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Book Plates

Book Plates

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General Art

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ISBN10: 1151677558
ISBN13: 9781151677556
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.09 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1893. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... even to its motto, ' A Fig for the Heralds'--is most characteristic of Bloomfield, and was engraved for him, in 1815, by a Cheapside engraver. With this gathering together of scraps and clippings I will bring my volume to a close. Most of what I have said, and a very great deal besides, is well known to the students of book-plates; but to them, I fancy, this work is not intended to appeal. It is meant for the public at large, to the majority of whom book-plates are unconsidered trifles. To promote wholesale book-plate collecting in albums and portfolios is certainly not my intention. If it were, it would be a very undesirable intention, for so far as it succeeded it would unquestionably lead to the wholesale disfigurement and destruction of books, without regard to their value. What I have aimed at is to awaken a wider interest in book-plates, and a wider observation of them in their abiding places, by those who either possess them already, or acquire them hereafter. If I have succeeded in doing this, my work will, I am vain enough to believe, be not altogether unsuccessful, for book-plates possess really an artistic and general interest, which will be heightened the more our stock of knowledge concerning them is increased. INDEX. Adams, Tohn, President U.S.A., 119. Adamson, Benjamin, 153. Adderley, Winifred, daughter of John, 136. Affleck, J. H., 83. Age of owners, given on book- plates, 141, 142. Albosius, C, 100. Allegory, in English book-plates, 29, 56-71, 144. in French book-plates, 106, 107. unknown in Scotch book- plates, 55. Allen, engraver, 79. George, 78. American book-plates, 113-121. Ammam, Jost, engraver, 91, 92. Anderson, engraver of American book-plates, 116. John, 88. Anonymous book-plates, frequent in early times, 37. Anson, Thomas, 66. Apthorpe, .

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