El mariscal de Berwick : Bosquejo biográfico por el duque de Berwick y de Alba.
Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Stuart-Fitzjames, 17th Duque de Alba (1878-1953)
Category
Books
Date
1925
Materials
Place of origin
Madrid
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221904
Summary
Bibliographic description
538p., XXXV [35] leaves of plates : ill., ports, facsims ; 29cm. Several obituaries for Duke of Alba (the author) pasted on to flyleaves; loosely inserted newspaper obituary between lower endpapers. Provenance: Inscribed on third flyleaf "For Edie Londonderry from her old friend 1926" [i.e. presented to Edith 7th Marchioness of Londonderry, possibly by the author]. 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 blind embossed full maroon cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Gilt-top. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Stuart-Fitzjames, 17th Duque de Alba (1878-1953) Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Stuart-Fitzjames, 17th Duque de Alba (1878-1953)