The English Empress : a study in the relations between Queen Victoria and her eldest daughter, Empress Frederick of Germany. With an introduction by Wolfgang, Prince of Hesse. Translated by E.M. Hodgson. With 16 pages of half-tone illustrations.
Egon Caesar, Conte Corti (1886-1953)
Category
Books
Date
1957
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222203
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiii, 406 p., plates : ports., geneal. table. ; 23 cm. Bookseller's ticket on upper pastedown "R. D. Steedman, Bookseller, Newcastle-on-Tyne". Fragments of dust-jacket pasted on to endpapers (upper cover illustration and jacket blurb). 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 black cloth, gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Egon Caesar, Conte Corti (1886-1953) Hodgson, E. M Wolfgang, Prince of Hesse