My reminiscences by Lord Ronald Gower.
Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower )1845-1916)
Category
Books
Date
1895
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222259
Summary
Bibliographic description
New edition. x, 517, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates : port ; 20 cm. With loosely inserted note on headed paper from the author to "Edie" congratulating her on her marriage and presenting his "Reminiscences" to her. Loosely inserted press summary of aviation items in the world's journals (8 Feb. 1950), used as a bookmark between pp. 78-79. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "To his great niece Edith Chaplin from [...] With all best wishes, Nov. 99". Twentieth-century monogram bookplate with initial ‘E' against a rose inside a marquess's coronet and a framed by a double L [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full vellum, gilt illustrated and lettered, yapp edges, gilt-top.
Makers and roles
Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower )1845-1916)