Bess of Hardwick and her circle / by Maud Stepney Rawson.
Maud Stepney Rawson
Category
Books
Date
1910
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3220471
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 375 p., [36] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. 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]. With pencil monogrammed initials EVC[?]. Binding: red publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Maud Stepney Rawson