Italian gardens : after drawings by George S. Elgood, R.I. ; with notes by the artist.
George Samuel Elgood (Leicester 1851 - 1943)
Category
Books
Date
1907
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221356
Summary
Bibliographic description
x 156, [4] p., plates : col. ill. ; 36cm. 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]). Headed notepaper affixed to endpaper: Appley Hall, Ryde, I of W.; inscribed: Dearest Circe with best new yar's wishes for 1930 from her devoted Hedworth [i.e. Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry, née Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959) from Sir Hedworth Williamson, 9th Bt. (1867-1942)]. Binding: blue publisher's cloth, gold lettered.
Makers and roles
George Samuel Elgood (Leicester 1851 - 1943)