A student in arms by Donald Hankey.
Donald Hankey (d.1916)
Category
Books
Date
1917
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221783
Summary
Bibliographic description
Seventeenth edition. 302,[2]p.,[1] leaf of plates : port. ; 18cm. Bound uniformely with the second series of Hankey's A student in arms. Provenance: Inscribed on second flyleaf "To Circe from Cyril Hankey Xmas 1918" [i.e. presented to Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915, by Lt. Col. Cyril Hankey, known in the Ark Club as Cyril the Squirrel]. 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]). Binding: Twentieth-century full blue calf, double gilt rule forming a border, gilt tooling on spine. Red leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers and text-block edges.
Makers and roles
Donald Hankey (d.1916) John St. Loe Strachey (1860-1927)