The gardens of Rome [by] Gabriel Faure; translated by Franck Kemp; water-colours by Pierre Vignal.
Gabriel Faure (1877-1962)
Category
Books
Date
1924
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221889
Summary
Bibliographic description
100, [6] p., plates : col. ill., photographs, 33cm. 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 quarter grained brown morocco on cream cloth, gilt tooling and lettering on spine. Gilt-top. Binder's stamp: "Bound by Bagguley, Newcastle, Staffs."
Makers and roles
Gabriel Faure (1877-1962) Pierre Vignal (1855-1925) Kemp, Franck