Isabella d'Este Marchioness of Mantua 1474-1539: a study of the Renaissance by Julia Cartwright (Mrs. Ady) ... In two volumes ...
Julia Cartwright (1821 - 1924)
Category
Books
Date
1903
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222231
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. plates : ill., geneal. tables, ports. ; 8vo. (22cm). Provenance: Twentieth-century gilt stamped monogram on upper board with initial 'E' against a rose inside a viscount's coronet and framed by a double C. 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, Viscount Castlereagh and 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century half brown morocco on marbled paper over boards, gilt monogram on upper cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers, gilt-top. Binder's stamp on verso flyleaf "Bagguley Newcastle-under-Lyme".
Makers and roles
Julia Cartwright (1821 - 1924)