The fabulous Leonard Jerome [by] Anita Leslie. With 37 illustrations.
Anita Leslie
Category
Books
Date
1954
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222424
Summary
Bibliographic description
[First edition]. 308, [2] p., plates : ill., port. (1 col.); 23cm. With an empty envelope used as a bookmark. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "To Lady Londonderry with much love and gratitude from Moose 3.XII.54" [i.e. given to Edith 7th Marchioness of Londonderry by Millicent "Moose" Kinsey, the family's governess]. 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 full maroon cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Part of dust-jacket is pasted in on lower endpapers.
Makers and roles
Anita Leslie