The Chief Ministers of England 920-1720, by the Hon. Clive Bigham ...
Charles Clive Bigham, 2nd Viscount Mersey (1872 - 1956)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221754
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 422p., plates : ill. ; 23cm. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) set in a landscape with De Lazlo's portrait of Edith Lady Londonderry in the uniform of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in a medallion above, lettered at the bottom of the plate "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." . Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]) [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Charles Clive Bigham, 2nd Viscount Mersey (1872 - 1956) Charles Clive Bigham, 2nd Viscount Mersey (1872-1956)