French society in the eighteenth century by Louis Ducros ; translated from the French by W. de Geijer ; with a foreword by J.A. Higgs-Walker.
Louis Ducros (b. 1846-1927)
Category
Books
Date
1926
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222225
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxvi, 354 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports ; 23 cm. Loosely inserted paper bookmark with coloured Celtic decoration and inscribed on the back (possibly a translation of the text on the front): "Knowledge is better than curiosity". 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. Stamped on verso flyleaf "Hatchards 187 Piccadilly".
Makers and roles
Louis Ducros (b. 1846-1927) Geijer, W. de Higgs-Walker, J. A