Frances Anne : The life and times of Frances Anne, Marchioness of Londonderry, and her husband Charles, third Marquess of Londonderry by Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry.
The Hon. Edith Helen Chaplin, Marchioness of Londonderry (1879 - 1959)
Category
Books
Date
1958
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222211
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiii, [1], 315, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill., ports (1 col.). ; 8vo. (21cm). Extra-illustrated with a few photographs and a photocopy on flyleaves. 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]. Photocopy of the armorial bookplate used by Charles 3rd Marquess or Frances Anne 3rd Marchioness of Londonderry on upper flyleaf. Binding: Twentieth-century full polished mottled calf, 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 board-edges. Marbled endpapers and gilt text-block edges. Original binding bound in at the end.
Makers and roles
The Hon. Edith Helen Chaplin, Marchioness of Londonderry (1879 - 1959)