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American book-plates, a guide to their study with examples ... With a bibliography by Eben Hewins ... Illustrated with many reproductions of rare and interesting book-plates and in the finer editions with many prints from the original coppers both old and recent (1905)

Author: Allen, Charles Dexter, 1865-1926; Norwood Press. (1905) bkp CU-BANC; Hewins, Eben Newell
Subject: Bookplates, American; Bookplates -- Bibliography
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: nrlf_ucb:GLAD-67252820
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: University of California Libraries
Collection: americana
Scanfactors: 2

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Name-labels and mottoes.--Armorial book-plates.--Pictorial and allegorical book-plates and plates of colleges, libraries and societies.--Book-plates of special interest.--Early American book-plate engravers, with lists of their work.--An alphabetical list of early American book-plates.--A chronological list of the dated plates.--An alphabetical list of the signed plates.--List of mottoes.--A few recent examples.--American collectors and collections.--Ex-libris societies.--Bibliography (American [by E.N. Hewins]; English [by H.W. Fincham and J.R. Brown; reprinted from the Journal of the Ex-libris society]; French [by W. Hamilton; reprinted from his "Handbook of French book-plates"])

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