A history of English furniture / by Percy MacQuoid, ... With plates in colour after Shirley Slocombe and numerous illustrations, ...
Percy Macquoid (1852-1925)
Category
Books
Date
1904 - 1908
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221395
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v., plates : ill. (some col.) ; 39cm (fol.) 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: twentieth-century quarter brown morocco, with cream cloth boards; five false bands; gold lettered spines.
Makers and roles
Percy Macquoid (1852-1925)