Elizabeth, captive princess by Margaret Irwin.
Margaret Emma Faith Irwin (d.1967)
Category
Books
Date
1948
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222268
Summary
Bibliographic description
256 p. ; 21 cm. Original front cover and spine of dust-jacket pasted in on lower endpapers. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "To Lady Londonderry with much love Christmas 1948" [in the handwriting of Millicent Kinsey, former governess] 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 purple cloth, gilt lettering on spine, blue-top.
Makers and roles
Margaret Emma Faith Irwin (d.1967)