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ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY COPIES OF THIS
LIST OF BOOK-PLATES WERE PRINTED AT THE
MARION PRESS, JAMAICA, QUEENSBOROUGH, NEW
YORK, IN MARCH, 1899. THIS COPY IS NO. 6Y.
EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH.
LIST OF BOOK-PLATES
ENGRAVED ON COPPER
BY MR. EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH
CLEVELAND, OHIO
PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS, MDCCCXCIX
IB ^'xc^h. s f^
/^e-^ ..r. , .
Copyright, 1899, by Paul Lemperly.
NOTE.
HE owners of Plates Nos. 45, 49, and
51 prefer thaJt^ their names shall not
be disclosed. Plates Nos. i o i and 1 24,
while practically completed, are still in the
hands of the engraver.
That piece of burlesque heraldry, with its
mystifying motto, u • sepe • ars • so • ap, produced
as a joke in an idle moment, as well as the
copy of the Samuel Vaughan book-plate, en-
graved as a study of the so-called " Chippen-
dale'* style, — to which fictitious and impossible
arms and the name "Timothy Jones*' were
added and the name afterward erased, — al-
though of interest to collectors, are not a part
of Mr. French's serious work, and he has
always protested against their being placed in
any list of his book-plates.
Subscribers will receive in January, 1900, a
list of such plates as may have been engraved
by Mr. French during the present year.
Cleveland, March 15, 1899.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PACING PAGB
Portrait of Mr. Edwin Davis French . . . title
Book-plate of Paul Lemperly .... on title
Book-plate of Samuel Smith Sherwood ... 9
Book-plate of Henry Rogers Winthrop . . 16
Book-plate of Arnold Wood 24
Mr. French's Studio at Saranac Lake, N. Y. 32
The impressions of the above Book-plates are from
the original coppers.
\
12 List of Book'plates
Engraved
22
Hiram Edmund Deats.
1894.
23
Edwin B. Holden.
1894.
24
Edwin B. Holden.
1894.
The smaller plate, with open book.
25
Alice C. Holden.
1894.
26
Edwin R. Holden.
1894.
27
John Page Woodbury.
(1894.)
28
[Dr.] Richard B. Coutant.
1894.
2g
James J. Goodwin.
1894.
30
[Rev.] Francis Goodwin.
1894.
by Edwin Davis French.
13
3^
[Rev.] Beverley Warner, M. A.
1894.
32
Jonathan Godfrey.
1894.
33
Charles Conover Kalbfleisch.
1894.
34
Henry Sherburne Rowe.
(1894.)
35
Emily Hoe Lawrence.
1894.
36
James Hale Bates.
1894.
37
Richard Southcote Mansergh.
1895.
{a) Without frame and signature.
(Jf) With frame and signature.
A few proofs were taken before insertion of name.
thus making a
third variety.
38
Louis L Haber.
1894.
14 List of Book-plates Engraved
39
L. B. L [owenstein] .
1895.
40
Library of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York City.
1895.
(i>) The Cruger Mansion.
(^) The new Building. Of plate " b "
those printed in brown spedfy " Purchased
"Presented by."
there arc two varieties ;
," and those in black.
41
E. D. Church.
1895.
42
A. C. Bernheim.
1895.
43
A. C. Bakewell.
(1895.)
44
Charles B. Alexander.
1895.
45
46
James William Ellsworth.
1895.
by Edwin Davis French. i^
47
Beverly Chew. 1895.
48
Henry H. Vail. ^895.
49
50
M. Taylor Pyne. 1895
Plate No. 107 was subsequently substituted for this.
51
52
Henry A. Sherwin. 1895.
53
Samuel F. Barger. 1895.
54
Maria Gerard Messenger. 1895.
55
William Frederick Havemeyer. (1895.)
Designed by Thomas Tryon.
l6 List of Book'plates
Engraved
5^
Theo. L. DeVinne.
Designed by G. F. Babb.
(1895.)
57
^ V f Thomas Mott
Osborne < ^ j^
[ Agnes Devens
(1895.)
Frank Evans Marshall.
1895.
S9
Champaign Public Library. This book was pur-
chased by the Julia F. Burnham Memorial Fund.
(1895.)
60
Ex Libris Biltmoris. 1895.
Designed by the owner, Mr. George W
. Vanderbilt
•
61
E. H [olden].
(1895.)
62
The Club of Odd Volumes.
1895.
63
Percy Rivington Pyne.
Same as No. 50. See also under No. i(
V'
1895.
i|^^'^
w^L
iBfc^ "^
^n:.NKyK£>OEKSW1NTHK!)li
by FJwin Davis French.
n
64
J. King Goodrich.
(1895-)
6s
William Lanman Bull.
1895.
66
Micajah Pratt Clough.
1896.
67
The Association of the Bar of the City of
New York. The Library of Charles H.fFood-
buryy a former member of this Association, was
given to it by his widow y and this book forms part
thereof 1895. (1896.)
68
V. E. M.
(1896.)
69
Ex Libris Biltmoris.
Like No. 6oy but smaller.
(1896.)
70
Tracy Dows.
(1896.)
1 8 hist of Book-plates Engraved
Sovereign. (1896.)
Designed by Thomas Tryon for the library on board Mr. M.
C. D. Borden's Yacht Sovereign. The owner objecting to the
** Crown," Mr, Tryon designed a second plate, slightly differing
in some details, and in which an Eagle was substituted for the
Crown. The first, or ** Crown," plate exists only in proof state,
and is one of the rarest of the plates engraved by Mr. French.
During the recent war, the yacht Sovereign was purchased by
the United States Government and renamed the Scorpion,
The Edward Tompkins McLaughlin Me-
morial Prize in English Composition.
Founded A. D. Mdcccxciv. {Tale Univer-
sity.) 1896.
73
[Dr.] Christian Archibald Herter. 1896.
74
A. J. Morgan. 1896.
A few proofs were taken before altering an unsatisfactory portrait
of Thackeray.
75
Howard WiUets. (1896.)
by Edwin Davis French. ig
76
With the Compliments of William Loring
Andrews. (1896.)
77
Robert Sedgwick. 1896.
78
Charles H. TaylcTr, Jr.
Designed by E. B. Bird.
(1896.)
79
Sovereign.
Designed by Thomas Tryon. This is the
under No. 71.)
(1896.)
" Eagle " pkte. (See
80
Harriet Blair Borland.
1896.
81
Mary Emma Plummer.
1896.
82
Henry A. Sherwin.
Same as No. 52, but reduced in size.
1896.
20 List of Book-plates Engraved
83
The John Crerar Library, Chicago. 1896.
84
The Denver Club. (1896.)
Designed by Cora £. Sargent. A few impressions (including about
six proo6 on Japan) were taken before signatures of engraver and
designer were erased.
85
Edwin Ruthven Lamson. 1896.
Designed by Edmund H. Garrett.
86
Maria Gerard Messenger.
Dono Hunc Li brum Dedi ad 1 896.
{jo) With book-pile.
(i) With view of Pleasantville Library.
87
Catherine A. Bliss. 1896.
88
The Collection of Thos. Addis Emmet, M. D.
Presented by John Stewart Kennedy to the New
Tork Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden
Foundations. 18 g6. (1896.)
by Edwin Davis French.
21
8g
Adelle Webber Gray.
(1897-)
go
O. A. K[ahn .
1897.
9r
Lucy Coleman Carnegie.
(1897-)
92
Robert H. McCarter.
1896.
93
John Lloyd Stearns.
(1897-)
94
Edith Davies Kingsbury.
(1897-)
Designed by Lilian C. Westcott.
95
Julian Marshall, M dccc xc vi.
(1897.)
A few proo6 of this plate have as a
remarque a
portrait of Mr.
French in dry-point.
9^
Candidati.
(1897-)
There are several electrotype variations
of this
plate; the only
impressions from the original copper
are
those
with the name
Helen Runyon Belknap.
22 List of Book
"plates Engraved
97
William Connell.
(1897-)
98
Authors Club Library.
Designed by George Wharton Edwards.
(1897.)
99
Ruth Mary Sabin.
(1897.)
100
Child Memorial Library. To Harvard Univer-
sity in Memory of Francis James Child^ First
Professor of English, 1897.
Also a small supplementary plate — **The Gift of."
lOI
102
Paul Lemperly.
1897.
103
^ f Henry Clay.
^ 1 Helen Burgess.
1897.
104
Edward F. Burke.
1897.
by Edwin Davis French.
23
^05
Mollie Cozine LefFerts.
1897.
106
Mary Minturn Hartshorne.
Designed by Miss E. Brown.
(1897.)
107
M. Taylor Pyne.
Supplanting No. 50. Of this plate there is an
ation with name Percy Rivington Pyne.
1897.
electrotype vari-
108
•
Library of Princeton University.
1897.
log
Florence de Wolfe Sampson.
(1898.)
no
Abraham Goldsmith.
(1898.)
///
George Allison Armour.
1898.
112
A. Dwight Stratton.
(1898.)
^^3
[Dr.] Samuel W. Lambert.
(1898.)
24
List of Book'pli
lies .
Engraved
Barrett Wendell.
114
1898.
^^5
Rx Libris Medicis.
For members of the Gushing family.
(1898.)
Vassar Alumnae
Mdcccxcvi.
116
Historical Association
1898.
Samuel Smith Sherwood.
1898.
The Association
New York.
The Association
New York.
Same plate as No. 1 1 i
118
of the Bar of the City of
The John E. Burrill Fund.
(1897.)
iig
of the Bar of the City of
(1898.)
5, but mserted, "Gift of James C. Carter."
I20
Henry Rogers Winthrop.
1898.
121
James A. Goldsmith.
(1898.)
by Edwin Davis French. 2^
122
Twentieth Century Club. (1898.
Designed by Mrs. EvcItii Rumsey Carey.
123
Frederick W. Van Wagenen. (1898.
124
125
Jennings Stockton Cox. (1898.
126
E. P. Williams. (1898.
127
Katherine Cecil Sanford Thorne. (1898.
128
Florence Coleman Nimick. (1898.
I2g
James Edmund Scripps. (1898.
After a drawing by Albert Kahn embodying the owner's sug
gestions.
130
Arnold Wood. (1898.
26 List of Book-plates Engraved
[Dr.] Charles L. Dana. (1898.)
Designed by A. Kay Womrath; slightly changed according to
owner's wishes.
132
Eva Snow Smith Prescott. 1898.
133
Sidney Ernest Bradshaw. 1898.
MR. FRENCH S STUDIO AT SARANAC LAKE, 1
Tbls book should be retnmed to
the Iribrary on or before the last date
stamped below,
A fine of five cents a daj* Is inourred
by retaining it beyond the specifled
time.
Please return promptly.
