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EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

1851-1906

A CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF HIS

ENGRAVED WORK, TOGETHER WITH

ORIGINAL DESIGNS BY HIM

HELD AT

THE GROLIER CLUB

29 EAST 3 2D STREET

NEW YORK

APRIL THE i6th TO MAY THE 8th

1909

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Copyright, 1909, by

The Grolier Club of the
City of New York

NOTE

In 1893, when Mr. French laid aside silver en-
graving and set forth on his career as a line
engraver on copper, all that was heard of copper
engraving in America might be summed up in the
sigh that it was a lost art and its history complete.
It was his mission to do much in its revival in
those fields where it still might have considerable
practical use.

At that time a general interest in the subject of
book-plates was growing, stimulating and stimu-
lated by the publication of the attractive and
authoritative books by Warren, Franks, Hardy,
Castle, Leiningen-Westerburg, Hamilton, and
Allen ; and, what was better, book collectors were
seeking plates for their own use that might be at
once book-plates and works of art.

Mr. French's genius for decorative and har-
monious designing and his reluctance to attempt
large plates fitted him to welcome and meet this
interest and call. His first ten plates, from that
of Mr. Chew to Mr. Bierstadt's, were executed for

• • •

ni

NOTE

members of the Grolier Club. The individual
book-plates of more than fifty members of the
Club were designed and engraved by him and one
of the largest and most striking of them all is that
of the Grolier Club itself, a masterly design. It
was for Mr. Andrews, another Grolier member
and encourager of the arts, that Mr. French exe-
cuted his first, and some of his finest, plates of a
more miscellaneous sort. In 1899, Mr. French
became a member of the Grolier, and he had many
good friends in it. Quite naturally the Club takes
some pride in showing what assuredly is the most
complete and indicative collection of his work that
has ever been assembled.

Beyond the general interest in the work of Mr.
French, there lies a very real desire to study his
remarkable technique, to find, and, on the part
of many engravers, to follow, the methods by
which he reached that grace and certainty of line
that make his work classic in its rendering of his
rich and dignified designs. The exhibition has
been gathered and arranged with this desire in
mind, and it is thought that every facility for such
study is here given in originals, printings, and par-
ticularly in the incomplete states — the many un-
finished windows in Aladdin's Tower.

From sheer fertility of imagination, when asked
for a sketch for a book-plate, Mr. French often

iv

NOTE

would send two and sometimes three, and rarely,
even then, did he, in the engraving, closely repro-
duce the chosen design. The present collection
shows several examples of these alternate designs.
Generally they are in pen and ink, though he at
times made them in wash drawing. Partly for
convenience in the mail, and more because the
future plate was best shown in a small compass,
nearly all the designs are about the size of the en-
gravings and frequently the minute work of the
pen is seen to rival that of the graver.

A working proof, and sometimes two or three
successive ones, were sent to the plate owner, and
changes were made to accord with his views.
Many examples of these working proofs or states
are shown, and correspondence about the plates
is also shown — enough to indicate the course of
development.

The fancy of the owner or the character of the
plate often brought in various colors of ink and
many kinds of paper ; these will be found in the
exhibition, by no means in their infinite variety, but
in all essential forms, and they are most suggestive.

The coppers are exhibited of various plates that
came under Mr. French's hand, one showing the
fresh copper, with an outline or vignette, one a
completed plate, and another is steel-faced that it
may bear many printings ; and so thin is this fac-

NOTE

ing or plating that an impression taken after can
only by the highest skill, fortified by the imagina-
tion, be distinguished from one taken before the
plate was faced. Finally there may be seen the
canceled and silvered plate of the famous engrav-
ing of The Britannia, a product of Mr. French's
first year with copper.

In spite of Mr. French's universal repute as a
designer and engraver of book-plates, his achieve-
ment will not be measured nor his possibility seen
if one fails to study his certificates and title-pages,
his reproductions of views of old New York and
his original engravings of the New York he knew.
These are less familiar in their variety and in num-
ber to the many lovers of line engraving than is
his manifold contribution to art in the book-plate
world. While the present series of Mr. French's
book-plates is complete save for one that never
was printed, the Club is happy in being able to
exhibit his further scope in these miscellaneous
engravings. The catalogue indicates those in-
stances where Mr. French followed other design-
ers and where other engravers followed him.

The exhibition has been arranged, in regard to
the book-plates, alphabetically. After each name
is placed in parenthesis the number of the plate
in the check list in "Edwin Davis French, A
Memorial"; the italic letters in parenthesis after

vi

NOTE

many items follow the same list. Items not ac-
companied by italic letters, are, for one or another
reason, not in the check list, and in the case of
engravings attention is called to the fact. The
dates at the side, which refer in all cases to Mr.
French's work, when not in brackets, show that
the plates are dated either in the body of each
plate or in the signature. The words "Signed
proof " are used when proofs bear the autograph
of Mr. French, and in this feature the exhibition
has very unusual distinction.

The miscellaneous plates and designs are ar-
ranged in what seems the most advantageous way
for comparison and examination.

The portraits and few concluding numbers,
though qf course not engravings, will be welcome
from their very personal quality. And the en-
gravings themselves surely show much of the
character of the engraver.

Vll

CATALOGUE OF BOOK-PLATES

MISCELLANEOUS DESIGNS

AND ENGRAVINGS

CATALOGUE

1 Edward Dean Adams (199) 1902
Signed proof

2 Ernest Kempton Adams (207) 1902

Design in sepia, with penciled conrec-
tions

Signed proof

3 Frances Amelia Adams (187) 1901
Signed proof

4 Ruth Adams (174) 1900
Signed proof

5 ^Valter B. Adams (208) 1902
Signed proof

6 Adriance Memorial Library (195) 1902
Proof

7 Amy B, Alexander (170) 1900
Proof on pink paper

EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

8 Charles R Alexander (44) 1895
Signed proof

9 Charles Dexter Allen (141) 1899

Proof, panels blank (a)

Proof, portrait (d)

Signed proof (d), with remarque

10 Charlotte D. Allison

(Engraved in 1908 by A. N. Mac-
donald. Not noted in check list)
Proof signed by engraver

1 1 American Institute of Electrical

Engineers (240) 1904

Two original designs
Signed proofs in red, blue and black
inks

1 2 William Loring Andrews (11) 1894

Two early states (not noted in check

list)
Proof on vellum

13 William Loring Andrews, presen-

tation plate (76) [1896]

Proof (c)

13a W. L. Andrews (291)
Leather label

BOOK-PLATES

4 George Allison Armour ( 1 1 1 ) [1898]

India proof, motto penciled (a)
Signed proof (d)

5 Charles D. Armstrong (211) [1902]

(Not designed by Mr. French)
Signed proof

6 Authors Qub Library (98) [1897]

(Design by G. W. Edwards)
Outline proof (not noted in check list)
Proof

7 In Memoriam, Ellen Walters

Avery (10) 1894

India proof (d)

8 Gertrude M. BaiUie (295) 1906

(Engraved by A. N. Macdonald)
Proof signed by engraver

9 W. £. Baillie (17) 1894
Signed proof

William £. Baillie, presentation 1906

plate

(Engraved in 1908 by A. N. Mac-
donald. Not noted in check list)
Proof signed by engraver

1 Alice C Bakewell (43) 1895
Proof

EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

22 Allan C Bakewell (142) [1899]

Outline proofs smaller rejected plate
Proof {d)

23 Sarah Rodman Baldwin (190) [1901]
Signed proof

24 Edward DufFBalken (203) 1902

(Design by George Green, amended

by Mr. French)
Proof, penciled {a)
Signed proof

25 Edward Duff Balken (220) 1903

Original design
Proofs (a, b)

26 Association of the Bar (67) [1895]
Proof

27 Association of the Bar (119) [1898]
Print {b)

28 Samuel F. Barger (53) 1895
Signed proof

29 John Sanford Barnes (180) 1901

Study for design

Signed proof

Proof in water colors

BOOK-PLATES

o James Hale Bates (36) 1894

Signed proof (d)

Helen, Runyon Belknap. See No. 62

;i A. C Bemheim (42) 1895

Signed proof

■2 Henry C Bemheim (242) 1904

Signed proof

3 Julius C and Emily S. Bemheim

(276) 1906

Proof (a)
Signed proof (d)

;4 Edward Hale Bierstadt (16) 1894

Signed proof

5 Ex Ubris BUtmoris {60) 1895

(Design by the owner, George W.

Vanderbilt)
Trial proof, not dated
Signed proof {d)

6 Ex libris Biltmoris (69) 1896

(Similar to the above, but smaller)
Signed proof, not dated

7 Natala Washbume Bishop (200) 1902
Signed proof, blue ink

5

EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

38 Emma Stewart Bixby (374) 19
Proof

39 W. K. Bixby (275) 19

Original design
Proof (a)

Proof (d)f in water colors
Proof (V), green ink

40 Henry Van Deventer Black (271) [19<

(Design by the owner)
Proof signed by Mr. Black

41 Henry Blackwell (20) li
Proof

42 Henry Blackwell, presentation

plate (150) II

Original design, square, afterward

amended
Proof (d)

43 Caroline Seagrave Bliss (231) l|
Signed proof

44 Catherine A. Bliss (87) II
Proof

45 Emil Leopold Boas (139) II

Original design
Proof

BOOK-PLATES

46 M. C D. Borden (175) [1900]

(A replica of the Sovereign plate,
with eagle instead of crown, and
name changed.) See Nos. 252, 253

Signed proof

47 M. C D. Borden {176) [1900]

(Similar to the above, but smaller)
Proof

48 Harriet Blair Borland (80) 1896

Trial proof before letters (not noted

in check list)
Signed proofs (a, c)
Proof (d)

49 Sidney Ernest Bradshaw (133) 1898
Signed proof (d)

Eveline Warner Brainerd. See No.
62

50 Helen Elvira Brainerd (i) 1893

Signed proof (d)

Prints (d), blue and brown inks

5 1 Helen Elvira Brainerd (4) 1894
Signed proof

52 Ira Hutchinson Brainerd (212) 1902
Signed proofs {a, d)

7

EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

53 Martha Elizabeth Brainerd (294) [1905]

(Engraved in 1908 by F. O. Coombs)
Proof signed by engraver

54 William Augustus Brewer (228) 1903

Proof (a)

Signed proof (d)

Prints (i), brown and blue inks

55 Georgette Brown {124) [1898]

Signed proof {a)
Proof (d)

56 John H. Buck (166) 1900

(Design by Marian Buck)
Proof (d)

57 William Lanman Bull (65) 1895
Signed proof

5 8 James Wilson Bullock (171) 1900

Proofs {a, d)
Signed proof (c)

59 Edward F. Burke (104) 1897
Signed proofs (a, b)

60 William Henry and Katharine

French Bumham (213) 1902

Proof {a)
Signed proof {b)

8

BOOK-PLATES

6 1 Byrd(288) [1899]
Original book-plate of " William

Byrd of Westover in Virginia Esq',"

which Mr. French copied
Signed proof (a)
Proof (d)

62 Candidati (96) [1897 J

Proofs (a, ^, h)
Prints (cc, ^, h)

63 Lucy Coleman Carnegie (91) [1897]
Signed proof

64 Katharine Thomas Cary (257) 1905

Proof (a)

Signed proof (^), with remarque

Cercle Fran9ais. See No. 134

65 de Chaignon (298) [1903]
Proof

66 Elisabeth Chamberlain (167) 1900

Three original designs
Signed proof
See also No. 197

67 Champaign Public Library (59) |1895]
Proof

EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

68 AHce S. Oieney (156) 1900 |iC
Signed proof

69 Beverly Oiew (7) 18M§

Original and alternate designs
Proof

70 Beverly dew (47) 1895

Original and alternate designs
Signed proof

71 Beverly Chew (285) [1896]

Examples of label on various colored
leathers

Child Memorial Library. See
No. 13s

72 E. D. Church (41) 1895
Signed proof (d)

73 Cincinnati Law Library, Rufus

King Fund (234) 1903

Proof, portrait-bust complete, rest of
plate in outline (not noted in check
list)

Signed proof

74 Charles £. Clark, M.D. (8) 1894
Signed proof

10

S Charles E. OaA, ILDL (9) I8Mr

Signed proof

(Design by Mabd Carfcmn Gi^
Proof (tf)

Proof (r), sgned bybti^ tiiedaigiKr
and Mr. FrendL

7 Mk^ah P. doo^Csz) I8fK
Signed proof (^

8 ICcsQah Pkatt dooj^ (d^ liiM
Signed proof

9 Colonial Dbbms of AoKBOfr:^)

Proofi (a, ^)

Signed proQ^ffgnaniggtiiaiEBrfiBr/ngc
noted in dscck fis:>

Wars (193) 2Wt

Signed proof

I V^illiain CaoDdi (l97) I^IK

Signed proof

3 The Cosmos Onb (27 jj ^ISNK;!

(Design by WilE»flt FodEcr Ciisft»>
Proof, sig^icd by bodbdbe (dM^iner
and lir. Frendi

II

EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

83 Richard R Coutant (28) 189t

Proof (a)
Signed proof (d)

84 Jennings Stockton Cox (i 25) [1898]
Signed proof

85 John Crcrar Library (83) 1896

Photograph of Mr. Crerar
India proof (a)
Signed proof (d)

86 Gushing (145) [1899]

Signed proof
See also No. 193

87 Charles L. Dana (131) [1898]

(Design by A. Kay Womrath)
Signed proof

88 Cora Paschall Davis (279) 1906

Original design
Proof (a)
Signed proof (d)

89 Hiram Edmund Deats (22) 1894
Signed proof (d)

90 The Denver Qub (84) [1896]

(Design by Cora E. Sargent)

Trial proof (not noted in check list)

Signed proof (l)

12

BOOKPLATES

1 Theo. L. De Vinne (56) [1895]

(Design by G. F. Babb)
Proof

Digamma Library. See No. 136

2 James B. Dill (197) 1902

Working proof, second state
Signed proof (d)

3 George Edward Dimock (244) 1904
Proof

4 Mary Lois Seagrave Downes (260) 1905
Proof

5 Tracy Dows (70) [1896]

Proof

Counterfeit (note difference in crest,
lettering, and other details)

6 Lucy Wharton Drexel (255) 1904
Signed proof

7 George Van Wagenen and Mar-

garet Van Nest Duryee (143) 1899

Proof {a)

Signed proof (^), with remarque

Electrical Engineers. See No. 1 1

8 James William Ellsworth (46) 1895
Signed proof

13

EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

99 The Collection of Tho? Addis

Emmet, M.D. (88) 1891

Signed proof

ICO Field Memorial Library (194) [190

Proof

loi Lucius G. Fisher (265) 1!

Proof {a)
Print {d)

102 Margaret H. Foot (168) 1
Proof

103 Charles B. Foote (19) ]

Two original designs
Signed proof {d)

Proof, small bulb around flame (not
noted in check list)

104-5 Edwin Davis French (3, 290) ]

Signed proof of his Volapiik book-
plate

Book containing Volapuk book-plate
and Volapiik label

1 06 Edwin Davis French (5) [1

Unfinished proof (not noted in

check list)
Signed proof (a)

14

BOOK-PLATES

Proofs (^), black, brown and green

shaded to orange inks
Print (c)f blue ink
Proof (d)

107 Edwin Davis French (289) 1893
Two prints, showing reverse (d)

108 Edwin Davis French, professional

card (299) [1896]

Proof

109 Mary Brainerd French (2) 1893
Signed proof (d)

110 Henry Clay Frick (284) 1906
Unfinished proof

111 Dorothy Furman (198) 1902
Signed proof

112 Homer Gage (214) 1902

(Design by Mabel Carleton Gage)
Proof signed by both the designer and
Mr. French

113 Mabel Carleton Gage (185) 1901

(Design by the owner)
Proof

15

EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

14 Edward Courtland Gale (136) 1899
Signed proof {a)

15 Jonathan Godfrey (32) 1894
Signed proof

16 Abraham Goldsmith (no) [1898]
Print

1 7 James A. Goldsmith (121) [1898]
Signed proof

18 J. King Goodrich (64) [1895]
Signed proof

19 Elizabeth Sage Goodwin (233) 1903
Signed proof

20 Francis Goodwin (30) 1894
Proofs (tf , d)

21 James J. Goodwin (29) 1894
Proof

22 James J. Goodwin (45) 1895
Proof

23 Philip Lippincott Goodwin (221) 1903
Proof

16

BOOK-PLATES

4 George J. Gould (269) [1906]
Proof taken by Stecchini in Rome

5 AdeUe Webber Gray (89) [1897]
Signed proof

6 John Chipman Gray (202) 1902

Proof {a)
Signed proof (6)

7 Francis Bunker Greene (252) 1904

Original design, tinted in water colors
Proof (a)

8 GrolierClub (21) 1894

Study, sketch and original design
Copperplate, matrix and electrotype
Proofs {a, b, c)

Signed proof and vellum proof (d)
Print (e)

9 Louis I. Haber (38) 1894
Signed proof

;o Harbor Hill (184) 1901

Proof, half in outline (not noted in

check list)
Signed proofs, various inks

51 Henry H. Harper (249) 1904

Signed proof

17

EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

132 Hartshome (183) 1901
Proofs (a, d)

133 Mary Mintum Hartshome (106) [1897]

(Design by Miss E. Brown)
Print (a)

134 Harvard University, Cercle Fran-

9ais (223) 1903

Original design, tinted in water colors
Unfinished proof, small panel blank,

covered with design for portrait

(not noted in check list)
Signed proof (a)
Signed proof (^), blue ink

135 Harvard University, Child Memo-

rial Library (100) 1897

Proof

Proof of gift plate

136 Harvard University, Digaxnma

Library (201) 1902

Proof {a)
Signed proof {d)

137 Harvard University, Harvard

Union (186) [1901]

(Design by B. G. Goodhue)
Proof (a)

18

BOOK-PLATES

Harvard University, Hohenzollem

Collection (239) 1904

Signed proofs, with remarque, black,
red and blue inks

) Harvard University, Bibliotheca

Sodetatis Signeti (181) 1901

(Design by B. G. Goodhue)
Signed proof

D George Harvey (264) [1905]

(Design by J. Venier)
Proof (a)

I William Frederick Havemeyer (55) [1895J

(Design by Thomas Try on)
Proofs on Japan and India, signed by
both the designer and Mr. French

.2 John Grerard Heckscher (210) 1902

Proofs {a, c)

^3 Christian Archibald Herter (73) 1896
Signed proof

^4 Ruth Lancaster Hoe (224) [1903]

(Not designed by Mr. French)
Proofs (a, d)

19

EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

145 The Very Rev. Eugene Augustus

Hoffinan (216) 1903

Original design
Signed proof

146 Samuel Verplanck Hoffinan (248) 1901

Original design

Signed proof, crest dark

Hohenzollem Collection. See No.
138

147 John S. Holbrook (267) 1905

(Design by the owner)
Proof (a)

148 Alice C Holden (25) 1894
Signed proof (d)

149 Edith Holden (61) [1895]
Proof

150 Edwin B. Holden (23) 1894

Signed proof, destroyed plate {a)
Proof (not noted in check list)
Signed proof {c)

151 Edwin B. Holden (24) 1894
Signed proof

20

BOOK-PLATES

Cdwin R Holden (26) 1894

Unfinished proof (not noted in check

list)
Signed proof

3 Nona Newlin Hooper (209) 1902

Signed proof

^4 Robert Emmet Hopkins (155) 1900

Signed proof

55 Cornelia Horsford (149) 1899
Signed proof (d)

56 L. H. and S. £. Jackman (278) 1906
Proof

57 Walter B. James, M.D. (164) 1900
Pf oof s {a, b)

Johns Hopkins University, Rowland
Memorial See No. 232

58 Timothy Jones (297) [1893]

Original book-plate of Samuel
Vaughan, which Mr. French copied

Two proofs (tf ), with manuscript notes
by Mr. French

Proof (b)

21

EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

159 Elizabeth Jordan (272)

(Design by J. Venier)
Signed proof

160 Otto A. Kahn (90)
Signed proof

161 Charles Conover Kalbfleisch (33)

Two original designs

Proof, first state (not noted in check

list)
Proof (a)
Signed proof (d)
Letters from Mr. French

Helen Keyes. See No. 62.

Rufus King Fund. See No. 73

162 Eklith Davies Kingsbury (94)

(Design by Lilian C. Westcott)
Signed proof (a)
Print (d)

163 Samuel W. Lambert (113)
Signed proof

164 Eklwin Ruthven Lamson (85)

(Design by Edmund H. Garrett)
Proof {a)
Signed proof (d)

22

BOOK-PLATES

165 John B. Lamer (173) 1900
Signed proof

166 Emily Hoe Lawrence (35) 1894

Original design
Signed proof

167 Geoiigia Medora Lee (253) 1904
Signed proof, with remarque

168 VS^amer MifiGUn and Louise Harts-

home Leeds (229) 1903

Proof

See also No. 200

169 VS^iUiam Bateman Leeds (247) 1904
Proof

170 Marshall C Lefiferts (15) 1894
Signed proof

171 Marshall C Lefferts (292)

Labels in bodi sizes on various colored
leathers

172 MolHe Cozine Lefferts (105) 1897
Signed proof

173 Cora Artemesia Leggett (6) 1894

Proof, panel blank (not noted in

check list)
Signed proof

23

EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

174 Paul Lemperly (102)
Signed proof (c)

175 Paul Lemperly, autograph plate

(153)
Proof

176 Arthur West Little (172)
Signed proof

177 John R. Livermore (159)
Proofs, brown and blue inks

178 John Walton Livermore (280)
Proof

179 Long Island Historical Society,

Storrs Memorial Fund (192)

Original design
Trial proof
Proofs {a, c)
Signed proof (^)

180 John W. and Lee Partridge Love-

land (169)

Two original designs
Proof

181 Benjamin Barnes Lovett (245)
Signed proof, with remarque

24

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183

184

Trod

185 Robot H. MdCaner xa

Sigzacd -pro
Flint oc ^

1S6 KaH^nbe M jafcri i^^
See also Xo. X3c

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Trial proof, pgrcTjfid bj 3€r. Freacs.
Signed proof

1S9 Vakntine Evcrit Macy :,S$> I?*9iS;

Proofs (0, ^)
Print (^)

190 RidiardSoixtfacoteliaDseish(37) lSd5

Proof (a)

Signed proofs (^, r)

25

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EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

*

: Frank Evans Marshall (58)
Signed proof (f)

r Julian Marshall (g5) —

Proof (a)

Signed proof {d), green ink
Remarque proof in sepia and black

193 ExLibris Medicis (115) [[

Signed proof

194 Roger Bigelow Merriman (188)
Proofs (a, d)

195 Maria Gerard Messenger (54)
Proofs («, ^)

Signed proof and prints in tint {b)
Proof of Slate between {a) and (*)
(not noted in check list)

196 Maria Gerard Messenger, presen-

tation plate (86)
Proof (a), with tentative design in

panel
Prints {(*, e) (the latter unfinished and

not noted in check list)
Proofs (c, d)
Signed proof {e)

197 Maria Gerard Messenger and

Elisabeth Chamberlain, The

BOOK-PLATES

> Ssther Pierce Metcalf (281) 1906

Signed proof
Proof tinted in water colors

99 Library of the Metropolitan

Museum of Art (40) 1895

Proof, panels blank (not noted in

check list)
Signed proof (a), on India
Proofs (^, d)

00 Louise Taylor Hartshome Moore

(140) 1899

Proofs {dy d)

01 A. J. Mongan (74) 1896
Signed proof (^)

»oa Wilhelmus Mjmderse (217) 1903

Signed proof (d)

203 New York Yacht Club Library

(163) 1900

Original design by Walter G. Owens
Amended designs by Mr. French
Signed proofs (a^ b, Cy d)

204 Florence Coleman Nimick (128) [1898]
Signed proof

305 John Notman (254) 1904

Proof

27

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206 The Club of Odd Volumes (62) 189^

Three original designs
Proof {a)
Signed proof {b)

207 Henry Fairfield Osborn (243) [1904]

(Design by Edward Hamilton Bell)
Proof

208 Thomas Mott and Agnes Devens

Osborne (57) [1895]

Proof {a)
Signed proof (b)

209 The Oxford Club (12) 1894
Signed proof

210 Lowell Mason Palmer (218) 1903
Signed proof

2 1 1 Lowell Mason Palmer (219) 1903
Signed proof

212 Lowell Melvin Palmer (235) 1904
Signed proof, without motto

213 WiUiam Phillips (189) 1901

(Design by P. de C. la Rose)
Signed proof {c)

28

BOOK-PLATES

4 The Players (13) 1894

(Design by Howard Pyle)

Outline proof (not noted in check list)

Unfinished proof (not noted in check

list)
Signed proof (a)
Proof (d), with note by Mr. French

[5 Mary Emma Plummer (81) 1896

Signed proof (^)

[6 Nathan T. Porter, Jr. (160) 1900

Signed proof

17 Eva Snow Smith Prescott (132) 1898
Signed proof, with remarque

18 Library of Princeton Univer-

sity (108) 1897

Print

19 M. Taylor Pyne (50) 1895
Print

130 M. Taylor Pyne (107) 1897

Signed proof (a)
Print (d)

21 Percy Rivington Pyne (63) 1895

Proof

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322 R. Stockton Pyne (204)
Proofs (a, d)

223 Queen's University (263)
Proof

224 R. J. S. (162)
Proof

225 Henry Clay and Helen Burgess

Ranney (103)

Signed proof

226 Vi^itelaw Reid (14)

Trial proof (not noted in check list)
Signed proofs, first and second states

227 Walter Davis Richards (191)
Signed proof

228 C L. P. Robinson (158)
Proof

229 Mary Barber Robinson (237)

Proof (a)
Signed proof (^)

230 William Beverley Rogers (205)

Proof (a)
Signed proof (d)

30

BOOK-PLATES

232 Henry Sherburne Rowe (34) 1894

Signed proof (^)

2J2 The Henry A. Rowland Memorial

Library (227) 1903

Two original designs
Signed proof

233 Ruth Mary Sabin (99) [1897]
Signed proof {d)

234 Lucy Maynard Salmon (165) 1900
Proof

235 Florence de Wolfe Sampson (109) [1898]
Signed proof

236 John R. Sayler (277) 1906
Proof

237 James Eklmund Scripps (129) [1898]

(Design by Albert Kahn)
Proof (a)
Signed proof (c)

238 Henry Renwick Sedgwick (138) 1899
Proof

239 Robert Sedgwick (77) 1896

Signed proof (3)

Two prints showing reverse of tail
tuft in crest

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240 Katherine Cecil Sanford Sheffield

(238)
Signed proof
See also No. 266

241 William Watts Sherman (179)

(Design by B. G. Goodhue)
Print

242 Henry A. Sherwin (52)
Signed proof on parchment

243 Henry A. Sherwin (82)
Signed proof, green ink

244 Samuel Smith Sherwood (117)
Signed proof

245 Parke £. Simmons (270)

Proof taken by Stecchini in Rome
Proof on blue paper, taken in Paris

246 Herman Simon (226) [II

(Design by Thomas Tryon)
Proof, first state

Proof, second state, signed by both
the designer and Mr. French

247 Herman Simon (236) 1

(Design by Thomas Tryon)
Proof, first trial

32

BOOK-PLATES

248 The Mark Skinner Library (loi) 1897

First and second working proofs
Proof (c)

249 Mabel Slade (241) 1904
Signed proof (I)

3 50 Henry A. Smith (286) [1898]

(Engraved by J. W. Spenceley)
Proof signed by both the engraver
and Mr. French

^ 51 Mary Nbcon Smith (266) 1905

Proofs {a, d)

Societatis Signeti. See No. 139

« 52 Sovereign (71) [1896]

(Design by Thomas Tryon)
Outline proof (a)

Proof (^), signed by both the designer
and Mr. French

=^ 53 Sovereign (79) [1896]

(Design by Thomas Tryon)
Proof signed by both the designer and
Mr. French

^ 54 Mary Bryant Sprague (250) 1904

(Design by P. de C. la Rose)
Proofs, red and blue inks, signed by
both the designer and Mr. French

33

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255 Mary Bryant Sprague (251) 1

(Same design as the above, but

smaller)
Proof signed by both the designer

and Mr. French

256 John Lloyd Steams (93) 1
Signed proof

257 Harriette M. Stevens (259) 1

Proof (a)
Signed proof (d)

258 Edward Swan Stickney [Memorial]

(134) 1

Proof (a), green ink
Proof (d) signed by Mr. Spenceley,

who partially engraved the plate
Signed proof (c)

259 A. Dwight Stratton (112) [1{

Signed proof

Unauthorized copy by another
engraver

260 Frederick Judson Holden Sutton

(293) |1J

(Engraved in 1908 by F. O. Coombs)
Proof signed by engraver

261 Martha A. Symon (268) 1
Signed proof

34

BOOK-PLATES

2 Theodore and Eleanor Taft (258) [1905J

(Design by C. Grant La Farge)
Proof

^3 John F. Tahnage (135) 1899

Signed proof

H William and Helen Woodruff

Tatlock (289) [1893]

Signed proof (a)
Proofs (Cy d)
See also No. 107

5 Chas. H. Taylor, Jr. (78) 1896

Signed proof on India
Lithograph in colors

^ Katherine Cecil Sanford Thome

(127) 1898

Signed proof (a)^ blue ink

Proof {b)

See also No. 240

7 Treadwell Library (152) [1899]

(Design by B. G. Goodhue)
Signed proof

B Winfred Porter Truesdell (246) 1904

Signed proof (^), with remarque

35

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269 Twentieth Century Qub (122) [1898J

(Design by Evelyn Rumsey Carey)
Signed proof (a)

270 U-sepe-ars-so-ap (296) [1893]

Print, showing crest wreath united

with shield
Proof, showing them disjoined (check

list does not note this diflEerence)

271 The Union League Qub (157) [1900]

Proof, panels blank (from a copper,

not noted in check list)
Proofs (tf, dy c, d, f,/)

272 The University Club (154) 1900
Signed proof

273 Utica Public Library (282) 1906

Proof (a)
Print (d)

274 Davis Righter VaU (262) 1905
Proof

27s Henry H. VaU (48) 1895

Print (a), blue ink
Signed proof (d)

George W. VanderbUt
See Nos. 35, 36

36

BOOK-PLATES

76 Frederick W. Van Wagenen (123) 1898
Signed proof

77 James M. Vamum (196) 1902
Proof

78 Vassar Alumnae Historical Asso-

ciation (116) 1898

Signed proof

Volapttk. See Nos. 104-5

79 Beverley Warner (31) 1894
Signed proof

So The Washington County Free Li-
brary (206) 1902

Proof, portrait only (not noted in
check list)

(A mold of this portrait was united
with one of the body of the plate ;
an electrotype of the combined
molds was taken leaving the oval
incomplete in the finish of back-
ground and coat, which were then
engraved by Mr. J. W. Spenceley.
It is doubtful if such a union of two
coppers was ever before made.)

India proof (d)

181 Gertrude Clarkson Welsh (256) 1904
Signed proof

37

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282 Barrett Wendell (114)
Signed proofs {a, b)

283 Sarah Elizabeth Whitin (178)
Signed proof

Sarah King Wiley. See No. 62

284 Howard Willetts (75)

Prints (a)y with penciled sketch {a)
and {b)

285 E. P. Williams (126)
Signed proof

286 John Skelton Williams (146)
Proof

287 Wynne Winslow (215)
Signed proof

288 Henry Rogers Winthrop (120)
Signed proof

289 Silas Wodell( 161)

Proofs, one tinted in water colors

290 Arnold Wood (130)
Signed proof

38

BOOKPLATES

291 Arnold Wood (144) 1899
Proof

292 Ethel Hartshome Wood (137) 1899

Proof (a)
Signed proof (^)

293 Ethel Hartshome Wood (261) 1905

Proof (a)
Signed proof (d)

294 W. C. Wood (222) 1903

Proof (a)
Print (d)

Charles H. Woodbury. See No.
26

^9 5 John Page Woodbury (27) 1894

Signed proof (a)

Proof (d)

Signed proof (r), with remarque

29^ S. Walter Woodward (177) 1901

Still life studies for plate
Signed proof

Photogravure, design unfinished (not
noted in check list)

^ 9 V The Worcester Art Museum (182) 1901
Signed proof

39

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298 J. Hood Wright (287) [1897] I

Print, engraver unknown, in close

imitation of the book-plate of

Daniel Webster
Photograph of design by Mr. French

299 The Yale Qub (283) 1905

(Design by Howard Pyle)
Proof signed by designer
Prints in various colors

300 Unknown

Proof from an unfinished engraved
copper (not noted in check list)

301 Unknown

Proof of an etched book-plate (not
noted in check list)

302 Unknown [1906]
The last design

40

MISCELLANEOUS DESIGNS
AND ENGRAVINGS

303 E. D. French ( i ) [1893, 1894]
Process impressions of both forms

303a E. D. French [1902]

Cipher seal with motto

304 Seal of Beverly, Mass. (9) [1895]
Impression

305 Seal of the New York Public

Library (21) 1903

Proofs in two states, unfinished and
complete, the first not noted in the
check list

306 Seal of the Carnegie Institute of
Washington (3o)

Proof

307 Seal of the Young Men's Christian

Association (8) [1895]

Print

41

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308 James Hale Bates, Brook Farm

letter-head (28) [1

Proof

309 Whitelaw Reid, Camp Wild Air

letter-head (27) [IJ

Proof

310 A catalogue of books published by

Lamson Wolffeand Company (12) ]

Proof

311 Stationery Department of Charles

Scribbler's Sons (29) —

Proof

312 Invitation to the Fiftieth Anniver-

sary of Surgical Anaesthesia at
the Massachusetts General
Hospital (10) ]

(Design by B. G. Goodhue)
Proof (d)

313 Admission card to the Fiftieth An-

niversary of Surgical Anaesthe-
sia at the Massachusetts General
Hospital (11) ]

(Design by B. G. Goodhue)
Proof

314 Dartmouth College Commence-

ment Invitation (14) 1

Proof

42

MISCELLANEOUS

315 Universitas et Ovitas (6) [1895]

Proof bef <Mre inscription
Print

316 Harvard Campus (31)

Trial proof
Signed proof

317 Unioo College Centennial (4) 1895

Proof

Print, partly erased, and adapted in
pen and ink for a book-plate design

318 Experimental Heraldic Engrav-
ing

3^9 "A Stray Leaf from the Corre-
spondence of Washington
Irving and Charles Dickens/' by
William Loring Andrews (2) 1894

Frontispiece, "The Britannia" (i)

Proofs (tf , c)

Proof of canceled plate

Original copper, canceled, silvered
"The Sower," by Millet (11)

Proofs (a, d)

Proof of smaller, unfinished engraving

43

e T4cW

,,o " The Old B^Spers." by ,395 S^

3 York, and Utnc ^^^s (7)

^«^ "ll^E^ew of Trinity
Frontispiece, ^^^

Proof printed in

Worldng proot ^^^^ ^^^^

Nassau Swee^: ^Jgned proof

•Rook showing »'& .
Government House (XX)

Trial proot

India pr?°; , i^ colors

Proof pn^^^'^f % head-bands,

jievi Orange,
..Hew Amaterd^. J^onologica^

proofs of bead-bands. PP

th Century

3»' French Bng^ Andrev<^ (i7)
^aiiam ^"7. -{ore letters (*)
P-oi of ft::!^s^oj^^ signed
^^SfoH^etitle-pag^^^^

MISCELLANEOUS

1 3 "Paul Revere and his Engraving,"

by William Loring Andrews (20) 1901

Signed proof of title-page (d)

K4 «A Bibliography of The Complete

Angler," by Arnold Wood (18) 1900

Signed proof of title-page

25 "Andre's Journal" (22) 1903

Signed proof of title-page (d), with
remarque in red

26 '<The Letters of Charles Lamb "

(26) 1905

Signed proof of title-page, with

remarque
Proof of remarque, not used, nor

noted in check list

27 American Badminton Series (25) [1905]

Proof of title-page without letters,
never completed

28 "Views of Early New York, with

illustrative sketches prepared
for the New York Chapter of the
Colonial Order of the Acorn" (24)

* [1903, 1904]

Fort Nieuw Amsterdam (New York),

1651 (I)
New York in 1671 (11)

New York in 1673 (iii)

45

EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

New York in 1733 (iv)

City of New York before the Revolu-
tionary War (v)

New York in 1801 (vi)
Proofs of the set of six
Trial proofs of i, vi

329 Society of Iconophiles, New York
views engraved by Mr, French
(5) 1895-

St. Paul's Chapel (i)

Interior of St. Paul's Chapel (11)

Fraunces' Tavern (in)

The Roger Morris House (iv)

Hamilton Grange (v)
(Two trials)

St. Mark's Church (vi)
(Four trials)

City Hall (vii)

The Halls of Justice ["The Tombs"]

(VIII)

National Academy of Design (ix)
St. John's Chapel, Varick Street (x)
The Murray Hill Distributing Reser-
voir (xi)
Bowling Green (xii)
Trial and signed proofs of the set
of twelve

330 "Journey of the IconophUes:

Around New York in Search of

46

MISCELLANEOUS

tt

the Historical and Picturesque,'

[by William Loring Andrews] (15) 1897

Frontispiece, "A View of the Battery
. . . and the Ambuscade Frigate"
Trial proof, signed
Proof

331 Membership certificate of the So-

ciety of Iconophiles of the City

of New York (19) 1900

Signed proof

332 Membership certificate of the New

York Historical Society (23) 1904

Original
Proof (a)

333 Membership certificate of the Met-

ropolitan Museum of Art (13) 1896

Signed proofs (a, b^ c, d)

334 Invitation to the inauguration cere-

monies of the new building of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art (3) 1894

Original

Proofs (a, b, c)

Proof of state between c and d (not

noted in check list)
Signed proof {d)
Invitation to Edwin Davis French

47

Monograms designed W-
335 pfench

prench

„ Manuscript o^^tg^ aS^^
33' sitet de >i«^^ French at the
delivered hyNJ^JJkConven-
Chautauqua vo^f

tion

^.8Motto,tran^dby

33B Stev^STe^^into Esperanto

o portraits of l*-^^J^ffoAy*5«ee

339 P° es of t>^e^*y^d fifty-fi'«
^ Ho. 340), anu

^«nn Davis French: A **«-

48

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