Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury by his daughter, Lady Gwendolen Cecil.
Lady Gwendolen Cecil (d.1945)
Category
Books
Date
1921 - 1932
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222288
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v. : ill. ; 23cm. Imperfect: vols. I-II (both dated 1921) only. Provenance: Vol. 1 is inscribed on flyleaf "Mother with best love from Robin Xmas 1921" [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]. Both vols have 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: Twentieth-century publisher's full brown cloth, black leather spine label lettered in gilt.
Makers and roles
Lady Gwendolen Cecil (d.1945)