Inter alia : a Scottish calendar of crime, and other historical essays by Sir Herbert Maxwell.
The Hon. Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, 7th Baronet Maxwell (1845-1937)
Category
Books
Date
1924
Materials
Place of origin
Glasgow
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222307
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 323, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., ports.; 23 cm. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "To Lady Londonderry from an incorrigible scribbler December 1924. Nous ne trouvons que nous dans le livres". 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 blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
The Hon. Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, 7th Baronet Maxwell (1845-1937)