King George the Fifth : his life and reign by Harold Nicolson.
Sir Harold George Nicolson (1886 - 1968)
Category
Books
Date
1952
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3223149
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiii, 570 p., plates :. ill., ports., geneal. tables ;. 25 cm. Occasional annotations in pen and pencil. Signed by author "For Lady Londonderry Harold Nicolson August 23 1952". 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]. Inscribed in pen underneath "Mt.S. August 1952". Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full blue cloth, gilt monogram centre-piece, gilt lettering on spine, blue-top.
Makers and roles
Sir Harold George Nicolson (1886 - 1968)