Flowering trees & shrubs by Henry Hoare.
Henry Hoare (b.1866)
Category
Books
Date
1905
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222131
Summary
Bibliographic description
New edition. xxxv, [1], 133, [3] p., plates : ill. ; 23cm. Some pencil marks against specific entries on trees and shrubs. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (dated 1910), bearing arms of Vane-Tempest-Stewart impaling Chaplin. Banners with motto (1) in Scottish Gaelic ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]), (2) Knowledge is the antidote to fear. Open book entitled "Of gardens by Bacon". Images of a racehorse(Hermit, after a painting by Robert Nightingale?) and a man (Lord Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess Londonderry after a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence). Banner lettered "Edith Castlereagh" around image of Diana Chasseresse [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century quarter green calf on green cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine. Gilt-top. Binder's stamp on verso flyleaf "Bagguley, Binder, Newcastle, Staffs".
Makers and roles
Henry Hoare (b.1866), author