Bernadotte : the first phase, 1763-1799 by D. Plunket Barton.
Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton (1853-1937)
Category
Books
Date
1914
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3223009
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, 532 p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., map, 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 blue cloth, gilt centre-piece and lettering on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine. Gilt-top.
Makers and roles
Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton (1853-1937)