Lady Palmerston and her times by Mabell, Countess of Airlie.
Mabell Frances Elizabeth Gore, Countess of Airlie (1866-1956)
Category
Books
Date
1922
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222218
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. plates : ports. ; 8vo. (22cm). Loosely inserted postcard in vol. 1 from "Helen" and addressed to Miss M.R. Kinsey, at Mount Stewart, dated Dec. 28 1962 [i.e. sent to Millicent Kinsey, a former governess]. 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: Twentieth-century half grained brown calf on brown cloth, lettered direct on spine. Brown endpapers, gilt-top. Stamped "Hatchard's 187 Piccadilly".
Makers and roles
Mabell Frances Elizabeth Gore, Countess of Airlie (1866-1956)