Don John of Austria :. or passages from the history of the sixteenth century 1547-1578. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings. By the late Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, Bart. author of 'The cloister life of Charles V.' etc. In two vols.
Sir George William Cox (1827-1902)
Category
Books
Date
1883
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222249
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. : ill., ports. ; 8vo. (25cm). Provenance: 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 [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter vellum on grey canvas, lettered direct on spine. Gilt-top. 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. Binder's stamp on flyleaf verso "Bagguley, Binder, Newcastle, Staffs."
Makers and roles
Sir George William Cox (1827-1902) Sir William Stirling- Maxwell, 9th Bt. MP (1818-1878)