A student in arms : second series by Donald Hankey.
Donald Hankey (d.1916)
Category
Books
Date
1917
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221784
Summary
Bibliographic description
Third edition. 271, [1]p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 18cm. Bound uniformely with the first series of Hankey's A student in arms. Provenance: Inscribed on second flyleaf "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)