Memoirs of the Count de Rochechouart, 1788-1822 : in France, southern Russia, in the Napoleonic wars, and as commandant of Paris authorised translation by Frances Jackson ...
Louis Victor Léon, comte de Rochechouart (1788-1858)
Category
Books
Date
1920
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221938
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 329 [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. port. (incl. front.) ; 8vo (23 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 publisher's full smooth navy calf, lettered blind to upper cover, and gilt to spine.
Makers and roles
Louis Victor Léon, comte de Rochechouart (1788-1858) Frances Jackson