History of English literature. By H. A. Taine ... Translated by H. Van Laun.
Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893)
Category
Books
Date
1873
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222285
Summary
Bibliographic description
Fourth edition. 2 v. ; 22cm. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (dated 1910), bearing arms of Vane-Tempest-Stewart impaling Chaplin. Banners with motto (1) in Scottish Gaelic ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]), (2) Knowledge is the antidote to fear. Open book entitled "Of gardens by Bacon". Images of a racehorse(Hermit, after a painting by Robert Nightingale?) and a man (Lord Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess Londonderry after a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence). Banner lettered "Edith Castlereagh" around image of Diana Chasseresse. 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, Viscount Castlereagh and 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half green calf on green cloth. Brown leather spine labels lettered in gilt, pale green endpapers, gilt-top. Stamped on verso flyleaf "Hatchards 187 Piccadilly".
Makers and roles
Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) Henri Van Laun (1820-1896)