Fulness of days. The Earl of Halifax.
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, GCSI, GCIE, K.J.St.J, TD, MP (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, GCSI, GCIE, K.J.St.J, TD, MP (1881-1959) Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, GCSI, GCIE, K.J.St.J, TD, MP (1881-1959)