Catherine the Great by Katherine Anthony.
Katharine Susan Anthony (1877-1965)
Category
Books
Date
1926
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222283
Summary
Bibliographic description
317, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 22 cm. Provenance: Inscribed on second flyleaf "To mother with best love & all good wishes from Robin 3-XII-26" [i.e. presented to Edith 7th Marchioness of Londonderry by her son Edward "Robin" Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1902-1956), 8th Marquess of Londonderry from 1949]. 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 full grained brown morocco, gilt lettered on spine, pale blue endpapers. Gilt-top. Stamped on turn-in "Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly".
Makers and roles
Katharine Susan Anthony (1877-1965)