Castlereagh : the political life of Robert second Marquess of Londonderry by Sir J.A.R. Marriott.
Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott (1859-1945)
Category
Books
Date
1936
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222072
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 355, [1] p., plates : ill., ports., fold. facsim. ; 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 green cloth, cream cloth spine label, lettered in gilt.
Makers and roles
Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott (1859-1945)