Mark Sykes: his life and letters, by Shane Leslie ; with an introduction by the Right Hon. Winston Churchill. With portrait and thirty cartoons by Mark Sykes.
Sir John Randolph Shane Leslie (1885-1971)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222474
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, [4], 308 p., plates : ill., port. ; 24 cm. Provenance: From Dorothe with best wishes 13th. May 1923" [i.e. Dorothé Mabel Plunket née Lewis (1900-1938), illegitimate daughter of Charles, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, by the actress Fanny Ward]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate showing Vane-Tempest-Stewart arms marshalled with Chaplin, motto "Metuenda corolla draconis, with two supporters, all underneath a marquess's coronet with helmet and griffin passant crest, flanked by two badges, lettered in banner "Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry KG". Signed "W. & A. Mussett fecit; Lincoln's Inn, London". [i.e. Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915 (1878-1949)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full brown calf, double rule forming a border, gilt dentelle on inside boards. Five false raised bands, maroon leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Gilt-top, marbled endpapers. Stamped on verso flyleaf "H. Sotheran, [140?] Strand London"
Makers and roles
Sir John Randolph Shane Leslie (1885-1971) Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes, 6th Bt (1879-1919) Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (Woodstock 1874 - London 1965)