Sacharissa : some account of Dorothy Sidney, countess of Sutherland, her family and friends 1617-1684 by Julia Cartwright (Mrs. Henry Ady) …
Julia Cartwright (1821 - 1924)
Category
Books
Date
1893
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222220
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 314 p., [5] leaves of plates : port. ; 22cm. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "Edith Castlereagh from [R.F.M.?]. Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (dated 1910), bearing arms of Vane-Tempest-Stewart impaling Chaplin. Banners with motto (1) in Scottish Gaelic ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]), (2) Knowledge is the antidote to fear. Open book entitled "Of gardens by Bacon". Images of a racehorse(Hermit, after a painting by Robert Nightingale?) and a man (Lord Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess Londonderry after a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence). Banner lettered "Edith Castlereagh" around image of Diana Chasseresse [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915] Also: 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]). Binding: Twentieth-century full dark blue grained morocco, gilt panel stamp on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine. Gilt edges and marbled endpapers. Stamped on pastedown "Hatchards 187 Piccadilly, W."
Makers and roles
Julia Cartwright (1821 - 1924)