Saint-Simon at Versailles / selected and translated from the memoirs of M. le Duc de Saint-Simon by Lucy Norton ; with a preface by Nancy Mitford.
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755)
Category
Books
Date
1958
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3225387
Summary
Bibliographic description
xix, [5], 312 p., plates : ill., plans, port., geneal. tables ; 25 cm. Bookseller’s ticket on pastedown: John Sandoe (Books Ltd), 19 Blacklands Terrace, Sloane Square S.W.3. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Binding: green publisher's cloth, silver lettered on red spine block; with dust jacket (damaged).
Makers and roles
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755) Lucy Norton Lucy Norton