Fulness of days. The Earl of Halifax.
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881 - 1959)
Category
Books
Date
1957
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221884
Summary
Bibliographic description
319 p. [1] leaves of plates. ill. port. 8vo (22 cm). Provenance: frontispiece portrait of the author signed in blue ball-point pen: 'Halifax 1957'. 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 full blue cloth, contrasting panels to upper cover and spine, lettered gilt.
Makers and roles
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881 - 1959)