The journal of Mrs. Arbuthnot 1820-1832, edited by Francis Bamford and the Duke of Wellington ...
Harriet Fane, Mrs Charles Arbuthnot (1793-1834)
Category
Books
Date
1950
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222077
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates : ill. ; 23cm. Various loosely inserted pieces of paper used as bookmarks, one a to-do list on the back of a Mount Stewart weather report card (undated) in vol. 2. 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 half polished calf over marbled paper over boards, gilt armorial stamp displaying Vane-Tempest-Stewart marshalled with Chaplin under a marquess coronet with charges and motto (Metuenda corolla draconis). Black and green leather spine labels, lettered in gilt. Gilt-top. Binder's ticket on verso flyleaf "Bound by Bayntun (Riviere) Bath England".
Makers and roles
Harriet Fane, Mrs Charles Arbuthnot (1793-1834), author Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington (1885 - 1972), editor Francis Bamford, editor