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CONCERNING BOOK-PLATES 
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CONCERNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 A HANDBOOK FOR COLLECTORS 
 
 BY 
 
 ZELLA ALLEN DIXSON, A.M. 
 
 Member of Ex Libris Society, 
 
 London ; Exlibris-Verein, Berlin ; Oester- 
 
 reichische Ex-Libris-Gesellschaft, Vienna ; Soci6t6 Fran- 
 
 (jaise des Collectionneurs d'Ex -Libris, Paris ; 
 
 Ex Libris-Club " Basilea," Basle. 
 
 FIBST EDITION 
 WITH ILIiUSTBATIONS AND PliATBS 
 
 ^clIaAneh-Eix.sor. 
 130J. 
 
 Chicago 
 Published by the WISTERIA COTTAGE PRESS 
 
 1903 
 
SCHOOL 
 
 GENERAL 
 
 Copyright, 1903, 
 
 By ZELLA ALLEN DIXSON. 
 
 All rights reserved. 
 
V,. -* 
 
 TO 
 
 J. WINFRED SPENCELEY 
 
 THROUGH WHOSE PATIENT LABOR AND 
 
 ARTISTIC SKILL, SO MANY BEAUTIFUL 
 
 BOOK-PLATES HAVE BEEN BORN INTO THE 
 
 KINGDOM, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED, 
 
 WITH SINCERE APPRECIATION. 
 
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PREFACE 
 
 Part of the material used in this little book 
 was originally prepared by the author for the 
 Annual Book Number of The Outlook, 1902. 
 It is now reprinted by permission. 
 
 The general interest in the subject of book- 
 plates has so greatly increased during the past 
 few years, that it is hoped that this little book, 
 as a contribution towards a handbook for collect- 
 ors, may not be entirely unnecessary. It aims 
 to give the many small items, hard to find, yet 
 BO much needed in order to know how to collect, 
 preserve, arrange, and identify the specimens 
 of such a collection, with the least personal in- 
 convenience. It endeavors to bring each per- 
 son who desires to study book-plates directly 
 in contact with the experience of others of sim- 
 ilar pursuit. Only a few decades ago, the fad 
 of collecting ex-libris was largely confined to a 
 few book- worms and antiquarians ; to-day many 
 vii 
 
PBEFACE 
 
 individuals, scattered all over the world, are 
 filling their leisure time with pleasure, and their 
 minds with valuable information concerning art, 
 history, literature, geography, heraldry, geneal- 
 ogy, and biography, through the study of this 
 most interesting subject. Libraries, museums, 
 and learned societies vie with each other in the 
 size and rarity of the collections they offer as a 
 field of research. 
 
 As Fra Elbertus has told us, "Life in this 
 world is all a collecting, and all the men and 
 women in it are collectors. The only question 
 is, what will you collect ? " In early childhood 
 we collect bits of glass, buttons, and jack-knives. 
 Farther along on the road of life, it is stamps, 
 coins, and autographs. In middle life, we seek 
 old china, hand-made furniture, engravings, and 
 first editions. In slow old age we gather anec- 
 dotes, fascinating tales of our own early prow- 
 ess or the smart sayings of our grandchildren. 
 Some spend the energies of mind and body* to 
 collect dollars and cents ; others select costly 
 trappings and fashionable friends ; some make 
 a specialty of sensations and strive for ever-new 
 viii 
 
PREFACE 
 
 experiences. Incidentally, while we are busy 
 collecting one thing, there is an accumulation of 
 quite another sort. The miser counts his hoard- 
 ed gold, but the enemies that envy and jealousy 
 have made are countless. The good fellow has 
 "seen the sights" and "lived the life" but he has 
 also laid up for himself a fine assortment of 
 headaches, heartaches, and vain regrets. 
 
 This little book recommends the collecting 
 of book-plates. To make such a collection brings 
 a good time, without a headache next morning, 
 It places you in personal contact with the good 
 and the great, in all lands and in all ages, so that 
 their lives will overshadow your own, and help 
 to give it purpose and tone. Such a hobby will 
 make friends for you of persons you may never 
 see nor meet ; it will make strange lands real to 
 you and help you to realize the great brotherhood 
 of man, as few other studies can. 
 
 Zella Allen Dixson 
 
 The University of Chicago 
 Chicago, Illinois. 
 June, 1903. 
 
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ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 CHAP. PAGE 
 
 I. THE SUBJECT IN GENERAL. 1 
 
 II. SPECIAL BOOK-PLATES AND THEIR 
 
 VALUES. 14 
 
 III. SOME FAMOUS BOOK-PLATE ARTISTS 
 
 OF THE PAST. 58 
 
 IV. SOME MODERN ARTISTS WHO MAKE 
 
 BOOK-PLATES. 86 
 
 V. CLASSIFICATION AND ARRANGEMENT. 141 
 
 VI. BOOK-PLATE ASSOCIATIONS, CLUBS, 
 
 AND SOCIETIES. 167 
 
 VII. SOME INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVID- 
 UALS MAKING COLLECTIONS OF 
 BOOK-PLATES. 176 
 
THE ART OF BOOK-KEEPING 
 
 I, of my Spenser quite bereft, 
 
 Last winter sore was shaken ; 
 Of Lamb I've but a quarter left, 
 
 Nor could I save my Bacon. 
 They've picked my Locke, to me far more 
 
 Than Bramah's patent worth; 
 And now my losses I deplore, 
 
 Without a Home on earth. 
 
 Yet they have made me slight returns, 
 
 To thus my grief divide , 
 For, oh! they cured me of my Burns, 
 
 And eased my Akenside. 
 But all I think, I shall not say, 
 
 Nor let my anger burn. 
 For as they have not found me Gay, 
 
 They have not left me Sterne. 
 
 XV 
 
UNIVERSITY 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 THE SUBJECT IN GENERAL 
 
 " The outward and visible mark of the citizenship of a 
 book-lover is his book-plate. . . . To have a book-plate 
 gives a collector great serenity and self-confidence. We 
 have labored in a far more conscientious spirit since we 
 had ours than we did before. " 
 
 Edmund William Gosse. " Gossip in a Library. " 
 
 In its simplest definition a book-plate is the 
 name-label that is pasted on the inside of the 
 front cover of a book to denote its ownership. 
 From the last half of the fifteenth century an 
 increasing number of individuals have used 
 these plates. In Great Britain, Belgium, 
 France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Russia, South 
 America, South Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, 
 and the Netherlands, as well as in America, 
 libraries and museums have great collections of 
 book-plates arranged for the special study of 
 the individuals who originally owned them. A 
 list of the plates of such exhibition collections 
 1 
 
CONCERNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 includes, more perfectly than the best biograph- 
 ical dictionaries, the names of the great in all 
 departments during those years. 
 
 To have a book-plate is to be personally 
 interested in every other plate and to seek 
 information in regard to all that is connected 
 with it. To know even a few plates well, is to 
 have learned indirectly many things not gen- 
 erally known in history, literature, art, travel, 
 biography, and heraldry. 
 
 In discussing any phase of this subject, one 
 should remember that a book-plate is only one 
 of several time-honored methods of checking 
 the inherent tendency in books to stray from 
 the library to which they belong and never 
 again take their places beside their companions 
 upon the shelves. The most ancient libraries 
 were housed in temples, with priests charged 
 with their care. The check in these collections 
 was the ever-vigilant jailer-librarian, terribly 
 in earnest to see that none of the unfortunates 
 under his care made their escape. 
 
 During the monastic period, when the 
 energy and devotion of the Benedictines had 
 
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^ OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
 ^AL 
 
THE SUBJECT IN GENERAL 
 
 given a second birth to literature and learning, 
 and added to the book-world the beautiful illu- 
 minated books of the Dark Ages, a second 
 check came into existence. Having now the 
 care of books upon each of which a lifetime of 
 patient skill had been expended, books that 
 were worth a king's ransom, the wise old monks 
 decided that treasures so scarce and valuable 
 must not be left to readers with slippery fingers 
 and defective memories. So each book was 
 securely chained with a strong chain to the desk 
 or shelf on which it was to be used. In all 
 history this has proved the only effectual 
 method of preventing book-stealing. 
 
 Libraries of chained books were to be found 
 throughout the civilized world up to the latter 
 part of the fifteenth century, when the inven- 
 tion of printing from movable type gave the 
 book-loving world a volume cheap and plentiful 
 enough to be used without chains, and relegated 
 the libraries of chained books to the museums 
 and treasure-trove rooms of great institutions. 
 At the same time it became clearly evident that 
 something was urgently needed to indicate that 
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CONCERNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 the books owned by institutions, as well as those 
 rapidly forming into private libraries, were not 
 public property. To meet this want the book- 
 plate was born into the kingdom, to be the 
 ever-present silent witness against the book- 
 thief. At first little thought was expended 
 upon it. It came at a time when few could 
 read and write, when the possession of books 
 was the prerogative of three favored classes, 
 the clergy, the scholars, and the scions of nobil- 
 ity. So in its earliest form it was simply the 
 copy of the family blazon. The coat of arms 
 of the family was placed on all articles of value, 
 the carriage, the horse-trappings, fine jewelry, 
 silver plate, effects of swordsmanship, etc. 
 When the book collections began to form in 
 the living-rooms, the same mark was placed on 
 them, with little thought of the matter and no 
 realization of the long line of great and illus- 
 trious descendants that was to follow. Many 
 of these book-plates were without names or even 
 initials, because the coat of arms was the name, 
 in picture writing. The earliest book-plates 
 known to collectors to-day fall within the years 
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THE SUBJECT IN GENEBAL 
 
 1450-1490, which is the period now generally 
 accepted as the time of the formal introduction 
 of process-made books. From that date to the 
 present moment book-plates have been steadily 
 multiplying and their use becoming more and 
 more general, until to-day not to own a book- 
 plate with which to mark your books is to argue 
 yourself quite out of the trend of culture and 
 education. 
 
 In order to impress the lesson implied by 
 the presence of the book-plate, verses and 
 couplets were added to reSnforce it. Some of 
 these were in praise of books, some warnings 
 against the unlawful appropriation of the treas- 
 ured volume, and all very much to the point, as 
 some few quotations will show. 
 
 On an early monastic plate is this rather 
 startling command: "Ho there! take me back 
 to my master. " 
 
 "But go ye rather to them that sell and 
 buy for yourselves. " 
 
 " Steal not this book my honest friend, 
 For fear the gallows will be your end. 
 
 Up the ladder and down the rope, 
 There you'll hang until you choke. 
 
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CONCERNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 Then I'll come along and say, 
 
 'Where's that book yon took away ?'" 
 " He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing. " 
 " My book is one thing ; my boot is another : 
 Do not steal the one, for fear of the other. " 
 "Who borrow books and soon restore, 
 May come again and borrow more. " 
 " Of borrowed books I take no loan, 
 Nor lend a book that's not mine own. " 
 "If thon art borrowed by a friend right welcome shall 
 he be, 
 To read, to study, not to lend but to return to me. 
 Not that imparted knowledge doth diminish Wisdom's 
 store. 
 But books, I find if often lent, return to me no more. " 
 " All those to whom this book I lend, I give one word 
 
 no more. 
 They who to borrow condescend, should graciously 
 restore. " 
 
 The making of book-plates has kept pace 
 with the manufacture of the books themselves. 
 Down through the years they have been the 
 mirrors, reflecting the manners and customs of 
 each age in which they have been used. By 
 means of them the student of to-day gleans 
 many a side-light on the path of research. As 
 a single case in point, that might be duplicated 
 

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 many times, one might cite a certain type of 
 Heraldic plate, numerous and rather puzzling to 
 one not understanding the reference it mutely 
 records. This plate represents a landscape, 
 more or less varied, but always with a tree in 
 the prominent foreground. On this tree is 
 hung a shield, on which is emblazoned the 
 coat of arms of the individual for whom the 
 plate was made. The reference is to a rather 
 picturesque custom connected with the popular 
 life of the people of the period to which it 
 belongs. 
 
 During the public festivals and tournaments, 
 it was the custom for the knights to challenge 
 the world for their right to bear arms. The 
 knight would hang his shield, beautifully orna- 
 mented with his heraldic emblems, near the 
 center of the festivities. A follower would 
 remain to guard the shield and to accept the 
 challenge of any one who should proclaim his 
 doubt of the right to bear arms, by casting his 
 spear against it. 
 
 A choice return awaits the collector who 
 will master the science of heraldry. Indeed, 
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 very little headway can be made without at 
 least some knowledge of its simplest rules. For 
 example, among Heraldic plates will be found 
 many similar in design but modified to repre- 
 sent different members of the same family ; as 
 in England, the eldest son bears his father's 
 arms with a label as a mark of cadency ; the 
 second son bears a crescent ; the third a mullet 
 (a star of five points) ; the fourth a martlet (a 
 small bird without beak or legs) ; the fifth an 
 annulet (a ring) ; the sixth a fleur-de-lys ; the 
 seventh a rose ; the eighth a cross moline ; and 
 the ninth a double quatrefoil. Heraldic sources 
 seem to discourage large families, as no mark 
 of cadency is provided for sons coming after 
 the ninth. On the death of the father the 
 eldest son lays aside the label. In Germany, 
 though now seldom used, th§ label is the mark 
 of the younger line of the house.* 
 
 For many years the Armorial has been the 
 chief form of the plate, but that is no longer 
 the only form, nor even to-day the most popu- 
 
 *See Leiningen-Westerburg. "German Book-plates." 
 p. 21. 
 
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THE SUBJECT IN GENERAL 
 
 lar type. In France and England where so 
 long the Heraldic devices have been so generally 
 the form used, one sees now in increasing num- 
 bers the Library Interior, Literary, Biographi- 
 cal, Rebus, Pictorial, and the purely Decorative. 
 The terms Jacobean, Rococo, Chippendale seem 
 destined to remain the terms of description of 
 decadent types of book-plates. The individuals 
 who are the happy possessors of these marks of 
 book-ownership are to be found to-day, not 
 only in every civilized land, but in every walk 
 of life, and with no restrictions as to sex, age, 
 or previous condition of servitude. 
 
 Some authorities, however, insist that one 
 plate does not meet all the requirements of the 
 case. There should be several. Certainly 
 there is abundant evidence that such at least 
 has been and still is the custom. Most of the 
 larger and more wealthy monasteries used more 
 than one plate in marking the ownership of the 
 books constituting their libraries. Baumburg, 
 1570-1790, had eight plates engraved on cop- 
 per; 'and Chiemsee, 1637-1764, had thirteen 
 all very beautifully designed and executed. 
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 Nor are the institutions the only ones whose 
 past record shows such an abundance of good 
 things. Frederick August, Duke of Bruns- 
 wick-Ols, circa 1789, had even a greater number 
 than any one of the monasteries. His number 
 reached the surprising figure of sixteen. But 
 even this record has been outdone by the plate- 
 owners of modern times. Count zu Leiningen- 
 Westerburg has twenty-one fine plates, all in 
 use, and the Countess has eight in addition. 
 These twenty-nine different plates used in their 
 library are engravings, etchings, zinc blocks, 
 and lithographs, many of them complimentary 
 plates from famous artists. Egerton Castle 
 also uses several plates, each differing from the 
 others, both in subject and value, and ranging 
 from a neat small printed label to the exquisite 
 Library Interior designed for him by his talented 
 wife. Paul Nicolaus Ratajczak and Carl Lan- 
 genscheidt each use eleven different plates. 
 
 Various reasons are assigned for this prac- 
 tice of having more than one plate in a library. 
 It was customary in the monastic times to 
 celebrate the advent of each new Lord Abbot 
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THE SUBJECT IN GENEEAL 
 
 by the creation of a new plate for the library 
 books, and as the years passed there grew up 
 much rivalry to see which Lord Abbot should 
 have the most beautiful and appropriate design. 
 Among individuals it grew out of the different 
 states of family plates and various forms of 
 armorial expression, out of alterations of the 
 inscriptions, the use of nameless or anonymous 
 plates, and quite often it was the result of 
 quadruple cuttings. In our own times the use 
 is more premeditated and the reasons far more 
 personal. In many cases individuals have dif- 
 ferent plates in order to have in their books 
 specimens of the work of famous artists. Not 
 a few provide themselves with the plates that 
 furnish the best medium of exchange, thus 
 enabling them to secure a valuable collection 
 much more easily and in a shorter time than 
 could be done in exchanging one plate. 
 
 Some authorities argue that more than one 
 plate is an absolute necessity, in order to have 
 cheap plates for cheap books, medium plates 
 for ordinary books, and costly engraved .plates 
 for first editions and rare art treasures. Still 
 11 
 
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 another variation is to have a special plate for 
 each general subject-division of the collection, 
 namely, a pastoral plate for travel, recreation, 
 and description ; a plate with sentiment for lit- 
 erature and fine art, etc. ; each one being a 
 special design for the subject for which it is to 
 be used. Still other authorities prefer one 
 plate of a highly artistic value, made by a 
 recognized artist, and designed with special 
 reference to the characteristics of the owner of 
 the library, rather than of the books into which 
 it is to be pasted. This has always seemed to 
 the author a more consistent view to take. 
 
 In every book-lover's library, books are 
 arranged by the subjects, not the values com- 
 mercially of the works. Necessarily a poorly 
 made book must often be placed next to one of 
 exquisite workmanship. They share alike the 
 richly furnished room with its comforts and 
 luxuries ; they stand side by side on the same 
 polished shelves ; why then should they not 
 share alike also the choice name-plate selected 
 by their owner to represent himself ? It is not 
 always the Morells and the Zaehnsdorfs that 
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 are the real treasures of our libraries. Often 
 the heart clings most fondly and the hand seeks 
 most eagerly some shabby "poor relation" of 
 the book-world, a cheap reprint, perhaps, in a 
 stifip board cover. Only its well-worn condition 
 and its owner's beautiful plate in it, tell the 
 casual visitor how much it is treasured. 
 
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CHAPTER II 
 
 SPECIAL BOOK-PLATES AND THEIK VALUES 
 
 " These are the famed insignia of my Sires, 
 Which in their proper tinctures thou may'st see. " 
 
 Inscription on the KnOringen plate of 1565. 
 
 Although the individuals and the institutions 
 collecting book-plates may now be numbered 
 by the hundreds, it may yet be stated with- 
 out fear of contradiction that no one collection 
 exists anywhere that is even approximately 
 complete. Nor indeed could any one person 
 tabulate a list of all the plates or even all the 
 plates of special interest that might, if brought 
 together, form a representative laboratory in 
 which collectors might work out their own 
 lesser accumulations. The student in this 
 department of knowledge will not travel far on 
 the road to wisdom before becoming aware that 
 one of the greatest delights of this subject is 
 the series of constant surprises that one meets 
 
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 in finding rare and hitherto unknown specimens, 
 not found in any of the well-known collections. 
 
 Last summer while the author was mousing 
 around in some of the cities of Italy looking 
 for book-plates, the delight of a genuine "find" 
 was unexpectedly experienced. In soaking off 
 a seventeenth century plate from an old book- 
 cover purchased from a journeyman binder, a 
 tiny plaie of exquisite engraving of a still 
 earlier date was found beneath the second and 
 upper plate. Both plates were carefully 
 removed, cleaned, and mounted for study. The 
 most careful investigation failed to reveal any 
 recorded instance of this plate being in the 
 hands of any collector. Before the summer 
 was over, it had been taken in turn to all of the 
 great collections in Italy, Germany, France, and 
 England, without finding its mates or any rec- 
 ords concerning it. Its history has formed the 
 pleasant study of the leisure hours of this win- 
 ter and will be given to collectors in some future 
 publication. 
 
 In few fields of intellectual work is such an 
 experience possible. In the domain of pure 
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 bibliography the collector of first editions, rare 
 copies, and out of print books, has definite limits 
 and well-known boundaries, fixed by the cease- 
 less toil of thousands of workers. Collectors of 
 coins, stamps, autographs, engravings, old china, 
 playbills, and railroad tickets, likewise work 
 within circles of known diameters, with few if 
 any specimens whose value is an unknown 
 quantity. The guide-posts are well-placed and 
 clearly marked by exhaustive handbooks and 
 elaborate manuals. 
 
 Only in the world of book-plates may the 
 collector still feel the thrill of discovery and 
 make out the initial papers of identification and 
 classification. Not the least part of this "pride 
 of excavation" is to find some rare specimen of 
 American plates in the shops and quays of 
 foreign cities labeled "English Armorial" but 
 which, with the joy of conscious wisdom, you 
 know have all been corralled by our own famous 
 Charles Dexter Allen, and are shelved, num- 
 bered, and written up in that Blue-Book-tabula- 
 tion of American greatness, " The List of Early 
 American Book-plates. " The author's own col- 
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 lection of early American plates was largely 
 secured in foreign cities at greatly reduced 
 rates, because the dealers who sold them did 
 not know them as the plates of Americans, 
 since in many cases they were of English work- 
 manship. 
 
 Book-plates may be of special interest and 
 value for one or more of many reasons ; they 
 may belong to a series of very early plates, as 
 the woodcut of Johannes Knabensberg, called 
 Igler, Chaplain to the family of Schonstett, 
 about the year 1450, which is considered the 
 earliest German book-plate at present known to 
 collectors and desired greatly, without much 
 prospect of possession, by the great army of 
 collectors. One copy of this plate has been 
 valued by its owner, Ludwig Rosenthal, of 
 Munich, at X30.* 
 
 But plates are also valuable and interesting 
 from the fact that they are the work of well- 
 known famous artists, and the value and inter- 
 est in these cases is quite apart from any interest 
 in the owners of the plates. The book-plates 
 
 * Ex Libris Journal, v. 3, p. 175. 
 
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 that were wrought by such artists as Albrecht 
 Dtirer, Hogarth, Bartolozzi, Nathaniel Hurd, 
 the Mavericks, father and son, and many others 
 of equal fame, will always have, for that reason 
 alone, special claim to attention. It may also 
 be that the artist of the plate is a personality 
 whom all delight to honor for other reasons 
 than that he is or was an artist. The few plates 
 known to have been made by Paul Revere are 
 valuable to-day, not on account of the artistic 
 work on them, for that was really quite poor, 
 but because every one, or every American at 
 least, loves the memory of the man who rode 
 throughout the night to awaken "every Middle- 
 sex village and farm, " and thus, by his heroism 
 and self-denial, saved the life of a nation. 
 Again, the value and interest may be from his- 
 torical events, rather than from personal con- 
 siderations of any kind. French plates of the 
 Revolution period have a value all their own 
 because they show so unmistakably the altered 
 conditions and the change of environment that 
 rendered it necessary for plate-owners to have 
 new plates adorned with liberty-caps and bear- 
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 ing Republican inscriptions ; that made it 
 decidedly unhealthy to use plates bearing any 
 of the signs of noble birth. 
 
 Every plate, also, is subject to another kind 
 of valuation in accordance with the manner of 
 its reproduction and to certain forms or stages 
 of the plate-impressions themselves. 
 
 Three well-known forms of impressions are 
 recognized to-day, namely, the proof remarque, 
 the proof signed in autograph by its artist, and 
 the ordinary impression, such as is used in the 
 books of a library as a mark of their ownership. 
 In the days before steel-facing was known to 
 engravers, the first few prints from the engraved 
 or etched copperplates were of a particular 
 richness and brilliancy. As the printing from 
 the plate went on, year after year, the engraving 
 or etching gradually wore down and the prints 
 from it in the same degree lost their richness 
 and brilliancy. To mark the first few impres- 
 sions of the plate at the time of its greatest 
 depth and tone the remarque, a small picture 
 delicately etched near the bottom of the plate, 
 was used ; after ten or fifteen, rarely twenty-five, 
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 impressions were made, the remarque was 
 erased from the plate, so that only the impres- 
 sions so marked were used to judge of the 
 character of the original engraving. Both 
 because of their own intrinsic value and for 
 their rarity they are much prized by all art 
 collectors. In these days, when all good plates 
 are steel-faced, the copper is unaffected by the 
 amount of the impressions taken from it and 
 the last plate-copy is as fine as the first. So 
 it has come to pass that to-day the famous 
 remarque, the " proof -before-letters " of the past, 
 is nothing but a sentiment and a variety of 
 plate prized because of its own dainty beauty 
 and treasured for its rarity. 
 
 Among the proof remarque plates in the 
 author's collection that are of special interest 
 are the following : 
 Edward VII, King of England, 1902. 
 
 This is a set of three remarque proofs 
 signed in autograph by George W. Eve, 
 who made them. Mr. Eve was the designer 
 and etcher of these plates when, in 1898, 
 they were prepared for Her late Majesty, 
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 Queen Victoria. The plates are in three 
 sizes and of three varieties. The large plate 
 for the folios has the royal arms and crest in 
 full, surmounted by the monogram, " V. R. 
 I.," in lettering of Mr. Eve's own designing. 
 Above the shield, on either side and each 
 within the garter, are the badges of St. 
 George, the patron saint, and Edward III, 
 its founder. Both are symbolical of the 
 fact that Windsor Castle is the special 
 home of the Knights of the Garter, being 
 the scene of the original institution of the 
 order. The inscription is " Ex. Bibliotheca 
 Regia. in Castel : de Windesor." Below 
 is a band of intertwined oak and laurel with 
 the Tudor rose in the center ; and sur- 
 mounting the crest is an imperial crown in 
 Tudor style, conceived in the spirit of the 
 fine series of crowns on the exterior of St. 
 George's Chapel at Windsor. 
 
 The quarto book-plate is of course less 
 elaborate and has only the royal arms sur- 
 mounted by an imperial crown and the 
 same monogram and below, the Union 
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 badge, the rose, the thistle, and the sham- 
 rock. The inscription is in English, 
 "Royal Library, Windsor Castle." The 
 smallest of the three has only the crest and 
 the monogram and the same inscription in 
 English. 
 
 In 1902 Mr. Eve remodeled these plates 
 to be suitable for the use of King Edward. 
 He changed the monogram to "E. R." 
 omitting the "I." entirely. By the intro- 
 duction of some excellent Irish interlacing, 
 by way of ornamentation, he greatly 
 strengthened and improved the original 
 plates. He then added to each the beau- 
 tiful remarque. The plates thus marked 
 were used to make fifty impressions of 
 each plate, after which the remarque was 
 erased from each plate and the copper 
 re-faced for use. At Mr. Eve's suggestion 
 and through his kind gift of the sets, these 
 fifty sets were sold during the summer of 
 1902 for X8 8s. to collectors and the 
 money given to the King's Hospital Fund. 
 The entire lot was so quickly taken up 
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 that they were all gone before some col- 
 lectors heard anything about them. To-day 
 they are so scarce that when recently a 
 collector offered $200 for a set he was 
 unable to find any one willing to accept 
 his offer. These sets will doubtless remain 
 in the hands of those to whom they were 
 originally sold, until Death, that Distribu- 
 tor of all well-formed collections, calls for 
 a new distribution and arrangement and 
 places them in new combinations. We 
 feel sure the future can but increase the 
 interest and value of these plates. 
 Prescott, Walter Conway. 
 
 This gentleman is the happy possessor 
 of three proof remarque plates made for 
 him by famous artists. One plate is by 
 Charles W. Sherborn, of London, and the 
 other two by J. Winfred Spenceley, of 
 Boston. 
 
 The plate by Mr. Sherborn is Armorial 
 
 and engraved in that artist's best style. 
 
 The remarque is a small bird resting on 
 
 a Scotch thistle and pecking at one of its 
 
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 blossoms. Only a few of these were made. 
 
 The 1897 plate by Mr. Spenceley was 
 intended for use in the books on pottery 
 and porcelain, of which the owner of the 
 plate has a notable collection. An open 
 book shows the family crest and the name 
 and on the other side the arms of Harvard, 
 where Mr. Prescott graduated in 1879. 
 The book stands in front of a large orna- 
 mental plate of circular form which is sur- 
 mounted with inscriptions. The remarque 
 is a curious old clock with its hanging 
 weights. 
 
 The plate of 1898 by Mr. Spenceley 
 represents an attractive mountain view set 
 in an ornamental oval. Below are the 
 owner's favorite authors. The remarque 
 is a delicately etched guide-post on a lonely 
 - country road. 
 Eaton, Levi W. 
 
 This plate by J. Winfred Spenceley 
 
 represents a corner in a literary "den" 
 
 with a charming seat by an open window, 
 
 through which is seen a distant view of 
 
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 river and mountain landscape, that must 
 indeed prove a daily inspiration to the 
 occupant of the room. The favorite books 
 lie in easy reach of the window-seat. The 
 plate, like all of Mr. Spenceley's work, is 
 signed and dated. The remarque is a por- 
 trait of Mr. Spenceley, etched by his fellow 
 neighbor in the Studio Building and 
 brother artist, Edmund H. Garrett. It 
 is an excellent likeness and greatly prized 
 by collectors of remarque plates and plates 
 made by Mr. Spenceley. 
 Dixson, Zella Allen. 
 
 This is also a plate made by J. Winfred 
 Spenceley. In its type it is a Biographical 
 Literary plate. The upper circle represents 
 "Merino Farm," on the road between 
 Marietta and Zanesville, Ohio, so named 
 for the large number of merino goats on 
 the farm. It has local associations that 
 make it a place of some historical interest 
 to inhabitants of the state. It was the 
 summer home of the owner of the plate 
 during her girlhood. Here the family 
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 came for the rest and change of rural life 
 during the summer months. The center- 
 piece represents her present summer home, 
 "Wisteria Cottage," at Granville, Ohio, 
 where she spends the non-resident quarter 
 of her university life, where is located her 
 private library, and for which her private 
 press, from which several privately printed 
 books have issued, is named. For these 
 things Mr. Spenceley has made the mant- 
 ling of the plate in wisteria vines. The 
 Lamp of Truth, the World of Books, with 
 the contribution of "Subject Index to 
 Fiction " to it by the author, complete the 
 design. The remarque is a beautiful Pari- 
 sian Angora cat, keeping open the leaves 
 of a book with his dainty paw. " Major 
 March and," like his mistress, has two 
 homes ; when she is busy in her office at 
 the University of Chicago Library, he lives 
 with her at her city residei^ce, but when 
 summer comes he also travels to the 
 country and spends the beautiful sunny 
 days under the great elm trees on the lawn 
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 of Wisteria Cottage. When his mistress 
 reads, he sits in her lap and patiently keeps 
 the place with his paw, lifting it when a 
 new page must be turned. Mr. Spenceley 
 has represented him in this attitude in the 
 remarque. There were only a very few of 
 these made before the remarque was 
 erased. None of them have as yet changed 
 hands. 
 
 Marshall, Julian. 
 
 This plate is one made by E. D. French 
 for its owner. It is in the artist's usual 
 exquisite workmanship. The style is that 
 of the Book-pile, but it has been modified 
 from the usual form by the introduction of 
 the symbols of the tastes and occupations 
 of its owner. The remarque represents 
 the artist at work on the plate. This 
 remarque plate is seldom seen in collections 
 on account of its great rarity. It has only 
 once been offered for sale. In 1901 it was 
 sold in connection with a general collection 
 of ex-libris, bringing $10. 
 
 Aylward, Frederick Graham and Annie E. 
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 A charming plate, made by W. F. Hop- 
 son. It represents a Book- pile surmounted 
 by the Lamp of Truth and resting on the 
 name-panels. The plate itself is the rep- 
 resentation of a book, around the outer 
 border of the cover of which is arranged 
 the motto " The wise return, that they again 
 may borrow." At the lower edge in the 
 form of a locket is the family crest. The 
 remarque is a small circle, about the size 
 of a penny, in which is represented a view 
 of a city built on a river. The name of 
 this city is marked above the circle, 
 "Hereford," and below the circle^" Eng- 
 land." This also is a rare remarque and 
 seldom seen in collections. 
 
 We give the interpretation of this plate in 
 Mr. Aylward's own words : "This is a wood- 
 cut by Mr. W. F. Hopson, of New Haven, 
 U. S. A., based on my 1893 plate, in which 
 the motto and arrangement of books were 
 my own, but the rest designed by my 
 friend, Mr. W. E. Home, of 'The Star.' 
 The motto is as before, but the books differ 
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 from those of the original group. The 
 lighted lamp on the book-pile is significant 
 of the diJBPusion of knowledge through 
 books. The comer ornaments are copies 
 of book-binders' designs. Those on the 
 right hand (top and bottom) are from an 
 example of binding by the monks of a 
 German monastery, and that in the top left 
 hand comer is from a Renaissance pattern, 
 while the bottom one is a fragment of a 
 Grolier design — 16 th. century Venetian 
 work. The chain pattern border from a 
 Roger Payne binding has been added. It 
 was a happy idea of Mr. Hopson's to put 
 the whole on an old book cover. The arms 
 on the book marker are adapted from an 
 anonymous book-plate used by a distant 
 relative — Dr. Peter Aylward of Ports- 
 mouth. This coat (with the lozenges or) 
 is given by Edmondson, (1780) as belong- 
 ing to the Aylwards of Suffolk. Although 
 of little monetary value the books are of 
 great personal interest and somewhat indi- 
 cate our tastes." 
 
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 The signed proofs are like the remarque 
 proofs, the early impressions of the plate, and 
 are signed in autograph by the artist to signify 
 that having tested the printing of the plate by 
 taking off these first impressions and finding it 
 working properly and in form and outline as he 
 had originally intended that it should be, he 
 signs his approval of the finished work. This 
 is the usual form of proofs at present. Many 
 collectors limit their selections to the plates in 
 this form. Proofs are sometimes found without 
 the autograph signature. These have no value 
 to collectors, other than as pictures to place on 
 the walls of the library room in which the col- 
 lection is kept. The signed plate, unlike the 
 signed proof, is not signed in autograph, but 
 has the name and usually the date engraved in 
 the plate itself. Naturally then this engraved 
 name is also a part of the autograph proof and 
 in addition to it. 
 Ohio Memorial Aicove, iManiia, 1902. 
 
 The Ohio Memorial Gift Plate of the 
 Columbus Chapter of the Daughters of the 
 American Revolution to the American 
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 Library in Manila is a plate with a mission, 
 presented by Mrs. Mary E. Rath-Merrill 
 to the Columbus Chapter of the Daughters 
 of the American Revolution for the purpose 
 of not only marking the books in the Ohio 
 Memorial Alcove of the American Library 
 in Manila, but also of purchasing additional 
 volumes for this collection through the 
 sale of proofs signed in autograph and the 
 ordinary impressions of the plate to individ- 
 uals and to institutions making collections 
 of ex-libris, after the manner of the sale of 
 the proof remarque plates of King Edward's 
 book-plate for the benefit of the King's 
 Hospital Fund. 
 
 The scale of prices has been arranged as 
 follows : 
 
 Remarque proofs each $8.00 
 
 Autograph proofs each 4.00 
 
 Signed proofs on Japan paper each 2.26 
 
 Large paper copies , each 1.50 
 
 Small impressions each 0.75 
 
 Key to symbolism each 0.25 
 
 The need for additional books for this 
 library gave rise to the idea suggested by 
 Mrs. Merrill to design and have engraved 
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 by one of the most noted book-plate 
 engravers a Symbolical book-plate which 
 should be a monument of Beauty, Truth, 
 Patriotism, and Love. The books contain- 
 ing these plates will not only satisfy the 
 great book-hunger of the people in these 
 far-off islands, but will speak of the con- 
 tinuous memory and unity of action of the 
 Ohio Daughters in their behalf, and will 
 bear eloquent witness to the liberal and 
 earnest support of the friends who have 
 made this plan possible through their pur- 
 chase of the book-plates. 
 
 The design of the ex-libris is framed in 
 a border of buckeyes, which is the emblem 
 of the state of Ohio. In the center of the 
 design is a tablet upon which rests the 
 Holy Bible surrounded by the thirteen and 
 four stars. Around the tablet is the Palm 
 Wreath of Victory, while above it is a 
 winged hour-glass, held by a chain which 
 unites and weaves together in a graceful 
 way every element used in making the 
 design. Behind and supporting this tablet 
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 on either side are our American flags, the 
 staffs of which cross beneath the tablet 
 and pierce the three shields which seem 
 to rest upon the tops of the bookcases, the 
 latter forming the interior of a library or 
 alcove. The shields contain, on the dexter 
 side, the emblem of the Daughters of the 
 American Revolution ; on the sinister side, 
 the seal of the state of Ohio. In the center 
 and directly over the arched window in 
 the library alcove is the shield containing 
 the arms of the United States. Through 
 the open window are to be seen ships and 
 emblems of war, in reference to the navy 
 and the army. On either side of the 
 library alcove is a Corinthian column, 
 encircled by a Chain of Love and sur- 
 mounted by the Lamp of Truth. The 
 tablet at the base bears the inscription 
 " Ex-libris, Ohio Memorial Alcove, Manila, 
 1902." 
 
 There will also be an illuminated key 
 prepared by Mrs. Merrill to be presented 
 to purchasers of these plates. 
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 At the time this book went to press, 
 William F. Hopson had just been selected 
 as the engraver of this plate. 
 Book-plates have still another form of 
 interest and value in the technical manner of 
 their creation. In the past they were made in 
 one of two ways : (a) by engraved wooden 
 blocks with lines cut in relief to print with a 
 letter-press ; or (b) by engraved copperplates 
 having the design cut into the polished surface 
 and printed by plate-process. As none of the 
 modern processes were in use until a compara- 
 tively recent date, the difficulty of determining 
 the process by which the old plates were made 
 is not great. Even an amateur can readily 
 distinguish between a woodcut and a copper- 
 engraving and estimate the value from that 
 standpoint quite correctly, but with modem 
 plates all that has become changed and the col- 
 lector often finds among the specimens many 
 that can not readily be distinguished and is 
 completely at a loss to tell how they have been 
 reproduced from the original design. Wood- 
 cuts and engravings from copper are still with 
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 US, but SO are also a perfect army of machine 
 processes that are neither woodcuts nor copper- 
 engravings, yet may pass for either with the 
 uninitiated or have characteristics of their own. 
 Among the most common processes for book- 
 plate impressions might be mentioned the line- 
 engraved blocks, half-tones, chromos, calotypes, 
 lithographs, photoetchings, and zinc blocks. 
 
 By far the greatest number of book-plates 
 of special interest and value are those made for 
 celebrities ; the individuals whose names are 
 associated in our minds with the great achieve- 
 ments of life. Such persons are to be found in 
 every age, in every land, and in every walk of 
 life. Among those especially treasured by the 
 author are the following : 
 Alfieri, Vittorio. 1 749- 1 803. Of Florence, Italy. 
 
 A great Italian dramatist. His style 
 was so bold and so devoid of the usual 
 elaborate ornamentation of language that 
 he became the model of a distinct School 
 of Italian Drama. His collected works 
 were not published until after his death. 
 In the years of 1805-1815, the Countess 
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 of Albany, who for more than twenty years 
 had been his faithful friend, collected them 
 and had them issued in an edition of 35 
 volumes. His confidence in his own ability 
 to do work that would live after him seems 
 reflected in his book-plate. It is a beau- 
 tifully engraved representation of Father 
 Time, who has dropped the scythe with 
 which he cuts down the members of the 
 human race and stands in speechless admir- 
 ation, gazing at the pile of books written 
 by Vittorio Alfieri. 
 
 Bancroft, George. 1800-1891. Of Washington, District of 
 Columbia. 
 
 The famous historian, statesman, and 
 diplomat. Author of "History of the 
 United States," 1834-1874 ; and " History 
 of the Formation of the Constitution of 
 the United States," 1882. 
 
 His plate exists in two forms, alike 
 except as to the motto, which in the one is 
 in Greek, and in the other in Latin. The 
 plates are undated, but were made about 
 1850. These book-plates sell in public 
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 auctions for about $3. 
 
 Bastille. Of Paris, France. 
 
 The terrors of this prison reached their 
 height in the days of Richelieu, 1624- 
 1642, when Leclerc du Tremblay was 
 Commandant. Louis XI added the horrors 
 of the "iron cages " and had the vault cells 
 built beneath the towers on a level with 
 the waters of the moat. The mobs of the 
 French Revolution forced the prison to 
 surrender and destroyed every thing that 
 was in the bastille and out of it, including 
 the library. One must always remember 
 that the Chateau Royal de la Bastille was 
 not always primarily intended for a prison, 
 but was built as a strong fort to protect 
 Paris from enemies. Gradually it became 
 a place of confinement for persons who 
 had committed political offences. Being 
 one of the royal castles, its governors must 
 always have been persons of high rank. 
 The book-plates of this library are all that 
 now remains to tell of the books they loved. 
 Bell, Alexander Melville. 1818- Of Washington, District 
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 of Columbia. 
 
 Inventor of a phonetic system of visible 
 speech, lecturer and author of many works 
 on philological subjects. Father of Alex- 
 ander Graham Bell, the inventor of the 
 "Bell Telephone." Mr. Bell's book-plate 
 represents the field of work in which he 
 has spent his life : a pair of lips, a key, 
 and an open book are the symbols by 
 which the author of " Principles of Speech 
 and Cure of Stammering" makes known 
 his personality. Designed by its owner 
 and executed by a local lithographer in 
 Washington in 1850. 
 Bray, Thomas. 1656-1730. Of London, England. 
 
 Doctor Bray was an English clergyman 
 who believed in the power of a good book. 
 He was the Andrew Carnegie of the seven- 
 teenth century. He was a man who 
 devoted his life and his income to the 
 founding of libraries. Appointed soon 
 after his graduation from Oxford to have 
 the charge of sending out clergymen to 
 the colonies, he early learned how meager 
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 is the library of a country parson. In 
 carrying out the plans of the General 
 Assembly he discovered that most of the 
 men who were willing to be sent to the 
 American Colonies as'preachers and pastors 
 were too poor to buy for themselves the 
 books that were absolutely necessary to the 
 proper conduct of their work. To meet 
 this difficulty he founded a series of now 
 famous libraries, to be placed in the locali- 
 ties where the clergymen were sent. To 
 properly equip this organization he used 
 all that he could possibly save from his 
 own salary to furnish the libraries with 
 books. When his personal friends, from 
 time to time, sought to restore to him these 
 expenditures, he only added their gifts to 
 the general fund and equipped more 
 libraries. 
 
 At the time of his death Doctor Bray 
 had founded and fully equipped eighty 
 parochial libraries in England and thirty - 
 nine in America, including the one started 
 at Annapolis, Maryland, then numbering 
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 over 1000 volumes. Before his death he 
 provided for the continuation of his work 
 by organizing a band of young men called 
 "Doctor Bray's Associates for founding 
 Clerical Libraries and Supporting Negro 
 Schools," which organization still exists 
 under the name of "Bray's Institution for 
 Founding Libraries," with headquarters at 
 19 Delahay Street, Westminster. From 
 Doctor Bray's scheme came also the organ- 
 izations known as the "Society for Pro- 
 moting Christian Knowledge" and the 
 "Society for the Propagation of the Gos- 
 pell in Foreign Parts." In 1698 King's 
 Chapel, Boston, received a library of 200 
 books for public use from this source. 
 
 We catch another glimpse of this famous 
 unselfish old man in the study of the early 
 library legislation of the United States. 
 The first library legislation of our country 
 was for the preservation of private libraries 
 used for public good. The records show 
 that the earliest enactment was made at 
 the request of one Doctor Thomas Bray, 
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 of England. On November 16, 1700, the 
 Legislature of South Carolina passed an 
 Act on his behalf to protect the books that 
 he, as Founder of the "Society for the 
 Propagation of the Gospell in Foreign 
 Parts," was sending to the colonies. Again 
 in 1715 North Carolina also passed a library 
 law for the preservation of a library sent 
 over by one Doctor Thomas Bray, of Lon- 
 don, "to Bath-Town, for the use of the 
 inhabitants of the Parish of St. Thomas, in 
 Pamptico." (Pamlico.) The law pre- 
 scribed the length of time the books could 
 be kept by the borrower, regulated like 
 the systems of classification in those days, 
 by the size of the books : a folio for four 
 months ; a quarto for two months ; and an 
 octavo for one month or under. This law 
 further provided the imposition of a fine, 
 three times the value of the book, for loss 
 or serious injury. If the fine however 
 could not be paid, the law directed that 
 the offender should be imprisoned. 
 
 Owing to the many libraries that have 
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 been destroyed by soldiers and by fires, 
 these book-plates are rare and hard to 
 secure in any of their several forms. 
 Byrd, William. 1674-1744. Of Westover, Virginia. 
 
 Colonel Byrd's library was housed in the 
 famous Westover Mansion, a typical colo- 
 nial residence, with a frontage on the James 
 river, and within easy reach of Richmond. 
 Into these books were pasted the charming 
 impressions of his plate : book-plates that 
 to-day are among the earliest and rarest 
 of American plates. There were many 
 William Byrds, but that fact does not ren- 
 der it a very difficult problem, when the 
 evidence is all in, to decide upon the true 
 ownership of these interesting specimens 
 of ex-libris. They doubtless belonged to 
 the second William Byrd, the author of 
 the "Westover Manuscripts." He had 
 been sent to England to be educated and 
 had probably had the plate engraved to 
 use in the books he is known to have pur- 
 chased for use in his future American 
 home. Experts place the date of this 
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 plate at 1725 and if that is true, then it 
 certainly could not have been made in 
 America, as there was no American engraver 
 at that early date who was able to do such 
 fine work. The plate is Jacobean in design 
 and usually sells at auction for from $12 
 to $15. 
 
 Darner, Anne Seymour. 1749-1828. Of Twickenham, 
 England. 
 
 A clever English sculptor, the prot^g^e 
 and friend of Horace Walpole and a mem- 
 ber of the famous Strawberry Hill Villa 
 group. Mrs. Darner executed several pieces 
 of sculpture that would entitle her to 
 remembrance. Perhaps her best work 
 might be considered as represented by the 
 busts of George III and Nelson and by the 
 two head pieces made for the bridge at 
 Henley, England. 
 
 Her book-plate was designed by Agnes 
 Berry and engraved by Legat in 1793. It 
 represents a female figure pointing to the 
 owner's name, which is engraved on 
 masonry. The plate is in two forms ; one 
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 with the name "Anna Darner" and the 
 other with the name "Anne Seymour 
 Damer." Last public sale $S, 
 Hart, Gerald E. Of New York City, New York. 
 
 The author of "Fall of New France" 
 and other well-known works on Canadian 
 history has one of the most beautiful plates 
 in the whole series of American ex-libris. 
 By a lamentable accident it is also a very 
 rare one and no longer a probable acquisi- 
 tion. The book-plate is a representation 
 of a Benedictine monk in the Scriptorium 
 busy in the creation of a priceless manu- 
 script. It is a dainty mosaic plate in col- 
 ored enamels and was made when Mr. Hart 
 lived in Canada, by the well-known firm of 
 Messrs. Edwin Cox and Company, of Mon- 
 treal. 
 
 It was designed to be used in Mr. Hart's 
 valuable books and only a small number 
 were ordered. But before more than a few 
 impressions had been taken, one of the 
 dies, of which there were twelve, broke. 
 As the die was an expensive one to replace 
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 and as there was no certainty that the dies 
 would not again need repair, Mr. Hart 
 abandoned the project. There are two 
 forms of this plate : one heightened in 
 gold, the other in silver. Collectors so 
 fortunate as to possess either or both of 
 these plates have not only something that 
 can never become common through general 
 circulation, but something of real art 
 value. 
 
 Holmes, Oliver Wendell. 1809-1894. Of Cambridge, Mas- 
 sachusetts. 
 
 The author of "The Autocrat of the 
 Breakfast Table " has a book-plate (a nauti- 
 lus shell beautifully engraved) so charac-' 
 teristic of himself and one so delicate in 
 its references that its history is best told 
 in his own words : 
 
 "If you will look into Roget's 'Bridge- 
 water Treatise,'" said the Autocrat one 
 morning, "you will find a figure of one of 
 these shells and a section of it. The last 
 will show you the series of enlarging com- 
 partments, successively dwelt in by the 
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 animal that inhabits the shell, which is 
 built in a widening spiral. Can you find 
 no lesson in this ?" And from his poem, 
 "The Chambered Nautilus": 
 
 " Ship of pearl, which, poets feign, 
 
 Sails the unshadowed main, — 
 
 The venturous bark that flings, 
 On the sweet summer wind, its purple wings 
 In gulf enchanted, where the Siren sings. 
 
 And coral reefs lie bare, 
 Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming 
 
 hair. 
 " Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul. 
 
 As the swift seasons roll ! 
 
 Leave thy low vaulted past ! 
 Let each new temple, nobler than the last, 
 Shut thee from Heaven, with a dome more vast, 
 
 Till thou at length art free. 
 Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!" 
 
 This plate was partly engraved by J. 
 Winfred Spenceley in 1885, when he was 
 in the employ of Messrs. John A. Lowell 
 and Company. 
 Hugo, Victor. 1802-1885. Of Paris, Prance. 
 
 The well-known author of " Les Misera- 
 bles." In 1848 his political enthusiasm 
 led him to found a newspaper called 
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 "L'!Ev6nement." After the Revolution of 
 the same year he was exiled from France. 
 At first he went to Belgium, then to Jersey, 
 and finally to Guernsey, where he remained 
 until he was permitted to return to his own 
 country. In 1876 he was made a life 
 member of the Senate. 
 
 The book-plate of Victor Hugo repre- 
 sents the two towers of Notre Dame formed 
 into the initial "H", while across the illus- 
 tration are the letters "U. G. O. " ; a flash 
 of lightning lights up the whole and car- 
 ries the full name, "Victor Hugo." This 
 book-plate was a present to him from the 
 French artist, Aglafts Bouvenne, who 
 designed it for him while he was in exile 
 and living at Guernsey. His use of the 
 towers of Notre Dame was a clever ref- 
 erence to the author's celebrated novel, 
 as the chief scene of its plot. Victor Hugo 
 never had much of a library ; the total 
 number at the time of his death being only 
 about 50 volumes. Indeed, there is much 
 reason to believe that he really never used 
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 his book-plate in the ordinary way at all, as 
 they have never been found in his books. 
 At his death the copperplate was given to 
 the artist who made it, and is now in his 
 possession. 
 
 Matthews, James Brander. 1852- Of New York City, 
 
 New York. 
 
 The book-plate of Professor Matthews 
 was d'esigned for him by Edwin A. Abbey. 
 It recognizes, with delicate suggestion, the 
 personality of the author of "Theatres of 
 Paris" and "French Dramatists of the 
 Nineteenth Century." The design rep- 
 resents a primitive American examining a 
 Greek comic play mask that he has found. 
 The motto, taken from Moli^re, seems to 
 question him thus : "What think you of 
 this comedy?" 
 
 MQhIenberg, Heinrich Melchoir. 1711-1787. Of Trappe, 
 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 American author and Chief Founder of 
 
 the Lutheran Church in the United States. 
 
 The plate of this gentleman is Armorial 
 
 and is valued on account of the personality 
 
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 of its owner. It is a plate seldom seen in 
 
 collections. 
 
 Mflnchhausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron von. (Some- 
 times spelled Munchausen.) 1720-1797. Of Han- 
 over, Germany. 
 
 Baron Mtlnchhansen was a German sol- 
 dier in the Russian service against the 
 Turks. A collection of stories ascribed to 
 him was written by R. E. Raspe, 1735, 
 called "Baron Munchausen's Narrative of 
 his Marvelous Travels and Campaigns in 
 Russia." Thus his name became prover- 
 bially associated with stories of absurd 
 exaggeration. The ex-libris belonging to 
 this gentleman is Armorial and of exceed- 
 ingly fine workmanship. Few specimens 
 in the author's collection are more prized 
 than is this one. 
 Picard, Abel. Of Paris, France. 
 
 Another interesting and beautiful plate is 
 that of the famous bibliophile, Abel Picard. 
 It represents an initial " P " made from a 
 careful folding of a narrow ribbon. In the 
 loop of the "P" is a most charming view 
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 of the book-quays of Paris, bo closely con- 
 nected in the minds of all book-lovers with 
 both books and book-plates ; in the far dis- 
 tance are seen the towers of Notre Dame. 
 There is also a hint of the owner's favorite 
 literary taste in the row of books on the 
 shelf at the lower part of the plate, for here 
 we see the works of Zola, Daudet, and the 
 historian Michelet. 
 Rhodes, Cecil John. 1853-1902. Of English birth. 
 
 The famous South African statesman 
 Cecil John Rhodes had a rare and seldom 
 seen book-plate. It was designed for him 
 by Robert Anning Bell in 1895, and rep- 
 resents the discovery of the Cape of Good 
 Hope. A Dutch officer, with some com- 
 panions in arms, is trying to explain to the 
 Hottentots why they have come. At first 
 sight the plate appears to be nameless, but 
 a closer inspection reveals the initials "C. 
 J. R. " intertwined into a monogram in the 
 lower part of the plate. No records can 
 be found to show that this plate has ever 
 been sold. There are only a few at best, 
 50 
 
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 as Mr. Rhodes was not a collector and only 
 
 gave his plate in rare instances. 
 
 Stafil-Hoistein, Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baronne de. 
 (Commonly called Madame de StaSI.) 1766-1817. 
 Of Paris, France. 
 
 This famous author used a beautiful little 
 plate engraved with the marking " Biblio- 
 th^que de Coppet." During her girlhood 
 she was permitted to associate with the 
 literary celebrities who found the house of 
 her father, "The Switzer Jacques Necker," 
 a favorite meeting place. She was mar- 
 ried in 1786 to a Swedish Protestant, Eric 
 Magnus Stael-Holstein, who died in 1802. 
 During the Reign of Terror ' the family 
 fled to her father's castle Coppet at Lake 
 Geneva, Switzerland. Here her library, a 
 large and well-selected collection of books, 
 was brought and it was for them that the 
 well-known ex-libris was made. 
 Stowe, Calvin Ellis. 1802-1886. Of Hartford, Connectiont. 
 
 Professor Stowe used for the ownership- 
 marking of his fine library a plain Armor- 
 ial plate. This derives its interest from its 
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 owner, as it has little in itself. He was 
 professor in Dartmouth and Bowdoin Col- 
 leges and in Lane and Andover Theologi- 
 cal Seminaries, the author of many learned 
 treatises, but best known, after all, as the 
 husband of Harriet Beecher Stowe. 
 
 Walpoie, Horace, Fourth Earl of Orford. 1717-1797. Of 
 
 Twickenham, England. 
 
 Horace Walpole has three claims to be 
 remembered by the generations that fol- 
 low him : as a tireless and expert collector 
 of curios ; as a letter- writer at a period 
 when letter- writing was an art ; and as 
 the proprietor of one of the most inter- 
 esting private presses from which privately 
 printed books have ever issued. When he 
 first came to live at Twickenham, the villa 
 he had purchased from Mrs. Chevenix, the 
 noted toy-seller, was called "Chopped 
 Straw Hall. " Naturally he disliked this 
 too much to adopt it, so at first he dated 
 all of his correspondence simply "Twick- 
 enham." One day he happened to find 
 among his documents some old leases with 
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 the bewitching name of "Strawberry Hill," 
 and from that day he called his home 
 "Strawberry Hill Villa." The exterior of 
 this dwelling-place after he had restored it 
 did not suit all of his friends, but it suited 
 perfectly its owner, and into it, as the years 
 passed, he poured his treasures of all 
 kinds. But his memory will ever be most 
 honored by book-lovers on account of the 
 charming publications that were the issues 
 of his private press. There were in all 21 
 of these : the most notable among which 
 were "M^moires du Comte de Grammont," 
 1772, a quarto volume of 317 pages and 
 containing the famous reproductions of 
 the portraits of the Comte and Comtesse 
 over which the celebrated correspondence 
 occurred ; "Catalogue of Royal and Noble 
 Authors"; and Lucan's "Pharsalia." 
 
 The books in his library were marked 
 with two plates, one a small Armorial, 
 1750, and the other a Seal plate, 1791, 
 made after he became Earl of Orford. 
 The vignette used on the publications of 
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 Strawberry Hill Press has been considered 
 a third book-plate by such undoubted 
 authorities as Mr. Castle and Mr. Hardy, 
 but in the columns of the Ex Libris Jour- 
 nal, H. B. Wheatley very conclusively 
 points out that since these plates were 
 never used except on the Strawberry Hill 
 Press publications they were reproduc- 
 tions of the press-mark and not book-plates 
 in the proper meaning. 
 
 His library at the time of his death 
 numbered 15,000 volumes and was sold by 
 the famous auctioneer, George Robins, 
 "the Alexandre Dumas of the salesroom," 
 for $25,000; a very low figure, considering 
 the prices the same books would bring if 
 sold to-day. The books jostled each other 
 on the shelves with little or no regard for 
 the aristocracy of the book- world and with- 
 out any apparent order or system of 
 arrangement. 
 
 At the last recorded sale, 1902, the three 
 plates, sold as one lot, brought $20. 
 Washington, George. 1732-1799. Of Monnt Vernon, Vir- 
 
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 ginia. 
 
 The first President of the United States 
 set us all a good example by having for 
 his books the proper thing, an engraved 
 plate. This book-plate is of more than 
 common interest to us all, whether we are 
 collectors of plates, users of plates, or with- 
 out any apparent connection with the sub- 
 ject, for it was the Washington crest that 
 gave us our national shield and suggested 
 our flag. It has marked the books of the 
 Washington family for four generations. 
 This plate was probably of American work- 
 manship, for the heraldry is such as no 
 foreign engraver, used to armorial bear- 
 ings, would have been guilty of executing. 
 
 There are two forms of this plate. The 
 original, genuine, 1775 ; and a forgery, 
 1865. Both are sought by collectors and 
 neither plate is very rare. Washington's 
 library contained the usual editions and 
 titles one would expect to find in the col- 
 lection of a well-to-do intelligent man. At 
 his death the library was left by will to 
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 his nephew, Judge Bushrod Washington, 
 who gave a few volumes to intimate friends 
 of the family and at his death also left the 
 collection to his heirs. In this way the 
 library became the property of his two 
 nephews, George C. and John A. Wash- 
 ington, from whom the Government pur- 
 chased the books, together with some val- 
 uable letters and papers, and gave them a 
 final home in the Archives of the State 
 Department at Washington. In 1848 
 some of the books from the original Wash- 
 ington library were offered for sale by 
 Henry Stevens, of Vermont. Several for- 
 eign libraries began negotiations for the 
 books and in order to prevent their removal 
 from the United States a committee of 
 Bostonians raised the funds for their pur- 
 chase. A few books went to the British 
 Museum, to the Bodleian Library, and to 
 the Koyal Library at Berlin, but the 
 greater part of the collection, namely, 444 
 volumes and 240 pamphlets, some of them 
 bearing the Washington book-plate and 
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 some his autograph as well, found a safe 
 and permanent resting-place in the Boston 
 Athenaeum. Book-lovers as well as loyal 
 Americans treasure in grateful memory the 
 Boston Committee and its timely energy 
 and patriotism. 
 Many other plates belonging to both insti- 
 tutions and to individuals might be mentioned 
 did the limits of this book permit. Here are a 
 few persons whose plates are to be found in 
 some general collections : Thomas Carlyle, 
 Anthony Trollope, Samuel Pepys, Charles 
 Kingsley, David Garrick, Edward Fitzgerald 
 (designed by William M. Thackeray), William 
 E. Gladstone, Charles Dickens, John Foster, 
 Alfred Tennyson, George Grote, Thomas Frog- 
 nail Dibdin, Austin Dobson, Walter Besant, 
 Charlotte Corday and Charlotte Cushman, Paul 
 Lacroix, L^on Gambetta, John Fiske, Paul 
 Revere, Josiah Quincy, Edward Everett, Edwin 
 Booth, Lulu Glaser, and Henry Irving. 
 
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CHAPTER III 
 
 SOME FAMOUS BOOK-PLATE ARTISTS OF THE PAST 
 
 "I've Hurds in profusion and Mavericks, too, 
 
 With Sparrows and birds of all kind ; 
 A queer little label of Doctrine Monroe, 
 
 And a Gospel ship sailing the wind. 
 I've Simon of Lancaster — not John of Gaunt ; 
 
 I've torn ones bedewed by a tear ; 
 O'er but one of all these, do I have a hornpipe — 
 
 My book-plate that's signed Paul Revere.'''' 
 
 W. H. Shir-Cliff. 
 
 It must be admitted that to know with any 
 completeness the book-plate artists of the past 
 is an exceedingly difficult task. Many plates 
 were designed and engraved by artists who 
 were comparatively little known and of whom 
 few records have been kept. Encyclopedias 
 and biographical dictionaries have nothing to 
 tell concerning them. If the plates they made 
 had not been dated and signed, we also should 
 be ignorant of their names and without incen- 
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OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
 4IVfc.FColTY I 
 
ARTISTS OF THE PAST 
 
 tive to have any interest whatever in them. 
 Many of them worked for stationers in small 
 villages and provincial towns. Any items in 
 regard to them must be gleaned by personal 
 visits to those localities that were the scenes of 
 their labors. 
 
 In the following list no attempt has been 
 made to itemize under each artist the plates 
 made. Such tabulations have been so ejfficiently 
 executed by such unquestioned authorities as 
 Poulet-Malassis, Warren, Hamilton, Castle, 
 Fincham, Gerster, Bertarelli, Prior, Warnecke, 
 Leiningen-Westerburg, and Verster, as to make 
 any repetition of them entirely unnecessary. 
 
 For greater facility in the identification of 
 plates artists of different nationalities have been 
 arranged in one simple alphabet as follows : 
 Allardlce, 8. ? ? Of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
 
 This artist was born in Scotland, but 
 came to America as a young man. He 
 learned his trade as an engraver by being 
 apprenticed to Robert Scott, the die-sinker 
 of the Mint. Only one signed plate is 
 known positively as the work of this artist, 
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 namely, the plate made for the Library 
 Company of Baltimore, dated 1790. 
 Amman, Jost. 1539-1591. Of Zurich, Switzerland. 
 
 A noted Swiss painter and etcher of 
 book-plates. He engraved on both wood 
 and copper, but his woodcuts, as a rule, 
 are far superior to the copperplates made 
 by him. He has left many specimens of 
 his work to testify to his skill and industry. 
 
 Anderson, Alexander. 1775-1870. Of New York City, New 
 York. 
 
 A well-known American artist, famous 
 not only as an engraver and a designer, 
 but because he was the first American 
 wood-engraver. Beginning his career as 
 an engraver at the tender age of twelve 
 years, he made his first tools out of the 
 spring of an old jack-knife, and used as a 
 plate some pennies rolled thin, that had 
 been given him to use in the purchase of 
 a new one. This curious first plate was an 
 engraving of the head of Paul Jones. It 
 was printed with red paint on a press of 
 his own devising. After this he spent his 
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AETISTS OF THE PAST 
 
 leisure time trying to understand the pro- 
 cesses by which pictures were made and 
 endeavoring to imitate them. Finding 
 him one day making some excellent copies 
 of some plates in a medical book, his father 
 decided that he had a strong taste for 
 medicine and straightway placed him under 
 the care of Doctor Joseph Young. His 
 medical education lasted until he had 
 graduated with the degree of M. D. from 
 the medical department of Columbia Col- 
 lege in 1796. In 1798, after two years of 
 trying to adapt himself to a profession he 
 did not love, he gave himself up to en- 
 graving, which had from childhood held 
 for him such a fascination. A copy of 
 Bewick's "Quadrupeds" and later his 
 "British Birds" opened for him the world 
 of engraving and taught him how to use 
 the white line, that Bewick was making so 
 effective. He followed so closely the 
 methods of expression used in the plates 
 of this great master that he earfted for him- 
 self the name of the "American Bewick." 
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 His plates are engraved both on wood 
 and on copper. To the general public 
 he is best known as the engraver who 
 illustrated the Webster spelling-book of 
 long ago, made the beautiful pictures for 
 the early illustrated edition of Shake- 
 speare, and for many years illustrated the 
 publications of the American Tract Society. 
 
 Baldung, Hans. 1476?- 1545. (Called "Grtin" because of 
 the abundance of that color in his pictures.) Of 
 Strasburg, Germany. 
 
 An early German engraver. 
 
 Bartolozzi, Francesco. 1725-1815. Of Florence, Italy; 
 London, England; and Lisbon, Portugal. 
 
 One of the greatest of Italian engravers. 
 He spent six years of preparatory study in 
 Venice under the famous Wagner. In 
 1764 he went to London, where he made a 
 great success of his work, being appointed 
 Engraver to the King, and in 1769 was 
 made a member of the Royal Academy. 
 In 1802 he went to Lisbon, to take up his 
 residence there as head of the National 
 Academy. 
 
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ARTISTS OP THE PAST 
 
 While he made book-plates, he did not 
 make many, and there are only a few to be 
 found to-day, nine plates bearing his sig- 
 nature being known to collectors. Book- 
 plates were not the medium through which 
 his best work could be done, being too 
 small and affording too narrow a scope for 
 the groups of angels, muses, and goddesses 
 which he delighted to depict. His work 
 was always allegorical and much involved. 
 
 Bewick, Thomas. 1753-1828. Called "Father of modern 
 wood-engraving." Of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng- 
 land. 
 
 He passed his boyhood amidst country 
 surroundings, and at the age of fourteen 
 was apprenticed to Ralph Beilby, to be 
 taught engraving. At the completion of 
 his term of apprenticeship, he went to 
 London and opened a shop for himself ; 
 but city life was hateful to him and in less 
 than a year he returned to Newcastle 'to 
 accept a partnership with his old master. 
 
 His claim to the Fatherhood of the art 
 is based on his introduction of the white 
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 line method, the change from soft woods to 
 boxwood, the better effects gained by 
 engraving across the grain of the wood, 
 instead of with it, as the old engravers had 
 done, and the introduction of the practice 
 of lowering the surface of the block in 
 places where less color was desired, so that 
 less pressure would come on that part of 
 the engraving. He was associated with 
 his brother John, who formed a school of 
 wood-engravers. 
 
 Boucher, Frangois. 1703-1770. Of Paris, France. 
 
 A rioted French painter, whose special 
 
 L ability lay in the power to develop the 
 decorative possibilities of groups of merry 
 children and beautiful women. He fre- 
 quently used the human figure in the 
 nude. His plates are few and hard to 
 identify. 
 
 Bowen, Abel. 1790-1850. Of Boston, Massachusetts. 
 
 This artist was the first Boston engraver. 
 
 He worked with his uncle in the printing 
 
 business and there received his early 
 
 training as an engraver. In 1834 he 
 
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ARTISTS OF THE PAST 
 
 founded the "Boston Bewick Company" 
 and made it one of the earliest associations 
 of engravers. Among the engravings 
 emanating from this company is an early 
 map of Boston. He signed one of the 
 plates of Harvard College, 1820, which is 
 the only plate signed by him yet identified. 
 
 Burgkmair, Hans. 1473-1531. Of Angsburg, Germany. 
 An early engraver of wood, who was a 
 pupil of the famous Albrecht Diirer. He 
 is best known, in art circles, by his cele- 
 brated work the "Triumphal Procession of 
 Maximilian I." 
 
 BDrkner, Hugo. ? ? Of Berlin, Germany. 
 
 This artist has the honor of being known 
 as the reviver of the use of woodcuts as 
 illustrations for books. Little is recorded 
 of him beyond the fact that he is repre- 
 sented by many excellent plates, some of 
 which were book-plates, and that he is 
 considered one of the best engravers of his 
 day. 
 Cailend«r, Joseph. 1751-1821. Of Boston, Massachusetts. 
 
 A noted American engraver and die- 
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 sinker, who made most of the plates for 
 the second Massachusetts Mint. He was 
 considered the greatest specialist of Armor- 
 ial designs of his day. Of the book-plates 
 made by him twenty -two are signed. 
 
 Childs, Cephas G. 1793-1871. Of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
 vania. 
 
 The engraver of the well-known Henry 
 D. Gilpin plate. A set of fine views of 
 Philadelphia were also engraved by him 
 in the years 1827-1830. Four plates bear- 
 ing his signature are known to collectors. 
 
 Collin, Dominique. 1725-1781. (Sometimes spelled Colin.) 
 Of Nancy, France. 
 
 A French engraver, studying under a 
 
 goldsmith at Metz, and afterwards under 
 
 Jean Striedbeck of Strasburg. In 1752 
 
 he was made Engraver to the town of 
 
 Nancy and to His Majesty, the King of 
 
 Poland, Stanislaus, Due de Lorraine et de 
 
 Bar. He produced more than a hundred 
 
 beautiful engravings, on many of which 
 
 he signed himself graveur du feu rot 
 
 de Pologne, His son, Yves Dominique 
 
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ARTISTS OF THE PAST 
 
 Collin, also made book-plates, with a skill 
 
 and daintiness equal to his father's. He 
 
 died while yet a young man. Had he 
 
 lived out his days, he would probably have 
 
 even surpassed him. He signed his plates 
 
 F. D. Collin, fils. 
 
 Cranach, Lucas. 1515-1 586. Of Wittenberg and Weimar, 
 Germany. 
 
 This is the son of the well-known artist, 
 Lucas Cranach " the Elder." Lucas Cra- 
 nach "the Younger" was the creator of 
 the famous series of early German book- 
 plates made for Ulrick, Duke of Mecklen- 
 burgh, all Armorial and bearing the dates 
 1559, 1573, and 1579. 
 
 Daulceur, Louise de Montigny, Madame la. 17- -7- 17- -7. 
 
 Of Paris, France. 
 
 This renowned artist began her art work 
 as an apprentice pupil of the famous 
 Bouchardon and many of the book-plates 
 made by her are reproductions and varia- 
 tions of patterns in use in his well-known 
 work. She also used in the same way 
 designs made by Charles Eisen. In addi- 
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 tion to her work on ex-libris, she illustrated 
 several books of poems that were the liter- 
 ary productions of her own personal friends. 
 As an artist she had a variety of ways of 
 signing the really beautiful little plates 
 bearing her name. The signatures are 
 rather hard to remember and her plates 
 quite puzzling in their identification, until 
 a collector has once mastered the forms of 
 signature. Among the plates made by 
 her that are in the author's collection are 
 those bearing the following forms of sig- 
 nature : Louise Daul. ; Le D. ; Louise 
 LeD.j Louise Le D. sculp.; L. Daul. 
 sculp. ; Madame Le D. ; Daul. sculp. ; 
 and Louise Le Daulceur. 
 
 She made for herself two ex-libris ; one 
 designed by E. Bouchardon and the other 
 by herself. 
 
 Dawkins, Henry. Flourished 1750-1780. Of New York 
 City, New York, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
 
 He was an Englishman by birth, but 
 from long residence in New York City is 
 counted among the early American artists. 
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 One of his earliest plates is that of John 
 Burnet, of New York, signed in full and 
 dated 1754. He went to Philadelphia 
 from New York and made plates for fami- 
 lies there. There is a story to the effect 
 that he was arrested in 1776 for counter- 
 feiting and sentenced to be confined for 
 life, but petitioned to be hung instead. 
 He was finally pardoned. His favorite 
 style was Chippendale, in which he copied 
 many of the celebrated English plates for 
 his American customers. 
 
 Dearborn, Nathaniel. 1768- ?. Of Boston, Massachusetts. 
 
 He was an early Boston engraver and 
 
 an associate with Abel Bowen. Only two 
 
 plates bearing his signature are known to 
 
 collectors. 
 
 Doolittle, Amos. 1754-1832. Of New Haven,"Connecticut. 
 This artist was born in Connecticut and 
 was his own art master. He was famous 
 for an engraving of " The Battle of Lex- 
 ington," made from a drawing by an eye- 
 witness of the event. He was long thought 
 to have been the earliest American 
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 engraver but is now known to be more 
 recent than the work of both Alexander 
 Anderson and Paul Revere. The styles 
 of his plates are Allegories, and Ribbon 
 and Wreath. Eight specimens are known 
 to collectors. 
 DOrer, Aibrecht. 1471-1528. Called "Father of Book- 
 plates." Of Nuremberg, Germany. 
 
 This great German master was the son 
 of a goldsmith, who taught him all he 
 knew about engraving and then appren- 
 ticed him to the painter Michel Wolgemuth 
 for three years, after which he went to 
 Switzerland and to Italy. He worked for 
 Maximilian, who made him court painter. 
 He was the first to discover in wood-en- 
 graving a mode of artistic expression. 
 He increased the size of the cuts, gave 
 boldness to the lines, and created entirely 
 new effects from strong contrasts of black 
 and white. 
 Eisen, Charles. 1721-1778. Of Brussels, Belgium. 
 
 The work of this artist has formed the 
 basis for much work by others. Bishop 
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ARTISTS OF THE PAST 
 
 Choiseul-Beaupr^ had a charming name- 
 less plate signed Ch. Eisen invenit. The 
 Marquis de Paulmy also had a nameless 
 plate signed Eisen inv. It was to this 
 gentleman that Charles Eisen dedicated 
 the work entitled "Oeuvre Suivie Conte- 
 nant Diff^rents Sujets de Decorations et 
 d'Ornements," etc. This was illustrated 
 with so many heraldic designs, cartouches, 
 and decorative garlands that the work 
 became a "widow's cruse of oil" to the 
 engravers of the time, who freely borrowed 
 many of the designs for the ex-libris they 
 made. 
 
 Fairman, Gideon. 1774- 1 Of Philadelphia, Pennsylva- 
 nia. 
 
 A native of Connecticut, but spending 
 much of his life in Philadelphia, as a 
 member of the tirm of Messrs. Murray and 
 Draper. Only two plates bearing his sig- 
 nature are known to collectors. 
 Falthorne, William. 1616-1691. Of London, England. 
 An early English engraver, who is best 
 known as the artist who signed his name 
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 to the portrait plate of Bishop Hacket, 
 
 dated 1670. This is the second earliest 
 
 signed plate of English workmanship. 
 
 Three other plates, all anonymous, are 
 
 credited to this artirt. 
 
 Gavarni. 1801-1866. (Pseudonym of Sulpice Paul Cheva- 
 lier.) Of Paris, France. 
 
 A celebrated caricaturist, who is credited 
 with the well-known ex-libris of the authors 
 Edmond and Jules de Goncourt. The 
 design is exceedingly simple, representing 
 a part of the arm and two fingers of a left 
 hand pointing to the letters "E. J." traced 
 on a sheet of paper. This plate is inter- 
 esting because it was engraved by Jules de 
 Goncourt himself. It has become still 
 more interesting from the fact that Adam 
 Van Allen, of Albany, New York, has used 
 it as the model for his own personal plate, 
 the modernizing of the hand and cuff being 
 the only essential change. 
 
 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. 1749-1832. Of Weimar, Ger- 
 many. 
 
 The famous poet, whose history is too 
 
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 UNIVERSf 
 
 ARTISTS OF THE PAST V ^ Of 
 
 well-known to need repetition here, while 
 
 a student at Leipsic in 1767 etched the 
 
 book-plate for Kathchen SchOnkopf. He 
 
 also made a trade -mark for her father, who 
 
 was a wine merchant. 
 
 Gribelin, Simon. 1661-1733. Of London, England. 
 
 A noted Frenchman by birth, who went 
 
 to England in 1680 and spent his life 
 
 making English and American plates. 
 
 Among his plates, as charming specimens 
 
 of his style, are the plates he made for Sir 
 
 Philip Sydenham in 1699. He also made 
 
 two very interesting plates in 1720 for 
 
 Doctor Thomas Bray : one to use in the 
 
 English parochial libraries and the other 
 
 for the parochial libraries in America. 
 
 Gucht, Michael Vander. ? -1725. Of Antwerp, Belgium, 
 and London, England. 
 
 A famous artist who went to London 
 from Antwerp. He is best known as the 
 artist who made the plate of Sir William 
 Fleming, 1716, signed vander Gucht 
 Hillemaclier, Fr6d6ric. ? -1886. Of Lyons, France. 
 
 This famous artist is best known as the 
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 illustrator of Perrin's edition of Moli^re. 
 His best examples of ex-libris are the plates 
 of Georges Champion, Eugene Piot, and 
 one made by him for his personal use. 
 Hogarth, William.* 1697-1764. Of London, England. 
 
 At least four book-plates designed and 
 executed by this great master are in the 
 possession of collectors ; also many busi- 
 ness cards and cards of coats of arms. 
 Hogarth's own plate by himself is familiar 
 to most lovers of book-plates from the fact 
 of its having been used as a model for 
 plates of more recent creation. The late 
 Walter Hamilton copied it with slight 
 variations for his own personal plate, adding 
 the motto : " Old friends, old books, old 
 wines." It was also copied by H. Hugh 
 Riach and by John Piggott, the last named 
 gentleman substituting his own crest and 
 arms for the centerpiece of the Hogarth 
 plate. 
 
 Other plates long thought to have been 
 
 * Ex Libris Journal, v. 3, p. 1. 
 Gentleman's Magazine, v. 98, Ft. 2, p. 198. 
 
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ABTISTS OF THE PAST 
 
 made by Hogarth and signed with his ini- 
 tials are now by some authorities believed 
 to have been made by William Hibbart, of 
 Bath, England, who flourished in 1750, 
 but Henry Fincham could find no facts 
 sufficient to prove this. He says : " The 
 artist to whom I ascribe the plates signed 
 W. H. is William Henshaw." 
 
 Holbein, Hans. 1497-1543. Of London, England. 
 
 The great German portrait painter. He 
 was famous as an artist because he was so 
 universal as an interpreter. He was neither 
 German, nor Italian, nor French nor Eng- 
 lish in his art school, but all combined. 
 He made the original drawings for the 
 "Dance of Death." 
 
 Hurd, Nathaniel. 1730-1777. Of Boston, Massachusetts. 
 This engraver was not only the first but 
 the best early American artist. He was 
 the son of a goldsmith and when quite a 
 boy he was apprenticed to him, attending 
 to the orders for copper engraving as his 
 share of the work. The plate made by 
 him for Edward Augustus Holyoke, the 
 75 
 
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 famous centenarian physician of Boston, 
 is probably among his earliest plates, made 
 when he was still in his teens. For the 
 Thomas Deering plate which he signed N, 
 H. and dated 1749 he uses this same 
 design, but it shows the improvement in 
 its main features resulting from " doing it 
 another time and doing it better." Both 
 plates were probably copied from some 
 English Chippendales, as the plates of 
 Theodore Atkinson, Robert Hale of Bev- 
 erly, and the Went worth plate all show 
 unmistakable signs of having been created 
 with increasing skilfulness from the same 
 general model. 
 
 All of his early plates followed this 
 Chippendale style, which at the time was 
 just being displaced in England by the 
 Ribbon and Wreath. Later in his career 
 he made some Jacobean plates that show 
 his skill at its best. For thirty years he 
 was the best engraver of seals and dies in 
 America and made book-plates for many 
 well-known colonial families, as well as 
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AKTISTS OF THE PAST 
 
 for such early institutions as Harvard, Col- 
 umbia, Dartmouth, and others. 
 
 Jungwierth, Franz Xaver. 1720-1790. Of Manioh, Ger- 
 many. 
 
 A German engraver, best known by the 
 
 plates of the Polling monastery. 
 
 Le Clerc, S€ba$tien. 16--7-17--? Of Metz, Germany, and 
 Paris, France. 
 
 A famous engraver. Two well-known 
 plates signed by him bear the dates 1655- 
 1660. He was the first engraver to depart 
 from the formal but correct Heraldic form, 
 in order to introduce the oval shield of 
 Italian artists, which finally developed into 
 the Louis XIV style. In 1701 he signed 
 S. Le Clerc invenit to the plate of Mat- 
 thaeus Franciscus Geoffroy, which design 
 was afterwards appropriated by P. Picaut, 
 ( sometimes spelled Picault ) for Veronneau 
 of Blois. 
 Le Keux, John Henry. 1812-1896. Of Dnrham, England* 
 
 A native Frenchman of Huguenot 
 descent, who worked all his life in Eng- 
 land and is therefore claimed by both 
 
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 countries. His work is of a pronounced 
 French type in its execution. His best 
 work as an artist was in connection with 
 the engravings illustrating the works of 
 Pugin, Wright, and Ruskin. Only four 
 plates have been identified as his work. 
 
 Marshall, William. Worked between 1541 and 1646. Of 
 London, England. 
 
 An English engraver, best known as a 
 portrait painter. The Littleton plate, 
 about 1640, is the only plate known to 
 collectors, but is a rare example, as it is 
 the earliest signature yet found on an 
 English plate. 
 Maverick, Peter Rushton. 1755-1807. Of New York City, 
 
 New York. 
 
 An Englishman by birth, but coming to 
 America at the age of twenty is classed as 
 an American artist. He was the son of a 
 silversmith and had been apprenticed to 
 his father to learn the engraving trade. 
 He was one of the most industrious and 
 prolific engravers of all those who have 
 worked on American plates. The abun- 
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 dant and rapid work is explained by the 
 fact that he used the same features over 
 and over again, copying many of his best 
 designs until they reached a point where 
 they ceased to improve, when they lost his 
 interest and a new design was created. 
 Nearly one hundred plates signed by this 
 artist are known. 
 
 His son was also an engraver, but chiefly 
 of bank-notes, rather than book-plates. 
 Mountaine, R. ?- 1 Of Winchester, England. 
 
 An early English engraver, of whom 
 little is known beyond the fact that he was 
 a prolific engraver of book-plates about 
 1750, and has left some beautiful examples 
 of this work to which he signed his initials 
 or his name, among which is one made for 
 himself, and signed B. M. These signa- 
 tures were usually so curiously hidden by 
 the decoration of the escutcheon as to be 
 quite puzzling to decipher. About seventy 
 plates made by him have been identified, 
 all bearing dates within the years 1750- 
 1760. 
 
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 Petrarca, Josef. ?- ? Of Milan, Italy. 
 
 Best known as the engraver of the very- 
 large ex-libris of Count Breiner, about 
 1700. The size of this plate is 9| by 
 13 J inches and when a book was too 
 small to use it in its present form it was 
 reduced by cutting down the outer frame- 
 work. 
 
 Revere, Paul. 1735-1818. Of Boston, Massachusetts. 
 
 The second native American engraver. 
 He also was an apprentice in early life to 
 a goldsmith, where he learned to engrave 
 on copper. His chief work as an artist was 
 to design, engrave, and print the paper 
 money of the Commonwealth of Massa- 
 chusetts (1775). He not only did this 
 work, but also, like other pioneers in new 
 lines, made with his own hands the tools 
 with which he worked, even to the primi- 
 tive press on which the designs were 
 printed. He is best known as an Ameri- 
 can patriot, the hero of Longfellow's poem. 
 Collectors greatly prize the book-plates 
 designed and engraved by him. Only 
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 four have been identified. 
 Rollinson, Wiliiam. 1760-18--1 Of New York City, New 
 York. 
 
 He was an expert button maker and 
 learned to do engraving by his apprentice 
 work in fashioning brass buttons. It is 
 said that the buttons that adorned the 
 inaugural coat of President Washington 
 were of his ornamentation. He was also a 
 painter of portraits and invented a machine 
 for making the irregular lines used in bank- 
 note paper. He is known to have been 
 still at work in 1834. Only an even dozen 
 of plates signed by him are known to col- 
 lectors. 
 Roy, Claude. 1712-1792. Of Paris, France. 
 
 His early work was as an engraver of 
 portraits. During middle life he lost his 
 eyesight through overwork, but it was 
 finally restored to him in his later life. 
 His work included many very beautiful 
 ex-libris, greatly prized by collectors. 
 One of the most charming plates by this 
 artist in the author's collection is a nameless 
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 plate, bearing the arms of Henri-Anne de 
 Fuligny Damas, Comte de Rocheouart, 
 etc., and those of his wife, Marie Gabrielle 
 de Pons. As Comte de Rocheouart died in 
 1745, the plate must have been made 
 before that time. It is a Musical plate and 
 is signed CI. Roy D. et Sc. 
 
 Scotin, Gerard. 1643-1715. Of Paris, France. 
 
 An early French artist, working largely 
 with Armorial plates. Only a few exam- 
 ples are known to collectors and these are 
 very rare. 
 
 Skinner, J. ?- ? Of Bath, England. 
 
 Early English engraver. Had various 
 signatures for the plates he made, such as 
 J. ; S. ; J. S. Bath. ; J. Skinner Bath. ; 
 J. Skin "". Bath. ; but his plates, all in the 
 Chippendale style, are so similar in execu- 
 tion as to be in the nature of a signature 
 themselves. Thirty-one signed plates are 
 known to collectors. 
 
 Soils, Virgil. 1514-1 562. Of Nuremberg, Germany. 
 
 A very productive designer, whose work 
 is best known in connection with the 
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 illustration of books. 
 
 Sparrow, T. Flourished from 1750-1780. Of Annapolis, 
 Maryland. 
 
 An obscure engraver on wood. His sig- 
 nature was T. Sparrow and is found on 
 only three plates known to collectors. 
 
 Steinberger, Leonhard Michael. ?- ? Of Augsburg, Ger- 
 many. 
 
 Famous German engraver of Allegorical 
 plates. Best known plate is one made 
 about 1760, representing a sermon being 
 delivered in the churchyard of the Evan- 
 gelical College of Augsburg. 
 Turner, James. Worked as early as 1715 and was in Phila- 
 delphia in 1 730. Of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
 
 An early American engraver who began 
 his work in Boston and moved to Philadel- 
 phia in 1730, where most of his best work 
 was accomplished. Little is known of him 
 beyond the four plates bearing his signa- 
 ture. 
 Vertue, George. 1684-1756. Of London, England. 
 
 A noted English engraver, who learned 
 the art from Michael Vander Gucht. In 
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 1717 he was appointed Engraver to the 
 Society of Antiquaries. Horace Walpole 
 in his "Catalogue of Engravers" describes 
 Vertue's plate for the Countess of Oxford 
 and Mortimer. Six plates signed by this 
 artist are known to collectors. He is con- 
 sidered one of the most important of the 
 engravers of the eighteenth century. 
 White, J^obert. 1 645 - 1 704. Of London, England. 
 
 An early English engraver of book- 
 plates. He was a pupil of David Loggar. 
 His work is best known by two plates 
 made for Samuel Pepys, signed and dated 
 1690. 
 
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CHAPTER IV 
 
 SOME MODERN ARTISTS WHO MAKE BOOK-PLATES 
 
 "How shall I honour the books that are mine, — 
 
 That are dear to me as faithful friends, 
 Waiting my will through storm and shine. 
 
 And ever ready to serve my ends ? 
 Bring me a label of rare design, 
 
 Wrought with care by a master's hand, — 
 Grace and skill in its everj^ line, 
 
 Daintily fashioned, deftly planned." 
 
 Constance Jelf-Sharp. 
 
 It is a much more difficult task to lay before 
 the reader a helpful practical list of the modern 
 artists who make the book-plates of the present 
 time than to record the illustrious names of the 
 past. The artists who make book-plates to-day 
 are legion. Almost every graduate of a well- 
 known art school, has, in the course of instruc- 
 tion, tried the field of ex-libris. Many of these 
 plates are too poor in drawing and too fantastic 
 in design to prophesy for their creators either 
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 a long or brilliant career in this department of 
 art. 
 
 The personality of the individual finds 
 itself expressed more acceptably through the 
 work of one artist than through that of another 
 artist, whose work though of equal value from 
 an artistic standpoint is not so well adapted to 
 the style of design desired. 
 
 To express approval even of only the really 
 good artists would be to prepare a book, not a 
 chapter. The true lover of art can be quite 
 catholic in the appreciation of the fine points to 
 be found in all high grade work. To give voice 
 to one's enjoyment in the work of one artist 
 should never be interpreted as an inability to 
 understand and respond to the charm of the 
 works of other contemporaries. The author 
 has therefore endeavored simply to provide such 
 material as will enable collectors to answer the 
 oft repeated question of their friends, "Who 
 shall make my book-plate?" Such a commis- 
 sion can safely be entrusted to any of the 
 individuals named in the following list, as well 
 as to many not here recorded for lack of space. 
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 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF MODERN ARTISTS 
 
 WHO MAKE BOOK-PLATES 
 
 A SELECTION 
 
 References for the lists of plates are as indicated : 
 
 B — Boston, Musenm of Fine Arts. " Catalogue of a 
 Loan Exhibit of Book-plates." 1898. 
 
 E — Ex Libris Journal. 1891-date. 
 
 F — Fincham. "Artists and Engravers of British 
 and American Book-plates." 1897. 
 
 H — Hamilton. " French Book-plates." 1896. 
 
 L — Leiningen-Westerburg. " German Book-plates." 
 1901. 
 
 S — Stone. " Book-plates of To-day." 1902. 
 Abbey, Edwin Austin. Morgan Hall, Fairford, Gloucester- 
 shire, England. 
 
 A celebrated artist, an American by birth, 
 although making his home much of the 
 time in England. His best known book- 
 plate is the one made by him for James 
 Brander Matthews. See B., p. 87; F., p. 1. 
 
 Andr€, Henry. 3 Faubourg, Saint Jacques, Paris, France. 
 
 See B., p. 34 ; H., p. 303. 
 
 Avrii, Paul. Paris, France. 
 
 Both designer and etcher. See B., p. 
 34 ; H., p. 304. 
 BarlSsius, Georg. Charlottenburg, near Berlin, Germany. 
 
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 See L., p. 385 and p. 406. 
 
 Barrett, William Phillips. 350 Oxford Street, London, W., 
 England. 
 
 Like many of the artists of the past this 
 gentleman began at the tender age of seven 
 years to draw and paint pictures. Having 
 passed through the schools of South Ken- 
 sington, he entered, in 1871, the employ 
 of Messrs. J. and E. Bumpus, of London, 
 as the designer of book-covers. His first 
 work in the field of ex-libris was a plate 
 made for Lady Gerard in 1896. His style 
 is well-defined and consistent throughout. 
 He avoids all designs that in any way per- 
 tain to the Impressionist School, and looks 
 with distinct disfavor on the admission into 
 the department of book-plates of effects 
 that are grotesque or crude. See E., v. 8, 
 p. 81-82. 
 
 Bell, Robert Anning. Hogarth Club, Dover Street, London, 
 England. 
 
 No one can wander far in the paths of 
 art history without noticing how often 
 architecture has formed the basis for 
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MODEBN ABTISTS 
 
 decorative work of all kinds. Mr. Bell is 
 another of the artists who began life as an 
 architect, and after the early years of 
 training gave up planning buildings and 
 took up the work of making pictures. He 
 studied in Paris under the celebrated 
 Aim^e Morot and later in the Schools of 
 the Royal Academy. His time has been 
 much occupied with the work of a painter, a 
 sculptor, an illustrator of books, and a 
 designer ; yet with it all he has found the 
 opportunity to make many choice book- 
 plates. At present he is the Director of 
 the Art School of Liverpool University. 
 See B., p. 61 and p. 96 ; R, p. 8-9 ; S., p. 
 47-48. 
 
 Bouvenne, AgiaOs. 24 rne Cormeille, Levallois-Perret, Paris, 
 France. 
 
 A celebrated French artist who has 
 three claims to attention : as an author of 
 art literature, as a general etcher, and as a 
 maker of some of the most exquisite book- 
 plates to be found among the productions 
 of any country. To collectors he is per- 
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 haps best known by the plates made by 
 him for Victor Hugo, Alexis Martin, Octave 
 Uzanne, Th^ophile Gautier, Champfleury, 
 and the Rebus plate for the Comtesse Noe. 
 SeeB., p. 34-35; H., p. 307. 
 
 Braqutmond, Felix. Paris, France. 
 
 A designer and an etcher. See B., p. 
 35 ; H., p. 307. 
 
 Brown, Frank Chouteau. 9 Park Street, Ticknor House, 
 Boston, Massachusetts. 
 
 This artist was first interested in the 
 subject of book-plates by receiving from 
 Samuel Davis an order to make a plate for 
 the books in his library. Mr. Brown is an 
 architect artist and was trained to his pro- 
 fession in the School of Fine Arts in Min- 
 neapolis, having been a pupil of Robert 
 Koehler, and later he studied in the Boston 
 Art Club with Ernest Major. The keynote 
 of his work in this field is found in his 
 belief that every book-plate should reflect 
 the personality of its owner, rather than 
 the character of the book into which it is 
 to be pasted. As every individual meets 
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 ExLibris HELEN 
 C8L GEO. BEACH. 
 
MODEEN ABTISTS 
 
 life at a different angle, the working out of 
 his theory has produced a collection of 
 plates conspicuous for their variety and 
 interest. See B., p. 88 ; F., p. 12. 
 Cameron, D. Y. Glasgow, Scotland. 
 
 One of the members of a little group of 
 artists known as the "Glasgow School of 
 Designers." Most of his plates are etch- 
 ings of the most charming and dainty 
 character. See F., p. 15-16 ; S., p. 48-49. 
 
 Castle, Agnes. 49 Sloan Gardens, London, S. W., England. 
 The wife and literary partner of Egerton 
 Castle. Among her best plates are the 
 two forms of the excellent Library Interior 
 made for her husband, a Pictorial design 
 made for Walter Herries Pollock, and the 
 attractive child's plate made for her little 
 daughter, Marie Louise Egerton Castle. 
 See B., p. 72 ; P., p. 16. 
 Chambers, Jay. New York City, New York. 
 
 See Stone, " Jay Chambers : his Book- 
 plates." p. 1-2. 
 Clark, Arthur Wellington. Lawrence, Kansas. 
 
 The Health Officer of Lawrence, Kansas. 
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 He has designed fifty-six book-plates. 
 These have been for his friends and for 
 himself. He is very original and strong 
 in his work, and is kind and courteous in 
 arranging exchanges with other collectors. 
 One of his best plates is a Rebus design 
 made for Helen and George Beach. See 
 E., V. 11, p. 74-75. 
 Clute, Beulah Mitchell. Park Eidge, Illinois. 
 
 One of the foremost women designers in 
 this country. She has made a number of 
 plates in which the drawing is correct in 
 form and the thought well carried out. 
 Her child's plate for Marjory and Percival 
 Mitchell has attracted much notice and 
 brought forth many expressions of appre- 
 ciation. In it she has carried out, not her 
 own idea of the child, but the child's 
 thought of itself, which is the essential 
 point. In this plate we find not only the 
 "cow that jumped over the moon" and 
 "Goosey, Goosey Gander," but dear old 
 Mother Goose herself touching with her 
 magic wand the imaginations of two little 
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 tots curled up on the floor amid their toys, 
 busy with an open book. 
 
 One notices a change in the manner of 
 signing the plates of recent creation, which 
 she explains by saying that she and her 
 husband are working together now, and 
 that the device used in signing is a combi- 
 nation of the initials of both. 
 Craig, Gordon. London, England. 
 
 Mr. Craig is too well-known to collectors 
 to need much introduction. As the genius 
 of the "Page" he has laid us all under 
 obligations to him. He is also familiar to 
 lovers of book-plates from the many speci- 
 mens from his studio. The best known is 
 the plate he made for Ellen Terry. See 
 S., p. 49. 
 
 Crane, Walter. 13 Holland Street, Kensington, W., Lon- 
 don, England. 
 
 Many claims may be made for including 
 
 this artist in our list. He is an illustrious 
 
 painter, both in oil and water-color, a 
 
 designer whose drawings are greatly prized, 
 
 an illustrator of books, an art writer, and 
 
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 one of our best book-plate artists. See B., 
 
 p. 68 ; F., p. 21. 
 Dachenhausen, Augustus Albert Frederick George Alexander, 
 Baron von. Munich, Germany. 
 
 A German soldier of much renown and 
 from a famous family of soldiers. His 
 father was a Major in the Hanoverian army 
 and Governor of the town of Nienburg. 
 Baron Dachenhausen left the army invalided 
 in 1876, and since that time has devoted his 
 energies to art. See B., p. 21 ; E., v. 11, 
 p. 108 ; L., p. 380. 
 
 Doepler, E. 2 DOrnbergstrasse, Berlin, Germany. 
 
 See B., p. 18-19 ; L., p. 364-366. 
 Edwards, George Wharton. Plainfield, New Jersey. 
 
 An American artist and creator of many 
 book-plates. Mr. Edwards is a specialist 
 in the field of book illustration and orna- 
 mentation. A fine specimen of his work 
 is to be found in Spenser's " Epithalamion.'* 
 See B., p. 89-90 ; F., p. 26 ; S., p. 51. 
 Eno, Henry C. Sangatnok, Connecticut. 
 See B., p. 90. 
 
 Erler, Fritz. Munich, Germany. 
 
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 S^iJfOriJiji 
 
MODERN ARTISTS 
 
 Both a designer and an etcher and a 
 contributor to the " Jugend." See L., p. 
 393 ; S., p. 51. 
 
 Evi, Gaorge W. 573 Chiswick, High Road, London, England. 
 One of the celebrated modern engravers, 
 whose work it is a privilege to own. Best 
 known as the creator of the book-plates for 
 the library of Windsor Castle. See B., p. 
 72 ; F., p. 28. 
 
 Fisher, William Edgar. Fargo, North Dakota. 
 
 An artist who has more than the usual 
 ability to produce original and dainty 
 plates. Of the seventy designs bearing 
 his signature, one tries in vain to find one 
 more charming or more appropriate than 
 another. See S., p. 51-52. 
 
 Foster, W. H. 6 Holyrood Place, Plymouth, England. 
 
 See B., p. 77 ; F., p. 30-31. 
 French, Edwin Davis. Saranac Lake, New York. 
 
 Prevented by ill health from continuing 
 
 his college course at Brown University, 
 
 Mr. French was induced by a manufacturer 
 
 in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, to take 
 
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 up the profession of engraving on silver- 
 ware. In 1876 he went to New York City 
 as the head of the engraving department 
 of this same firm. 
 
 In order to secure the required art 
 training, he attended the Art Students' 
 League of New York and eventually 
 became its President. He was directly 
 connected also with the founding of the 
 American Fine Arts Society. 
 
 In 1893 Miss Brainerd (now Mrs. Lay, 
 of Chicago), who is Mr. French's sister- 
 in-law, and whose energy and ability are 
 recognized by collectors through her 
 connection with the book-plate collection 
 of Columbia University, persuaded Mr. 
 French to engrave her a personal book- 
 plate. This was the first time he had 
 given the subject of book-plates any serious 
 thought. The pleasure it gave him to 
 make this plate induced him to make plates 
 for himself and his wife. A set of these 
 family plates were shown at the Exhibi- 
 tion of the Architectural League of New 
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 York, held in January of 1894, and excited 
 much interest in ex-libris circles. It 
 brought Mr. French his first order (out- 
 side his family circle), namely, the com- 
 mission to make a plate for Beverly Chew. 
 Since then he has been constantly at 
 work engraving book-plates. He usually 
 designs the plates he engraves, but in a 
 few instances he has engraved the designs 
 that were brought him from other artists. 
 His plates number two hundred and twen- 
 ty-five, a very large number, when one 
 remembers the careful painstaking work 
 upon them, and the short period of time in 
 which he has devoted himself to this branch 
 of art. Collectors vie with each other in 
 showing their appreciation of his work. 
 SeeS., p. 52-56. 
 
 Garrett, Edmund H. Studio Building, Boston, Massachusetts. 
 Mr. Garrett received his training in the 
 Academic Julian, Paris, and has also sat at 
 the feet of such men as Jean Paul Lau- 
 rens, Boulanger, and Lefebvre. He is the 
 author of several books, among which are 
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 the "Elizabethan Songs"; "Three Her- 
 oines of New England Romance"; and 
 "Romance and Reality of the Puritan 
 Coast." 
 
 As no list including any of his more 
 recent book-plates is in print, the following 
 tabulation is given by his kind permission. 
 
 LIST OF PLATES MADE BY EDMUND H. GARRETT 
 
 PREPARED BY THE AUTHOR : REVISED 
 
 AND AUTHORIZED BY THE 
 
 ARTIST 
 
 1893 
 
 1 Charles Dexter Allen 
 
 W. H. W. Bicknell. so. 
 
 2 Paul Lemperley 
 
 3 Francis Wilson 
 
 W. H. W. Bicknell. so. 
 i Small Monogram plate for same. 
 1894 
 
 5 Edmund H. Garrett 
 
 Large. 
 
 6 Small ; another design. 
 
 7 Small ; another design. 
 
 8 M. Westall Pettee 
 
 9 Joseph Huntress Wheeler 
 
 1895 
 10 Hiram Edmond Deats 
 
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MODERN ARTISTS 
 
 11 Frederick W. French 
 
 12 University Club of Boston 
 
 13 Florence Sylvia Wheeler 
 
 1896 
 
 14 Alfred Gooding 
 
 15 Edwin Ruthven Lamson 
 
 E. D. French, sc. 
 
 16 Frank Gair Macomber 
 
 17 Mary E. Norcross 
 
 18 Eliza Atkins Stone 
 
 1897 
 
 19 William M. Conant, M. D. 
 
 20 Henry A. Sherwin 
 
 21 Joseph Huntress Wheeler 
 
 His old plate altered. 
 
 22 C. Williams, Jr. 
 
 1898 
 
 23 Frank Lysart Dunne 
 
 24 De Witt Miller 
 
 25 John Sewall Alcott Pratt 
 
 1899 
 
 26 William Phillips, Jr. 
 
 27 J. Otis Wardwell 
 
 1900 
 
 28 John W. Farlow, M. D. 
 
 29 John Fiske 
 
 30 Harvard University 
 
 I Riant Collection. 
 81 II Thompson Collection. 
 
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 Two forms of the same plate. 
 
 32 Arthur Curtis Judd 
 
 33 Weston Public Library 
 
 ( Mass. ) Two forms of this plate ; one an 
 etching, the other a photolithograph. 
 
 1901 
 
 34 Bowdoin College 
 
 35 Elizabeth Cheney 
 
 36 Josiah Stearns Cushing 
 
 37 Leslie E. Kily 
 
 38 George M. Thornton 
 
 1902 
 
 39 Edwin Scott Barbour 
 Edith Henry Barbour 
 
 This is one plate. 
 
 40 Belmont Public Library 
 
 ( Mass.) Two forms of this plate ; one an 
 etching, the other a photolithograph. 
 
 41 Elizabeth S. Cheney 
 
 42 Derby Public Library 
 
 ( Conn.) , Two forms of this plate ; one an 
 etching, the other a photolithograph. Five 
 small donor labels for same : 
 
 1 George C. Allis 
 
 2 Dr. Charles T. Baldwin 
 
 3 John W. Peck 
 
 4 Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter D. A. R. 
 
 5 Reading Circle Library, East Derby. 
 
 43 Lowell Public Library 
 
 City seal and border. 
 
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 1903 
 
 44 0. C. Olapp 
 
 45 Dalton 
 
 Family plate. 
 
 46 Thomas W. Lawson 
 
 I Charlesgate Library 
 
 47 II Dreamwold Library 
 Goodhue, Bertram G. Boston, Massachusetts. 
 
 Another artist who is also an architect. 
 He has made two fine plates for Harvard 
 University, that will long keep him in 
 mind by those needing his services. See 
 S., p. 50. 
 Greenaway, Kate. London, England. 
 
 Called the "Children's artist" because 
 of her happy creations of pictured children. 
 As one might expect, she has selected for 
 her share in the work on ex-libris the plates 
 for children. See F., p. 36. 
 Greene, Edith Anne. Bristol, England. 
 
 An English artist, many of whose plates 
 have been made for women. See B., p. 
 74 ; F., p. 37. 
 Greiner, Otto. (Now in Rome.) 
 See L., p. 426. 
 
 101 
 
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 Hackley, M. F. Rowayton, Fairfield Connty, Gonnectiont. 
 Hadlow, F. V. 9 Prince Albert Street, Brighton, England. 
 
 An engraver and die-sinker. See B., p. 
 64 ; F., p. 39. 
 
 Halkett, G. R. Edinburgh, Scotland. 
 
 See F., p. 39. 
 
 Harrison, Thomas Erat. 3 Bath Road, Bedford Park, Chis- 
 wick, London, England. 
 
 The artist of the two familiar plates 
 made, the one for W. E. Gladstone, and 
 the othhT for Sir Edgar Boehm. Mr. 
 Harrison was educated at the University 
 College School and at the University of 
 London. He studied art in the Carey Art 
 School and in Paris under J. G6r5me ; 
 returning to London he worked with W. 
 B. Richmond and later at the Royal Acad- 
 emy. His work in this field began in 
 1885, since which time he has been con- 
 stantly at work, adding to his list of beau- 
 tiful book-plates. See B., p. 66 ; E., v. 2, 
 p. 74 ; F., p. 40-41. 
 Hildebrandt, Adolf M. 3 Schillstrasse, Berlin, Germany. 
 
 See L., p. 363-364. 
 102 
 
MODERN ARTISTS 
 
 Hirzei, Hermann R. C. Charlottenburg, near Berlin, Ger- 
 many. 
 
 The work of this artist is the exponent 
 
 of the modern Swiss book-plate art. He 
 
 has made one hundred and fifteen plates 
 
 of charming creation. He sits in the 
 
 School of Nature and copies his designs 
 
 from the pictures laid out for him in the 
 
 romantic landscape about him. His plates 
 
 are fragrant 'with Swiss flowers, and 
 
 inspired by the folklore of the Swiss people. 
 
 See L., p. 407-408 ; also '* Ex-libris von 
 
 Hermann R. C. Hirzei." Berlin. Fisher 
 
 and Franke, 1902. 
 
 Hollyer, Samuel. New York City, New York. 
 
 Mr. Hollyer is one of the adopted citi- 
 zens of the United States, having been 
 born an Englishman. From 1868 to the 
 present time he has been busy as an 
 engraver of portraits, historical scenes, and 
 purely decorative pictures. 
 
 On account of the fact that much of his 
 work in the field of ex-libris has been the 
 retouching and reengraving of old plates, 
 103 
 
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 he has earned among collectors the playful 
 title of "Doctor." His Mary Anderson 
 plate, a most charming bit of engraving, 
 in which we see a reproduction of her 
 home, and the plate made by him for John 
 V. L. Pruyn, are fair representatives of 
 his style. See B., p. 96 ; F., p. 44. 
 
 Hopson, William F. 730 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, 
 Connecticut. 
 
 This artist is the well-known illustrator 
 of many familiar books. The twenty-five 
 hundred picture cuts in the last edition 
 of Webster's. Dictionary were made by 
 his skilful hands. He also illustrated the 
 fine edition of Professor Marsh's work on 
 extinct animals, requiring the faithful 
 portraits of many creatures unfamiliar to 
 the modern eye. He was the founder and 
 has been the President of the New Haven 
 Sketch Club, and is a member of many 
 other artistic and social clubs. While Mr. 
 Hopson has been an engraver practically 
 all of his life, it was not until 1892 that he 
 became employed in the creation of book- 
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 plates. 
 
 His plates are very beautiful and no two 
 of them are sufficiently alike to suggest 
 the other. We add here the complete list 
 of his plates <to date, feeling sure it will be 
 of use to collectors, since no recent list is 
 in print. Mr. Hopson has kindly revised 
 the author's manuscript of tjiis list and has 
 authorized its publication. 
 
 LIST OF PLATES MADE BY WILLIAM F. HOPSON 
 
 PREPARED BY THE AUTHOR : REVISED 
 
 AND AUTHORIZED BY THE 
 
 ARTIST 
 
 1892 
 
 1 W. F. Hopson 
 
 1893 
 
 2 W. F. Hopson 
 
 3 New Haven Public Library 
 
 4 George Dudley Seymour 
 
 1894 
 
 5 Adam 
 
 Soft ground etching. Made in imitation 
 of a French publication, which issued 
 Imaginary book-plates of literary men and 
 others ; the publisher was Monsieur Joly. 
 
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 He was so well pleased with the plate that 
 he wished to purchase it, but instead he was 
 made a present of it. 
 
 6 Ex Libris Society Monogram 
 
 C. W. S. del. (After C. W. Sherborn.) 
 Only a few printed. This was an experi- 
 ment, a half-tone plate, made in reverse, so 
 as to print as a copperplate. Only a few 
 trial prints were taken. 
 
 7 George Dudley Seymour 
 
 1895 
 
 8 Frederick J. Libbie 
 
 9 John Howard Payne 
 
 An Imaginary plate, made for a New York 
 publisher. 
 
 10 May Peabody 
 
 11 Josephine E. S. Porter 
 
 12 Gustave R. Sattig 
 
 13 E. G. Stoddard 
 
 14 Margaret Van Zandt 
 
 1896 
 
 15 Frederick Graham and Annie E. Aylward 
 
 I Wood-engraving, literary. 
 W. E. Home. del. 1893. 
 II Remarque plate. 
 
 16 Blackstone Public Library, Branford. 
 
 17 W.F.'Hopson 
 
 The Graphic Arts. 
 
 18 Stewart Means 
 
 19 Maria M. Sterling 
 
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6i3 (rLi>C ^^ffo P(dj^jpyi 
 
MODERN ARTISTS 
 
 1897 
 
 20 Adrian Hoffman Joline 
 
 21 C. S. Mersick 
 
 22 Augustus J. Phillips 
 
 23 John S. Wood 
 
 1898 
 
 24 J. J. H. 
 
 25 Ada M. Hopson 
 
 26 Alexander Wolfgang Mack 
 
 27 Rachel Norton 
 
 28 Frederick Wells Williams 
 
 1899 
 
 29 Joannis M. Berdan 
 
 30 Joseph B. Ensign 
 
 1900 
 
 31 Charles Dexter Allen 
 
 32 N. J. D. 
 
 33 New Haven Colony Historical Society 
 
 Unfinished. 
 
 34 William Lyon Phelps 
 
 1901 
 
 35 George William Beatty 
 
 36 Robert M. Chamberlain 
 
 Died in college ; his mother had the plate 
 made as a memorial. 
 
 37 Connecticut State Library 
 
 38 Charles H. Ferry 
 
 This plate describes the owner's most con- 
 genial pursuits, reading and fishing. The 
 
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 view is from a photograph taken by him 
 when on a fishing trip down the North Fork 
 of the Flambeau River in Wisconsin. The 
 family crest is shown in the fleurs-de-lis 
 with the motto " Garde ta foy." 
 
 39 C. M W. 
 
 Monogram. C. M. Waites. 
 
 40 Henry Wheelen, Jr 
 
 41 Yale University 
 
 1902 
 
 42 Frederick Graham Aylward 
 
 Wood-engraving. Same as No. 15, with 
 wife's name taken out. Mr. Aylward never 
 saw it, as he died before it was finished. 
 
 43 Melissa A. Carter 
 
 44 Frank Addison Corbin 
 
 45 Alice Morgan Crocker 
 
 46 Anna L. Curtis 
 
 47 Charles J. Hoadley and George E. Hoadley 
 
 48 Colin M. Ingersoll, Jr. 
 
 49 Middlesex County Historical Society 
 
 50 Frederick W. Skiff 
 
 51 Caroline M. Smith 
 
 Joline Smith, del. Remarque plate. 
 62 Louis N. Wilson 
 
 53 Joseph Gurley Woodward 
 
 1903 
 
 54 Arthur W. and Emma L. T. Cole 
 
 55 J. Herbert Johnston 
 
 56 Eli Whitney 
 
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MODEEN ARTISTS 
 
 Johnston, Graham. London, England. 
 
 One of the younger men in the group 
 of heraldic designers and by birth a Scotch- 
 man. He began his work in the engrav- 
 ing and lithographing firm of Messrs. 
 Scott and Fergueson and while there, was 
 employed in the Lyon Office,, emblazoning 
 the different Patents of Arms, which is the 
 field of his present work. As Painter at 
 the Lyon Office, most of his plates are those 
 made for Scotchmen whose arms happen 
 to be matriculated at the Lyon Office. 
 See E., V. 12, p. 90. 
 
 Klinger. Max. Leipsic, Germany. 
 
 See L., p. 422. 
 
 Leighton, John. London, England. 
 
 See B., p. 62 ; F., p. 56. 
 
 Levetus, Celia. Birmingham, England. 
 
 By birth this artist is a Canadian, but 
 by residence she is an Englishwoman and 
 a student of the Kensington Art School. 
 She is best known as a book and periodical 
 illustrator, but she has also made some fine 
 plates. See E., v. 7, p. 112 ; F., p. 57. 
 109 
 
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 LltUr, Hamal. Basil Grange, West Derby, Liverpool, Eng- 
 land. 
 
 An Englishwoman of marked ability. 
 She was the subject of a sketch in Ex 
 Libris Journal of May, 1895, when her 
 career in the ex-libris field was just open- 
 ing. Since then she has made a number 
 of plates, representing work so carefully 
 and artistically done as to attract much 
 attention. Her special style is the Sym- 
 bolical Pictorial. One plate of special 
 attractiveness is a Musical design made for 
 Edgar Graeme Lister. Leaning on a pile 
 of books are the violin and mandolin, well 
 to the foreground of the plate. The family 
 crest, the college badge, and the yachts- 
 man's anchor complete the picture. Around 
 the frame of the plate is the motto : " Old 
 wood to bum : old times to think : old 
 books to read : old friends to trust." 
 
 Miss Lister has kindly permitted the list 
 of her plates to be given now for the first 
 time to collectors. 
 
 110 
 
MODERN ARTISTS 
 
 LIST OF PLATES MADE BY MISS HAMEL LISTER 
 
 PREPARED BY THE AUTHOR : REVISED 
 
 AND AUTHORIZED BY THE 
 
 ARTIST 
 
 1893 
 
 1 J. C. Powell 
 
 1894 
 
 2 Henry Scott Boys 
 
 3 Another size. 
 
 4 Mary Annette Hamel 
 
 5 Another size. 
 
 6 Edgar Graeme Lister 
 
 7 Another size. 
 
 1895 
 
 8 Septimus Castle 
 
 9 Another size. 
 
 10 Venetia Helen Cooper 
 
 11 Ernest George Hill 
 
 12 Another size. 
 
 1896 
 
 13 Daisy Calder 
 
 14 Another size. 
 
 15 Thomas Duff Gordon Duff 
 
 16 Another size. 
 
 17 Arthur Ernest Evans 
 
 1897 
 
 18 Arthur Henry Caldicott 
 
 19 Lucy Silcox 
 
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 1898 
 
 20 Douglas Powell 
 
 21 Isabel Chenevix Trench 
 
 1899 
 
 22 James Calder 
 
 23 Another size 
 
 24 Gordon Alexander Duff 
 
 Harry Soane. so. 
 
 25 Gordon Beauchamp Duff 
 
 1902 
 
 26 Kate Childs Forwood 
 
 1903 
 
 27 James Robert Davies 
 
 Harry Soane. sc. 
 
 Little, Florence Estelle. 672 East Prospect Street, Cleve- 
 land, Ohio. 
 
 Marks, Henry Stacy. 5 Saint Edmond's Terrace, London, 
 N. W., England. 
 
 A native of London and long one of its 
 best illustrators and decorators. His 
 designs are often humorous and always 
 made with clear bold outlines. In the 
 field of ex-libris he has been a worker only 
 since 1864, yet his early plates are scarce 
 and hard to secure. See B., p. 63-64 ; 
 E., V. 2, p. 34-35 ; F., p. 62. 
 112 
 
MODERN ARTISTS 
 May, Phil. Office of Punch, London, England. 
 
 See E., V. 6, p. 53 ; F., p. 64. 
 Metcalfe, John Henry. London, England. 
 
 As a boy Mr. Metcalfe longed to follow 
 his father's profession and be a soldier in 
 the East India Company's Military Ser- 
 vice, but the love of art grew with his 
 years, and when he came to the point of 
 decision, he chose to follow his artistic 
 bent. He was at first apprenticed to C. 
 J. Richardson, the " Architect to the Bank 
 of England," and with him became a stu- 
 dent at the Royal Academy, and later 
 attended various other art schools. After 
 some years he gave up architecture, finding 
 it uncongenial, and devoted himself instead 
 to general art work. During recent years 
 he has been busy making armorial stained 
 windows, wood-carving, book illustrations, 
 seals, brasses, and book-plates. 
 
 Some of his best work is in the charm- 
 ing library of the Duke of Westminster, 
 Eaton Hall, Chester. This includes the 
 beautiful windows and the still more beau- 
 113 
 
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 tiful chimneypieces. He has also done 
 similar work for Oxford and Cambridge 
 Universities. See F., p. 65. 
 
 Meyer, Eduard Lorenz. 18-22 Neue Groeningenstrasse, 
 Hamburg, Germany. 
 
 See B., p. 20 ; L., p. 435-436. 
 
 Monk, William. Hogarth Studio, 64 Charlotte Street, Fitz- 
 roy Square, London, W., England. 
 
 See B., p. 76 ; F., p. 66. 
 
 Nixon, Joiin Forbes. Ill Nightingale Road, Wood Oreen, 
 
 London, N., England. 
 
 An English heraldic artist, who for many 
 years was with Messrs. Routledge and Sons. 
 He has also been connected with the 
 " Illustrated Magazine for Boys" and been 
 the illustrator of many familiar books. 
 Perhaps he is best known as the illustrator 
 of " Peerage " and the obituary column of 
 the "Pictorial World." Indeed there is 
 no field in which heraldic work is used 
 that his skilful illustrations are not to be 
 found. He has done much to raise the 
 standard of heraldic work by his persistent 
 creation of the zoology of heraldry rather 
 114 
 
OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
CONCEKNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 choice bits of artistic decoration as the 
 plates made by her for Lily Pitman, Masie 
 Key Clarke, Betty Macmillan, and a few 
 others like them, give collectors the right 
 to expect great achievements from her. 
 
 Prindiville, Mary L. 388 North State Street, Chicago, 
 Illinois. 
 
 This artist received her art education 
 at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has 
 been a pupil of Pauline Dohn and John 
 H. Vanderpoel, and has taught art in the 
 classes of the Chicago Institute. In her 
 later plates she has supplied the lack 
 noticeable in early work by signing and 
 dating each design. 
 Rassenfosse, Armand. Li^ge, Belgium. 
 
 A celebrated Belgian artist working in 
 the ex-libris field of art. His plates use 
 freely the "feminine nude" and seem to 
 breathe the art atmosphere of Paris. See 
 S., p. 59. 
 
 Reade, Christia M. Room 847, Annex, Marshall Field Build- 
 ing, Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 See B., p. 101. 
 
 116 
 
MODERN ARTISTS 
 
 Rhead, Louis. 72 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. 
 
 This artist, who came of a family of 
 artists, was born in Etruria, Staffordshire, 
 England, a place famous for its wedgwood 
 pottery and its associations with George 
 Eliot, Eudyard Kipling, and John Wesley 
 and Whitfield. At the age of thirteen he was 
 placed under the instruction of the famous 
 French painter, Boulanger ; at fifteen he 
 had won the national scholarship which gave 
 him free tuition at South Kensington. 
 Later he studied with John Leighton, 
 Alphonse Legros, the celebrated sculptor 
 Dalou, and President Poynter of the Royal 
 Academy. In 1883 Mr. Rhead transferred 
 his residence to America, and is now classed 
 as an American artist. He has done much 
 excellent work in posters, winning in 1895 
 the gold medal at the Boston Poster Show. 
 Besides his book-plates he has made many 
 book designs. See B., p. 101 ; F., p. 77 ; 
 S., p. 59. 
 
 Ricketts, E. B. Hollingbonrn, Kent, England. 
 
 A very prolific maker of book-plates, the 
 117 
 
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 total number of which is more than two 
 hundred in the last six years. These range 
 in design from a simple label to the most 
 elaborate Heraldic designs. 
 
 Sattler, Josef. Schrobenhansen, Germany. 
 
 The well-known German artist whose 
 original designs have been the theme of 
 art journals for the last few years. He 
 received his training at the Academy at 
 Munich, but found himself too little in 
 sympathy with its methods of copying from 
 the antique. Instead of following the 
 German fashion of Heraldic plates, he has 
 modeled his work largely along the lines 
 of the Allegories and Emblematic types, 
 taking as his model the great master, 
 Albrecht Durer. He has made himself a 
 master in some details of plate-making 
 overlooked by older artists. Among these 
 are the manner in which he makes the 
 name of the owner of the plate an integral 
 part of the design, rather than something 
 laid upon it, and his unostentatious intro- 
 duction of his own signature. He works 
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MODEBN ARTISTS 
 
 almost wholly in the field of lithography, a 
 
 method much more common in Germany 
 
 than in America. See B., p. 20a ; E., v. 
 
 5, p. 23 ; L., p. 401. 
 
 Shaw, Howard Van Doren. 4833 Lake Avenue, Chicago, 
 Illinois. 
 
 Mr. Shaw is an artist architect, like so 
 many of the artists already mentioned. 
 He has made many of the plates of well- 
 known Chicago people, as well as two or 
 three charming children's plates. Among 
 the most admirable of the plates from his 
 skilful hands is the one made for Madeleine 
 Clay McDowell, the granddaughter of 
 Henry Clay. The representation forming 
 the center of the plate is of the famous 
 "Ashland," the farm home of this illus- 
 trious American. The present house was 
 built on the plan and with much of the 
 materials of the original home, to which he 
 brought, in 1799, the beautiful bride he 
 had lately won. The place is rich in asso- 
 ciations connected with Mr. Clay, many of 
 the trees having been planted by his own 
 119 
 
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 hands, and the entire picture representing 
 
 the familiar scene of his home life. The 
 
 sun-dial with its inscription reminds us 
 
 that change is the law of life. 
 
 Sherborn, Charles William. 540 King's Road, Chelsea, Lon- 
 don, S. W., England. 
 
 The venerable engraver by whose kind 
 permission the frontispiece of this book is 
 given to the reader. It represents the 
 well-known studio at Chelsea, with the 
 celebrated genius who presides there busy 
 at his work. He has justly been called 
 *' Father of the modern engraved book- 
 plate," and is considered by many compe- 
 tent judges the greatest living engraver on 
 copper. Plates that come from his studio 
 have a finish and a delicacy of shading and 
 are of such Heraldic correctness as to make 
 it well nigh impossible for an expert to 
 suggest how they could be made more 
 perfect and more to be desired. 
 
 Of the two hundred and five plates by 
 this artist in the author's collection, the 
 one most prized was a personal gift from 
 120 
 
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 the artist and is the impression of the plate 
 he made for his son, Charles Davies Sher- 
 bom, who is known on this side of the 
 ocean through his valuable contributions 
 to the publications of the Smithsonian 
 Institution. This plate represents a 
 charming Library Interior, containing a 
 bookcase, a writing-table, and a study 
 chair. In the background are the marbles 
 of Shakespeare and the Venus de Milo. 
 The j&eld of work in which young Mr. Sher- 
 bom works is delicately suggested by a por- 
 trait of Darwin and the geologist's tools, 
 near which hangs the Lamp of Truth. An 
 English rose, to mark the nationality, lies 
 across the page of a book lying open on 
 the table, while the family arms are 
 emblazoned in the glass of the large win- 
 dow near by. In the upper part of the 
 window oval is the artist's well-known sig- 
 nature. 
 
 Mr. Sherborn began his work as engraver 
 of art jewelry. He worked in Paris, 
 Switzerland, Florence, and Rome, in which 
 121 
 
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 city he was a pupil of the great Pietro 
 Girometti. Mr. Sherborn's engravings of 
 Apollo, Shakespeare, Sir Seymour Haden, 
 and Oliver Cromwell, and his etching of 
 Westminster Abbey, are ranked with the 
 best work of this art in any age. He 
 stands without a rival as the exponent of 
 the old school, which is in direct opposi- 
 tion to the modern school. His plates 
 have always some direct and personal ref- 
 erence to the owners of the books into 
 which they are to go. This sometimes 
 takes the form of a monogram, a pictorial 
 writing of the name, a residence, a family 
 portrait, or a coat of arms. Over three 
 hundred plates stand to the credit of this 
 artist. See B., p. 69-71 ; F., p. 83-86. 
 
 Sill, Howard. 2 East Lexington Street, Baltimore, Mary- 
 land. 
 
 See B., p. 102-103 ; F., p. 86. 
 
 Simpson, Joseph W. Edinbnrgh, Scotland. 
 
 See S., p. 60. 
 Smith, Sidney L. Boston, Massaohnsetts. 
 See B., p. 103 ; F., p. 89. 
 122 
 
MODERN ARTISTS 
 
 Soane, Harry. 36 Hanway Street, London, W., England, 
 
 See B., p. 64 ; F., p. 89-90. 
 
 Spenceley, J. Winfred. Stndio Building, Boston, Massa- 
 chusetts. 
 
 Mr. Spenceley began his work as an 
 engraver in 1882, in connection with the 
 firm of Messrs. John A. Lowell and Com- 
 pany, of Boston, as an apprentice to the 
 engraving department. One of the plates 
 made by him at this time was the familiar 
 plate of Oliver Wendell Holmes, but as 
 Mr. Spenceley was not the only engraver 
 who worked on the plate he has not claimed 
 it as his own, and it has not been listed 
 with his plates, except in the article that 
 appeared in the Ex Libris Journal.* 
 
 In 1887 he started in business for him- 
 self and commenced his career as a book- 
 plate artist, in most instances designing 
 the plates he engraved. He visited the 
 Paris Exposition, and spent some time in 
 France, Scotland, and England, studying 
 the work of the artists of those countries. 
 
 *Ex Libris Journal, v. 8, p. 19. 
 
 123 
 
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 In 1891 he left Boston to accept a position 
 with the Bank Note Company of Chicago, 
 but the climate was too rough for his 
 health, and after spending some time in 
 Mexico, he returned to Boston, where he 
 soon became firmly established. 
 
 In addition to his work on book-plates, 
 he has done most excellent work as a book 
 illustrator ; among which might be men- 
 tioned Hoggson's "Tangier the White"; 
 Williams' "Old Couple"; and Allmond's 
 "Estelle." 
 
 Mr. Spenceley is a most painstaking 
 and industrious artist. Everything that 
 comes from his studio is a gem of artistic 
 creation, to be treasured by every lover of 
 art, whether or no he be also a lover of 
 book-plates. He covers a wide range in 
 the styles of his designs and executes 
 with equal skill the massive and the dainty 
 plate. As no complete list of his work 
 has been given to collectors, Mr. Spenceley 
 kindly consented to correct the author's 
 manuscript list and authorize its publication. 
 124 
 
MODEEN ARTISTS 
 
 LIST OF PLATES MADE BY J. WINFRED SPENCELEY 
 
 PREPARED BY THE AUTHOR : REVISED 
 
 AND AUTHORIZED BY THE 
 
 ARTIST 
 
 1883 
 
 1 Oliver Wendell Holmes 
 
 Partly engraved by Mr. Spenceley while in 
 the employ of Messrs. John A. Lowell and 
 Company. 
 
 1895 
 
 2 Alice Root Atkinson 
 
 3 Mary H. Fee 
 
 4 Frederick Denison Lyon 
 6 M. M. Sands 
 
 The landscape is a view from Pine Lake, 
 Wisconsin. 
 
 6 Ralph Oliver Smith 
 
 The rug background of this plate is a deli- 
 cate reminder of Mr. Smith's rare collection 
 of Persian and Indian rugs. 
 
 7 H. C. M. Thomson 
 
 Library Interior of his former Chicago 
 home. 
 
 1896 
 
 8 Boston Public Library 
 
 Seals. Henry Mitchell, del. The original 
 steel plate was engraved by Mr. Spenceley, 
 from which several transfers were taken, 
 and other book-plate arrangements made 
 
 125 
 
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 from these. 
 9 William M. Derby, Jr. 
 Library Interior. 
 
 10 Tracy C. Drake 
 
 Library Interior. 
 
 11 Charles Fry 
 
 Henry Mitchell, del. 
 
 12 Norman W. Harris 
 
 13 Noble Foster Hoggson 
 
 I Armorial. 
 
 14 II Emblematic. 
 
 15 Dubois Henry Loux 
 
 16 Frederick Henry Prince 
 
 Henry Mitchell, del. 
 
 17 J. Winfred Spenceley 
 
 I Armorial. 
 
 1897 
 
 18 George Foster Barnes 
 
 George Foster Barnes, del, 
 
 19 Billerica Historical Society 
 
 20 Boston Browning Society 
 
 Label. Henry Mitchell, del. 
 
 21 William Archer Butterfield 
 
 22 Charles E. Cameron 
 
 I Pictorial. 
 
 23 II Plate and remarque. 
 
 24 David W. Cheever 
 
 25 Alphonso Trumpbour Clearwater 
 
 26 Henry Sargent Codman 
 
 Henry Mitchell, del. Philip Codman 
 the second variety of this plate. 
 
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 27 John Edward Devlin 
 
 Henry Mitchell, del. 
 
 28 Abram Garfield 
 
 Abram Garfield, del. The name " Abram 
 Garfield " was erased from the plate after 
 five proofs were taken. In its present state 
 there is no name on the plate. The name 
 is written in. Both Mr. and Mrs. Garfield 
 nse the plate. It is a Musical design, having 
 the notes of a well-known wedding march 
 at the top of the plate. 
 
 29 James Rudolph Garfield 
 
 Mrs. Garfield, del. 
 
 30 Henry Sturgis Grew 
 
 Henry Mitchell, del. Plate changed to 
 Randolph Clark Grew ; different varieties 
 of the same plate. 
 
 31 E. N. Hewins 
 
 32 Minnie C. Holbrook 
 
 33 Hotel Tonraine, Boston. 
 
 Henry Mitchell, del. 
 
 34 Ad61e Tylden Low 
 
 36 Walter Conway Prescott 
 
 Plate and remarque. See p. 24. 
 
 36 Andrew Smith of Whitchester 
 
 37 J. Winfred Spenceley 
 
 II Pictorial. 
 
 38 20th. Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer 
 
 Infantry to the Boston Public Library 
 
 39 Margaret Van Zandt 
 
 40 William Carver Williams 
 
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 41 Fred H. C. Woolley 
 
 F. H. C. Woolley. del. 
 
 1898 
 
 42 A. T. Bates 
 
 43 Bryson Library of the Teachers College 
 
 Charles Lamb. del. 
 
 44 Levi W. Eaton 
 
 Plate and remarque. See p. 24-25. 
 
 45 Gardiner Greene and Esther Lathrop Ham- 
 
 mond 
 
 Sarah Whitman, del. 1898. Engraved 
 
 1899. 
 
 46 Frank Hastings 
 
 47 Walter Conway Prescott 
 
 Plate and remarque. See p. 24. 
 
 48 William Cashing Wait 
 
 49 Bessie Hastings Williams 
 
 1899 
 
 50 George S. Chambliss 
 
 51 Detroit Public Library 
 
 Noble Ives. del. 
 62 George Higginson, Jr. 
 
 53 Lois Kellogg 
 
 54 Eva Lewis 
 
 65 Charles Edmund and Anna Bristol Peck 
 
 56 The W. H. Perry Library 
 
 57 Charles Pfaff 
 
 58 Frances Sanford 
 
 59 Robert and Herbert Sooville 
 
 60 Grace Anderson Smith 
 
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MODERN ABTISTS 
 
 61 Mathilde E. Thebaud 
 
 62 Library of the University of Missouri 
 
 Three varieties. 
 
 63 J. B. W. 
 
 ( Julia Bradford White.) 
 
 64 Charles Goddard Weld 
 
 65 Adrienne Adams Wick ham 
 
 I Original plate. 
 
 66 II Variety formed by adding a landscape 
 
 to the plate. 
 
 67 Woman's Club of Wisconsin 
 
 1900 
 
 68 C. Will Chappell 
 
 69 Mary M. Emery 
 
 70 Henry Kidder Gilbert 
 
 71 Maude Heyward 
 
 72 AUene LeC. Merrill 
 
 Mary E. Rath-Merrill, del. 
 A child's plate. 
 
 73 William Whiting 
 
 1901 
 
 74 The Alton Road 
 
 75 Jennie Price Black 
 
 76 Elizabeth Hitchcock Brayton 
 
 77 Mellen Chamberlain Memorial to Dartmouth 
 
 College 
 
 F. E. Moore, del. 
 
 78 Minerva Cushing Crocker 
 
 79 Zella Allen Dixson 
 
 Plate and remarque. See p. 25-27. 
 
 129 
 
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 80 Alice A. Dodsworth 
 
 81 Charles J. Livingood 
 
 82 Ethelbert Ida Low 
 
 83 Miller 
 
 84 Ohio State University Library 
 
 85 Hannah Adams Pfaff 
 
 86 Ethel Randolph Thayer 
 
 T. W. Thayer, del. 
 
 87 Zeta Psi Club 
 
 (Harvard University.) 
 1902 
 
 88 Charles Rathbone Ballon 
 
 89 J. H. Gardiner 
 
 There are three varieties of this plate : R. 
 H. Gardiner, J. H. Gardiner, and J. T. Gard- 
 iner. 
 
 90 George Silsbee Hale 
 
 91 George H. Mifflin 
 
 Bruce Rogers, del. 
 
 92 Horace Sweeney Oakley 
 
 Frederick W. Gookin. del. 
 
 93 Lowell M. Palmer 
 
 I Pictorial. 
 
 94 II Landscape. 
 
 95 A. M. S. 
 
 ( Adelaide M. Smith.) 
 
 96 Redmond Conyngham Stewart 
 
 97 Mary Florence Taft 
 
 98 Matthew Henry Taylor 
 
 99 Maud Teahon 
 
 100 George Clififord Thomas 
 
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 101 Winfred Porter Truesdell 
 
 102 University Club of Chicago 
 
 Frederick W. Gookin. del. 
 
 103 John Wingate Weeks 
 
 104 A. Welch 
 
 Bertha A. Welch is a second lettering of this 
 plate. 
 
 105 Fred Irwin Whiting 
 
 Bird. del. 
 
 106 Margaret F. G. Whitney 
 
 Bertram Goodhue, del. 
 
 107 Marie Winthrop 
 
 Stauffer, David McNeely. St. Paul's Building, New York 
 City, New York. 
 
 Mr. Stauffer has made about fifty plates, 
 among them the familiar plate belonging 
 to Chauncey Depew. See B., p. 105-106 ; 
 F., p. 91. 
 
 Thoma, Hans. Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. 
 
 The Director of the Art Gallery and a 
 famous German painter. Since 1895 has 
 given much time and thought to the execu- 
 tion of book-plates. His plates are full of 
 German mythology and folk-lore and beau- 
 tiful with bits of landscape and merry 
 children. See L., p. 410; S., p. 60-61. 
 131 
 
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 Tilney, Frederick Colin. Marquis Road, London, N., England. 
 
 This artist has made a series of designs 
 
 to be used by binders and publishers, the 
 
 designs to be printed on the end-papers of 
 
 cloth bound books. See B., p. 75 ; F., p. 96. 
 
 Tute^ C. E. London, England. 
 
 Mr. Tute's career as an artist began when 
 he was apprenticed to C Hodgson Fowler, 
 of Durham, to learn to be an architect. 
 Since those days he has busied himself 
 with many departments of art, but has won 
 the greatest distinction in the field of 
 stained glass designing. The exquisite 
 series in the windows of St. Cuthbert's, 
 Philbeach Gardens, and of the House of 
 Falkland, stand as eloquent testimony to 
 his ability in this line of work. See E., 
 V. 4, p. 196 ; F., p. 98. 
 
 Vinycomb, John. 3 Riverside, Holywood, Connty Down, 
 Ireland. 
 
 The author of the valuable work entitled 
 
 *' On the Processes for the Production of 
 
 Ex-libris." 1894. He is a native of 
 
 Newcastle-on-Tyne, and a pupil of William 
 
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MODERN ARTISTS 
 
 Bell Scott. In 1855 Mr. Vinycomb settled 
 in Belfast, as the designer of the firm of 
 Messrs. Marcus Ward and Company. He 
 is best known by the plate of Walter 
 Besant,* which was made from one of his 
 designs by his pupil, Hugh Thomas, who 
 is known as a London illustrator of books. 
 Kobert Day, of Cork, early became the 
 friend of this artist, working alone in the 
 north of Ireland, and helped him to form 
 a working collection of book-plates, and to 
 make many friends among those interested 
 in that subject. Many plates of his crea- 
 tion have appeared either anonymously or 
 under the name of the firm so fortunate as 
 to control much of his work in this field. 
 See B., p. 65 ; E., v. 3, p. 22-24 ; F., p. 99. 
 
 Voigt, Paul. 15 Anhaltstrasse, Berlin, S. W., Germany. 
 
 See B., p. 21 ; L., p, 402. 
 
 Wenig, Bernhard. Berchtesgaden, Germany. 
 
 * Mr. Castle, in his " English Book-plates," ascribes 
 this plate to R. Crane, as does Mr. Vicars in his 
 " List of Library Interiors," but he corrects this in 
 the Ex Libris Journal, v. 1, p. 49, giving Mr. Viny- 
 comb the credit for the design. 
 
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 One of the few artists who have made a 
 success of designing children's book-plates. 
 See L., p. 420-421 ; S., p. 61-62. 
 
 Weyer. William Robert. Rose Lane Corner, King Street, 
 Norwich, England. 
 
 Upon the completion of his education 
 this artist entered the employment of a 
 local firm of glass-painters and decorators, 
 as their pen and ink draftsman and 
 designer of patterns. He has earned for 
 himself many honors in this, his chosen 
 profession, conspicuous among which was 
 the order to ornament and illustrate the 
 historical album presented to the Duke and 
 Duchess of York, at the opening of the 
 Castle Museum, and the medal at the ex- 
 libris exhibit of November 4, 1894. See 
 B., p. 78 ; F., p. 105. 
 
 Whittaker, Gwladys. Littleton Place, Walsall, England. 
 
 An artist of rare ability, who is rapidly 
 winning her way to the foremost ranks of 
 book-plate artists. Her designs are char- 
 acterized by good drawing, good taste, and 
 surprising originality. Few artists can 
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MODERN ARTISTS 
 
 show a more varied assortment and yet a 
 more conspicuously good collection. 
 Williams, John. 66 Hillfield Avenne, Hornsey, London, 
 England. 
 
 Mr. Williams is best known as a designer 
 of decorative metal and ecclesiastical work, 
 and also as the Director of the Artistic 
 Crafts Department of the Northampton 
 Institute in London. There is a grace and 
 finish to Mr. Williams' designs that readily 
 distinguish them as his work. Through 
 Mr. Williams' kind cooperation the author 
 is able to add the following. 
 
 LIST OF PLATES MADE BY JOHN WILLIAMS 
 
 ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY AND 
 
 AUTHORIZED BY THE ARTIST 
 
 1 P. W. Oliver 
 
 Ploral design. . 
 
 2 Herbert Edlmann 
 
 Pictorial scene, with fishing, gun, book, and 
 verse. 
 
 3 H. W. Fincham 
 
 Library Interior. 
 
 4 Library Interior ; another variety. 
 
 5 A. W. Fincham 
 
 Library Interior. 
 
 6 Edward Crabb 
 
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 A ship in full sail. 
 
 7 W. Neumegen 
 
 Floral. 
 
 8 G. W. Wilson 
 
 Floral. 
 
 9 Henrioi Gary Shuttleworth 
 
 Armorial. 
 
 10 Armorial ; another variety. 
 
 11 Charles William Roe 
 
 Floral, with crest. 
 
 12 G. H. Edlmann 
 
 Floral. 
 
 13 Gertrude Hariot Edlmann 
 
 Small floral. 
 
 14 Sophia Elizabeth Hall 
 
 Floral, with view of church. 
 16 Mary Constance Hall 
 
 Floral, with Interior. 
 
 16 Val Longman 
 
 Floral. 
 
 17 H. B. and R. L. Ayres 
 
 Floral. 
 
 18 Edward Ayres 
 
 Floral. 
 
 19 H. B. Ayres 
 
 Floral. 
 
 20 E. Crawshaw 
 
 Interior, with old books, instruments, etc. 
 
 21 Nathaniel Micklem 
 
 Floral, with books. 
 
 22 Another size. 
 
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MODERN ARTISTS 
 
 23 R. W-L. Dnnnett 
 
 Floral. 
 
 24 T. D. MacDowell 
 
 Celtic pattern. 
 
 25 Another size. 
 
 26 Alex. Neale 
 
 27 George M. Mills 
 
 Floral, roses. 
 
 28 Second variety. 
 
 29 H. W. Fincham 
 
 St. John's Crypt and floral. 
 80 Hugh Giffen MoKinney 
 Celtic ornament. 
 
 31 St. John Clerkenwell 
 
 32 Arthur Hunnard 
 
 Hunting scene. 
 
 33 W. T. Mitchell 
 
 Interior view. 
 
 34 Small floral. 
 
 35 Mary King Roberts 
 
 Floral. 
 
 36 John W. Sherwell 
 
 Ship and dolphins. 
 
 37 Arthur Linnell Dawson 
 
 Floral. 
 
 38 Antonia Collett 
 
 Interior and floral border. 
 
 39 Another size. 
 
 40 Mark E. Collett 
 
 View of house and garden. 
 
 41 Second variety. 
 
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 42 R. Mullineux Walmsley 
 
 Floral. 
 
 43 Another size. 
 
 44 J. G. Lidstone 
 
 Floral, lilies. 
 
 45 Shuttleworth Club 
 
 Floral and emblems. 
 
 46 Mary Walmsley 
 
 Floral, roses. 
 
 47 R. D. Pedley 
 
 Floral. 
 
 48 Northampton Institute Library Clerkenwell 
 
 Fruit tree. 
 
 49 Northampton Institute Library 
 
 Prize label. 
 
 50 Robert Crawford Crooks 
 
 Floral. 
 
 51 Alfred Fincham 
 
 Heraldic. 
 
 52 Alexander Hay 
 
 Apple tree and mistletoe. 
 
 53 Optical Society of London 
 
 Orange tree. 
 
 54 Max Freund 
 
 Floral ; " Rose and Oak." 
 
 55 Lord Decies 
 
 Armorial. 
 
 56 St. John's Ambulance Society ; Order of St. 
 
 John of Jerusalem. 
 Badge. 
 67 Kyre Park Library 
 
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 OF THE 
 
 UNIVER8(TV % 
 
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MODEEN ARTISTS 
 
 Small crest. 
 
 58 Bishop of Bangor 
 
 Vesica Armorial. 
 
 59 Montague Hall 
 
 Armorial. 
 
 60 Cecily Tryer 
 
 Wreath design. 
 
 61 A. J. V. Radford 
 
 Armorial. 
 
 Wright, Alan. 3 Victoria Gardens, Notting Hill Gate, Lon- 
 don, England. 
 
 Mr. Wright has a queer little device for 
 a signature to the handsome plates he 
 signs. At first it appears to be a fly or 
 a beetle of some sort and while one is try- 
 ing to decide why it is used on the plate, 
 the discovery is made that it is a monogram 
 design of the initials A. W. See B., p. 
 71 ; F., p. 108-109. 
 
 Wyon, Allan. 2 Langham Chambers, Portland Place, Lon- 
 don, W., England. 
 
 The author of the volume " Great Seals 
 
 of England," and the present member of 
 
 an illustrious family of engravers who have 
 
 had much to do with these same "great 
 
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 seals." The members of this family have 
 held the office of " Chief Engraver of Her" 
 or "His Majesty's Seals" since 1816 to 
 the present time, representing the work 
 of a father and three sons : Benjamin 
 Wyon, 1802-1858; Joseph Shepherd 
 Wyon, 1836-1873; Alfred Benjamin 
 Wyon, 1837-1884, and this artist, 1843- 
 date. He traveled abroad, visiting China, 
 Malta, Egypt, Cape of Good Hope, Madeira, 
 and finally came to Scotland, where he 
 settled down for a year's special study of 
 the work of engravers there. He has the 
 reputation of having designed more book- 
 plates than any other individual of any age 
 or country. The Ex Libris Journal* is 
 responsible for the statement that a thous- 
 and plates have emanated from the Wyon 
 establishment, among which a very large 
 proportion are seals and ecclesiastical plates 
 made for archbishops, bishops, cardinals, 
 abbots, and other church officials. See B., 
 p. 60 ; E., V. 11, p. 65 ; F., p. 109-110. 
 
 *Ex Libris Journal, v. 11, p. 65. 
 
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CHAPTER V 
 
 CLASSIFICATION AND ARRANGEMENT 
 
 " Let my name be placed on the plate to tell . 
 
 The world that my books are mine, at a glance ; 
 Let it show a sense of myself as well, 
 
 In a closer, subtler significance. 
 Let it hint at my interests, — my share 
 
 In the scope and aims of life's wide plan : 
 Then each of the books that are mine shall bear 
 
 This badge, as the members of one clan." 
 
 Constance Jelf-Sharp. 
 
 CLASSIFICATION 
 
 The final form in which the design is cast ; 
 the manner of its expression of the owner's per- 
 sonality has given rise to what are called styles 
 of book-plates. These not only determine, in 
 many collections, the classification and arrange- 
 ment of the plates, but also furnish the terms 
 of description in the identification of specimens. 
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 England and France have led all other countries 
 in thus creating a " language of the kingdom," 
 in which all lovers of book-plates at the present 
 time delight to converse. 
 
 To the Honorable J. Leicester Warren ( Lord 
 de Tabley) belongs the credit of writing the 
 first descriptive outline of the different styles of 
 English book-plates. In his book entitled 
 "Guide to the Study of Book-plates," 1880, he 
 sorts out with wonderful skill the various types 
 of designs and applies to them a nomenclature 
 that is still in use to-day, with some modifica- 
 tion, amplifications, and additions of descriptive 
 terms used in connection with modern plates. 
 
 A general classification may be used that 
 will divide the plates into the two grand divi- 
 sions. Heraldic and Pictorial, according to the 
 following tabulation. 
 
 I HERALDIC 
 1 English Heraldic 
 
 a Early Armorial 
 
 b Jacobean 
 
 o Rococo or Chippendale 
 
 d Ribbon and Wreath 
 
 e Modern Armorial 
 
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CLASSIFICATION AND ARRANGEMENT 
 
 2 French Heraldic 
 
 ( These periods do not correspond exactly to 
 
 the dates connected with the historical periods 
 
 for which they are named.) 
 
 a Henry IV d R6gence ( 1715 and after ) 
 
 b Louis XIII e Louis XV 
 
 c Louis XIV f Louis XVI 
 
 II PICTORIAL 
 
 1 Allegories 11 Medical 
 
 2 Biographical 12 Monogram 
 
 3 Book-piles 13 Musical 
 
 4 Decorative 14 Portraits 
 
 5 Ecclesiastic 15 Printers' marks 
 
 6 Imaginary 16 Rebus 
 
 7 Landscape 17 Seals 
 
 8 Legal 18 Symbolic and Emblematic 
 
 9 Library Interiors 19 Urns 
 
 10 Literary 20 Vignettes 
 
 Early Armorial 
 
 A style of book-plate which includes the 
 earliest plates known. It began in great 
 simplicity, with a plain shield, surmounted 
 by a helmet, wreath, and crest, the mantlet 
 waving in curves about the upper part of 
 the shield and in later examples extending 
 down both sides and even showing below 
 the base. Sometimes the name is below 
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 the shield, sometimes omitted entirely. 
 As time went on this style became more 
 and more elaborate and stately, until at the 
 close of its period of creation the mantling 
 had become so grotesque and fantastical as 
 to deserve the nickname of " periwig style," 
 whimsically applied to it by Egerton Cas- 
 tle. In his "English Book-plates" he 
 says : *' The mantling .... evokes not, 
 as of old, ideas of lambrequins hacked and 
 torn in hot battle, but rather a vision of 
 the contemporary towering, tumbling, curly 
 Versailles peruke. In fact, I have been 
 tempted to suggest the expression Periwig 
 style as appropriate. It can be safely 
 asserted that the typical triple rolls of den- 
 ticulated mantling, encompassed a shield in 
 the same manner as the periwig of the 
 period encompassed the face of a man of 
 rank ; is distinctly French in its origin ; 
 and it is rather curious to remark how the 
 ' Restoration ' mantlings continued to flow 
 in foaming cascades round the escutcheon 
 of book-plates, so long as the * monstrous 
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CLASSIFICATION AND ARRANGEMENT 
 
 periwig ' remained in fashion as a masculine 
 head-dress."* Towards the close of the 
 seventeenth century this style gradually 
 passed into another form, known as the 
 Jacobean, which became a pronounced 
 style about 1700 and remained so until 
 after 1745. But in general the purely 
 Heraldic plates continued throughout all 
 changes of style. 
 Jacobean 
 
 Flourished during the first half of the 
 eighteenth century. This style was stiff 
 and cumbersome in general outlines and 
 reminds one of the carved woodwork of the 
 times of Queen Anne and George I. 
 
 In the beginning of the eighteenth cen- 
 tury some of the colleges had plates pre- 
 pared, in which there was neither helmet 
 nor crest above the escutcheon, so that the 
 sides of the shield were left undecorated. 
 To correct this an ornamental frame was 
 placed around their escutcheons. 
 
 The earlier plates of the Queen Anne 
 
 * Castle. " English Book-plates." 1894. p. 67. 
 
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 period are all recognized by this frame. 
 Plates of the latter part of the Jacobean 
 period have an additional external decora- 
 tion in the brackets upon which the shields 
 in their frames were made to rest. Each 
 bracket imitated the decoration of the 
 shield frame to which it was a support ; 
 using the scallop-shell, the satyr, the 
 demon's head, or the head of a canephorus, 
 as the normal and constantly recurring 
 ornament. 
 Rococo or Chippendale 
 
 The style of book-plate bearing this name 
 resembles the ornate and decorative furni- 
 ture which originated in France and was 
 brought over to England by Thomas Chip- 
 pendale many years before he published 
 his book on household furniture. Warren 
 called this style a "national" one and con- 
 sidered it as of English origin, but both 
 Castle and Hamilton have insisted that it 
 came originally from France and was called 
 '•Chippendale" because many of the pat- 
 terns in Chippendale's book are reflected 
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CLASSIFICATION AND ARRANGEMENT 
 
 in the later Chippendale book-plates. 
 
 The characteristic of these plates is a 
 frilling border of open scallop-shell work 
 set close to the escutcheon and more or less 
 enclosing it. Outside of this are a series 
 of flourishes resembling the ornaments on 
 the Chippendale furniture, called by Chip- 
 pendale himself, "the new French style." 
 
 There are several clearly defined differ- 
 ences between Jacobean and Chippendale 
 plates. In the former the two sides of the 
 design are almost always symmetrical ; in 
 the latter they are rarely so : in the former 
 the floral decorations are set and in con- 
 ventional festoons and garlands ; in the 
 latter the flowers are natural sprays and 
 branches, unarranged and free of any arbi- 
 trary conventionalism : in the former the 
 shield is always a regular figure ; in the 
 latter it is frequently pear-shaped, oval, or 
 irregular, and is often broken into by the 
 shellwork of the border. This style was 
 described by Warren, who first named it, 
 as having three periods : early Chippen- 
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 dale, in which the characteristics were only 
 partially developed ; middle, or pure Chip- 
 pendale, when the style reached its greatest 
 beauty; and late, or deteriorated Chippen- 
 dale, when the natural gracefulness of 
 Chippendalism became a characterless 
 design of noticeable weakness. 
 
 Ribbon and Wreath 
 
 This style resulted as a reaction from the 
 deteriorated Chippendale that had just 
 preceded it. It was simple and chaste and 
 emphasized its ornamentation by an elegant 
 slenderness and low relief. As a style it 
 had a short vogue and was a general favor- 
 ite only from about 1770-1790. The fes- 
 toons in these plates are placed above the 
 shield, fastened by pins or rings ; the 
 sprays, tied with a ribbon, spring from the 
 base upward, curving in sympathy with the 
 sides of the shield. 
 
 Modtrn Armorial 
 
 The name of a very large class of plates 
 in which the design is Armorial. These 
 plates include reproductions of all other 
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CLASSIFICATION AND ABBANGEMENT 
 
 styles and forms of Heraldic designs. 
 Some of them also sadly confuse dates and 
 styles, appearing as a pure Chippendale in 
 design, but showing modern workmanship, 
 or being an exact duplicate of a plate 
 belonging to an individual who has been 
 dead a century or more. These plates are 
 not generally sought by collectors, and 
 only those making special researches in the 
 fields of genealogy and heraldry attempt 
 to have more than a fairly representative 
 collection of them. 
 Henry IV 
 
 One of the well-known French styles to 
 be found on plates of about 1589. Its 
 chief characteristic is an oval frame, sur- 
 rounded by a massive ornate cartouche, 
 having mermaids, angels, and human heads 
 worked into the floral decorations of the 
 frame, both sides of which are alike, except 
 in shading. 
 XIII 
 
 A style that followed closely the Henry 
 IV and is so similar to it as to render 
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 classification most difficult. The essential 
 difference is that the latter style is lighter, 
 simpler, and not so decorative. 
 Louis XIV 
 
 The third in the chronological order of 
 styles of French Heraldic. It is one of 
 the most pompous and ornate of all the 
 French styles. The frame is broader and 
 includes as its upper termination a large 
 shell, in which, in some plates of this style, 
 there is a beautiful female face or a cluster 
 of flowers and occasionally a canopy sus- 
 pended above the face or cluster of flowers. 
 In general design it follows the character- 
 istics of the Henry IV and Louis XIII 
 
 styles. 
 R^gence 
 
 A style of plate that was fashionable in 
 France about 1715 and for a short time 
 after, representing a sudden reaction in 
 the patterns of plates. Its chief beauty 
 lies in the dainty arabesque character of 
 the designs. As compared with all earlier 
 French styles the R^gence appears quite 
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CLASSIFICATION AND ABRANGEMENT 
 
 frivolous. Of this style Hamilton says : 
 " Little urns on little brackets ; tiny heads, 
 springing up from nowhere ; dainty fes- 
 toons trailing around and about without 
 any definite aim in life, and finals at top 
 and bottom which finish nothing because 
 nothing was commenced." * 
 Louis XV or Rococo 
 
 This is the loveliest of all the French 
 styles. In point of time and general 
 characteristics it corresponds to the Eng- 
 lish Chippendale. A pear-shaped, oval, or 
 irregular shield, in a frame of shellwork or 
 rockwork, flowers anywhere and every- 
 where and no two parts of the design in 
 correspondence. By a rare piece of good 
 luck, this charming graceful style became 
 general in France just at the time when 
 institutions and individuals were vieing 
 with each other to see who could possess 
 the largest number of "own plates," so 
 that the total number of specimens of this 
 lovely and charming style is very large and 
 
 * Hamilton. " French Book-plates." 1896. p. 26. 
 
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 permits even quite small collections to 
 include very fine specimens of it. 
 Louis XVI 
 
 The Rococo finally produced the inevita- 
 ble reaction, which expressed itself in the 
 style known as the Louis XVI. This was 
 once more formal and exact and became a 
 clearly marked style about the year 1775, 
 and lasted until the time of the French 
 Revolution. Straight lines and well-bal- 
 anced parts took the place of the lack of 
 symmetry noticeable in the style out of 
 which it came. Shields are supported on 
 solid square bases ; coronets are clearly 
 and correctly drawn ; and flowers are 
 securely and neatly arranged in well- 
 ordered wreaths and festoons. 
 
 By the year 1789 all styles of plates 
 bearing symbols of nobility or rank had 
 disappeared before the fury of the French 
 Revolution and in their place were simple 
 labels and designs bearing Republican 
 emblems. From this time until the year 
 1804, when Napoleon, having restored the 
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Ex LifiBis J. B- MiCHAUD 
 
 PONTiSJAUEHSiS LEOATI tR 
 NAT." CONVENTU 1^91 
 
CLASSIFICATION AND ABBANGEMENT 
 
 court, introduced the toque or "liberty- 
 cap," designed by his favorite artist. 
 Monsieur David, to take the place of the 
 crests and coronets of other days, these 
 were the only plate-styles to be seen. 
 
 In the days of Louis XVIII an effort 
 was made to restore to book-plates the 
 symbols of nobility and rank, but it was 
 unsuccessful. Armorial plates in any 
 style were never again fashionable in 
 France. In recent times all the celebri- 
 ties of that country have chosen the styles 
 of their plates from one or the other of the 
 types of Pictorial plates. 
 Allegories 
 
 The favorite form of Pictorial plates. 
 Has been successfully used more by the 
 French nation than by any other people. 
 It is the natural development of the Jaco- 
 bean and Chippendale styles, where 
 cherubs, angels, mermaids, satyrs, shep- 
 herdesses and beautiful women were used 
 to give the element of irregularity to the 
 set design. By an easy transition these 
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 figures assumed the chief role and became 
 not simply artistic decorations, but animate 
 living representatives of allegory. 
 
 Biographical 
 
 A style of plates in which the refer- 
 ences to the life history of the owner are 
 especially emphasized. Many specimens 
 show the birthplace, childhood scenes, and 
 family heirlooms. 
 
 Book- piles 
 
 A common feature in many plates. As 
 a style the Book-piles belong chiefly to the 
 book-plates of English and American 
 artists. Only a few examples are to be 
 found among other nationalities. The 
 style has been in use since 1699. The pile 
 is arranged in three compact rows. There 
 is little variety to this style. 
 
 Dfcorative 
 
 A variety of plate having for its end the 
 creation of a simple name-label of a highly 
 decorative character, without any reference 
 in any way to the personality of the indi- 
 vidual whose name it bears. It is fash- 
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CLASSIFICATION AND ABRANGEMENT 
 
 ioned after the manner of decorative 
 designs for other purposes. 
 Ecclesiastic 
 
 Remembering that literature and learn- 
 ing have always been the special heritage 
 of the church in all ages and all countries, 
 it is to be expected that a style of plates 
 should have been formed by the universal 
 acceptance of certain characteristics as 
 suitable for the book-plates used to mark 
 the libraries of monasteries, cathedrals, and 
 church dignitaries. Ecclesiastic plates are 
 very numerous and very beautiful. Their 
 chief characteristics are their large size, 
 elaborateness, and the adding of the insig- 
 nia of the church to the family arms. In 
 general the Ecclesiastic style is based on 
 the head-dresses of the hierarchy of the 
 Roman Catholic Church, as follows : 
 
 Cardinal. — A red hat, with a wide flat brim, on 
 each side of which is a red cord, terminating 
 in a cluster of five rows of red tassels. 
 
 Archbishop. — A similarly shaped hat, bnt green in 
 color and having only fonr rows of green 
 tassels, which hang at the ends of a green cord. 
 
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 Bishop. — Same as archbishop, but with only three 
 rows of green tassels. 
 » AbM or Abbot. — Same hat, only black and with 
 
 black cord and two rows of black tassels. 
 Imaginary 
 
 This is the most fantastic of all styles of 
 book-plates, since it is employed to describe, 
 not plates which have actually been used, 
 but plates designed to exhibit what kind 
 of a plate certain individuals should have 
 used. 
 
 Mr. Hopson's Imaginary plate of Adam, 
 showing an Armorial design made of an 
 apple and a fig leaf, while the accessories 
 of the usual plate are supplied by fanciful 
 delineations of his companions in the Gar- 
 den of Eden, is one of the cleverest of this 
 type. In the use of this style our artistic 
 neighbors, the French, outrank all others. 
 In a charming little journal entitled " Ex- 
 Libris Imaginaires," edited by L. Joly, 
 and issued from Paris, this style of book- 
 plate has been chiefly exploited. 
 Landscape 
 
 Usually seen in combination with 
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CLASSIFICATION AND AKEANGEMENT 
 
 Armorial designs, but also existing as a 
 pure type. Thomas Bewick and his 
 brother are best known as the exponents 
 of this style of plates. The landscapes 
 were both imaginary and real localities. 
 Among the latter are views of Hereford, 
 Newcastle, Tower of St. Nicholas Church, 
 Tower of London, and the scenes connected 
 with historical events. 
 
 Legal 
 
 Plates containing the usual symbols of 
 the legal profession, such as the Scales of 
 Justice, the Sword of Damocles, the blind- 
 fold impersonation of the Law, and other 
 features similar in character. 
 
 Library Interiors 
 
 A very common and a very popular style 
 of Pictorial plate. There is an apparent 
 fitness in including in the decoration of the 
 plate a view of the library in which it is 
 to be used. This style lends itself to end- 
 less variety, presenting cozy corners, study 
 windows, through which are seen inspiring 
 glimpses of romantic scenery. This style 
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 is both ancient and modern and is to be 
 found among the book-plates of every 
 nation. 
 
 Literary 
 
 Designs containing books, bookcases, 
 or literary references are classed as Liter- 
 ary plates. This style is the least definite 
 of all the styles and includes a large num- 
 ber of incongruous designs, of disorderly 
 piles of manuscript or discouraged rows of 
 books. Here again we must go to the 
 French book-plates to see this style in 
 anything like completeness of thought and 
 execution. 
 
 Medical 
 
 Like Legal plates, a style employed to 
 indicate a professional connection. A uni- 
 versal feature of this type is the serpent 
 and the cup. An unpleasant form is found 
 in a modern realistic plate, where the 
 ancient form of " Doct. Med." has given 
 place to ghastly views of dead bodies, dis- 
 secting rooms, vivisection clinics, and sick- 
 rooms, where suffering friends are bidding 
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CLASSIFICATION AND ABRANGEMENT 
 
 the patient farewell. Considering the 
 repetition of plates in the books of one 
 library, one can imagine there might be 
 times when even an enthusiastic medical 
 man might fail to find in such a plate either 
 a pleasant memory or a mental inspiration. 
 
 Quite an ideal Medical plate is to be 
 found in the dainty and exquisitely exe- 
 cuted plate of Dr. F. Bargall6, of Paris. 
 Here we have evil books symbolized by 
 the serpent ; useless books by the opiate 
 sleep of the poppy ; while good books cure 
 mind and spirit with the skill of a great 
 physician. 
 Monogram 
 
 As the name indicates, this style consists 
 of a monogrammic expression of the owner's 
 name. It has many forms, ranging from a 
 simple monogram to the most elaborate 
 and decorative design. A pleasing exam- 
 ple of this style of plate is the ex-libris of 
 the late Augustin Daly. 
 Musical 
 
 A style used to classify all plates 
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 belonging to musicians or lovers of music. 
 These plates contain the usual musical 
 instruments. 
 Portraits 
 
 As a rule not a very difficult plate to 
 identify. This style is both ancient and 
 modem. The earliest dated German book- 
 plate, Bilibald Pirckheimer, by Albrecht 
 DUrer, is a Portrait plate, as is also the 
 famous plate of Johannes Vennitzer, who 
 died in 1627, and the curious Flemish 
 plate of Louis Bosch, about 1765, as well 
 as the dainty Italian plate of Filippo 
 Linarti, dated 1760. In modern times, 
 though the style is seldom used, some good 
 examples exist. One that is especially 
 worthy of mention is the Portrait plate 
 of James Ward. This, in reality, is a happy 
 combination of three styles of ex-libris. It 
 is at once a Library Interior, a Portrait, 
 and an Emblematic plate. It was designed 
 by George Hodgson, a prominent member 
 of the Nottingham Society of Artists, whose 
 drawings and water-colors are frequently 
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BOOK-PLATE SOCIETIES 
 
 seen at the exhibitions of the Royal Acad- 
 emy. Mr. Ward has the finest collection 
 in existence of book-plates of Nottingham- 
 shire families. 
 Printers' Marks 
 
 A mark used by the printer to stamp the 
 work as his. In a very real sense an ex-li- 
 bris, since the book belongs to its maker in 
 an ownership that purchase can not destroy. 
 Among the most famous Printers' Marks 
 are those of Johann Fust (Faust), the 
 partner of Gutenberg ; the Westminster 
 Press of William Caxton ; the Strawberry 
 Hill Press of Horace Walpole ; the Chis- 
 wick Press of London ; and the Press 
 Marks of Cambridge and Oxford Univer- 
 sities. 
 
 Most of the well-known printing firms 
 and private presses of to-day have their 
 marks. One of the most beautiful of these 
 is the mark devised by Mr. Vedder for the 
 Riverside Press, representing a beautiful 
 boy lying on the bank of a river, into 
 which he is launching small paper boats. 
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CONCERNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 At the bottom of the plate is the scroll 
 bearing the inscription, "The Riverside 
 Press," and above the motto, "Tout bien 
 ou rien." This Press has also another 
 mark, reserved for its choice books, 
 designed by Sidney L. Smith in 1885. It, 
 too, is a river scene, showing a piper 
 charming down the stream a group of small 
 paper boats, each bearing a tiny Lamp of 
 Truth. The rising sun has been facetiously 
 interpreted by a wit to refer to the fact 
 that the firm has risen early to catch the 
 literary worm. 
 Rebus 
 
 One of the most ancient styles of book- 
 plates. The use of a picture to represent a 
 word of similar sound but dissimilar mean- 
 ing. The fine plate of the Comtesse Nog, 
 representing the prehistoric Ark of Noah, 
 of Bible lore ; the plate of H. Ashbee, on 
 which is depicted an ash tree and a bee ; 
 the ex-libris of Louis Vacher, showing a 
 cow on the shield ; and the plate of Paul 
 Cordier, with its charming little vignette 
 162 
 
or TV'.". 
 
CLASSIFICATION AND ARKANGEMENT 
 
 of a rope-maker (cordier) at work, are all 
 well-known to collectors. 
 
 Seals 
 
 A variety of plate essentially Heraldic 
 in form. A style often used by public 
 libraries and educational institutions, as 
 well as by individuals. Engravers of this 
 style of plate have a great advantage in 
 being able to copy designs from the great 
 seals of history. 
 Symbolic and Emblematic 
 
 A style similar to Allegories, but with 
 the difference that the allusions are not 
 allegoric, but emblematic. 
 Urns 
 
 The style that resulted from the Ribbon 
 and Wreath, in vogue from about 1800- 
 1820. It is an ugly and graceless style, 
 having as its central figure a monumental 
 funeral urn, and abounding in weeping 
 willows and scantily clad females. 
 Vignettes 
 
 The same as Landscape. 
 163 
 
C50NCERNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 ABBANGEMENT 
 
 The proper arrangement of plates in a col- 
 lection must always be determined in direct 
 sympathy with the object for which the collec- 
 tion is made. 
 
 Many individuals collect book-plates because 
 of their interest in genealogy and heraldry : 
 others for the value of the designs and to illus- 
 trate the method of treatment from an artistic 
 standpoint ; still others to understand the work 
 of certain artists or the peculiarities of nation- 
 ality : or a number of other reasons. In each 
 case the best arrangement is that one which 
 will group the plates by the subject that is the 
 specialty. 
 
 Among the usual systems seen in use are 
 the following : 
 
 1 Loose in boxes or in envelopes 
 
 2 Arranged on the leaves of an album 
 
 3 On separate mounts in book-plate boxes 
 
 a Alphabetically, by the owners who used them, 
 b Alphabetically, by the artists who made them, 
 c Alphabetically, by country ; then chronolog- 
 ically, by dates. 
 d Chronologically, by styles. 
 
 164 
 
CLASSIFICATION AND ARRANGEMENT 
 
 For public library collections, like the Brit- 
 ish Museum, experience seems to prove that a 
 simple alphabetical arrangement of all plates of 
 all countries and all ages is the best to promote 
 rapid research and comparison. 
 
 The author's collection is mounted on sepa- 
 rate mounts of manila paper, XXX quality, in 
 size six by eight inches. These are arranged 
 in boxes made to order and opening on the 
 diagonal of the oblong, so as to permit of con- 
 sulting the specimens as the cards in a card 
 catalogue are used, without removing any of 
 the mounts to examine others. Experience has 
 proved that book-plates wear better if the 
 mounts rest on the lower edge than when plates 
 have to be piled one upon the other ; they are 
 always all easily accessible and take up very 
 much less room. The boxes are made one foot 
 long, which will accommodate a thousand 
 mounted plates, one plate only being pasted on 
 each card. After trying in turn each one of 
 the methods explained in the issues of the Ex 
 Libris Journal and finding none exactly right 
 for personal needs, this system was slowly 
 165 
 
CONCERNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 worked out and has been such a relief in its 
 freedom from bulk and in the accessibility of 
 specimens, that it is noticed here in the hope 
 that it may prove equally valuable to some 
 brother or sister collector. The collection in 
 this card catalogue form is arranged alphabet- 
 ically by countries and alphabetically by artists 
 under each country. There is also a card cata- 
 logue to the collection, arranged in a simple 
 alphabetical list by owners of plates. 
 
 166 
 
CHAPTER VI 
 
 BOOK-PLATE ASSOCIATIONS, CLUBS, AND SOCIETIES 
 
 " He who would learn without the aid of books, 
 Draws water in a sieve from running brooks." 
 Translation of the motto on Seyringer's book-plate. 
 
 The most valuable aid the collector can 
 secure for the identification of plates, the 
 exchange of duplicates, and the placing of per- 
 sonal plates where they will be valued and 
 appreciated, comes from the publications of the 
 book-plate associations, clubs and societies. 
 
 To own these files is to have a reference 
 library of more real working value than any 
 other collection of books on this subject that 
 could be selected. The following list gives the 
 book-plate organizations at present in existence. 
 Book- Plate Exchange Club, Edinburgh, Scotland. 
 
 As sending packages across the ocean 
 involves expensive postage and tiresome 
 delay, the membership of this club is lim- 
 167 
 
OONOEBNING BOOK-PLATES - 
 
 ited to Great Britain. The object of the 
 club is to establish a clearing house, where 
 duplicates can be exchanged. The method 
 of exchange is in reality a purchase, as 
 each member marks the price on his plates 
 and selects an equivalent value from 
 among the marked specimens of the other 
 members. The General Secretary is J. 
 Henderson Smith, of Edinburgh. 
 Ex LIbris-Club "Basilea."* Basle, Switzerland. 
 
 This club exists for the purpose of good 
 fellowship among the members and to 
 afford a medium for the exchange of dupli- 
 cate plates between members. Each newly 
 elected member receives, as a receipt for 
 the entrance fees, a beautiful illuminated 
 membership diploma, designed by Fritz 
 Amberger. The transactions of the club 
 are published in the " Schweizerische 
 
 * As there seems to be no uniformity among either 
 societies or collectors in regard to the writing of this 
 term, we have established the form "ex-libris" for 
 all publications of the Wisteria Cottage Press, and 
 copy as far as possible the forms used in other pub- 
 lications whenever making reference to them. 
 
 168 
 
BOOK-PLATE SOCIETIES 
 
 Blatter ftir Ex-Libris Sammler," as are 
 also the lists of membership. The entrance 
 fee is 5 fr. ; the subscription price for the 
 journal 4 fr. for Switzerland, 4.50 fr. for 
 other countries. The president, secretary, 
 and treasurer must be residents of Swit- 
 zerland, but in case there are at least five 
 members from any other nation, one of 
 them may be chosen as vice president. 
 The French people have shown special 
 appreciation of the beautiful ex-libris pro- 
 duced by Switzerland. When the Swiss 
 organization was formed many Frenchmen 
 became members. In accordance with the 
 above regulation Edmond des Robert, of 
 Nancy, France, was made one of the vice 
 presidents. 
 
 At the dissolution of the club all paya- 
 ble balances, all cash on hand, and all col- 
 lections are to become the property of the 
 Schweizerischen Heraldischen Gesellschaf t. 
 
 The ojficers are : President, Emanuel 
 Stickelberger ; Treasurer, Eugen Faesch ; 
 Secretary, Friedrich Haller. 
 169 
 
CONCERNING BOOK-PLATES 
 Ex Libris Society,* London, England. 
 
 Founded in 1891 and having the honor 
 of being the first society ever formed for 
 the encouragement and study of book- 
 plates. It publishes a monthly magazine 
 entitled : " Journal of the Ex Libris 
 Society," which is popularly known as the 
 "Ex Libris Journal." The annual mem- 
 
 * It has been impossible to find any uniform writ- 
 ing of this term in connection with this society's 
 publications. ^^ Ex-Libris" 18 the form used in the 
 lettering on the back of the cloth bindings of vol- 
 umes 1-13, on the central illustration of the front 
 cover of the paper binding of the current monthly 
 issues, and on the publishers' press-mark on the title- 
 page of volumes 1 and 2. Indeed this press-mark is 
 an amusing demonstration of the lack of uniformity 
 on the part of the society in the use of this term. 
 This press-mark is an illustration of an open book, 
 on the title-page of which is printed " Ex-Libris Jour- 
 nal" ; the first leaf of the book is curled to show the 
 lettering ^^Published/or the Ex lAbris Society of London 
 by A. and C. Black" This press-mark is replaced 
 in volumes 3-13 by the design made for the society 
 by Mr. Sherborn. In this is seen the form "JSJa; 
 Libris Society." This latter is also the form used on 
 the title-page, running title, and on the front cloth 
 cover of the Journal from volumes 1-13. 
 
 170 
 
BOOK-PLATE SOCIETIES 
 
 bership fee is .£1 Is, but from members 
 who joined before 1897 the fee of 10s. 6d. 
 is required. The entrance fee is 10s. 6d. 
 The journal is supplied to members free. 
 Americans especially appreciate the cour- 
 tesy extended to them by the appointment, 
 as Honorable Vice President, of Charles 
 Dexter Allen, of Hartford, Connecticut, 
 who, although no longer a collector of 
 book-plates, having sold two large collec- 
 tions, still retains his interest in the sub- 
 ject and reports, in the department of 
 "American Notes," items concerning 
 American artists and owners of plates. 
 
 The officers of the society are as follows : 
 President, Sir James Balfour Paul ; Treas- 
 urer, James T. Armstrong ; Secretary, W. 
 H. K. Wright. 
 Exiibris-Verein, Berlin, Oermany. 
 
 This society and its handsome publica- 
 tion, " Exlibris-Zeitschrift " were both 
 organized and founded by the late Fried- 
 rich Wamecke, in May, 1891. Before the 
 end of the second year the society had 
 171 
 
OONOEBNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 sixty-one members, and now its member- 
 ship is over three hundred, including rep- 
 resentatives from many countries. Its 
 journal is most artistic and accurate ; gives 
 representations of both ancient and modern 
 plates and contains many valuable articles 
 on the various phases of the subject. It is 
 eagerly read by collectors everywhere and 
 is a most valuable j&le for reference. The 
 early volumes are now out of print and 
 can be obtained only through the sale of 
 sets in private libraries. The membership 
 fee is 12 mk., which includes the journal, 
 furnished free to members. The officers 
 are as follows : President, E. Doepler ; 
 Treasurer, C. A. Starke ; Secretary, H. 
 Brendicke. 
 Oesterreichische Ex-Libris-Geselischaft, Yienna, Austria. 
 
 This is the youngest of the societies, 
 having been organized January 24, 1903. 
 It aims to encourage the use of book-plates, 
 to exploit the artists who work in this 
 field, and to promote good fellowship 
 among its members. The annual fee is 
 172 
 
BOOK-PLATE SOCIETIES 
 
 K. 10. The members have a vote in the 
 monthly meetings, the use of the library 
 of the association, including the collection 
 of book-plates, and may have free access to 
 the list of addresses, for purposes of 
 exchanging duplicates. The place of 
 meeting of the association is in the palace 
 of the K. K. Landwirtschafts Gesellschaft. 
 The Secretary is Karl Andorfer. 
 
 Soci^t€ Franpaise des Collectionneurs d'Ex>Libris, Paris, 
 France. 
 
 The enthusiasm and energy of Doctor 
 L. Bouland resulted in the founding of 
 this society, April 30, 1893. The consti- 
 tution limits the membership to men and 
 women over twenty years of age, and 
 requires the recommendation of a special 
 committee on membership before the indi- 
 vidual can be duly elected. A member's 
 name may be dropped from the rolls on 
 the report of the committee, if the recom- 
 mendation receives a majority vote of 
 approval. The society has a monthly 
 journal entitled, "Archives de la Soci4.t6 
 173 
 
CONCERNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 Fran^aise des Collectionneursd'Ex-Libris," 
 the largest and most comprehensive of all 
 the ex-libris periodicals. It is handsomely 
 illustrated and of the greatest assistance to 
 any collector of French plates. This jour- 
 nal is free to all members. The annual 
 membership fee is 16.50 fr. 
 
 The officers are as follows : President, 
 L. Bouland ; Treasurer, J. Regnault ; Sec- 
 retary, F. Careme. 
 
 174 
 
CHAPTER VII 
 
 SOME INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUALS MAKING 
 COLLECTIONS OF BOOK-PLATES 
 
 " The collecting of ex-libris has preserved many inter- 
 esting examples which would naturally every year be lost 
 or destroyed in the re-binding by ignorant workmen who 
 have no knowledge of their value, or which are concealed 
 or lost under later ex-libris pasted above them." 
 
 Laurence Hutton. "Some American Book-plates." 
 
 In making a collection of book-plates indi- 
 viduals not infrequently request an exchange of 
 plates from those who are unwilling to extend 
 such a courtesy. No collector desires to annoy 
 any one to whom such a request would be 
 unwelcome. In general it is safe to assume 
 that members of book-plate organizations desire 
 to exchange with their own members. If this 
 list will save any one from a rebuff, resulting 
 from having asked the wrong person, the author 
 will feel repaid for the labor of making it. 
 175 
 
OONOEBNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Adams, Frances A. 
 
 Advielle, Victor 
 Amberger, Fritz 
 Archiv der f reien und 
 Hansestadt 
 
 Armstrong, James T. 
 
 Bachrouschine, A. P. 
 
 Baer, Frank House 
 ■" Bailey, Sir W; H. 
 
 Bargalld, F. 
 
 Barker, Mrs. R. 
 
 Bates, Arlo 
 
 Beauchamp, Pierre de 
 
 Bednall, William T. 
 
 Benkard, Rudolph 
 • B^ringuier, Dr. R. 
 
 -^- Beran, Paul 
 
 Bibliothek des KOnigl. 
 
 Kunstgewerbe-Mu- 
 
 seums 
 Bisbee, Marvin D. 
 - Blackwell, Henry 
 
 4. Bliss, Caroline S. 
 Bojnici6, Dr. I. 
 
 465 Madison Ave., New York City, 
 
 N. Y. 
 28 Passage Dauphine, Paris, Fr. 
 12 Sihlhofstrasse, Zurich, Swit. 
 Care Dr. A. Hagedorn, Hamburg, 
 Ger. 
 
 Moorgate Station Chambers, Lon- 
 don, E. C, Eng. 
 
 Moscow, Russia. 
 
 Rowfant Club, Cleveland, Ohio 
 
 Sale Hall, Sale, Cheshire, Eng. 
 
 94 rue d'Allemagne, Paris, Fr. 
 
 Tiverton, R. I. 
 
 4 Otis Place, Boston, Mass. 
 
 84 rue Judalque, Bordeaux, Fr. 
 
 Adelaide, South Australia 
 
 39 blvd. de la Chapelle, Paris, Fr. 
 
 21 Nettelbeckstrasse, Berlin, W., 62, 
 Ger. 
 
 64 Avenue Road, Regent's Park, 
 London, N.W., Eng. 
 
 Berlin, Germany 
 
 Hanover, N. H. 
 
 University Place, New York City, 
 
 N. Y. 
 46 Cooke St., Providence, R. I. 
 Agram, Croatia, Ans. 
 
 176 
 
COLLECTIONS OF BOOK-PLATES 
 
 NUMBEB 
 
 WHEN 
 
 SUB- 
 
 ABBANOED 
 
 QENEBAIi 
 
 OF 
 
 
 
 
 EXCHANGES 
 
 PLATES 
 
 BEGUN 
 
 OOIiliEOTIONS 
 
 BY 
 
 DESIBED 
 
 300 
 
 1900 
 
 
 Artists 
 
 No 
 
 1,000 
 
 1860 
 
 
 Styles 
 
 Yes 
 
 4,500 
 
 1896 
 
 Swiss 
 
 Numbers 
 
 (( 
 
 
 
 1897 
 
 Institutions 
 
 
 ti 
 
 6,000 
 
 1890 
 
 Swedish 
 
 
 
 t( 
 
 3,000 
 
 1900 
 
 
 
 (t 
 
 
 
 None 
 
 
 (( 
 
 250 
 
 1895 
 
 (( 
 
 
 C( 
 
 
 
 1894 
 
 (( 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 (( 
 
 10,420 
 
 1879 
 
 it 
 
 u 
 
 « 
 
 500 
 
 1890 
 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 — 
 
 
 1898 
 
 Armorial 
 
 Yes 
 
 1,200 
 
 1858 
 
 (( 
 
 
 (( 
 
 12,000 
 
 1880 
 
 None 
 
 Artists 
 
 (1 
 
 3,500 
 
 1883 
 
 u 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 (( 
 
 
 1898 
 
 None 
 
 No plan 
 
 (1 
 
 5,000 
 
 1894 
 
 
 Styles 
 
 No 
 
 125 
 
 1890 
 
 .0,000 
 
 1877 
 
 600 
 
 1901 
 
 2,000 
 
 1901 
 
 Old 
 
 None 
 
 177 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 Yes 
 
CONCERNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Bouvenne, Aglatis 
 
 24 rue Cormeille, Levallois-Perret, 
 Paris, Fr. 
 
 1 Schwerin8tra8se,Berlin,W., 30,Ger. 
 58 rue Pierre Charron, 8me, Paris, 
 
 Fr. 
 London, Eng. 
 
 517 W. Marshall St., Richmond, Va. 
 9 Park St., Boston, Mass. 
 4:4 Tregunter Road, So. Kensing- 
 ton, S. W., Eng. 
 4- Browning, Frances E. St. Katherine's Hall, Davenport, la. 
 4. Buck, J.fH. 49 N. Eighth Ave., Monnt Vernon, 
 
 i^^ N. Y. 
 
 ^ Bnrohard, Dr. Georg 64 Stephanienstrasse, Karlsruhe, 
 
 Baden, Ger. 
 Burnham, Katharine Orange, Cal. 
 
 Brendioke, Dr. Hans 
 Brettauer, Valerie 
 
 British Museum* 
 Brook, Robert A. 
 Brown, Frank C. 
 Brown, James R. 
 
 4 Butler, T. K. L. 
 
 Butterfield, W. A. 
 
 Carey, Edith F. 
 ^ Carlander, Carl M. 
 I Carlshausen, Ritten 
 meister von 
 
 Carnegie, Mrs. T. ^ 
 
 London Institution, Finsbury Cir- 
 cus, London, E. C, Eng. 
 28 Akron St., Roxbury, Mass. 
 Le Vallon, Guernsey, Eng. 
 Stockholm, Sweden 
 27 Schillerstrasse, Stuttgart, Ger. 
 
 Dungeness, Cumberland Isl., Ga. 
 Catholic University of Washington, D. C. 
 
 America 
 Cattle, Frederic Ravenswood, Heanor, Derbyshire, 
 
 Eng. 
 * The largest collection in the world. Seventy thousand 
 of these plates are on exhibit in the Print department, 
 
 178 
 
COLLECTIONS OF BOOK-PLATES 
 
 NUMBBB 
 
 WHEN 
 
 SUB- 
 
 AEBANGBD 
 
 OENEBAIi 
 
 OF 
 
 
 
 
 EXCHANGES 
 
 PLATES 
 
 BEGUN 
 
 OOIiliEOTIONS 
 
 BY 
 
 DESIBED 
 
 2,000 
 
 1892 
 
 None 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 Yes 
 
 5,000 
 
 1893 
 
 Portrait 
 
 Nations 
 
 «( 
 
 5,000 
 
 1898 
 
 Modern 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 (( 
 
 200,000 
 
 1885 
 
 None 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 No 
 
 1,000 
 
 1863 
 
 (( 
 
 
 Yes 
 
 300 
 
 1896 
 
 (( 
 
 Designers 
 
 (( 
 
 40,000 
 
 1870 
 
 Pictorial 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 No 
 
 250 
 
 1899 
 
 None 
 
 Nations 
 
 Yes 
 
 500 
 
 
 
 
 (( 
 
 3,000 1901 None 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 500 
 
 1900 
 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 Yes 
 
 150 
 
 1902 
 
 Butler 
 
 Styles 
 
 (( 
 
 5,000 
 
 1893 
 
 Authors 
 
 Artists 
 
 (( 
 
 
 1896 
 
 Channel Isls. 
 
 Genealogy 
 
 No 
 
 2,000 
 
 1886 
 
 None 
 
 
 Yes 
 
 6,000 
 
 1897 
 
 (( 
 
 Styles 
 
 t( 
 
 400 
 
 
 None 
 
 
 (( 
 
 150 
 
 1902 
 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 (( 
 
 4,750 
 
 1896 
 
 Amer., Chip. 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 No 
 
 the remainder, among which are many rare specimens, are 
 in books in the Library. 
 
 179 
 
OONCEBNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Chamberlayne, Emma 
 Chauss^, Alcide 
 Cincinnati Museum 
 
 Association 
 Clark, Dr. Arthur W. 
 Clearwater, Judge A. 
 Clulow, George 
 
 Clute, Beulah Mitchell 
 Columbia Univ. Lib. 
 Cooney, Ellen Jeanette 
 Corning, John H. 
 Corput, Dr. B. E. 
 
 Van den 
 Cosgrave, MacDowel 
 Coudenhove, Countess 
 
 Ernestine 
 Crauzat, P. de 
 
 Curtis, Dr. William K. 
 Cushing, Angeline 
 Darlington, Rev. J. H. 
 Dartmouth College 
 Dassel, Otto von 
 Day, Robert 
 Deats, Hiram E. 
 Delion, Frederic 
 
 Dillman, Eduard 
 
 I Chesham Place, London, Eng. 
 P. O. Box 259, Montreal, Can. 
 Cincinnati, Ohio 
 
 Lawrence, Kan. '' T^*"^ 
 
 316 Albany Ave., Kingston, N. Y. 
 
 51 Belsize Ave., Hampstead, Lon- 
 don, N. W., Eng. 
 
 Park Ridge, 111. 
 
 New York City, N. Y. 
 
 500 T. St.,N. W., Washington, D. 0. 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 21 ave. de la Toison d'Or, Brussels, 
 Bel. 
 
 5 Gardiner's Row, Dublin, Ir. 
 
 Zseliz, Barser Comitat, Hung. 
 
 62 rue de la Tour-d'Auvergne, 
 
 Paris, Fr. 
 Canterbury, Kent, Eng. 
 18 Wanalancit St., Lowell, Mass. 
 481 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 Hanover, N. H. 
 
 II Alaunstrasse, Dresden, Ger. 
 Myrtle Hill, Cork, Ir. 
 Flemington, N. J. 
 
 23 Wallstrasse, Charlottenbnrg, 
 
 near Berlin, Ger. 
 4 Eisenbahngasse, Korneuburg, 
 
 Aus. 
 
 180 
 
COLLECTIONS OF BOOK-PLATES 
 
 NUMBEB 
 
 WHKN 
 
 SUB- 
 
 ABBANQBD 
 
 QENSBAIi 
 
 OF 
 
 
 
 
 EXOHANOES 
 
 PIiATES 
 
 BEGUN 
 
 OOIiLEOTIONS 
 
 BY 
 
 DESIBED 
 
 8,080 
 
 1878 
 
 Ladies 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 No 
 
 600 
 
 1903 
 
 None 
 
 No plan 
 
 Yes 
 
 416 
 
 1900 
 
 Modern 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 (( 
 
 2,602 
 
 1900 
 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 i( 
 
 1,200 
 
 1895 
 
 Authors 
 
 Artists 
 
 No 
 
 3,000 
 
 1865 
 
 
 
 Tes 
 
 350 
 
 1898 
 
 
 Styles 
 
 ti 
 
 3,000 
 
 1899 
 
 American 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 i( 
 
 
 1902 
 
 None 
 
 Dates 
 
 H 
 
 
 1889 
 
 
 Styles 
 
 <i 
 
 
 
 Medical 
 
 Artists 
 
 
 
 1,200 
 
 1897 
 
 Modern, Med. 
 
 
 Yes 
 
 3,000 
 
 1894 
 
 Ecclesiastic 
 
 Countries 
 
 (i 
 
 6,000 
 
 1894 
 
 
 Genealogy 
 
 ti 
 
 6,000 
 
 1875 
 
 None 
 
 
 « 
 
 360 
 
 1901 
 
 « 
 
 Artists 
 
 No 
 
 
 1900 
 
 
 
 (i 
 
 200 
 
 1890 
 
 
 
 
 Yes 
 
 300 
 
 1893 
 
 Armorial 
 
 
 (( 
 
 10,000 
 
 1860 
 
 (( 
 
 Styles 
 
 (( 
 
 10,000 
 
 1889 
 
 New Jersey 
 
 
 Am 
 
 1,000 
 
 1897 
 
 None 
 
 
 Yes 
 
 6,000 
 
 1900 
 
 Monasteries 
 
 Artists 
 
 « 
 
 181 
 
CONCERNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Diodati-Eynard, Mme. 
 La Comtesse 
 "^ Dixson, Zella Allen 
 ■ Dodge, Pickering 
 Dor, Pierre 
 Dorey, Matthew 
 Downes, Mary L. S. 
 
 ■4- Downing, William 
 
 ■^ Drobner, Gustav 
 Drogheda, Countess of 
 Duhme, Ophelia F. 
 Ehrhardt, Georg 
 Eisenhart, August von 
 Elwood, George M. 
 Emslie, J. P. 
 
 Eno, Dr.H. C. 
 Evans, Rev. George 
 Ewers, Dr. Hanis H. 
 
 4- Fisher, William E. 
 Flint, Mrs. Alonzo 
 Frankfort Stadt-bibli- 
 othek 
 
 4 French, Dr. Samuel vs/- 
 Furman, Dorothy 
 Gaisberg-Schdckin- 
 
 gen, F. von 
 Gardner A. Sage Lib. 
 
 4 rue Eynard, Geneva, Swit. 
 
 • 
 
 University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 
 
 2025 G. St., Washington, D. C. 
 
 3 Arcole, Marseilles, Fr. 
 
 28 Sandymount Road, Dublin, Ir. 
 
 484 Elmwood Ave., Providence, 
 R. L 
 
 Kineton Cottage, Olton, Birming- 
 ham, Eng. 
 
 6 Elsasserstrasse, Leipsic, Ger. 
 
 Moore Abbey, Monasterevan, Ir. 
 
 3892 Clifton Ave., Clifton, O. 
 
 21 Ermelstrasse, Dresden, Ger. 
 
 25 Karlstrasse, Munich, Ger. 
 
 Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 50 Kestrel Ave., Heme Hill, Lon- 
 don, Eng. 
 
 Saugatuck, Conn. 
 
 Tan-y-bryn, Aberystwith, Eng. 
 
 Diisseldorf, Ger. 
 
 Fargo, N. D. 
 
 122 Waterman St., Providence, R. I. 
 Frankfort-on-Main, Ger. 
 
 Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 58 Clark St., Glen Ridge, N. J. 
 
 SchOckingen, oberamt Leonberg 
 
 in Wtlrtemberg, Ger. 
 New Brunswick, N. J. 
 
 182 
 
COLLECTIONS OF BOOK-PLATES 
 
 NUMBEB 
 
 WHEN 
 
 SUB- 
 
 ABBANOBD 
 
 OENBBAIi 
 
 OF 
 
 
 
 
 EXCHANGES 
 
 PLATES 
 
 BEGUN 
 
 OOIiLEOTIONS 
 
 BY 
 
 DESIBED 
 
 4,051 
 
 1880 
 
 None 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 Yes 
 
 12,053 
 
 1887 
 
 Children 
 
 Artists 
 
 (I 
 
 2,000 
 
 1886 
 
 
 Styles 
 
 (( 
 
 11,000 
 
 1890 
 
 Provence 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 (( 
 
 6,000 
 
 1892 
 
 Dated 
 
 Styles 
 
 No 
 
 
 1898 
 
 
 
 Yes 
 
 10,000 
 
 1893 
 
 None 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 (( 
 
 5,000 
 
 1898 
 
 Foreign 
 
 Artists 
 
 tt 
 
 3,000 
 
 1900 
 
 None 
 
 
 (( 
 
 400 
 
 1885 
 
 (( 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 ({ 
 
 1,000 
 
 1896 
 
 None 
 
 No plan 
 
 (( 
 
 9,500 
 
 1878 
 
 Monasteries 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 No 
 
 6,000 
 
 1892 
 
 None 
 
 « 
 
 Yea 
 
 
 
 1888 
 
 Proofs 
 
 
 
 No 
 
 4,000 
 
 1892 
 
 Early Amer. 
 
 
 u 
 
 
 1892 
 
 Ecclesiastic 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 u 
 
 4,000 
 
 1896 
 
 Sattler 
 
 Nations 
 
 Yes 
 
 2,000 
 
 1899 
 
 None 
 
 Artists 
 
 (t 
 
 100 
 
 1893 
 
 (( 
 
 
 <( 
 
 3,078 
 
 1894 
 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 <t 
 
 800 
 
 1901 
 
 
 Nations 
 
 II 
 
 3,000 
 
 1894 
 
 Ladies 
 
 Artists 
 
 11 
 
 1,000 
 
 1896 
 
 
 
 « 
 
 600 1890 None Alphabet 
 
 183 
 
 No 
 
CONCEENING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 i Gartner, Emil W. 
 Gastines, Vicomte de 
 
 Gatimel, Comte de Re- 
 gis de 
 
 Geering, Adolf 
 
 George, F. H. 
 
 Gerhardt, Christian 
 
 G61dlin, G. Billot de 
 4. Goulden, William E. 
 ■f Gonry, Dr. Georges 
 
 Greenaway, W.E. 
 • Greene, Agatha R. 
 
 Grissell, Hartwell D. 
 
 GrOnvald, Frederik 
 
 Grolier Clnb 
 
 Grossh. Hof bibliothek 
 -/ Grover, Olive L. 
 
 Grundy-Newman, S. 
 
 Guerlin, M. L. R. 
 
 Guittard, C. B. 
 
 Hagedorn, Dr. A. 
 
 Hahuet, Comte de 
 ' Hallett, Jeannette I. 
 Hamilton, George L. 
 w Harrwitz, Max 
 
 ■^ Hansen, Maj. Erich 
 Freiherr von 
 
 43 Klosterallee, Hamburg, Ger. 
 Chateau de la Denisi^re, near Cou- 
 
 lans, Fr. 
 Chateau de Sainte Marie, Vala- 
 
 br^gues, Gard, Fr. 
 Basle, Swit. 
 
 Box 927, Johannesburg, So. Afr, 
 93 Fifth Ave., New York City, N. Y. 
 Sourdeval, Manche, Fr. 
 5 St. Paul's, Canterbury, Eng. 
 5 rue des Tiercelins, Nancy, Fr. 
 7 Kenton Road, Hackney, Eng. 
 NetherHall,BurySt. Edmunds, Eng. 
 Oxford, Eng. 
 Copenhagen, Den. 
 
 29 E. 32nd St., New York City, N. Y. 
 Darmstadt, Hesse, Ger. 
 
 430 N. State St., Chicago, 111. 
 Littleton Place, Walsall, Eng. 
 
 30 rue St. Louis, Amiens, Fr. 
 80 McMillen Ave., Columbus, O. 
 105 Mittelweg, Harvestehude, Ham- 
 burg, Ger. 
 
 38 rue Gambetta, Nancy, Fr. 
 27 Ellsworth Ave.,Cambridge, Mass. 
 697 Glenwood Ave., Cincinnati, O. 
 113 Potsdamerstrasse, Berlin, W., 
 
 Ger. 
 Festung Kdnigstein, a. E., Saxony, 
 
 Ger. 
 
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 Styles 
 
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 2,000 
 
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 Alphabet 
 
 No 
 
 2,000 
 
 1888 
 
 u 
 
 (( 
 
 Yes 
 
 3,500 
 
 1870 
 
 Swiss 
 
 Dates 
 
 (( 
 
 500 
 
 1896 
 
 None 
 
 Styles 
 
 i( 
 
 2,000 
 
 1890 
 
 Angling 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 No 
 
 1,000 
 
 1901 
 
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 Styles 
 
 Yes 
 
 10,000 
 
 1890 
 
 Labels 
 
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 (( 
 
 3,500 
 
 1896 
 
 
 u 
 
 (t 
 
 500 
 
 1897 
 
 
 
 No 
 
 1,000 
 
 1895 
 
 None 
 
 
 Yes 
 
 1,900 
 
 1890 
 
 Armorial 
 
 Styles 
 
 t( 
 
 200 
 
 1883 
 
 
 
 (( 
 
 
 1885 
 
 None 
 
 Styles 
 
 No 
 
 
 1896 
 
 u 
 
 (( 
 
 « 
 
 250 
 
 1898 
 
 u 
 
 u 
 
 Yes 
 
 5,000 
 
 1878 
 
 Legal 
 
 
 (t 
 
 800 
 
 
 Armorial 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 « 
 
 500 
 
 1898 
 
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 Dates 
 
 (( 
 
 
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 500 1900 " 
 
 None 
 
 3,500 1882 Old Conntriea 
 
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 185 
 
CONOEBNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Hebard, Dr. Grace R. 
 Hewins, Eben N. 
 Hildebrandt, A. M. 
 Himly, Maurice 
 Holbrook, Minnie C. 
 
 Holtorp, Hiero von 
 Hopson, William F. 
 
 Hubbard, Elbert 
 A- Huber, Helene 
 4 Hulbe, George 
 
 Hunt, Mrs. Alfred 
 
 c Ingold, Dr. 
 
 Iwask-Issako, Udo 
 Jackson, W. C. 
 
 James, David L. 
 _: Jilson, C. F. 
 
 Johnson, Carnegy 
 
 Justice, Anne C. 
 
 -4- Kingman, W. L. 
 -* Klotschkoff, W. I. 
 ■^ Kgl. Hof- und Staats- 
 bibliothek 
 
 Laramie, Wyoming 
 4 Hamilton PL, Boston, Mass. 
 3 Schillstrasse, Berlin, W., Ger. 
 3 quai St. Thomas, Strasburg, Ger. 
 1054 Walnut St., Newton High- 
 lands, Mass. 
 
 30 rue Boileau, Auteuil, Paris, Fr, 
 730 Whitney Ave., New Haven, 
 Conn. 
 
 East Aurora, N. Y. 
 95-IV Amalienstrasse, Munich, Ger. 
 47 Lindenstrasse, Hamburg, Ger. 
 South Lodge, Campden Hill, Lon- 
 don, W., Eng. 
 
 6 Place des Six-Montagnes-Noires, 
 
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 Care E. Grether, Moscow, Bus. 
 2 Vicarage Gate, Kensington, 
 
 W., Eng. 
 127 W. 7th St., Cincinnati, O. 
 3140 Calumet Ave., Chicago, 111. 
 61 Wynnstay Gardens, Kensington, 
 
 W., Eng. 
 785 Madison Ave., New York City, 
 
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 1901 
 
 None 
 
 
 Yes 
 
 1,200 
 
 1895 
 
 American 
 
 
 (( 
 
 1,200 
 
 1894 
 
 None 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 (i 
 
 1,020 
 
 1894 
 
 Alsatian 
 
 (( 
 
 u 
 
 100 
 
 1897 
 
 Spenceley 
 
 
 No 
 
 
 1868 
 
 Old 
 
 Dates 
 
 (( 
 
 2,000 
 
 1891 
 
 None 
 
 Styles 
 
 Yes 
 
 500 
 
 1898 
 
 (( 
 
 
 It 
 
 1,100 
 
 1901 
 
 
 Designers 
 
 <i 
 
 1,000 
 
 1890 
 
 None 
 
 
 u 
 
 1,400 
 
 1901 
 
 (( 
 
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 Eng. 
 
 1,500 
 
 
 Ecclesiastic 
 
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 350 
 
 
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 a 
 
 t( 
 
 3,000 
 
 1866 
 
 None 
 
 No plan 
 
 « 
 
 350 
 
 
 
 
 
 2,600 
 
 1896 
 
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 Styles 
 
 No 
 
 
 
 None 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 Yes 
 
 2,800 
 
 1897 
 
 u 
 
 
 (( 
 
 3,000 
 
 1901 
 
 Rnssian 
 
 Alphabet 
 
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 2,000 
 
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 187 
 
OONOEBNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Kyle, Dr. James O. 
 
 Lamson, Edwin R. 
 Langenscheidt, Carl 
 G. F. 
 
 -4~ Lannoy, M. Delano de 
 
 - Lapsley, Anna W. 
 "■ Lamer, John B. 
 ' Larsen, O. I. 
 Leighton, John 
 
 ,_ Leiningen-Wester- 
 
 bnrg, K. E., Count zu 
 Lemperley, Paul 
 Libbie, Frederick J. 
 Lichtenstein^Richard C 
 Linnig, Benjamin 
 Loomis, John T. 
 ' Loth, Abb6 Julien 
 
 Loveland, John W. 
 Low, Adfele T. 
 / Mackenzie, Alexander 
 W. 
 Maignien, Edmond 
 Marshall, Frank E. 
 
 Masson, Henri 
 
 208 W. 45th St., New York City, 
 N. Y. 
 
 46 Hereford St., Boston, Mass. 
 17 Halleschestrasse, Berlin, S. W., 
 46, Ger. 
 
 104 W. 120th St., New York City, 
 N.Y. 
 
 12 W. 37th St., New York City, N. Y. 
 1709 19th St., Washington, D. C. 
 11 Herman Fossgade, Bergen, Nor, 
 Ormonde, Regent's Park, London, 
 
 N. W., Eng. 
 Villa Magda, Neupasing, near 
 
 Munich, Ger. 
 16 Vestry St., Cleyeland, 0. 
 35 Allston St., Dorchester, Mass. 
 . P. O. Box 2068, Boston, Mass. 
 60 rue Conscience, Antwerp, Bel. 
 1726 Corcoran St.,Washington,D.C. 
 St. Maclou, rue Eug^ne-Dutuit, 
 
 Rouen, Fr. 
 Englewood, N. J. 
 
 100 E. 17th St., New York City, N.Y. 
 463 Town St., E., Columbus, O. 
 
 2 rue du Fer-&-Cheval, Grenoble,Fr, 
 3224 Montgomery Ave., Philadel- 
 phia, Pa. 
 4 rue de Cherche-Midi, Paris, Fr. 
 
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 BY 
 
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 EXOHANOBS 
 
 DESIBED 
 
 3,000 
 
 1892 
 
 Irish 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 Yes 
 
 110 
 
 12,000 
 
 1893 
 1894 
 
 1902 
 
 None 
 
 Original 
 
 drawings 
 
 Armorial 
 
 Artists 
 Countries 
 
 No 
 Yes 
 
 200 
 1,400 
 1,000 
 
 1902 
 1896 
 1901 
 
 None 
 
 Spenoeley 
 
 None 
 
 Solander 
 
 u 
 
 (( 
 
 No 
 
 27,000 
 
 1889 
 
 Ladies 
 
 Localities 
 
 Yes 
 
 10,000 
 6,000 
 1,600 
 1,000 
 1,000 
 
 1885 
 1870 
 1900 
 1894 
 1860 
 
 Celebrities 
 Early Amer. 
 
 Old Fr. 
 None 
 Old engr. 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 Periods 
 
 Styles 
 
 Alphabet 
 Dates 
 
 No 
 
 Engr. 
 Yes 
 (i 
 
 500 
 
 1900 
 1899 
 
 E. D. French 
 
 None 
 
 Mackenzie 
 
 No plan 
 Alphabet 
 
 
 4,000 
 
 1867 
 
 Danphinois 
 Early Amer. 
 
 
 (t 
 
 1,600 
 
 1877 
 
 Armorial 
 
 189 
 
 Styles 
 
 Yes 
 
CONOEBNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 J Matharel, Mme. La 
 Vicomtesse de 
 Merrill, Mary E. Rath- 
 J Mesching, Edgttr 
 
 •^' Milner, Madeleine W. 
 Montgomery, Thomas 
 Lynch 
 4 Moore, Edward M. 
 Morgan, John 
 Months, Fr. 
 -, Mttlinen-de Hallwgl, 
 CoTint ■¥. W. de 
 Murray, James 
 
 Museum of Fine Arts 
 Nationale Bibliothfeque 
 New York Historical 
 
 Society 
 New York Public Lib. 
 
 Nichols, Mary E. 
 Noll, Rev. Arthur H. 
 Oberkamp de Dabrun, 
 
 Baron Emile 
 Orr, John 
 
 -f Paine, Nathaniel 
 
 . Pallmann, Frau Dr. E. 
 
 Chateau de la Grangefort par Par- 
 entignat, Puy-de-D6me, Fr. 
 
 80 N. Winner Ave., Columbus, O. 
 
 Lit. 52 log. B., St. Petersburg, 
 Rus. 
 
 336 College Ave., DeKalb, 111. 
 
 904 Clinton St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 7028 Parnell Ave., Chicago, 111. 
 Rabislaw House, Aberdeen, Scot. 
 Rtittenscheidt b-Essen-Ruhr, Ger. 
 Bern, Swit. -► 
 
 246 Whitehall St., Dennistoun, 
 
 Glasgow, Soot. 
 Boston, Mass. 
 Paris, Fr. 
 170 Second Ave., New York City, 
 
 N. Y. 
 40 Lafayette Place, New York City, 
 
 N. Y. 
 2405 Auburn Ave., Cincinnati, O. 
 Sewanee, Tenn. 
 Alais, Fr. 
 
 31 Comely Bank Road, Edin- 
 burgh, Soot. 
 
 72 Elm St., Worcester, Mass. 
 
 95-IV Amalienstrasse, Munich, 
 Ger. 
 
 190 
 
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 BY 
 
 DESIBED 
 
 2,000 
 
 1888 
 
 None 
 
 Localities 
 
 Yes 
 
 8,000 
 
 1893 
 
 Symbolic 
 
 Styles 
 
 « 
 
 500 
 
 1902 
 
 Russian 
 
 Dates 
 
 (( 
 
 
 1900 
 
 
 
 (( 
 
 1,000 
 
 1892 
 
 Heraldic 
 
 
 u 
 
 
 1900 
 
 Modern 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 (( 
 
 6,000 
 
 1896 
 
 Celebrities 
 
 (( 
 
 No 
 
 3,000 
 
 1896 
 
 Military 
 
 Dates 
 
 Yes 
 
 250 
 
 1860 
 
 Armorial 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 <t 
 
 2,500 
 
 1894 
 
 Masonic 
 
 ti 
 
 (i 
 
 600 
 
 1898 
 
 
 Owners 
 
 No 
 
 20,000 
 
 1885 
 
 Russian 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 H 
 
 66 
 
 1789 
 
 Maverick 
 
 
 i( 
 
 100 1897 
 
 900 
 
 1893 
 
 
 Owners 
 
 Yes 
 
 1,000 
 
 1900 
 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 i( 
 
 800 
 
 1876 
 
 Armorial 
 
 (( 
 
 (( 
 
 7,000 
 
 1900 
 
 
 (( 
 
 No 
 
 700 
 
 1897 
 
 None 
 
 Styles 
 
 Yes 
 
 300 
 
 1901 
 
 Ladies 
 
 Design 
 
 u 
 
 191 
 
OONCEKNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Parmelee, Dr. G. L. 65 Pratt St., Hartford, Conn. 
 Peachey, Dr. George C. Brightwalton, Wantage, Eng. 
 Pelay, Edonard 74 rue de Crosnes, Rouen, Fr. 
 
 Perrier, Emile 122 blvd. Longchamp, Marseilles, 
 
 Fr. 
 
 269 Lowell Ave., Newtonville, 
 Mass. 
 
 17 Waterloo Place, Cork, Ir. 
 Hameln-on-the-Weser, Hanover, 
 Ger. 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y. 
 
 2128 E. 2nd St., Dulnth, Minn. 
 
 320 Collins St., Hartford, Conn. 
 
 43 Belmont St., Sonthport, Eng. 
 
 35 Lakewood Road, Newton High- 
 lands, Mass. 
 
 Villa Dncale Litta, Venice, It. 
 
 3 rue du Faubourg St. Georges, 
 Nancy, Fr. 
 
 45 Junkergasse, Bern, Swit. 
 Alder Hill, Meanwood, Leeds, Eng. 
 419 Broadway, Milwaukee, Wis. 
 Williamstown, Mass. 
 73 Grand rue, Villa 23, S t.GervalB, 
 
 Pettee, M. W. (Mrs.) 
 
 Peyton, Violet 
 Pfltimer, Georg 
 
 Philadelphia Free Lib. 
 Phillips, Augustus J. 
 Poirier, Lydia M. 
 Porter, Josephine E. S. 
 Potts, John L. 
 Prescott, Walter C. 
 
 Prior, David Henry 
 Robert, Edmond des 
 
 Rodt, Walther E. von 
 Rowley, Walter 
 Ruscha, Ludmilla 
 Sabin, Ruth M. 
 Saffroy, A. 
 
 Sainte-Geneviftve Bib- 
 liothi^que 
 
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 Paris, Fr. 
 
 192 
 
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 792 
 
 
 None 
 
 Alphabet 
 
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 632 
 
 1896 
 
 Peachey 
 
 Styles 
 
 Med. 
 Yes 
 
 10,000 
 
 1880 
 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 1,000 
 
 
 
 
 i( 
 
 300 
 
 1900 
 
 
 
 (( 
 
 
 1894 
 
 None 
 
 
 (( 
 
 
 1899 
 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 « 
 
 800 
 
 1890 
 
 None 
 
 Localities 
 
 No 
 
 300 
 
 1899 
 
 Library 
 
 
 Yes 
 
 250 
 
 1895 
 
 None 
 
 No order 
 
 <( 
 
 1,700 
 
 1894 
 
 Bewick 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 — 
 
 5,000 
 
 1896 
 
 Canadian 
 
 Artists 
 
 No 
 
 10,000 
 
 1880 
 
 Armorial 
 
 Styles 
 
 Yes 
 
 6,000 
 
 1897 
 
 
 u 
 
 -<( 
 
 1,000 
 
 1896 
 
 None 
 
 No plan 
 
 i( 
 
 250 
 
 1897 
 
 Armorial 
 
 Styles 
 
 (( 
 
 
 1901 
 
 None 
 
 No plan 
 
 (t 
 
 700 
 
 1900 
 
 E. D. French 
 
 
 (( 
 
 10,000 
 
 1880 
 
 
 Nations 
 
 (( 
 
 
 
 French 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 No 
 
 193 
 
CONCERNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Sartorio, Charles de 
 
 Sohibanoff, P. P. 
 Schomberg, Arthnr 
 Schroder, Alfred 
 
 ■^ Schtissler, Marcus 
 
 Scott, J. Douglas 
 ■f Scripps, James E. 
 
 Seliwanoff, A. B. 
 -4 Sens, Georges 
 - Shelton, Ada S. 
 
 Shepherd, John W. 
 
 Sherborn, Charles W. 
 
 + Shir-Cliff, W. H. 
 Shultz, Mary J. 
 
 Sill, Howard 
 ^ Singer, Mr. and Mrs. 
 John W. 
 Smith, Adelaide M. 
 Smith, J. de Berniere 
 
 Smith, J. Henderson 
 Smith, Mary N. 
 Smythe, Elizabeth H. 
 
 34 blvd. du Jardin Zoologique, 
 
 Marseilles, Fr. 
 Moscow, Russia 
 Seend, Melksham, Wilts, Eng. 
 35-111 Kreuzbergstrasse, Berlin, S. 
 
 W., Ger. 
 Nuremberg, Ger. 
 Neponset Ave.,Hyde Park, Mass. 
 598 Trumbull Ave., Detroit, Mich. 
 Vladimir, Russia 
 8 rue de I'Arsenal, Arras, Fr. 
 Derby, Conn. 
 Birkenhead, Eng. 
 54:0 King's Road, London, S. W., 
 
 Eng. 
 
 9lxd. 
 
 e//. 
 
 War Dept., Washington, D.^OT ^, f}J 
 
 5003 McPherson Ave., St. Lonis, 
 Mo. 
 
 2 E. Lexington St., Baltimore, Md, 
 
 Knoll House, Frome, Somerset* 
 Eng. 
 
 135 George St., Providence, R. I. 
 
 4 Gloucester Terrace, Regent's 
 Park, London, N. W., Eng. 
 
 1 Forres St., Edinburgh, Scot. 
 
 1233 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
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 bus, O. 
 
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 3,000 
 
 1897 
 
 Old Fr. 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 Yes 
 
 500 
 
 1892 
 
 RnsBian 
 
 a 
 
 M 
 
 2,000 
 
 1881 
 
 
 
 
 No 
 
 3,000 
 
 1900 
 
 Berlin 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 Yes 
 
 2,300 
 
 1894 
 
 
 Artists 
 
 11 
 
 2,000 
 
 1854 
 
 None 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 (( 
 
 
 1898 
 
 (( 
 
 No plan 
 
 u 
 
 100 
 
 1901 
 
 
 
 (I 
 
 400 
 
 1895 
 
 Provence 
 
 Owners 
 
 — 
 
 150 
 
 1895 
 
 
 
 Yes 
 
 900 
 
 1899 
 
 Cheshire 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 (( 
 
 
 
 Proofs 
 
 Styles 
 
 No 
 
 10,000 
 
 1895 
 
 Early 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 Yes 
 
 400 
 
 1899 
 
 
 Styles 
 
 . i( 
 
 2,000 
 
 1889 
 
 American 
 
 Periods 
 
 No 
 
 13,000 
 
 1893 
 
 Ladies 
 
 Styles 
 
 Yes 
 
 250 
 
 1901 
 
 Spenceley 
 
 
 No 
 
 1,500 
 
 1900 
 
 Old Armorial 
 
 
 
 u 
 
 3,000 
 
 1893 
 
 Scotch 
 
 Styles 
 
 Scot. 
 
 250 
 
 
 None 
 
 Engravers 
 
 Yes 
 
 364 
 
 1898 
 
 Libraries 
 
 Styles 
 
 it 
 
 195 
 
OONOEBNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 - Soane, Harry 
 
 Soragna-Melzi, Mar- 
 
 chesa di 
 Spenceley, J. Winfred 
 -+ Starke, Georg 
 
 Stauffer, David McN. 
 
 Steyert, A. 
 
 Stickelberger, Eman- 
 uel 
 ' Stiebel, Heinrich E. 
 
 •-' Stokes, Dr. John 
 
 -t Stone, Wilbur M. 
 
 I Strauss-Hanswaldt, 
 
 Frau Margarethe 
 Sturges, Lucy H. 
 Sutton, Albert 
 Taft, Dr. Mary F. 
 
 -' Tausin, Henri 
 Teahon, Maud 
 Thorpe, Alexander 
 
 -' Tinkler, Rev. John 
 . Toedteberg, Emma 
 
 Troutowski,Woldemar 
 Truesdell, W. Porter 
 ' Van de Vin, Sophie 
 
 36 Hanway St., London, W., Eng. 
 40 Via MaWzoni, Milan, It. 
 
 Studio Bldg., Boston, Mass. 
 
 39 Salomonstrasse, QOrlitz, Ger. 
 
 St. Paul's Bldg., New York City, 
 
 N. Y. 
 23 Place Bellecour, Lyons, Pr. 
 20 Schanzenstrasse, Basle, Swit. 
 
 12 Taunusstrasse, Frankfort-on- 
 
 Main, Ger. 
 82 Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, Eng. 
 411 E. 28th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 14 gr. Klosterstrasse, Magdeburg, 
 
 Ger. 
 Elmhurst, 111. 
 
 107 Bishop St., Manchester, Eng. 
 303 Walnut St., Newton ville, Mass. 
 36 blvd. des Batignolles, Paris, Fr. 
 5225 Jefferson Ave., Chicago, 111. 
 Westlands, Wavertree, Liverpool, 
 
 Eng. 
 Caunton Vicarage, Newark, Eng. 
 274 Vanderbilt Ave., Brooklyn, 
 
 N. Y. 
 Ereml. Palais, Moscow, Rus. 
 36 Hazlewood St., Maiden, Mass. 
 Eeckeren, near Antwerp, Bel. 
 
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 DESIBED 
 
 1,500 1874 None Styles 
 317 1900 Foreign 
 
 Yes 
 
 1,000 
 
 1895 
 
 Proofs 
 
 Nations 
 
 No 
 
 4,500 
 
 1892 
 
 None 
 
 Leiningen 
 
 Yes 
 
 2,500 
 
 1872 
 
 
 Styles 
 
 No 
 
 
 1856 
 
 
 No plan 
 
 (( 
 
 
 1900 
 
 Swiss 
 
 Cantons 
 
 Yes 
 
 6,600 
 
 1877 
 
 Marks 
 
 Countries 
 
 i( 
 
 4,000 
 
 1890 
 
 Medical 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 (( 
 
 
 1895 
 
 Children 
 
 Artists 
 
 a 
 
 8,000 
 
 1898 
 
 None 
 
 
 ii 
 
 
 1901 
 
 i( 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 No 
 
 1,800 
 
 1880 
 
 Cheshire 
 
 
 — 
 
 
 1902 
 
 None 
 
 
 Yes 
 
 
 1869 
 
 French 
 
 Dates 
 
 t( 
 
 500 
 
 1900 
 
 Early Amer. 
 
 Artists 
 
 (( 
 
 500 
 
 1902 
 
 None 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 (1 
 
 2,150 
 
 1850 
 
 Ladies 
 
 Styles 
 
 u 
 
 2,000 
 
 1872 
 
 E. D. French 
 
 
 (t 
 
 400 
 
 1901 
 
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 « 
 
 5,000 
 
 1901 
 
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 (( 
 
 1,600 
 
 1900 
 
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 197 
 
 Periods 
 
 (( 
 
OONOEKNING BOOK-PLATES 
 
 Name 
 
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 Van Zandt, Margaret 
 
 Vassar Alumnae Hist. 
 Assn. 
 4 Verster, J. F. 
 
 Vervliet, J. B. 
 Vicars, Sir Arthur 
 4 Vinycomb, John 
 Viol, Carl 
 
 Wallmenich, Col. von 
 
 Ward, James 
 ~ Warncke, Werner^ 
 4- Weittenhiller, M^Aon 
 
 Welsh, Gertrude C. 
 
 Werkmeister, F. W. 
 
 Wheeler, Florence S. 
 
 White, Emma G. 
 ^ Whitmore, Mrs. Wil- 
 liam H. 
 
 Wiggishoff, J. C. 
 
 Wilokens, Theodor 
 
 Williams, William C. 
 
 Winship, George P. 
 - Wolbrandt, Carl 
 
 Wolseley, Hon. Frances 
 -4 Woodbury, John P. 
 
 Columbia University, New York, 
 
 City, N. Y. 
 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, 
 
 N. Y. 
 7 Tesselschade straat, Amsterdam, 
 
 Neth. 
 61 rue du Bien-lStre, Antwerp, Bel. 
 44 Wellington Road, Dublin, Ir. 
 3 Riverside, Holywood, Down, Ir. 
 14 Plantage Parkham, Amsterdam, 
 
 Holl. 
 10 Hessstrasse, Munich, Ger. 
 South Parade, Nottingham, Eng. 
 67 Bayerstrasse, Munich, Ger. 
 
 11 Hardtgasse, Vienna, Aus. 
 
 328 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
 2 Leontjewshy, Moscow, Rus. 
 190 Salem St., Medford, Mass. 
 1030 Davis St., Evanston, 111. 
 
 12 Union Park, Boston, Mass. 
 
 153 rue Marcadet, Paris, Fr. 
 Mannheim, Ger. 
 58 E. 43d St., Chicago, 111. 
 238 Thayer St., Providence, R. I. 
 127 West wall, Crefeld, Ger. 
 Farm House, Glynde, Sussex, Eng. 
 348 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, 
 Mass. 
 
 198 
 
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 1,000 1900 Ladies 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 No 
 
 325 1899 Institutions Styles 
 11,500 1894 Musical " 
 
 3,000 1880 Belgian 
 20,000 1887 Sherborn 
 3,000 1870 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 Tea 
 
 2,000 
 
 1895 
 
 None 
 
 Countries 
 
 <( 
 
 500 
 
 1892 
 
 Nottingham 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 No 
 
 1,000 
 
 1902 
 
 German 
 
 
 Yes 
 
 3,000 
 
 
 Engraved 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 u 
 
 450 
 
 1901 
 
 American 
 
 Artists 
 
 a 
 
 500 
 
 1898 
 
 Russian 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 No 
 
 500 
 
 1895 
 
 
 Artists 
 
 Yes 
 
 
 1900 
 
 E.D.French 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 No 
 Yes 
 
 500 
 
 1895 
 
 Celebrities 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 No 
 
 700 
 
 1895 
 
 Heraldic 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 (( 
 
 
 1896 
 
 Spenceley 
 
 
 Yes 
 
 250 
 
 1895 
 
 None 
 
 
 No 
 
 1,800 
 
 1897 
 
 
 Nations 
 
 Yes 
 
 5,000 
 
 1890 
 
 Armorial 
 
 Styles 
 
 i( 
 
 3,000 
 
 1890 
 
 Early Amer. 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 Eng 
 
 199 
 
CONCERNING BCX)K-PLATES 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Woods, James C. 
 Woodward, Fred C. 
 Woolley, Fred H. 0. 
 Worsfold, Thomas J. 
 
 Wright, W. H. K. 
 Wurstenberger, Rudolf 
 
 von 
 Wyer, Mabel K. 
 
 Znr Westen, Walter 
 von 
 
 Rheanva. Swansea, Eng. 
 P. O. Box 832, Washington, D. 0. 
 147 Franklin St., Boston, Mass. 
 14 Crofton Road, Peokham Road, 
 
 S. £., London, Eng. 
 Plymouth, Eng. 
 Bern, Swit. 
 
 Excelsior, Minn. 
 
 1 Sigismnndstrasse, Berlin, W., 10^ 
 Qer. 
 
 200 
 
COLLECTIONS OF BOOK-PLATES 
 
 NUMBEB 
 
 WHEN 
 
 8UB- 
 
 ABBANOED 
 
 OENBBAIi 
 
 OF 
 
 
 
 
 EXCHANGES 
 
 PliATES 
 
 BEGUN 
 
 OOLIiEOTIONS 
 
 BY 
 
 DESIBED 
 
 2,500 
 
 1893 
 
 Ecclesiastic 
 
 Styles 
 
 No 
 
 200 
 
 1899 
 
 None 
 
 No plan 
 
 Yes 
 
 
 
 
 Styles 
 
 No 
 
 
 1880 
 
 None 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 (i 
 
 20,000 
 
 1880 
 
 Libraries 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 Tes 
 
 500 
 
 1901 
 
 Swiss 
 
 Cantons 
 
 it 
 
 260 
 
 1901 
 
 Libraries 
 
 Alphabet 
 
 u 
 
 3,000 
 
 1899 
 
 None 
 
 Artists 
 
 M 
 
 201 
 
INDEX 
 
 Abbey, Edwin, A., 48, 87 
 Abbot, 156 
 Adam, 105, 156 
 Adams, Frances A., 176-7 
 Advielle, Victor, 176-7 
 Albany, Countess of, 35-6 
 Alfieri, Vittorio, 35-6 
 Allardice, S., 59-60 
 Allegories, 158-4 
 Allen, C. D., 16, 98, 107, 171, 
 Alton Road, 129 
 Amberger, Fritz, 168, 176-7 
 Amman, Jost, 60 
 Anderson, Alex., 60-2, 70 
 Anderson, Mary, 104 
 Andorfer, Karl, 173 
 Andr6, Henry, 87 
 Anne, Queen, 145 
 Archbishops' plate, 155 
 Archiv der freien und Hause- 
 
 stadt, 176-7 
 Archives de la Soci6t6 Fran- 
 
 gaise des Collectionneurs 
 
 d'Ex-Libris, 173-4 
 Armstrong, J. T., 171, 176-7 
 
 203 
 
 Arrangement, 164-6 
 
 Art of book-keeping, xv 
 
 Ashbee, H., 162 
 
 Atkinson, Alice R., 125 
 
 Atkinson, Theodore, 76 
 
 Avril, Paul, 87 
 
 Aylward, F. G. &A. E., 27-9, 
 
 106, 108 
 Ayres, Edward, 136 
 Ayres, H. B. & R. L., 136 
 Bachrouschine, A. P., 176-7 
 Baer, F. H., 176-7 
 Bailey, Sir W. H., 176-7 
 Baldung, Hans, 62 
 Ballou, C. R., 130 
 Bancroft, George, 36-7 
 Bangor, Bishop of, 138 
 Bank Note Company, 124 
 Barbour, Edith H., 100 
 Bargalld, F., 159, 176-7 
 Barker, Mrs. Richard, 176-7 
 BarlCsius, Georg, 87 
 Barnes, G. F., 126 
 Barrett, W. P., 88 
 Bartolozzi, F., 18, 62-3 
 
INDEX 
 
 Bastille, 37 
 Bates, A. T., 128 
 Bates, Arlo, 176-7 
 Baumburg Monastery, 9 
 Beach, Helen & George, 91-2 
 Beatty, G. W., 107 
 Beauchamp, Pierre de, 176-7 
 Bednall, W. T., 176-7 
 Beilby, Ralph, 63 
 Bell, A. M., 37-8 
 Bell, R. A., 50, 88 
 Belmont Public Lib., 100 
 Benedictines, 2-3 
 Benkard, Rudolph, 176-7 
 Berdan, Joannis M., 107 
 B^ringuier, R., 176-7 
 Bertarelli, A., 69 
 Besant, Walter, 133 
 Bevan, Paul, 176-7 
 Bewick, John, 64 
 Bewick, Thomas, 63-4:, 157 
 Bicknell, W. H. W., 98 
 Bibliothek des Kdnigl. 
 
 Kunstgewerbe-Mus., 176-7 
 Billerica Hist. Soc, 126 
 Biographical, 154 
 Bisbee, M. D., 176-7 
 Bishop, 156 
 Black, Jennie P., 129 
 Blackstone Public Lib., 106 
 Blackwell, Henry, 176-7 
 
 Bliss, Caroline S., 176-7 
 Bojnici6, I., 176-7 
 Book-piles, 154 
 Book-Plate Exchange Club, 
 
 167 
 Books in chains, 2 
 Bosch, Louis, 160 
 Boston Bewick Company, 65 
 Boston Browning Soc, 126 
 Boston Public Lib., 125 
 Bouchardon, E., 67 
 Boucher, Francois, 64 
 Bouland, L., 173-4 
 Bouvenne, A., 47-8, 89, 178-9 
 Bowdoin College, 52, 100 
 Bowen, Abel, 64, 69 
 Boys, Henry, S., Ill 
 Brainerd, H. E., 96 
 Braquemond, Felix, 90 
 Bray, Thomas, 38-42, 58, 73 
 Brayton, Elizabeth H., 129 
 Breiner, Count, 80 
 Brendicke, Hans, 172, 178-9 
 Brettauer, Valerie, 178-9 
 British Museum, 165, 178-9 
 Brock, R. A., 178-9 
 Brown, Frank C, 90, 178-9 
 Brown, James R., 178-9 
 Browning, Frances E., 178-9 
 Brunswick-Ols, Duke of, 10 
 Bryson Library, 128 
 
 204 
 
INDEX 
 
 Buck, J. H., 178-9 
 Burchard, Georg, 178-9 
 Burgkmair, Hans, 65 
 Btirkner, Hugo, 65 
 Burnet, John, 69 
 Burnham, Katharine, 178-9 
 Butler, T. K. L., 178-9 
 Butterfield, W. A., 126, 178-9 
 Byrd, William, 42-3 
 Calder, Daisy, 111 
 Calder, James, 112 
 Caldicott, Arthur H., Ill 
 Callender, Joseph, 65-6 
 Cambridge Univ. Press, 161 
 Cameron, Charles E., 126 
 Cameron, D. Y., 91 
 Cardinal, 155 
 Careme, E., 174 
 Carey, Edith F., 178-9 
 Carlander, Carl M., 178-9 
 Carlshausen, Rittenmeister 
 
 von, 178-9 
 Carnegie, Mrs. T. M., 178-9 
 Carter, Melissa A., 108 
 Castle, Agnes, 10, 91 
 Castle, Egerton, 10, 54, 59, 
 
 91, 144 
 Castle, Marie L. E., 91 
 Castle, Septimus, 111 
 Catholic Univ. of America, 
 
 178-9 
 
 Cattle, Frederic, 178-9 
 Caxton, William, 161 
 Chained books, 3 
 Chamberlain, Robert M., 107 
 Chamberlayne, Emma, 180-1 
 Chambers, Jay, 91 
 Chambliss, George S., 128 
 Champfleurs, 90 
 Champion, Georges, 74 
 Chappell, C. W., 129 
 Chaus86, Alcide, 180-1 
 Cheever, David W., 126 
 Cheney, Elizabeth, 100 
 Chew, Beverly, 97 
 Chiemsee Monastery, 9 
 Childs, Cephas G., 66 
 Chippendale, 9, 146-9, 151, 
 
 153 
 Chiswick Press, 161 
 Choiseul-Beaupre, Bp. ,71 
 Cincinnati Museum Associ- 
 ation, 180-1 
 Clapp, C. C, 101 
 Clark, Arthur W., 91, 180-1 
 Carke, Maisie K., 116 
 Classification, 141-63 
 Clay, Henry, 119-20 
 Clearwater, A. T., 126, 180-1 
 Clerkenwell, St. John, 137 
 Clulow, George, 180-1 
 Clute, Beulah M., 92, 180-1 
 
 205 
 
INDEX 
 
 Codman, Henry S., 126 
 Codman, Philip, 126 
 Cole, A. W. & E. L. T., 108 
 Collin, Dominique, 66-7 
 Collin, Yves D., 66 
 Collections, 175-201 
 Collett, Antonia, 137 
 Collett, Mark E., 137 
 Columbia Univ. Lib., 77, 96, 
 
 180-1 
 Conant, W. H., 99 
 Conn. State Lib., 107 
 Cooney, Ellen J., 180-1 
 Cooper, Venetia H., Ill 
 Corbin, Frank, A., 108 
 Cordier, Paul, 162-3 
 Corning, John H., 180-1 
 Corput, B. E. Van den, 180-1 
 Cosgrave, MacDowel, 180-1 
 Coudenhove, Countess Ern- 
 estine, 180-1 
 Crauzat, P. de, 180-1 
 Crabb, Edward, 135 
 Craig, Gordon, 93 
 Cranach, Lucas, 67 
 Crane, Walter, 93 
 Crawshaw, E., 135 
 Crocker, Alice M., 108 
 Crocker, Minerva C, 129 
 Crooks, Robert C, 138 
 Curtis, Anna L., 108 
 
 Curtis, William K., 180-1 
 Cushing, Angeline, 180-1 
 Cushing, Josiah S., 100 
 Dachenhausen, Baron von, 94 
 Daly, Augustin, 159 
 Damer, Anne S., 43-4 
 Darlington, J. H., 180-1 
 Dartmouth College, 52, 77, 
 
 129, 180-1 
 Dassel, Otto von, 180-1 
 Daughters of the Amer. Rev., 
 
 30-4 
 Daulceur, Mad. la, 67 
 David, Monsieur, 153 
 Davies, James R., 112 
 Davis, Samuel, 90 
 Dawkins, Henry, 68-9 
 Dawson, Arthur L., 137 
 Day, Robert, 133, 180-1 
 Dearborn, Nathaniel, 69 
 Deats, Hiram E., 98, 180-1 
 Decies, Lord, 138 
 Decorative, 9, 154 
 Deering, Thomas, 76 
 Delion, Frederic, 180-1 
 Depew, Chauncey, 131 
 Derby Public Lib., 100 
 Derby, William M., jr., 126 
 Detroit Pnblic Lib., 128 
 Devlin, John E., 127 
 Dillman, Eduard, 180-1 
 
 206 
 
INDEX 
 
 Diodati-Eynard, Madame La Ehrhardt, Georg, 182-3 
 
 Comtesse, 182-3 
 Dixson, Zella A., 26-7,129, 
 
 165-6, 182-3 
 Dodge, Pickering, 182-3 
 Dodsworth, Alice A., 130 
 Doepler, E., 94, 174 
 Dohn, Pauline, 116 
 Doolittle, Amos, 69-70, 
 Dor, Pierre, 182-3 
 Dorey, Matthew, 182-3 
 Downes, Mary L. 8., 182-3 
 Downing, William, 182-3 
 Drake, Tracy C, 126 
 Drobner, Gustav, 182-3 
 Drogheda, Countess of, 
 Dnff, Gordon A., 112 
 Duff, Gordon B., 112 
 Duff, Thomas, D. G., Ill 
 Duhme, Ophelia F., 182-3 
 Dunne, Frank L., 99 
 Dunnett, R. W., 136 
 Dtlrer, Albrecht, 18, 70, 118 
 
 160, 
 Early Armorial, 143-5 
 Eaton, Levi W., 24-5, 126 
 Edlmann, G. H., 136 
 Edlmann, Herbert, 136 
 Edward VII, King, 20-3 
 Edwards, George, 94 
 Ecclesiastic, 165 
 
 Eisen, Charles, 67, 70-1 
 Eisenhart, August von, 182-3 
 Elwood, George M., 182-3 
 Emblematic, 163 
 Emery, Mary M., 129 
 Emslie, J. P., 182-3 
 Eno, Henry C, 94, 182-3 
 Ensign, Joseph R., 107 
 Erler, Fritz, 94 
 Evans, Arthur E., Ill 
 Evans, George, 182-3 
 Eve, George W., 21-2, 95 
 Ewers, Hanns H., 182-3 
 Ex Libri8-Club"Basilea,"168 
 Ex Libris Journal, 170-1 
 Ex Libris Society, 106, 170-1 
 Ex libris- Verein, 171-2 
 Faesch, Eugen, 169 
 Fairman, Gideon, 71 
 Faithorne, William, 71-2 
 Farlow, John W., 99 
 Fee, Mary H., 126 
 Ferry, Charles H., 107 
 Fincham, Alfred, 138 
 Fincham, A. W., 135 
 Fincham, H. W., 59, 75, 135, 
 
 136 
 Fisher, William E., 95, 182-3 
 Fiske, John, 99 
 Fleming, Sir William, 73 
 
 207 
 
INDEX 
 
 Flint, Mrs. Alonzo, 182-3 
 Forms of impressions, 19-20, 
 
 30 
 Forwood, Kate C.,112 
 Foster, W. H., 95 
 Frankfort Stadt-bibliothek, 
 
 182-3 
 French, Edwin D., 27, 95, 99 
 French, Frederick W., 99 
 French, Samuel, 182-3 
 French Rev., 18-9, 152-3 
 Freund, Max, 138 
 Fry, Charles, 126 
 Furman, Dorothy, 182-3 
 Fust, Johann, 161 
 Gaisberg-SchOckingen, F., 
 
 von, 182-3 
 Garden of Eden, 156 
 Gardiner, J. H., 130 
 Gardiner, J. T., 130 
 Gardiner, Robert H., 130 
 Gardner A. Sage Lib., 182-3 
 Garfield, Abram, 127 
 Garfield James R., 127 
 Garrett, Edmund H., 25, 97-8 
 Gartner, Emil W., 184-5 
 Gastines, Vicomte de, 184-5 
 G&timel, Gomte de Regis de, 
 
 184-5 
 Gautier, Th^ophile, 90 
 Gavarni, 72 
 
 Geering, Adolf, 184-5 
 Geoffroy, Matthaeus, F., 77 
 George, F. H., 184-5 
 Gerard, Lady, 88 
 Gerhardt, Christian, 184-5 
 Gerster, L., 59 
 Gilbert, Henry K., 129 
 Gilpin, Henry D., 66 
 Girometti, Pietro, 122 
 Gladstone, William E., 102 
 Goethe, Johann W., 72 
 GOldlin, G. Billot de, 184-5 
 Goncourt, Edmond de, 72 
 Goncourt, Jules de, 72 
 Goodhue, Bertram G., 101, 
 
 131 
 Gooding, Alfred, 99 
 Gookin, Frederick W., 130, 
 
 131 
 Gospel ship, 58 
 Gosse, William E., 1 
 Goulden William E., 184-5 
 Goury, Georges, 184-6 
 Greenaway, Kate, 101 
 Greenaway, William E., 184-5 
 Greene, Agatha R., 184-5 
 Greene, Edith A., 101 
 Greiner, Otto, 101 
 Grew, Henry S., 127 
 Grew, Randolph C, 127 
 Gribelin, Simon, 73 
 
 208 
 
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INDEX 
 
 Grissell, Hartwell D., 184-5 
 Gronvald, Frederik, 184-5 
 Grolier Club, 184-5 
 Grossh.Hofbibliothek, 184-5 
 Grover, Olive L., 184-5 
 Grundy-Newman, S., 184-5 
 Gucht, Michael V., 73, 83 
 Guerlin, M. L. R., 184-5 
 Guittard, C. B., 184-5 
 Gutenberg, 161 
 Hacket, Bishop, 72 
 Hackley, M. F., 102 
 Hadlow, F. v., 102 
 Hagedorn, A., 184-5 
 Hahuet, Comte de, 184-5 
 Hale, George S., 130 
 Hale, Robert, 76 
 Halkett, G. R., 102 
 Hall, Mary C, 136 
 Hall, Montague, 138 
 Hall, Sophia E., 136 
 Haller, Friedrich, 169 
 Hallett, Jeannette I., 184-5 
 Hamel, Mary A., Ill 
 Hamilton, George L., 184-5 
 Hamilton, Walter, 59, 74, 151 
 Hammond, G. G. & E. L., 128 
 Hardy, W. J., 54 
 Harris, Norman W., 126 
 Harrison, Thomas E., 102 
 Harrwitz, Max, 184-5 
 
 Hart, Gerald E., 44-5 
 Harvard, 65, 77, 99, 101, 130 
 Hastings, Frank, 128 
 Hansen, Ma j . Erich Freiherr 
 
 von, 184-5 
 Hay, Alexander, 138 
 Hebard, Grace A., 186-7 
 Henry IV, 149-50 
 Henshaw, William, 75 
 Hewins, E. N., 127, 186-7 
 Hey ward, Maude, 129 
 Hibbart, William, 75 
 Higginson, George, jr., 128 
 Hildebrandt, Adolf M., 102, 
 
 186-7 
 Hill, Ernest G., Ill 
 Hillemacher, Frederic, 73 
 Himly, Maurice, 186-7 
 Hirzel, H. R. C, 103 
 Historical outline, 1-8 
 Hoadley, Charles J. & G. E., 
 
 108 
 Hodgson, George, 160 
 Hogarth, William, 18, 74-5 
 Hoggson, Noble F., 126 
 Holbein, Hans, 75 
 Holbrook, Minnie C, 127, 
 
 186-7 
 Hollyer, Samuel, 103 
 Holmes, Oliver W., 45-6, 123, 
 
 125 
 
 209 
 
INDEX 
 
 Holtorp, Hiero von, 186-7 
 Holyoke, Edward A., 75 
 Home, W. E., 106 
 Hopson, Ada M., 107 
 Hopson, William F., 28-9,104- 
 
 8, 156, 186-7 
 Hotel Touraine, 127 
 Hubbard, Elbert, 186-7 
 Huber, Helene, 186-7 
 Hugo, Victor, 46-8. 90 
 Hulbe, George, 186-7 
 Hunnard, Arthur, 137 
 Hunt, Mrs. Alfred, 186-7 
 Hurd, Nathaniel, 18, 75-7 
 Hutton, Laurence, 175 
 Imaginary, 156 
 Ingersoll, Colin M., 108 
 Ingold, Dr., 186-7 
 Ives, Noble, 128 
 Iwask-Issako, Udo, 186-7 
 Jackson, W. C, 186-7 
 Jacobean, 9, 145-7, 153 
 James, David L., 186-7 
 Jelf-Sharp, Constance, 85 
 
 141 
 Jilson, C. F., 186-7 
 Johnson, Carnegy, 186-7 
 Johnston, Graham, 109 
 Johnston, J. Herbert, 108 
 Joline, Adrian H., 107 
 Joly, L., 156 
 
 Judd, Arthur C, 99 
 Jungwierth, Franz X., 77 
 Justice, Anne C, 186-7 
 Kellogg, Lois, 128 
 Kily, Leslie E., 100 
 Kingman, William L., 186-7 
 Klingen, Max, 109 
 Klotschkoff, W. L, 186-7 
 Knabensberg, Johannes, 17 
 Koehler, Robert, 90 
 Kgl. Hof-und Staats-biblio- 
 
 thek, 186-7 
 Kn6ringen, 14 
 Kyle, James O., 188-9 
 Kyre Park Lib., 138 
 Lamb, Charles, 128 
 Lamson, Edwin R., 99, 18S-9 
 Landscape, 156 
 Langenscheidt, C. G. F., 10, 
 
 188-9 
 Lannoy, M. Delano de, 188-9 
 Lapsley, Anna W., 188-9 
 Larner, John B., 188-9 
 Larsen, O. I., 188-9 
 Lawson, Thomas W., 101 
 Le Clerc, S^bastien, 77 
 Legal, 157 
 Leighton, John, 109, 117, 
 
 188-9 
 Leiningen-Westerburg, 
 
 Count zu, 8, 10, 59, 188-9 
 
 210 
 
INDEX 
 
 Le Keux, John H., 77 
 Lemperley, Paul, 98, 188-9 
 Levetus, Celia, 109 
 Lewis, Eva, 128 
 Libbie, Frederick J., 106, 
 
 188-9 
 Liberty-cap, 18, 153 
 Library Interiors, 9, 10, 167 
 Lidstone, J. G., 137 
 Lichtenstein, R. C, 188-9 
 Linarti, Filippo, 160 
 Linnig, Benjamin, 188-9 
 Lister, Edgar G., 110 
 Lister, Hamel, 110, 111 
 Literary, 9, 158 
 Little, Florence E., 112 
 Livingood, Charles J., 130 
 Loggar, David, 84 
 Longman, Val, 136 
 Loomis, John T., 188-9 
 Loth, Abb6 Julien, 188-9 
 Louis XIII, 149-50 
 Louis XIV, 150 
 Louis XV, 151-2 
 Louis XVI, 152-3 
 Louis XVIII, 153 
 Loux, Dubois H., 126 
 Loveland, John W., 188-9 
 Low, Ad^le T., 127, 188-9 
 Low, Ethelbert I., 130 
 Lowell, John A., & Co., 46 
 
 Lowell Public Lib., 100 
 Lyon, Frederick D., 125 
 McDowell, Madeleine C.,119 
 MacDowell, T. D., 136 
 Mack, Alexander, W., 107 
 Mackenzie, Alex. W., 188-9 
 McKinney, Hugh G., 137 
 Macomber, Frank G., 99 
 Maignien, E., 188-9 
 Major, Ernest, 90 
 Manila memorial plate, 30-4 
 Marcus Ward & Co., 133 
 Marks, Henry S., 112 
 Marks of cadency, 8 
 Marshall, Frank E., 188-9 
 Marshall, Julian, 27 
 Marshall, William, 78 
 Masson, Henri, 188-9 
 Matharel, Mme. La Vicomt- 
 
 esse de, 190-1 
 Martin, Alexis, 90 
 Matthews, James B., 48, 87 
 Maverick, Peter R., 18, 78 
 May, Phil, 113 
 Means, Stewart, 106 
 Mecklenbergh, Ulrick, Duke 
 
 of, 67 
 Medical, 158 
 
 Mellen Chamberlain memor- 
 ial, 129 
 Merrill, Allene LeC, 129 
 
 211 
 
INDEX 
 
 Merrill, Mary E. Rath- 31-3, 
 
 129, 190-1 
 Mersick, C. S., 107 
 Mesching, Edgar, 190-1 
 Metcalfe, John H., 113 
 Meyer, Eduard L., 114 
 Micklem, Nathaniel, 136 
 Middlesex Co. Hist. Soc, 108 
 Mifflin, George H., 130 
 Miller, 130 
 Miller, De Witt, 99 
 Mills, George M., 136 
 Milner, Madeleine W., 190-1 
 Mitchell, Henry, 125, 126, 127 
 Mitchell, M. & P., 92 
 Mitchell, W. T., 137 
 Modern Armorial, 148-9 
 Monk, William, 114 
 Monogram, 159 
 Montgomery, T. L., 190-1 
 Moore, Edward M., 190-1 
 Moore, F. E., 129 
 Morgan, John, 190-1 
 Morot, Aim6e, 89 
 Mountaine, R., 79 
 Mouths, Fr., 190-1 
 Mtlhlenberg, H. M., 48-9 
 Mtilinen-de Hallwgl, Count 
 
 F. W. de, 190-1 
 Mtinchhausen, Baron, 49 
 Murray, James, 190-1 
 
 Museum of Fine Arts, 
 
 Boston, 190-1 
 Musical, 159-60 
 Napoleon, 152-3 
 Nationale Bib., Paris, 190-1 
 Neale, Alexander, 136 « 
 Neumegen, W., 135 
 New Haven Public Lib., 105 
 New Haven Col. Hist. Soc, 
 
 107 
 New York Hist. Soc, 190-1 
 New York Public Lib., 190-1 
 Nichols, Mary E., 190-1 
 Nixon, John F., 114 
 Noah's ark, 162 
 Nog, Comtesse, 90, 162 
 Noll, Arthur H., 115, 190-1 
 Norcross, Mary, 99 
 Northampton Institute, 138 
 Norton, Rachel, 107 
 Oakley, Horace S., 130 
 Oberkamp de Dabrum, E., 
 
 190-1 
 Oesterreiohische Ex-Libris- 
 
 Gesellschaft, 172 
 Ohio Memorial Alcove, 30-4 
 Ohio State Univ. Lib., 130 
 Oliver, F. W., 135 
 Optical Soc of London, 138 
 Orr, John, 190-1 
 Ospovat, Henry, 115 
 
 212 
 
INDEX 
 
 Otto, Georg, 115 
 Oxford Univ. Press, 161 
 Paine, Nathaniel, 190-1 
 Pallmann, E., 190-1 
 Palmer, Lowell M., 130 
 Parmelee, George L., 192-3 
 Paul, Sir James B., 171 
 Paulmy, Marquis de, 71 
 Payne, John H., 106 
 Peabody, May, 106 
 Peachey, George C, 192-3 
 Peck, C. E. & A. B., 128 
 Pedley, R. D., 138 
 Pelay, Edouard, 192-3 
 Pepys, Samuel, 84 
 Perrier, Emile, 192-3 
 Personal plates, 9-13 
 Petrarca, Josef, 80 
 Pettee, M. Westall, 98, 192- 3 
 Peyton, Violet, 192-3 
 Pfaff, Charles, 128 
 Pfaflf, Hannah A., 130 
 Pflttmer, Georg, 192-3 
 Phelps, William L., 107 
 Phil. Free Lib., 192-3 
 Phillips, A. J., 107, 192-3 
 Phillips, William, jr., 99 
 Picard, Abel, 49-50 
 Picaut, P., 77 
 Piggott, John, 74 
 Piot, Eugene, 74 
 
 Pirckheimer, Bilibald, 160 
 Pitman, Rosie M. M., 115 
 Poirier, Lydia M., 192-3 
 Pollock, Walter H., 91 
 Pons, Marie G. de, 82 
 Porter, Josephine E. S., 106, 
 
 192-3 
 Portraits, 160 
 Potts, John L., 192-3 
 Poulet-Malassis, 59 
 Powell, Douglas, 112 
 Powell, J. C, 111 
 Pratt, John S. A., 99 
 Prescott, Wa. C, 23-4, 127, 
 
 128, 192-3 
 Prince, Frederick H., 126 
 Prindiville, Mary L., 116 
 Printers' marks, 161-2 
 Prior, David H., 59, 192-3 
 Proofs, 19-20 
 Pruyn, John V. L., 104 
 Radford, A. J. V., 138 
 Rassenfosse, Armand, 116 
 Ratajczak, Paul N., 10 
 Reade, Christia M., 116 
 Rebus, 9, 162-3 
 R^gence, 150-1 
 Regnault, J., 174 
 Remarque proofs, 19-34 
 Reproduction of plates, 19 
 Revere, Paul, 18, 70, 80-1 
 
 213 
 
INDEX 
 
 Bhead, Louis, 117 
 Khodes, Cecil J., 50-1 
 Riach, H. H., 74 
 Ribbon and Wreath, 148 
 Ricketts, E. B., 117 
 Riyerside Press, 161-2 
 Robert, Edmond des, 169, 
 
 192-3 
 Roberts, Mary, K., 137 
 Rochedouart, Henri-Anne de 
 
 Fuligny Damas, Comte de, 
 
 82 
 Rococo, 9, 146, 151-2 
 Rodt, Walther E. von, 192-3 
 Roe, Charles W., 135 
 Rogers, Bruce, 130 
 Rollinson, William, 81 
 Roman Cath. Church, 155 
 Rosenthal, Ludwig, 17 
 Rowley, Walter, 192-3 
 Roy, Claude, 81 
 Ruscha, Ludmilla, 192-3 
 Sabin, Ruth M., 192-3 
 Saflfroy, A., 192-3 
 St. John's Ambulance Soc, 
 
 138 
 Sainte-Genevifeve, Bibliothfe- 
 
 que, 192-3 
 Sands, M. M., 125 
 Sanford, Frances, 128 
 Sartorio, Charles de, 194-5 
 
 Sattig, Gustave R., 106 
 Sattler, Josef, 118 
 Schibanoff, P. P., 194-5 
 Schomberg, Arthur, 194-5 
 SchOnkopf, Kathchen, 73 
 SchSnstett family, 17 
 Schrdder, Alfred, 194-5 
 Schfissler, Marcus, 194-5 
 Schweizerische Blatter fflr 
 
 Ex-Libris Sammler, 169 
 Scotin, Gerard, 82 
 Scott, J. Douglas, 194-5 
 Scoville, Robert& Herbert, 
 
 128 
 Scripps, James L., 194-5 
 Seals, 163 
 
 Seliwanoff, A. B., 194-5 
 Sens, Georges, 194-5 
 Seymour, George D., 105-6 
 Seyringer, 167 
 Shaw, Howard V., 119 
 Shelton, Ada S., 194-5 
 Shepherd, John W., 194-5 
 Sherborn, Charles D., 121 
 
 Sherborn, Charles W., 
 
 120-22, 170, 194-5 
 Sherwell, John W., 137 
 Sherwin, Henry A., 99 
 Shir-Cliff, W. H., 58, 194- 
 Shultz, Mary J., 194-5 
 Shuttleworth Club, 137 
 
 214 
 
 23, 
 
INDEX 
 
 Shnttleworth, H. C, 135 
 Silcox, Lucy, 111 
 Sill, Howard, 122, 194-5 
 Simpson, Joseph W., 122 
 Singer, Mr. & Mrs. John W., 
 
 194-5 
 Skiff, Frederick W., 108 
 Skinner, J., 82 
 Smith, A. M., 130, 194-6 
 Smith, Andrew, 127 
 Smith, Caroline M., 108 
 Smith, Grace A., 128 
 Smith, J. de Berniere, 194-5 
 Smith, J. H., 1G8, 194-5 
 Smith, Mary N., 194-5 
 Smith, Ralph 0., 125 
 Smith, Sidney L., 122, 162 
 Smythe, Elizabeth H., 194-5 
 Soane, Harry, 112, 123, 196-7 
 Soci^t^ Frangaise des Col. 
 
 d'Ex-Libris, 173 
 Solis, Virgil, 82 
 Soragna-Melzi, Marchesa di, 
 
 196-7 
 Sparrow, T., 83 
 Spenceley, J. W., Ill, 23-7, 46, 
 
 123-131, 196-7 
 Stael, Mad. de, 51 
 Starke, C. A., 172 
 Starke, Georg, 196-7 
 Stauffer, D. M., 131, 196-7 
 
 Steinberger, L. M., 83 
 Sterling, Maria M., 106 
 Stewart, Redmond C, 130 
 Steyert, A., 196-7 
 Stick elberger, Emanuel, 169, 
 
 196-7 
 Stiebel, H. E., 196-7 
 Stoddard, E. G., 106 
 Stokes, John, 196-7 
 Stone, Eliza A., 99 
 Stone, Wilbur M., 87, 196-7 
 Stowe, Calvin E., 51-2 
 Strauss-Hans waldt, Marga- 
 
 rethe, 196-7 
 Strawberry Hill Press, 52-4, 
 
 161 
 Striedbeck, Jean, 66 
 Sturges, Lucy H., 196-7 
 Sutton, Albert, 196-7 
 Sydenham, Philip, 73 
 Symbolic, 163 
 Taft, Mary F., 130, 196-7 
 Tausin, Henri, 196-7 
 Taylor, Matthew H., 130 
 Teahon, Maud, 130, 196-7 
 Terry, Ellen, 93 
 Thayer, Ethel R., 130 
 Thayer, T. W., 130 
 Thebaud, Mathilde E., 129 
 Thoma, Hans, 131 
 Thomas, George C, 130 
 
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 Thomson, H. C. M., 125 
 Thornton, George M., 100 
 Thorpe, Alexander, 196-7 
 Tilney, Frederick C, 132 
 Tinkler, John, 196-7 
 Toedteberg, Emma, 196-7 
 Tournament plate, 7 
 Trench, Isabel C, 112 
 Troutowski, Woldemar,196-7 
 Truesdell, Winfred P., 131, 
 
 196-7 
 Tryer, Cecily, 138 
 Turner, James, 83 
 Tute, C. E., 132 
 20th Reg. Mass. Vol. Inf., 127 
 Univ. Club of Boston, 99 
 Univ. Club of Chicago, 131 
 Univ. of Missouri, 129 
 Urns, 163 
 
 Uzanne, Octave, 90 
 Vacher, Louis, 162 
 Van Allen, Adam, 72 
 Vanderpoel, John H., 116 
 Van de Vin, Sophie, 196-7 
 Van Zandt, Margaret, 106, 
 
 127, 198-9 
 Vassar Alumnse Hist. Assn., 
 
 198-9 
 Vennitzer, Johannes, 160 
 Veronneau, 77 
 Verster, J. F., 59, 198-9 
 
 Vertue George, 83-4 
 Vervliet, J. B., 198-9 
 Vicars, Sir Arthur, 198-9 
 Vignettes, 163 
 Vinycomb, John, 132, 198-9 
 Voigt, Paul, 133 
 Viol, Carl, 198-9 
 Wait, William C, 128 
 Wallmenich, Col. von, 198-9 
 Walmsley, Mary, 137 
 Walmsley, R. M., 137 
 Walpole, Horace, 52-4, 84, 
 
 161 
 Ward, James, 160-1, 198-9 
 Wardwell, J. Otis, 99 
 Warnecke, Friedrich, 59, 171 
 Warncke, Werner, 198-9 
 Warren, J. Leicester, 59, 142, 
 
 147 
 Washington, George, 54-7, 81 
 Weeks, John W., 131 
 Weittenhiller, M. E. von, 198- 
 
 9 
 Welch, A., 131 
 Welch, Bertha, A., 131 
 Weld, Charles G., 129 
 Welsh, Gertrude C, 198-9 
 Wenig, Bernhard, 133 
 Werkmeister, F. W., 198-9 
 Westminster Press, 161 
 Weston Public Lib., 99 
 
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 Weyer, William R., 134 
 W. H. Perry Lib., 128 
 Wheatley, H. B., 54 
 Wheelen, Henry, jr., 108 
 Wheeler, Florence Sylvia, 99, 
 
 198-9 
 Wheeler, Joseph H., 98-9 
 White, Emma G., 198-9 
 White, Julia, 129 
 White, Robert, 84 
 Whiting, Fred E., 131 
 Whiting, William, 129 
 Whitman, Sarah, 128 
 Whitmore, Mrs. W. H., 198-9 
 Whitney, Eli, 108 
 Whitney, M. F. G., 131 
 Whittaker, Gwladys, 139 
 Wickham, Adrienne A., 129 
 Wiggishoflf, J. C, 198-9 
 Wilckens, Theodor, 198-9 
 Williams, Bessie H., 128 
 "Williams, C, jr., 99 
 Williams, Frederick W., 107 
 Williams, John, 134-8 
 Williams, William C, 127, 
 
 198-9 
 Wilson, Francis, 98 
 Wilson, G. W., 135 
 
 Wilson, Louis N., 108 
 Winship, George P., 198-9 
 Winthrop, Marie, 131 
 Wisteria Cottage, 26-7 
 Wisteria Cottage Press, 26, 
 
 168 
 Wolbrandt, Carl, 198-9 
 Wolgemuth, Michel, 70 
 Wolseley, Frances, 198-9 
 Woman's Club of Wis., 129 
 Wood, John S., 107 
 Woodbury, John P., 198-9 
 Woods, James C, 200-1 
 Woodward, Fred C, 200-1 
 Woodward, Joseph G., 108 
 Woolley, F. H. C, 128, 200-1 
 Worsfold, Thomas J., 200-1 
 Wright, Alan, 139 
 Wright, W. H. K., 171, 200-1 
 Wurstenberger, R. von, 200-1 
 Wyer, Mabel K., 200-1 
 Wyon, Alfred B., 140 
 Wyon, Allan, 139 
 Wyon, Benjamin, 140 
 Wyon, Joseph S., 140 
 Yale, 108 
 
 Zeta Psi Club, 130 
 Zur Westen, W. von, 200-1 
 
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