Madame : a life of Henrietta, daughter of Charles I and Duchess of Orleans by Julia Cartwright (Mrs Henry Ady) ...
Julia Cartwright (1821 - 1924)
Category
Books
Date
1900
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222233
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second edition. xv, [1], 406 p., [5] leaves of plates : ports. ; 22 cm. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "Edith Castlereagh from R.F.M. Xmas 1901". 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. 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]) [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century full dark blue morocco, gilt panel stamp on upper cover, gilt tooling and lettering on spine. Gilt board edges and turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and gilt text-block edges. Stamped on turn-in: "Hatchards 187 Piccadilly, W".
Makers and roles
Julia Cartwright (1821 - 1924)