Elizabeth and Essex : a tragic history by Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)
Category
Books
Date
1928
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222239
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 287, [1] p., plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Provenance: Inscribed on second flyleaf "With love from Helen and Margaret Dec. 3rd 1928" [i.e presented to Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915, by her daughters Helen and Margaret Vane-tempest-Stewart]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full calf, gilt armorial stamp displaying Vane-Tempest-Stewart marshalled with Chaplin under a marquess coronet with charges and motto (Metuenda corolla draconis). Red and green leather spine labels, lettered in gilt. Gilt edges. Ticket on lower pastedown "W. Erskine Mayne, 3 Donegall Sq. W., Belfast".
Makers and roles
Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), author