The love of an uncrowned queen : Sophie Dorothea, consort of George I., and her correspondence with Philip Christopher, count Königsmarck (now first published from the originals) / by W.H. Wilkins ...
William Henry Wilkins (1860 - 1905)
Category
Books
Date
1903
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221741
Summary
Bibliographic description
New and revised edition, with illustrations. xx,451,[1]p., plates : ill., ports., facsims. ; 23 cm. 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 half vellum, with white cloth boards, gold lettered spine. Stamped: Bagguley, binder, Newcastle, Staffs.
Makers and roles
William Henry Wilkins (1860 - 1905) Electress Sophia Dorothea, (of Brunswick-Luneberg-Celle) Duchess and Electress of Hanover(1666-1726)