Recollections of the revolution and the empire :. from the French of the "Journal d'une femme de cinquante ans," by La marquise de La Tour du Pin, edited and translated by Walter Geer.
Henriette Lucie Dillon, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet (1770-1853)
Category
Books
Date
1921
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222237
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxii, 422 p., [15] leaves of plates : ports ; 24 cm. 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 full brown morocco, single gilt rule forming a border, gilt board edges and turn-ins, gilt lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers, gilt-top. Stamped on flyleaf verso (illegible).
Makers and roles
Henriette Lucie Dillon, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet (1770-1853) Walter Geer (1857-1937)