The old English gardening books / by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde ...
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde (1880-1948)
Category
Books
Date
1924
Materials
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222164
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 144 p., 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo (24 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: untrimmed in twentieth-century full vellum, spine direct lettered gilt, portions of publisher's thick blue paper wrappers[?] used as endpapers .
Makers and roles
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde (1880-1948)