The home of the Hollands, 1605-1820 [by] the Earl of Ilchester.
Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester, OBE, GBE, FSA (1874-1959).
Category
Books
Date
1937
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222439
Summary
Bibliographic description
xviii, 410 p., plates : ill., map, plans, ports. ; 22 cm. Two loose publisher's advertisements used as bookmarks. Provenance: 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 red cloth, gilt centre-piece and lettering on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine. Pink-top.
Makers and roles
Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester, OBE, GBE, FSA (1874-1959)., author