The garden of Kama : and other love lyrics from India arranged in verse by Laurence Hope.
Laurence Hope (1865-1904)
Category
Books
Date
1904
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222463
Summary
Bibliographic description
[Fifth impression, May 1904]. vii, [1], 173, [1] p. ; 21 cm. 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. Twentieth-century gilt stamped monogram on upper board with initial 'E' against a rose inside a viscount's coronet and framed by a double C.[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 full grained red calf, gilt monogram stamp on upper cover. Lettered direct in gilt on spine Gilt dentelle on inside boards, marbled endpapers, gilt-top. Stamped on turn-in "Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly W."
Makers and roles
Laurence Hope (1865-1904)