Les jardins de Versailles, par Pierre de Nolhac.
Pierre de Nolhac (1859-1936)
Category
Books
Date
1906
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221932
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 185, [3] p. : ill., ports., plans ; 36 cm. 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 pink cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Gilt armorial stamp displaying Vane-Tempest-Stewart marshalled with Chaplin under a marquess coronet with charges and motto (Metuenda corolla draconis). Ticket on lower pastedown "W. Erskine Mayne 3, Donegall Sq. W. Belfast". Original front cover of paper wrapper bound in before half-title.
Makers and roles
Pierre de Nolhac (1859-1936)