Flowers in colour : an amateur gardening encyclopeadia /. by A.G. Hellyer, ... ; illustrated from watercolour drawings by Cynthia Newsome-Taylor and from wood engravings by J. D. C. Sowerby, ...
Arthur George Lee Hellyer (1902-1993)
Category
Books
Date
1955
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3225490
Summary
Bibliographic description
128 p., plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Colour illustration (from dust jacket?) affixed to rear pastedown. 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]); plated dated by hand: 1957. Binding: green publisher's cloth, gold lettered red spine block.
Makers and roles
Arthur George Lee Hellyer (1902-1993)