The journeys and plant introductions of George Forrest, ... edited by J. MacQueen Cowan.
John McQueen Cowan
Category
Books
Date
1952
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222008
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi, [1], 252 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), map. (fold.), port. ;. 25 cm. Loosely inserted between pp. 38-39: (1) A list of plant names; (2) A card inscribed "Dearest Paddy Happy Christmas Much love, Susie" with additional doodles in pencil [list of Agatha Christie stories]. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "With my love Hugh 1953" [poss. Hugh Richard Heathcote Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood (1869-1956)]. 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 green cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine.
Makers and roles
John McQueen Cowan