The wild garden :. or the naturalization and natural grouping of hardy exotic plants with a chapter on the garden of British wild flowers. By W. Robinson …
William Robinson (1838-1935)
Category
Books
Date
1895
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222173
Summary
Bibliographic description
Fifth edition. Illustrated by Alfred Parsons. xx, 304 p., [1] leaves of plates : ill. frontis. ; 8vo (22 cm). Unnumbered and unsigned. 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]; inscription to second free endpaper: 'With very best wishes from C[?] / 1920'. Binding: untrimmed in nineteenth-century full vellum, boards with gilt fillets to form a double border, small foliate devices at corners of inner border, larger device at the centre, spine direct-lettered gilt.
Makers and roles
William Robinson (1838-1935), author Alfred William Parsons (1847 - 1920), illustrator