Aristocrats of the air / by C.W.R.Knight ; and a preface by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, ...
Charles William Robert Knight (b.1884)
Category
Books
Date
1925
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221285
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 165, [1] p., plates : col. front., ill. ; 27 cm. 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]). Greetings card affixed to endpaper with cat and goldfish illustration, Christmas 1925, New Year 1926 ... from Neville Wilthew [i.e. Neville Wilthew (d. 1959), agent for Marquess of Londonderry, 1918-1949]. Binding: green publisher's cloth, gold cover pictorial, gold lettered.
Makers and roles
Charles William Robert Knight (b.1884) Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, Viscount