Garden ornament.
Gertrude Jekyll (1843 - 1932)
Category
Books
Date
1918
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3223207
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 460 p., frontis. plate (col.), plates. ill.., plates, vigns. 40cm. Imperfect: wants the colour onlay frontis., and possibly some leaves. Some plates are marked with a cross in ink. Loosely inserted outline drawing of two shells. 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 [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 publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Gilt edges. In bad condition.
Makers and roles
Gertrude Jekyll (1843 - 1932), author