The herb-garden by Frances A. Bardswell ... with sixteen illustrations in colour drawn from nature by Florence Amherst and Isabelle Forrest.
Frances Anne Bardswell
Category
Books
Date
1911
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221891
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 173 p., [16] leaves of plates. col. ill. 23 cm. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (dated 1910), bearing arms of Vane-Tempest-Stewart impaling Chaplin. Banners with motto (1) in Scottish Gaelic ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]), (2) Knowledge is the antidote to fear. Open book entitled "Of gardens by Bacon". Images of a racehorse (Hermit, after a painting by Robert Nightingale?) and a man (Lord Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess Londonderry after a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence). Banner lettered "Edith Castlereagh" around image of Diana Chasseresse [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: twentieth century publisher's pictorial purple cloth, patterned pink and green, lettered gilt.
Makers and roles
Frances Anne Bardswell Florence Amherst Forrest, Isabelle