Period piece. A Cambridge childhood by Gwen Raverat.
Gwen Raverat (1885 - 1957)
Category
Books
Date
1953
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221926
Summary
Bibliographic description
281, [1] p. ill., cuts, geneal. table 8vo (22 cm). Date of publication inscribed in ballpoint pen below imprint. 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]. Bookseller's label to foot of rear pastedown: 'The Times Bookshop, 42 Wigmore Street, W1'. Binding: twentieth century publisher's blue cloth, maroon vignette to upper cover, spine blocked maroon and lettered gilt.
Makers and roles
Gwen Raverat (1885 - 1957)