John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee, 1648-1689 by Charles Sanford Terry.
Terry, Charles Sanford, 1864-1936
Category
Books
Date
1905
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222304
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, [4], 377, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., ports., maps ; 23 cm. Some leaves unopened. 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 full blue cloth, gilt centre-piece on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Terry, Charles Sanford, 1864-1936