Lord Hervey and his friends 1726-38 :. based on letters from Holland House, Melbury, and Ickworth. Edited by the Earl of Ilchester, ...
Lord John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth, PC, MP (1696-1743)
Category
Books
Date
1950
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222004
Summary
Bibliographic description
First edition 1950. xviii, [2], 315, [1] p., plates : ill., 22cm. 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 at the bottom "Nov. 1950". Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine
Makers and roles
Lord John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth, PC, MP (1696-1743), author Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester, OBE, GBE, FSA (1874-1959)., editor