The winter queen : being the unhappy history of Elizabeth Stuart, Electress Palatine, Queen of Bohemia : a romance by Marie Hay …
Agnes Blanche Marie Hay (b.1873)
Category
Books
Date
1910
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222227
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second impression. xi, [1], 432 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. Provenance: Twentieth-century crest bookplate, lettered "Herbert Vane Tempest" [i.e. Lord Herbert Lionel Henry Vane-Tempest (1862-1921), youngest son of George 5th Marquess of Londonderry and Mary Cornelia Edwards]. Inscribed beside it "Xmas 1910". 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 full brown morocco, double gilt rule forming a border, gilt lettering direct on spine. Gilt edges. Stamped on upper pastedown "Bumpus Ltd Oxford St. W."
Makers and roles
Agnes Blanche Marie Hay (b.1873)