Bernadotte and Napoleon 1785-1810 by the Right Honble. Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton Baronet, K.C., P.C. ... With portraits and illustrations.
Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton (1853-1937)
Category
Books
Date
1921
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3223006
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi,[1],343,[1]p., plates : ill., ports.; 23 cm. 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 dark blue cloth, gilt centre-piece and blind lettering on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton (1853-1937)