Gardens of the great Mughals by C.M. Villiers Stuart.
Constance Mary Fielden Villiers-Stuart (1877-1966)
Category
Books
Date
1913
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221750
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvii, [1], 290, [2] p.,plates : ill. (some col.), plans ; 23cm. Provenance: Small note card pasted in on upper flyleaf "With best wishes for 1914 from Hedworth W." [Prob. Sir Hedworth Williamson, 9th Bt (1867-1942), whose family seat was Whitburn Hall, near Sunderland, Co. Durham]. 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 racehorse (Hermit, after a painting by Robert Nightingale?) and a man (Lord Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess Londonderry after a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence). 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 publisher's illustrated full blue cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Gilt-top.
Makers and roles
Constance Mary Fielden Villiers-Stuart (1877-1966), author