Ninon de L'Enclos and her century / by Mary C. Rowsell ... With illustrations.
Mary Catherine Rowsell
Category
Books
Date
1910
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3220439
Summary
Bibliographic description
ix, [3], 310 p. : ports. ; 23 cm. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: Times Book Club, 376 Oxford St., London W. 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: red publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Mary Catherine Rowsell