Madame Du Barry by H. Noel Williams. With sixteen illustrations in photogravure.
Hugh Noel Williams (1870 - 1925)
Category
Books
Date
1904
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222295
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv, 409 [1] p., [16] leaves of plates : ports.; 26cm. With folded news summary, dated August 13 1932, used as a bookmark between pp. 186-187. 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 half grained green morocco on green marbled paper, gilt tooling and lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers, gilt-top. Binder's stamp on turn-in "Bagguley, Newcastle-under-Lyme".
Makers and roles
Hugh Noel Williams (1870 - 1925)