Famous beauties of two reigns : being an account of some fair women of Stuart & Georgian times /. by Mary Craven ; with a chapter on fashion in femininity by Martin Hume.
Craven, Mary
Category
Books
Date
1906
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221538
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 231, [1] p., [21] leaves of plates : ports. ; 25 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]). Binding: blue publisher's cloth, gold lettered, gold devices.
Makers and roles
Craven, Mary Hume, Martin A. S