Byron. By André Maurois. Translated from the French by Hamish Miles.
André Maurois (1885-1967)
Category
Books
Date
1930
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222284
Summary
Bibliographic description
464 p., plates : ill., ports ; 23cm. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "Love from Charley Christmas 1930". 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 dark blue calf, double gilt rule forming a border, double rule on spine. Five false raised bands, lettered direct in gilt on spine, gilt edges. Stamped on turn-on of lower board "Bumpus".
Makers and roles
André Maurois (1885-1967) Hamish Miles (1894-1937)