The reason why [by] Cecil Woodham-Smith.
Cecil Woodham Smith (1896 - 1977)
Category
Books
Date
1953
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222271
Summary
Bibliographic description
x,[2], 292, [2] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 8vo. (22cm). Publisher's blurb from dust-jacket pasted in on lower endpapers. Provenance: Pasted-in note on headed paper from the House of Commons "With all seasonable good wishes from H.B." 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 blue cloth, silver lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Cecil Woodham Smith (1896 - 1977), author