The women of the salons and other French portraits by S.G. Tallentyre ; with portraits.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868-1919)
Category
Books
Date
1901
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222222
Summary
Bibliographic description
vii, [1], 235, [1] p. [11] leaves of plates: ports. ; 22 cm. Loosely inserted between pp. 132-33 is the calling card of Mr Evelyn Fitz Gerald (surname crossed out with pencil), inscribed "With best love". 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 blue morocco on blue cloth, gilt tooled and lettered on spine, gilt-top. Blue endpapers.
Makers and roles
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868-1919) Tallentyre, S. G. 1868-1919 (Stephen G.)