Durham by Sir Timothy Eden.
Sir Timothy Calvert Eden (1893 - 1963)
Category
Books
Date
1952
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221964
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.,plates : ill.,map (folded) ; 22cm. Provenance: Signed by the author. Vol. 1 also inscribed on t.p. "(With happy memories of Wynyard) - October 1952" [Wynyard, Co. Durham was one of the Londonderry seats; presented to Edith 7th Marchioness of Londonderry. 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 plate in vol. 1 "Mount Stewart 1952". Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full green cloth, gilt illustration on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Sir Timothy Calvert Eden (1893 - 1963)