners with motto (1) in Scottish Gaelic ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]), (2) Knowledge is the antidote to fear. Open book entitled "Of gardens by Bacon". Images of a horse and Castlereagh portrait. Banner lettered "Edith Castlereagh" around image of Diana Chasseresse [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: publisher's red cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Hugh Noel Williams (1870 - 1925)