Queen Margot, wife of Henry of Navarre by H. Noel Williams ... With sixteen illustrations in photogravure.
Hugh Noel Williams (1870 - 1925)
Category
Books
Date
1907
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222294
Summary
Bibliographic description
xviii, 408, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ports ; 28 cm. 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 [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh and 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's half grained green morocco on green marbled paper, gilt tooling and lettering on spine, gilt-top. Marbled endpapers. Binder's stamp on turn-in "Bagguley, Newcastle-under-Lyme".
Makers and roles
Hugh Noel Williams (1870 - 1925)