Scottish gardens : being a representative selection of different types, old and new / by ... Herbert Maxwell ... ; illustrated by Mary G.W. Wilson ...
The Hon. Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, 7th Baronet Maxwell (1845-1937)
Category
Books
Date
1908
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221693
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 251, [1]p., plates : col. ill. ; 27 cm. Numbered: 119 [of 250] copies. Partly unopened. 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]. Inscribed on endpaper: "Edie Dec 3d. 1908". Binding: publisher's white cloth, gold lettered and illustrated.
Makers and roles
The Hon. Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, 7th Baronet Maxwell (1845-1937)