Classified list of 
 
 ARLY AMERICAN 
 BOOK-PLATES 
 
 WITH A BRIEF DESCRIP- 
 TION OF THE PRINCIPAL STYLES 
 VND A NOTE AS TO THE PROMI- 
 NENT ENGRAVERS &&&&<&<&&<& 
 
 BY 
 
 CHARLES DEXTER ALLEN 
 
 Co accompany an <x1jiliition at 
 tf)e <3rolicr 4Tlub t October, 1804
 
 Classified iList of 
 
 ARLY AMERICAN 
 BOOK-PLATES 
 
 WITH A BRIEF DESCRIP- 
 TION OF THE PRINCIPAL STYLES 
 AND A NOTE AS TO THE PROMI- 
 NENT ENGRAVERS ++++++++ 
 
 BY 
 
 CHARLES DEXTER ALLEN 
 
 atcompanp an jcp&rtion at 
 tlje 43ro!icr Club, October, 1894
 
 / ~T V HE aim of this Exhibition is to bring 
 JL together the best examples of American 
 book-plates from their earliest use in our country 
 up to the present day, in the hope that they may 
 illustrate the development of the art of the 
 book-plate. 
 
 After a long period of disuse, the book-plate 
 is again coming into favor as a means of denoting 
 the ownership of private libraries, whether large 
 or small. Societies, public libraries, and insti- 
 tutions of learning have continued the use of 
 book-plates without interruption, but in very 
 few instances do they now employ anythirg 
 more than the merest type-printed labels. Even 
 those whose existence has been of the longest, 
 and in whose humble beginnings a copperplate- 
 engraving was a necessity, have retrograded to 
 the plain, practical label furnished by the printer. 
 
 Our forefathers, with a proper regard for the 
 books of their choice, and no doubt, too, moved 
 
 3 
 
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 4 CATALOGUE. 
 
 by the desire to encourage the " infant indus- 
 tries " of their country, as well as influenced by 
 that no less important factor the fashion of 
 the day, used dainty designs engraved on 
 copper by the best engravers of the times. 
 
 We, their book-reading successors, hardly 
 know what a book-plate is ; for to us the auto- 
 graph hastily scribbled on the fly-leaf seems a 
 sufficient and fit indication of ownership, and 
 the labor of pasting a bit of paper on the inside 
 cover of each new book for this purpose is left 
 to those who, by reason of their connection with 
 a public library of some kind, are obliged to do 
 it, and to those infatuated mortals who are so 
 fond of books as to actually want to do it, and 
 who, by this further evidence of its applicable- 
 ness, but add emphasis to the already bestowed 
 title of " book-cranks." 
 
 Be it so. This is a fact not to be wondered 
 at nor to be quarreled with, and it has its com- 
 pensations. To the true book-lover the pasting 
 of the book-plate is a labor of love, a pleasure 
 indeed so acute as not to be called by the name 
 of labor, and to him is left by his utilitarian 
 brother the quiet enjoyment of the artistic 
 beauties of the book-plate, and the expense of 
 having a design engraved, of satisfactory work- 
 manship and easily perceived adaptiveness.
 
 CATALOGUE. 5 
 
 In addition to bringing together in the pre- 
 sent exhibition the best American plates, there 
 are also shown the Album of the Ex-Libris So- 
 ciety of London, and a large collection of Eng- 
 lish, French, and German plates. The early 
 German examples will repay careful study, as 
 showing the origin of the style of design used 
 to-day by the two foremost engravers of book- 
 plates. 
 
 Nearly all the plates in the accompanying list 
 were made prior to 1830, the few exceptions 
 being in the case of plates of particular interest 
 as to design or ownership. 
 
 The principal engravers of the early Ameri- 
 can plates were Anderson, Bowen, Callender, 
 Dearborn, Doolittle, Furnass, Harris, Hill, 
 Hurd, Johnson, Revere, and Turner, in New 
 England ; the Gallaudets, Godwin, Harrison, 
 the Mavericks, and Rollinson, in New York ; 
 and Boyd, Dawkins, Kearney, Smithers, Thack- 
 aka, Trenchard, and Vallance, in Philadelphia.
 
 6 CATALOGUE. 
 
 ALEXANDER ANDERSON, the first Amer- 
 ican engraver on wood, made book-plates on 
 both copper and wood, in the Allegorical and 
 Chippendale styles, as well as a few plain 
 labels. 1775-1870. 
 
 ABEL BOWEN was the first wood-engraver 
 in Boston; his name appears on plates of 
 Harvard College. 1790-1850. 
 
 JOHN BO YD, whose only signed work thus 
 far known is the plate of Samuel Chase, the 
 signer of the Declaration, was working in 
 Philadelphia as late as 1812. 
 
 JOSEPH CALLENDER, of Boston, made 
 plates in the Chippendale, Ribbon and 
 Wreath, and Allegorical styles ; he was in 
 Boston from 1789 to 1805. 
 
 HENRY DAWKINS we do not know much 
 about. He was a prolific producer of book- 
 plates, which were all in the Chippendale 
 style. 
 
 NATHANIEL DEARBORN was an asso- 
 ciate of Bowen, and an early wood-engraver 
 of Boston.. Only one Armorial plate is known 
 that is signed by him.
 
 CATALOGUE. 7 
 
 AMOS DOOLITTLE, a self-taught engraver 
 of Connecticut, was one of the earliest en- 
 gravers of historical scenes ; his book-plates 
 were mostly in the Allegorical style. 1754- 
 1832. 
 
 JOHN MASON FURNASS was the nephew 
 of Nathaniel Hurd, of Boston ; only one ex- 
 ample of his book-plate work is known. It 
 is in the Chippendale style. 
 
 ELISHA and EDWARD GALLAUDET 
 were engravers in New- York city early in 
 the present century ; one specimen by each 
 of them remains. 
 
 ABRAHAM GODWIN was born in New 
 Jersey in 1763; he was fond of engraving, 
 and we have one Pictorial plate by him. 
 
 S. HARRIS, who made some Pictorial plates, 
 was in Boston about 1798. 
 
 CHARLES P. HARRISON was associated 
 for a time with Maverick. 
 
 SAMUEL HILL was a copperplate-engraver 
 in Boston about 1790.
 
 8 CATALOGUE. 
 
 NATHANIEL HURD was the best of the 
 early American engravers; he was located 
 in Boston. 1 749 is the earliest date found 
 on any of his plates. He made good plates 
 in all the accepted Armorial styles. 
 
 THOMAS JOHNSON was a Boston engraver 
 whose principal work was done in the first 
 half of the last century. 
 
 FRANCIS KEARNEY was a pupil of Ma- 
 verick; removed to Philadelphia soon after 
 the opening of the century. 
 
 PETER RUSHTON MAVERICK came to 
 New-York from England about 1774; he 
 was the most rapid worker, apparently, of 
 all our early engravers of book-plates; he 
 worked principally in the Ribbon and Wreath 
 style, as that was in vogue when he left Eng- 
 land ; he also made several in the Allegorical, 
 Pictorial, and Plain Armorial styles. 
 
 PAUL REVERE, the self-instructed engraver 
 of Boston, made a few plates which are now 
 of great interest to collectors. 
 
 WILLIAM ROLLINSON was in New- York 
 toward the end of the last century, and made
 
 CATALOGUE. 9 
 
 a good number of plates in the Ribbon and 
 Wreath and Plain Armorial styles. 
 
 J. SMITHERS settled in Philadelphia, and 
 made a few plates of moderate merit, in the 
 Chippendale style. 
 
 JAMES THACKAKA was a partner of Val- 
 lance ; we know but one example of his work 
 upon book-plates. 
 
 JAMES TRENCHARD was born in New 
 Jersey in 1746; only one example of his 
 book-plate work is known ; it is in the Chip- 
 pendale style. 
 
 JAMES TURNER is one of the early Amer- 
 ican engravers of whom but little is now 
 known ; three signed examples of his work 
 are preserved. 
 
 JOHN VALLANCE, who was associated 
 with Thackaka, made one book-plate which 
 has his name upon it; it is in the Ribbon 
 and Wreath style. 
 
 Of present-day designers and engravers of 
 book-plates, the exhibit presents the work of 
 Edwin Davis French, George Wharton Ed- 
 wards, D. McN. Stauffer, George R. Halm, 
 2
 
 10 CATALOGUE. 
 
 and E. I. Stevenson, of New- York city ; Ed- 
 mund H. Garrett, of Winchester, Mass. ; W. 
 F. Hopson, of New Haven, Conn. ; Howard Sill, 
 of Washington ; Howard Pyle, of Wilmington, 
 Del. ; Dr. H. C. Eno, of Saugatuck, Conn. ; 
 Edwin A. Abbey and C. W. Sherborn, of Eng- 
 land ; Paul Avril, of Paris; and of Henry Sand- 
 ham, Sidney L. Smith, George M. White, J. 
 Wagrez, M. T. Callahan, George Moore, G. J. 
 Van Tiffele, and A. F. Jaccaci. 
 
 f)e Clarification. 
 
 The early American book-plates are rather 
 difficult to classify in a wholly satisfactory 
 manner. There was no great body of engrav- 
 ers here, as there was in England, working in 
 the prevailing style of book-plate design, but 
 only a handful of self-taught engravers on 
 copper, each one of whom adopted the general 
 style he or his customer preferred, and added 
 such features as seemed desirable from his 
 artistic standpoint, or as the exigencies of the 
 work demanded. The styles had no certain 
 period of popularity with our forefathers as they 
 had in England, and it is impossible to give 
 any exact dates of their adoption and rejection.
 
 CATALOGUE. II 
 
 While the English plates furnished the models 
 of our early examples, our engravers did not 
 follow the changes in style closely, for manifest 
 reasons : the uncertain and slow communication 
 with the older country, the slow progress of 
 affairs, and the content of their customers with 
 what was given them. 
 
 So then in the following list it must be un- 
 derstood that the writer is not presuming to 
 speak ex cathedra, but is giving the classification 
 as nearly as it can be made to accord with the 
 accepted types of the different styles named. 
 The nomenclature used is that of the Hon. 
 J. Leicester Warren (Lord de Tabley) in his 
 authoritative work on English plates. 
 
 The EARLY ENGLISH plates are char- 
 acterized by the mantling which usually envel- 
 ops the shield of arms. These are the earliest 
 classified examples : 
 
 Carmichael, William Dudley, Joseph. 1754 
 Carroll, Charles, of the Dummer Jer. Anglus 
 Inner Temple Americanus
 
 12 
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 Keith, William 
 Lloyd, John Nelson 
 Minot, S. 
 
 Page, Francis 
 Penn, Thomas 
 Penn, William 
 
 The JACOBEAN plates were in use in 
 England from about 1700 to about 1745. 
 These plates are very handsome in design; 
 they are staid and sedate in their bearing. 
 Among their characteristics may be mentioned 
 the exact coincidence of the two sides of the 
 shield, the diapered or cross-hatched back- 
 ground, and the often-present scallop-shell at 
 the base of the shield. 
 
 Allen, John 
 Apthorp, East, A. M. 
 
 Backus, Elijah 
 Bedlow, William 
 Belcher, - 
 Belcher, Jonathan 
 Bel-Chier, - 
 Blenman, Jonathan 
 Burnet, John 
 Byam, Francis 
 Byrd, William 
 
 Carroll, Charles, At- 
 
 torney-at-Law 
 Clarkson, David 
 Coffin, John. 1771 
 Cunningham, James, 
 
 Jr. 
 Curwen, - 
 
 D B[ . N T 
 Elliston, Robert. 
 
 MDCCXXV
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 Foster, 
 
 Franklin, John 
 
 Goelet, John 
 Greene, Benjamin. 
 
 1757 
 Greene, Thomas, Jr. 
 
 Hoar, Richard 
 Horsman, Daniel 
 Hunter, Robert 
 
 Jenkins, Robert 
 Knight, Jonathan 
 
 Leavenworth, Gideon 
 Livingston, Peter R. 
 Lodge, Abraham 
 Ludwell, Philip 
 
 Martin, Joseph 
 Nelson, George 
 
 Parker, B. 
 Philipse, Fred. 
 Price, Benjamin 
 Provoost, John 
 
 Randolph, John 
 
 Randolph, Peyton 
 Royall, Isaac 
 
 Salter, Richard 
 Scotton, John 
 Sherman, Henry B. 
 Shippen, Edward 
 Shippen, Robert 
 
 Smith, 
 
 Smith, Hezekiah 
 Smith, William, A. M. 
 Smith, William P., 
 
 A. M. 
 
 Spooner, Joshua 
 Stephens, William 
 Stith, William 
 
 Thomas, Isaiah 
 Thorndike, Oliver 
 Thornton, William 
 Tyler, Andrew 
 
 Van Rensselaer, Jer. 
 
 Van Wyck, 
 
 Vaughan, Samuel 
 
 Waldo, D. 
 Williams, 
 
 Williams, John 
 W. [Winthrop], J. 
 Wolcott, Oliver
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 The CHIPPENDALE plates are devel- 
 oped from the Jacobean. They came into 
 vogue in England about 1750, and lasted until 
 toward the close of the century. They are 
 characterized by a freedom of treatment which 
 places them in strong contrast to the stateliness 
 of their immediate predecessors. In these 
 plates the grace and airiness of book-plate de- 
 signing reach perfection. 
 
 Agnew, James 
 Allison, Joseph J. 
 Alsop, Richard 
 Anderson, Alexander 
 Antill, Edward 
 
 Apthorp, 
 
 Apthorp, East 
 Apthorp, Thomas 
 Archdeacon, S. 
 Assheton, Ralph 
 Assheton, William 
 Atkinson, Theodore 
 Atkinson, William 
 
 King 
 
 Atlee, William Au- 
 gustus 
 Atwood, Harry 
 
 Backhouse, W. 
 
 Bancker, Charles N. 
 Bancker, Evert, Jr. 
 Bancker, Gerard 
 Bartram, John 
 Bayard, Samuel 
 Beverly, Harry 
 
 Bloomfield, 
 
 Boiling, Rob't 
 Bond, T. 
 
 Boucher, Jonathan 
 Burnet, John 
 
 Cabot, William 
 Carroll, Charles 
 Gary, Miles 
 Chambers, John 
 Chandler, Gardiner 
 Chandler, John 
 Chase, Samuel
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 Child, Francis 
 Child, Thomas 
 Clarke, Peter 
 Cooper, Myles 
 Courtenay, Henry 
 
 Crookshank, 
 
 Custis, George Wash- 
 ington Parke 
 Custis, John Parke 
 
 Dana, Edmund Trow- 
 
 bridge 
 
 Dana, Francis 
 Dana, Richard Henry 
 
 Danforth, 
 
 Dering, Newell H. 
 Dering, Thomas. 1749 
 Dinwiddie, Robert 
 Duane, James 
 Dumeresque, Philip 
 Dunning, Charles S. 
 Durand, John 
 
 Edwards, Bryan 
 Ellery, Benjamin 
 Ewing, John 
 
 Gardiner, By the Name 
 
 of 
 
 Gardiner, John 
 Gardiner, John, of the 
 
 Inner Temple 
 Garnet, John 
 Gorham, Joseph 
 Green, Francis 
 Greene, David 
 Guinaud, Henry 
 
 Hale, Robert 
 Hall, James 
 Hanson, Richard 
 Hay, George 
 Hay, Peter, M. D. 
 Hayward, Thomas 
 Heming, Samuel 
 
 Herbert, 
 
 Hicks, Whitehead 
 Hollingsworth, Levi 
 Hooper, William 
 Hopkinson, Francis 
 Hopkinson, Joseph 
 Horry, Daniel 
 
 Farquier, Francis Ingersoll, Jared 
 
 Fenwick, Inglis, Alexander 
 
 Fitzhugh, William, Jr. Inglis, John 
 
 Forbes, Eli 
 Forman, 
 
 Ingraham, Edward D. 
 Ingraham, 
 
 French, Jonathan Iredell, James
 
 i6 
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 Jeffrey, James 
 Johnson, Thomas 
 Johnson, William L. 
 Johnson, William S. 
 Jones, Gabriel 
 Jones, Samuel 
 
 Kemble, Peter 
 Kempe, John Tabor 
 King, Morris 
 Kissam, Benjamin 
 
 Ladd, 
 
 Lee, Philip Ludwell 
 
 Lightfoot, William 
 
 Livingston, Brock- 
 hoist 
 
 Livingston, Robert L. 
 
 Livingston, Robert R. 
 
 Livingston, Walter 
 
 Livingston, William 
 
 Livingston, William 
 Smith 
 
 Livius, George 
 
 Logan, Charles 
 
 Logan, James 
 
 Loring, 
 
 Low, Cornelius 
 
 Lowell, John 
 
 Lowell, John, Jr. 
 
 Lowell, John Amory 
 
 Ludlow, Gary 
 
 Ludlow, Charles 
 
 Ludlow, Gabriel Wil- 
 liam 
 
 McKenzie, William 
 Mackay, James 
 Magill, John 
 Maingault, Peter 
 Marchant, Henry 
 Marshall, John, A. M. 
 Marston, John 
 Martin, Luther 
 Martin, Thomas 
 Mayo, John 
 Middleton, Peter 
 Moore, Lambert 
 Morgan, John, M. D. 
 Morris, Gouverneur 
 Morris, James 
 Morris, Lewis 
 Morris, Roger 
 Morrison, John 
 Murray, James 
 Murray, Joseph 
 
 Norris, George W. 
 Norris, Isaac 
 
 Ogden, 
 
 Oliver, Andrew 
 Osborne, Peter 
 Osborne, Samuel 
 
 Panton, Francis
 
 Jfo
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 Parke, John 
 Pepperell, Sir William 
 Phillips Academy 
 Pinfold, Charles 
 Powel, Samuel 
 Powell, James H. 
 Power, James 
 Price, Ezekiel 
 Provoost, Samuel 
 
 Randolph, John, Jr. 
 Randolph, Ryland 
 Reverly, Henry 
 Robertson, Ebenezer 
 Roome, Jacob 
 Roome, John L. C. 
 Rush, Benjamin 
 Rutgers, Hendrick 
 
 St. Clair, Sir John 
 Samuels, James 
 Sargeant, Jacob 
 Sargent, Epes 
 Schuyler, Philip 
 Schuyler, Samuel 
 Scott, Benjamin 
 Simpson, Jonathan 
 Skelton, Reuben 
 Smith, John J. 
 Smith, William 
 
 Spotswood, 
 
 Spry, William 
 Stewart, Anthony 
 3 
 
 Stewart, James 
 Stockton, Richard 
 Stringer, Samuel 
 Sword, William 
 
 Tazewell, John 
 Thompson, William 
 Tomlinson, John 
 Tracy, Nathaniel 
 
 Varick, Richard 
 Vassall, John 
 Vaughan, Samuel, Jr. 
 Vavasour, J. S. 
 
 Wallace, J. M. 
 Waller, B. 
 
 Washington, Bushrod 
 Washington, George 
 Weld, Isaac 
 
 Went worth, 
 
 Whitebread, W. 
 Williams, John 
 
 Willis, 
 
 Willis, Samuel 
 Wilson, David 
 Wilson, James 
 Wood, James 
 Wormeley, Ralph 
 Wright, James 
 Wythe, George 
 
 Yates, Christopher C. 
 Yates, Peter W.
 
 i8 
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 ilibfion anti IDrcarf). 
 
 The RIBBON AND WREATH plates, 
 which followed the Chippendales, are well de- 
 scribed by their name, for their only ornamen- 
 tation is the ribbon and the wreath which in- 
 close the shield in different forms. 
 
 Abercrombie, James 
 Adams, John Quincy 
 
 Ball, Flamen 
 Bay, William, M. D. 
 Beck, Charles 
 Blackley, Absalom 
 
 Boudinot, 
 
 Bozman, John Leeds 
 Brasher, Philip 
 Brearly, David 
 Brisbane, William 
 Brooks, Benjamin S. 
 Burke, James Henry 
 
 Caillaud, John 
 Carroll, John 
 Carroll, Ephraim 
 Gary, Thomas 
 Child, William Henry 
 Clark, D. Lawrence 
 Clinton, De Witt 
 Cock, William 
 Coffin, 
 
 Coffin, Hector 
 Cutting, James S. 
 
 Davidson, Henry 
 Deane, John 
 
 Drayton, 
 
 Drayton, Jacob 
 Drayton, William 
 Duer, William 
 Duncan, James H. 
 
 Dyckman, 
 
 Dyckman, States 
 Morris 
 
 Emerson, William 
 Eustace, Col. John 
 Skey 
 
 Fendell, Philip 
 
 Richard 
 Fisher, Joshua 
 Foot, Ebenezer 
 Fowler, C.
 
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 OPENED FOR GIRLS 1842.
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 Gibbs, John Walters 
 Giles, Daniel 
 Gilse, James 
 Graham, John A., 
 M.D. 
 
 Gray, 
 
 Greene, B. D. 
 Gurney, Henry 
 
 Hall, Thomas. 1787 
 Hallowell, Robert 
 Hamilton, William 
 Hanchett, John 
 Hayne, Robert 
 Hay ward, George 
 Hicks, Elias 
 Hill, Marcus Samuel 
 Hoffman, Philip L. 
 
 Holyoke, 
 
 Hopkins, Reuben 
 Hunter, William J. 
 Hyslop, By the Name of 
 Hyslop, Robert 
 
 Jackson, James 
 Jackson, Jonathan 
 Jackson, W. 
 
 Jauncey, 
 
 Johnston, John 
 Johnston, Thomas 
 Jones, Gardner 
 Jones, William G. 
 Judah, Benjamin S. 
 
 Keese, John 
 Kerr, John Leeds 
 King, Rufus 
 Kip, Isaac L. 
 
 Lenthall, John 
 Lenox, David 
 
 Lewis, 
 
 Lisle, Henry Maurice 
 Livingston, Maturin 
 Ludlow, George 
 
 McFarlan, Frederick 
 McLean, Hugh 
 Masterton, Peter 
 
 Maxwell, 
 
 Meredith, Jonathan 
 Moat, Henry Shep- 
 
 heard 
 
 Moore, Nathaniel F. 
 Murray, John 
 
 Newton, Lucretia E. 
 Ogden, Lewis Morris 
 
 Parker, James 
 Pasley, William 
 Paulding, J. K. 
 Peirson, A. L. 
 Perkins, Thomas 
 
 Handasyd 
 Pickering, T. A.
 
 20 
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 Pierce, William L. 
 Pierpont, Charles 
 Pintard, John 
 Popham, William 
 Pride, Halcott B. 
 Prioleau, Thomas G. 
 Provoost, Samuel 
 
 Read, Charles 
 
 Sargent, Daniel, Jr. 
 Scott, Gustavus 
 Scott, John V. 
 
 Sears, 
 
 Seton, William 
 Sheppard, John H. 
 Silvester, Peter 
 Sitgreaves, John 
 Skipwith, Fulwar 
 Smith, James Scott 
 Smith, Thomas, Jr. 
 Smith, William 
 Smith, William, LL. D. 
 Stanford, Thomas N. 
 Sullivan, John 
 
 Taylor, William 
 Taylor, George 
 Ten Broeck, John C. 
 Tillotson, Thomas 
 Tyng, Dudley Atkins 
 
 Van Rensselaer, K. K. 
 Vose, Solomon 
 
 Watkins, John W., 
 
 A. M. 
 
 Wetmore, Charles H. 
 Wetmore, Prosper 
 Wetmore, William 
 Whatley, Joseph 
 Williams, Azarias 
 Williams, John 
 Williams, John C. 
 Winthrop, William 
 Wiseman, J. 
 Wisner, Polydore B. 
 
 Young, William 
 
 in SUrmorial 
 
 The PLAIN ARMORIAL plates, which 
 have been used at all times, are simply the 
 shield of arms with no extraneous ornamenta-
 
 Virtus et scierttia ad ufilitatem dirLgunt 
 
 ,rt- '
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 21 
 
 tion. In the following list, plates which have 
 a few other trifling adjuncts are classed with 
 them, and such differences are noted. 
 
 Adams, John (Motto on 
 
 a garter) 
 Adams, John Quincy 
 
 (2) (Motto on a 
 
 garter] 
 
 Ashwell, Charles 
 Auchmuty, Richard 
 
 Tylden 
 
 Ballord, William 
 Banister, John 
 Barton, William 
 Beete, Joseph 
 Betts, William 
 Blatchford, Thomas 
 
 W. 
 
 Bleeker, 
 
 Bowdoin, James 
 Brazer, John 
 
 (Mantling} 
 Bridgen, Charles 
 Brimage, William 
 
 (Name on a garter] 
 Brown, David Paul 
 Bruen, M. 
 Bull, Martin 
 
 (Mantling) 
 
 Cadena, de la 
 
 Callaway, Thomas 
 Campbell, Donald 
 Gary, Alpheus, Jr. 
 Chambers, Benjamin 
 
 (Supporters] 
 
 Chauncey, 
 
 Chauncey, Charles 
 Chauncey, J. St. Clair 
 Chester, John 
 Clarkson, M. 
 Cleborne, C. I. 
 
 (Mantling) 
 Golden, Cadwallader 
 
 D. 
 Constable, William 
 
 Davis, 
 
 Day, John 
 
 De Peyster, Fred. 
 (Supporters] 
 
 Duer, William Alex- 
 ander 
 
 Edwards, Charles 
 Elliott, Barnard 
 Erving, William 
 Everdell, William 
 Everett, Edward
 
 22 
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 Fish, Hamilton 
 (Mantling) 
 
 Fitzhugh, 
 
 Foote, Ebenezer 
 Francis, John 
 
 Gallatin, Albert 
 
 Gallaudet, 
 
 Gardiner, Samuel 
 Gibbes, Edmund A. 
 Gibbes, James S. 
 Grant, 
 
 Hamersley, J. W. 
 Hay, William Robert, 
 
 M. A. 
 
 Hicks, Elias 
 Hunter, John 
 
 Inglis, 
 
 Ingraham, Edward D. 
 Innes, Colonel 
 
 Jay, John 
 Jeffries, Dr. John 
 
 Kingston, 
 
 Kinloch, Francis 
 
 Kip, Leonard 
 
 Knox, William George 
 
 Lawrence, J. Tharp 
 Lee, Edward 
 Lenox, James 
 
 Livingston, Mortimer 
 
 Livius, 
 
 Longbottom, Abram 
 P. 
 
 McComb, John 
 McCoun, William T. 
 McTavish, John 
 Mackey, Albert G., 
 
 M. D. 
 
 March, Charles 
 Maxcy, Virgil 
 Minturn, William 
 
 (Mantling) 
 Moore, Samuel W. 
 Musgrave, Richard 
 
 Pennington, 
 
 Petigru, James Louis 
 Phillips, Dinwiddie B. 
 Pickering, John, Jr. 
 Poor, Benjamin 
 Prescott, William H. 
 Priestley, Joseph 
 
 (Mantling) 
 Prince, By the Name of 
 
 (Mantling) 
 
 Quincy, Josiah 
 (Mantling) 
 
 Randolph, John, of 
 
 Roanoke (Mantling) 
 Ray, Robert
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 Read, William 
 
 (Mantling) 
 Rickets, William 
 
 (Mantling) 
 Robertson, Eben 
 Robinson, Beverly 
 Rogers, Fairman 
 
 Sargent, Winthrop 
 Scott, Winfield 
 Shubrick, Thomas 
 Smith, John Adams 
 
 Spaight, 
 
 Stevens, 
 
 Stewart, Hon. John 
 
 (Mantling} 
 Stille, Alfred, M. D. 
 Stuyvesant, Peter 
 
 Gerard 
 Sumner, W. H. 
 
 Thompson, James 
 
 Uniacke, Richard 
 
 John. 1801 
 United States Army 
 
 Van Ness, J. P. 
 
 (Mantling) 
 Vaughan, Benjamin 
 Vaughan, Samuel, Jr. 
 Vaughan, William 
 Vaux, Edward 
 
 Wall, 
 
 Warren, J. Mason 
 Watts, John 
 Webster, Daniel 
 Wilkes, Charles 
 
 Young, Alexander 
 
 A great many book-plates are found which 
 give the crest alone, without the shield of arms. 
 These often give the motto as well as the name 
 of the owner, and are the final class of wholly 
 Armorial plates. 
 
 Blanc, William 
 Booth, Benjamin 
 Brown, John Carter 
 
 Cay, Gabriel 
 Clarke, Alfred 
 Clarke, George
 
 24 CATALOGUE. 
 
 Cox, Chris. C., A. M., Ludlow, Gabriel Ver- 
 
 M. D. planck 
 
 Bering, Thomas. 17 M. [Morrisl, J. 
 Dove, Doct. I. 
 
 T-V *. -iir-iv TT Otis, Harrison Gray 
 Eliot, William H. 
 
 Grade, Robert > Willia F - 
 
 Pickering, Henry 
 
 Harrison, Richard Prescott, William 
 Ingraham, Edward D. Sedgwick/TheodoreJr. 
 J. J. [John Jeffries] Waterhouse, John 
 
 In the ALLEGORICAL plates heraldry is 
 often introduced, but the principal feature of 
 the design is the emblematical : these plates are 
 naturally adapted to the use of libraries and 
 institutions of learning. 
 
 American Academy of Columbia College Li- 
 Arts and Sciences. brary 
 
 MDCCLXX 
 
 East Windsor: Miscel- 
 
 Barrell, Joseph laneous Literary As- 
 
 sociation 
 Cabell, Doct. George Erasmus Hall Library
 
 H*DAWKLNTS 

 
 CATALOGUE. 25 
 
 Horanian Society Wheeler, David B. 
 
 New York SonVtv T i W y nko P Augustus 
 JNew-York bociety Li- Wynkoop c< c 
 
 brary. (Three van- w * nko( Petef 
 
 New- York Typogra- 
 phical Society Yale College : Broth- 
 Russell, Thomas ers ! n P 1 ^' ( Three 
 varieties) 
 
 Societyfor Propagating Yale College : Lino- 
 the Gospel in For- nian Society. (Two 
 eign Parts varieties) 
 
 The PICTORIAL plates include those 
 which give a little landscape, or a bit of water, 
 or some more practical picture, either as an ad- 
 junct to the arms, or as the sole motif of the 
 design. 
 
 Those Armorial plates which properly belong 
 under the other classes, and which introduce a 
 few trifling Pictorial features, are not classed as 
 Pictorial plates ; to be such properly the Pic- 
 torial feature must be the principal or the 
 prominent one. 
 
 Albany Society Libra- Andrew, John 
 ry. 1759 Andrews, 
 
 Allan, John Andrews, Eliza
 
 26 
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 Andrews, Henry 
 Apprentices' Library, 
 
 New- York city 
 Apprentices' Library, 
 
 Philadelphia 
 
 Bancker, Abraham 
 Bancroft, George 
 Beaty, J., M. D. 
 Belcher, William Sa- 
 vannah 
 Brown, Jacob 
 Bruff, J. G. 
 
 Cabell, Samuel Jordan 
 Callender, John 
 Cleveland, Stephen 
 Connecticut Theologi- 
 cal Institute 
 Cooley, Abial A. 
 
 De Witt, Richard Var- 
 
 ick 
 Dove, Samuel E. 
 
 Elam, Samuel 
 Freeman, Nathaniel 
 
 Georgetown College 
 Gilpin, Henry D. 
 Green, John, Jr. 
 Greenwood, Isaac 
 
 Griggs, A. 
 
 Guilford: Union Li- 
 brary 
 
 Hays, Barrack 
 Hooper, Swett 
 Humphrey, Henry B. 
 
 Izard, R. S. 
 
 Jarvis, 
 
 Johnson, John I. 
 
 Keffer, John C. 
 King, Sally 
 Kip, Leonard 
 Knights of the Square 
 Table 
 
 Lardner, Lynford 
 Livingston, Edward 
 Livingston, Robert R. 
 Lloyd, John Nelson 
 Lloyd, Richard Ben- 
 nett 
 
 Mcllvaine, Bloomfield 
 McKelden, Andrew 
 McMurtrie, Henry 
 
 Newburyport: Athen- 
 aeum 
 
 Newport : Redwood 
 Library
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 2 7 
 
 Olmsted, Charles H. 
 Olmsted, W. B. 
 Orphan Asylum 
 
 Paine, Thomas 
 Panton, Francis, Jr. 
 Parker, James 
 Parker, Samuel 
 Parkman, John 
 Pease, Oliver 
 Penn, Edward 
 Pennington, Edward 
 Phoenix Society 
 Pintard, John, LL.D. 
 Pruyn, Samuel 
 
 Raphael, B. J. 
 Riddle, J. 
 
 Size, Edward 
 
 Smith, John A. 
 Smith, Samuel, Esq. 
 Spooner, William 
 Stevens, Henry 
 Stone, William L. 
 Swan, James 
 Swett, J. B. 
 
 Thomas, George 
 United States Navy 
 
 Walker, Samuel 
 Warren, John C. 
 Warren, W. 
 Whitbridge, J. B. 
 Williams, William 
 
 Williams, 
 
 Wilson, John (2) 
 
 We class as LITERARY plates those whose 
 design is clearly meant to indicate that the 
 owner of the books in which they are found 
 was specially fond of them. This class in- 
 cludes representations of the interiors of libra- 
 ries, piles of books in conventional manner or 
 in professional disorder, shelves of books, and
 
 28 CATALOGUE. 
 
 the plates of libraries which use literary acces- 
 sories in their design. 
 
 Belcher, William Mitchell, Jacob 
 
 Booth, George Whiteley 
 
 Browne, Peter A. Moreau, John B. 
 
 Morong, Thomas 
 Child, Isaac 
 
 Connecticut Theologi- Olcott, George 
 cal Institute. 
 
 Pownall, Thomas 
 Day, M. W. (Book-pile} 
 
 Goodwin, George Reed, Elijah F. 
 
 Guilford Library Robbins, Thomas 
 
 Roberts, Geo. C. M. 
 Hill, Samuel 
 
 Stroebel, Martin 
 Jarvis, Samuel Farmar 
 
 Johnston, G. (Book- ^ , 
 J file} 
 
 Kirkpatrick, James Tayloejohn 
 
 Lewis, Joseph S. Welch, D. T. 
 
 Wethersfield Library: 
 
 McMurtrie, Henry Stepney Society. 
 Mann, John Preston 
 
 Marsh, Fred. Yale College : Moral 
 
 Miller, Frederick H. Library
 
 CATALOGUE. 29 
 
 The PORTRAIT plates, while very rare in 
 this country, deserve a word of commenda- 
 tion. In England, and in Germany par- 
 ticularly, these plates are found in goodly 
 numbers among the older specimens. They 
 preserve the features of the owner of the 
 books, and by appearing in the cover of every 
 volume are a certain means of identification. 
 
 Franklin Institute. Smith, C. A. 
 
 The MILITARY plates are, as their name 
 proclaims, those which have some representa- 
 tion of the munitions of war within the design. 
 Plates of this style were used a little after the 
 War of 1812, but they never became common 
 among those who would naturally use them. 
 
 Anonymous (French Newell, Timothy 
 arms) 
 
 Trenchard, Lieut. E. 
 Giles, James 
 
 Van Cortlandt 
 Henderson, James
 
 30 CATALOGUE. 
 
 The LADIES' plates are not so many in 
 number as we could wish. Heraldically they 
 differ from those of the men in a few details 
 Heraldic plates were not used to any extent in 
 this country, and only one of those now known 
 is correct in its heraldic arrangements. 
 
 Graeme, Elizabeth (Arms in a lozenge] 
 Hayward, Sarah (Ribbon and Wreath} 
 Iselin, Helen (Mantling) 
 Newton, Lucretia E. (Ribbon and Wreath] 
 
 Reed, Catharine P. ( Type-printed label) 
 Reynolds, Hannah ( Wood-cut label) 
 Richards, Mrs. Sally. 1 794 ( Type-printed label) 
 Ruff, Joanna M. ( Type-printed label) 
 
 31 f eto ^Important 
 
 Many plates were used in the early days, 
 and are to-day, consisting of the name, printed 
 from type, inclosed in an ornamental border. 
 This border is sometimes engraved on wood,
 
 CATALOGUE. 31 
 
 but more frequently is constructed of printer's 
 ornaments. An elaboration of this is the label 
 engraved on copper. 
 
 Adams, John Quincy Dexter, Samuel. 
 
 Agar, Lydia. 1806 MDCCLXXXV 
 
 Aitkin, Robert Dill, John E. 
 
 Dolbeare, Benjamin. 
 
 Barroll, William. 1795 1739 
 
 Baldwin, D. Duvall, Gabriel. 1778 
 Bayard, James A. 
 
 Blake's, Wm. P. and Evarts, Jeremiah 
 
 L., Circulating Li- 
 brary Farmington, Library in 
 Bonaparte, Jerome the First Society in 
 
 Napoleon 
 
 Green, Garrett 
 
 Child, Isaac Greenough, David 
 
 Cox, Chris. C., A. M. Stoddard 
 
 M. D. 
 
 Cranch, Richard Harris, Alexander 
 
 Gushing, Jacob. 1 746 Hartford Library 
 
 Company 
 
 Dartmouth College Li- Heath, John 
 
 brary 
 
 Dedham : Library of Inglis, George 
 
 the Young Men's 
 
 andYoung Women's Keese, John 
 
 Society for the Study Key, F. S. 
 
 of the Sacred Scrip- Kirkpatrick, James 
 
 tures 
 
 Derby, Martha Lee, Capt. John
 
 3 2 
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 Lewis, Mordecai 
 Livermore, Edward St. 
 
 Loe 
 
 Livingston, John R. 
 Lord, William 
 
 Mann, Timothy 
 Mason, Jonathan 
 Matthew, William 
 Miller, J. Peter 
 Morris, William 
 Newberry, Roger 
 New-York College of 
 
 Pharmacy 
 
 New-York College of 
 Physicians and Sur- 
 geons 
 
 Otis, James. 1773 
 Otis, James, Jr. 
 
 Page, Samuel 
 Parsons, Gorham 
 Parsons, William 
 Pease, Rev. Lewis 
 Pennington, Edward 
 Pennington, T. H. 
 Phillips, Samuel. 1707 
 Pierpont, John 
 Poulson, John 
 Prince, Thomas. 1704 
 Putnam, Aaron 
 
 Reed, Catharine P. 
 
 Reynolds, Hannah 
 Richards, Mrs. Sally. 
 
 1744 
 Robbins, Philemon. 
 
 1755 
 
 Routh, David. 1762 
 Ruff, Joanna M. 
 Russell, Joshua 
 
 Secombe, John. 1729 
 Selfridge, Thomas O. 
 
 1799 
 
 Smith, Haziel 
 Smith, Jonathan. 
 
 MDCCLX 
 Smith, Samuel 
 Sprigg, Richard 
 Stearns, Benjamin 
 Stevens, Henry 
 Stockbridge, Charles 
 Sumner, Thomas W. 
 
 Tompkins, D. D. 
 
 Tripp, Lot 
 
 Tufts, S. 
 
 Tuttle, Hugh. 1822 
 
 United States Con- 
 gress 
 
 Van Buren, M. 
 Vinton, J. A.
 
 x<
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 33 
 
 Warren, Samuel, Jr. Worcester Public Li- 
 
 Welford, Beverly R. brary 
 
 White, Daniel A. 
 
 Williams, John. 1679 Young, Ammi B. 
 
 Woodbridge, William 
 
 In the following, list, classed as UNDE- 
 CIDED, are included all those plates which 
 the writer has not seen, but concerning which 
 he has been informed, though with such mea- 
 ger details as to make it unwise to attempt their 
 classification. 
 
 Ambler, 
 
 Andrews, 
 
 Archer, William 
 Armistead, William 
 
 Baldwin, Jonathan 
 Baldwin, Luke 
 
 Bathurst, 
 
 Bayley, 
 
 Beresford, Richard 
 Beverly, Robert 
 Beverly, William 
 
 Chawney, 
 
 Connolly, Charles M. 
 
 Craven, 
 
 Cunyngham, Robert 
 
 Davenport, 
 
 Denny, William 
 Drayton, William 
 
 Henry 
 Dunkin, Robert Henry 
 
 Edwards, Isaac 
 
 Chalmers, George 
 Chandler, Rufus 
 
 Fairfax, Bryan 
 Foster,
 
 34 
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 Foxcroft, John 
 Fraunces, Andrew G. 
 (Mantle of Estate] 
 
 Chiton, William R. 
 
 1718 
 
 Gibbs, John Walters 
 Gibs, James 
 
 Gilmer, 
 
 Gilpin, John 
 Gourgas, J. J. J. 
 
 (A French design) 
 Graham, Henry Hale 
 Greenleaf, William 
 
 Hall, William 
 Hawks, Francis L. 
 Hayne, Isaac 
 Hayward, Benjamin 
 Herman, Samuel Fred. 
 
 Holladay, 
 
 Hubard, 
 
 Hunter, Archibald 
 Hurd, Name of 
 
 Johnston, Robert 
 King, Miles 
 
 Leiper, 
 
 Linn, Rev. Matthias 
 Logan, William 
 Lotbiniere, Le Marquis 
 de (French heraldic} 
 Lukens, John 
 
 McAlish, 
 
 McDowall, William 
 McKenzie, Kenneth 
 
 Manning, 
 
 Matthew, William 
 Mercer, Hugh 
 Mercer, John 
 Middleton, John Izard 
 Murray, Rev. John 
 Murray, Earl Dun- 
 more (Supporters] 
 
 Pace, Henry 
 Paulding, W. 
 Powell, Hare Samuel 
 Powell, Philip 
 Preston, William 
 
 Campbell 
 Proctor, Col. Thomas 
 
 Rivoire, Paul 
 Rousseau, 
 
 Lamb, John Rutherford, John 
 
 Lawrence, Edward R. Rutledge, 
 
 Lee, (Supporters)
 
 CATALOGUE. 
 
 35 
 
 Saltonstall, Walter 
 Saltonstall, William 
 Sears, David (Sup- 
 
 porters) 
 Semple, - 
 Sewell, - 
 
 ' P bert 
 ' aS 
 
 Thruston, - 
 Tuberville, George 
 
 Lee 
 
 Tucker, St. George 
 Tyler, Joseph 
 
 Smith, William Laugh- 
 ton 
 
 Smyth, Andrew 
 Stott, Ebenezer 
 Sturges, John 
 
 Taylor, George 
 The Bishop of Ja- 
 maica 
 
 Thompson, 
 
 Thompson, Robert 
 (Arms of Count 
 Rumford} 
 
 Berkel, P. I. 
 
 (Supporters) 
 Van Rensselaer, P. 
 Van Rensselaer, Ste- 
 
 phen (Mantling) 
 Vo Ben j amin 
 
 Walmsley, I. (Mant- 
 
 Warren, G. 
 
 ton 
 Waties, Thomas 
 
 Young, Thomas J. 
 
 , anb 
 
 of 
 
 This list of institutions using book-plates is 
 given, as it may prove useful to the collector 
 for reference. The styles vary largely, nearly 
 all the classes already described being repre- 
 sented. Many of the items have been given
 
 36 CATALOGUE. 
 
 previously under their proper class as to style, 
 but are brought together here for convenience 
 in reference. 
 
 Albany Society Library. 1759 
 American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
 
 MDCCLXX 
 
 Andover Theological Seminary 
 Apprentices' Library, Philadelphia. 
 
 (Two varieties) 
 Apprentices' Library, New- York 
 
 Baltimore, Library Company of 
 
 Blake's, Wm. P. and L., Circulating Library 
 
 Boston : Shakspere Circulating Library 
 
 Boston : Social Law Library 
 
 Bowdoin College 
 
 Boylston Medical Library. (Two varieties) 
 
 Columbia College Library 
 
 Connecticut Theological Institute. 1833 
 
 Dartmouth College, Library of 
 Dartmouth College : Social Friends' Society 
 
 East Windsor : Miscellaneous Literary Society 
 Erasmus Hall Library 
 
 Farmington Library. (Three varieties) 
 Franklin Institute 
 
 Georgetown College 
 Guilford Library 
 Guilford: Union Library

 
 CATALOGUE. 37 
 
 Hartford Library Company 
 Harvard College. (Several kinds) 
 Harvard College : Hasty Pudding Club 
 Harvard College: Porcellian Library. 
 
 (Two varieties) 
 Horanian Society Library 
 
 Kingston, Canada : Santa Johanis Evangelis- 
 tae Sigilum Collegi Latomorum. 1794 
 
 Loganian Library 
 
 Massachusetts : Library of the General Court 
 Massachusetts Historical Society 
 Massachusetts Medical Society 
 Massachusetts : State Normal School 
 
 Newburyport Athenaeum 
 Newport : Redwood Library 
 New- York College of Pharmacy 
 New- York: College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons 
 
 New- York Society Library. (Three varieties) 
 New- York Typographical Society 
 North Carolina, University of 
 
 Pennsylvania, Historical Society of 
 Philadelphia, Carpenters' Company of 
 Philadelphia, Library Company of 
 Phillips Academy 
 Phoenix Society 
 
 Riddle, J., Circulating Library
 
 38 CATALOGUE. 
 
 St. George's Church. (Two varieties) 
 Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign 
 
 Parts 
 
 South Carolina Protestant Episcopal Society 
 Supreme Council : 33 deg : A. A. S. R. of F. 
 
 for the N. M. J. U. S. A. 
 
 Virginia Council 
 
 Wethersfield Library : Stepney Society 
 Worcester Circulating Library 
 
 Yale College : Brothers in Unity. 
 
 (Three varieties) 
 Yale College: Linonian Society. 
 
 (Three varieties) 
 Yale College : Moral Library 
 Yale College : Philotechnian Society Library
 
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