The stranger prince : the story of Rupert of the Rhine by Margaret Irwin.
Margaret Emma Faith Irwin (d.1967)
Category
Books
Date
1937
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222264
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi, [1], 592 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 21 cm. Inscribed by the author on t.p. $zProvenance: 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 publisher's full red cloth, gilt armorial centre-piece on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine. Red-top.
Makers and roles
Margaret Emma Faith Irwin (d.1967)