The unknown Prime Minister : the life and times of Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1923 by Robert Blake.
Robert Blake (1916-2003)
Category
Books
Date
1955
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221963
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 556 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 23 cm. Occasional marginal markings in text; page references on upper pastedown. Two newspaper reviews pasted in on lower endpapers, one from the Evening Standard, Sat. 8 Oct. 1955. 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]. Inscribed underneath "October 1955". Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Pink-top. Front cover of dust-jacket pasted on to upper flyleaf.
Makers and roles
Robert Blake (1916-2003)