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THE RISE OF THE
BOOK -PLATE
BEING AN EXEMPLIFICATION OF THE ART,
SIGNIFIED BY VARIOUS BOOK-PLATES,
FROM ITS EARLIEST TO ITS MOST RECENT
PRACTICE. ILLUSTRATED BY REPRODUCTIONS
IN MINIATURE AND OTHERWISE. TEXT BY
W. G. BOWDOIN
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND CHAPTER ON
THE STUDY AND ARRANGEMENT OF BOOK-
PLATES BY HENRY BLACKWELL.
NEW YORK
A. WESSELS COMPANY
M D C C C C I
Copyright 1901 by
A. Wessels Company
TO
HAMILTON HOLT.
ONE OF THE EDITORS OF THE "INDEPENDENT,'*
FROM WHOM I HAVE HAD
NO LITTLt AID, COUNSEL, ENCOURAGEMENT AND PATRONAGE,
IN MY WANDERINGS IN THE WORLD OF LETTERS,
THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction, ........ 7
The Study and Arrangement of Book-Plates, ... 9
The Rise of the Book-Plate, . . .13
On the Selection of a Book-Plate, . . . 21
Some of the More Important Recent American Engravers and
Designers of Book-Plates, . .2s
A Bibliography of Book-Plate Literature, ... 27
A Selected List of American Periodical Contributions to Book-
Plate Literature, ...... 53
A Selected List of English Periodical Contributions to Book-Plate
Literature, . . . . . . 41
Book-Plate Inscriptions, ...... 4s
Book-Plates, German, ...... 49
Book-Plates, Austrian and Belgian, . . . .6s
Book-Plates, Italian, ...... 67
Book-Plates, Arabic, . . . . .69
Book-Plates, Welsh, . . . . - . 71
Book-Plates, French, . . . . . -73
Book-Plates, English, ...... 89
Book-Plates, Canadian, . . . . .111
Book-Plates, American, . . . . 119
INTRODUCTION
DURING the past ten years much has been written about book-
plates ; a good deal of repetition, seldom anything new, simply
the oft-repeated tale dished up in various styles to suit the whims
and oddities of the writers. There are more collectors of book-
plates to-day than at any other previous time. Many collect
because it is the fashion; others again for the money they think there is in it;
some because they really admire these artistic bits of paper; and a few in order
that they can get together a large collection.
In spite of the strictures of unthinking critics, however, there is much that
can be urged in favor of book-plate collecting. It is not so easy to obtain
examples of the rarer varieties now as it was in the days about which W. J.
Hardy writes so pleasantly, but there are still rewards for the patient collector
who is untiring in search. Book-plate collecting, aside from being educational,
is a means of social relaxation, and there is something to be said in favor of
the exchange of personal plates on the part of collectors who are strangers one
to the other.
More knowledge is requisite for the book-plate collector of our day than
was needed in the equipment of the pioneers in the field, and the literature
available upon the subject is constantly increasing. Countries again that once
sat in darkness are coming more and more to book-plate light. Book-plate
designers spring up on every hand, and the total number of existing book-
plate examples is simply bewildering. Marly of them are, of course, common-
place, but many a gem is encountered among the modern or so-called "recent"
products.
The aim in the volume that now comes from the hand of Mr. Bowdoin is
not to pull down book-plate card houses, but rather to add something to the
sum of book-plate knowledge, to help those who would be collectors to a
little more acquaintance with book-plate lore, and to some extent to lighten
their toil in their search after ex-libris wisdom. His list of the more recent
American engravers and designers of book-plates will be .found to contain
many new names, but he has not by any means assembled them all.
From my own personal standpoint I am constantly gaining, rather than
losing, interest in the subject. I welcome any serious publication regarding it,
and I do not believe that I stand in a state of isolation in regard to it.
HENRY BLACKWELL.
'She RISE of THE BOOK-PLATE
THE STUDY AND ARRANGEMENT
OF BOOK-PLATES.
THE collector who appreciates art, as well as the joy of collecting,
finds book-plates unusually fascinating, something in fact totally
different from any other hobby, and the more interested he gets the
deeper he becomes involved in his pursuit. With each addition to
his collection, he should be able to tell at a glance if he already has
it, to what nation it belongs, and to form a good idea as to who engraved or
designed it, be it ancient or modern.
The age of a plate that is not dated can, by the expert collector, be told
with a great deal of certainty ; even by the amateur it is not hard to determine,
as plates have their own individuality and characteristics at stated periods.
To study book-plates thoroughly means that you must have a knowledge
of heraldry, geography, genealogy, and biography, be the possessor of a good
library on all of these subjects, and have familiarity with everything that has
been published on the subject.
Oftentimes the collector gets a plate that is a puzzle to him. It looks as
if it were American, but it may be an English example, or possibly a Conti-
nental ; and to get at the exact particulars of that one plate, hours will be
wasted and considerable correspondence involved, all without any result.
Very few have any idea of what this one plate means to the collector. Going
on the supposition that it is an old American plate, an examination of American
biographical works is necessary ; then Allibone ; after that lists of graduates of
the various colleges, as they are the most likely people to own plates ; if these
fail, the Index to American Genealogies may help solve the question. Even
the lists of subscribers printed at the end of books published in this country
some sixty to a hundred or more years ago are worth preserving, as they con-
tain names of people who bought books, and only book buyers in those days
owned book-plates, which cannot always be said to-day.
Frequently one comes across a book-plate that looks foreign, has a foreign
name, and is even signed by the name of an engraver well known as a for-
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eigner; and yet, after all, this plate may belong to an American and be the
plate of a man who had made a name in American history. Each plate has to
be carefully investigated, and the study of the same often leads to surprising re-
sults, and makes one familiar with the history of people famous years ago and all
forgotten now, their memories being brought to light simply because they had a
book-plate fifty to four hundred years ago. In olden times in America as well
as in other countries nigh all important people who cared for books had book-
plates. Examine any important collection of American plates, and it will be a
revelation to discover names of people well known in American history who
had such plates. What a grand work would it be if a biographical dictionary
of all who had personal plates from the earliest times to the year 1900 could
be made. It would contain the greater portion of the famous people in the
world's history. Some day it will be done, for the reason that book-plates are
thoroughly studied now, and will be more so, year by year.
The serious collecting of book-plates means a great deal in these days.
Plates are hard to get, particularly old varieties ; and there is no limit to the
money you may spend. Big collections cannot be gathered as easily as was
the case ten years ago, unless by purchasing collections formed by others, and
that cannot really be called true collecting. To know what you have and
something about them, it is better to gather singly, or a few at a time, then
you can learn as you go along. Experience teaches in book-plates quite the
same as in other branches of collecting.
Regarding the number of book-plates of all nationalities known to col-
lectors, it is difficult to give an accurate estimate, but I should judge the
number may reach some two hundred thousand ; and in collecting it is ad-
visable to make up one's mind as to the branch one will collect. In America
it is better to collect only Americans, and in England English, and collectors
in each country should confine themselves to their own nationality. If one
insists on a mixed collection, it only makes one's task more arduous and
exasperating in determining to what country they belong.
When one is fairly started the question arises, How shall I keep my plates }
This is a knotty question, and not always satisfactorily answered; each col-
lector has his own idea on the subject: some keep their plates in scrap-books,
others in cigar boxes and envelopes. For my part I have tried many ways,
and discarded all for the reason that they gave too much trouble, and
difficulty in finding a plate when wanted, unless one had a card index, and
that again entailed too much work. The idea in arranging plates, particularly
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when they run into the thousands, is to so have them that any certain plate
can be found at a moment's notice, and to do this I have adopted the single-
mount plan. I use a thick gray-tint linen paper, as that color shows the
plate to the best advantage; the mount is 6xio inches, as this size will
admit of two ordinary plates. I paste the two upper corners of the plates
about an eighth of an inch and then put in position on the mount. If one
does not want to paste the corners, the plate can be put into position by
the ordinary postage-stamp gummed hinge, easily obtained from any stamp
dealer. I keep all my American, Canadian, English, Welsh, and Conti-
nental plates entirely distinct from each other, and all are arranged in strictly
alphabetical order, regardless of style, ancient and modern, dated or signed.
These mounts are all kept in book-shaped boxes 6ix loj inches in size, by 2
inches in thickness; the backs are rounded like a book and covered with
morocco with cloth sides. Each box is open in the front; top and bottom are
solid. I use a different color of morocco for each series of plates — American
in green, English slate color, and so on. The backs are neatly finished and
lettered ** American Book-plates, Vol. i, 2, 3," and upward, ** English Book-
plates, Vol. I, 2, 3," and as high as they go. In order that I may know
exactly what the contents of each box is, I take a small piece of paper and mark
on *'Vol. I, A-BAC, Vol. 2, BAD-CONN," and so on right through the
alphabet. If I want to add a plate or examine one I look at my little slip
of a paper index which is pinned on the door or wall, and see what box or
volume I will find it in, turn the box and all will come out in my hand; get
what I want, put it back in the box and then in its proper place on the shelf
If I add further boxes to any series I rearrange the plates by dividing up, make
a new index and destroy the old one. When the boxes are on the shelves
they look like so many sets of books, and always appear neat and tidy. I
find this arrangement so simple and effective that I can go to my book-plate
book-case in the dark, strike a match, look at the index, and get what I want,
all in a moment. After a collecting experience of over twenty years, I think
the plan I have adopted excels any I have seen, and I would strongly advise
all collectors to go and do likewise.
HENRY BLACKWELL
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THE RISE OF THE BOOK-PLATE.
So much hostility to the collectors of book-plates has recently been
developed in some quarters that the question may well be asked,
are book-plates really deserving of the laborious research given to
them, the art lavished upon them, the patient and loving study that
has been bestowed upon them? Are they the '*dead leaves" of
M. Henri Bouchot? Should we look upon them only as trifles, unworthy of
serious consideration, or have they a story to tell us, worthy the telling?
Finally, shall we collect them ?
It would seem that these little bits of the graver's art are not entirely
unworthy. As the birds and reptiles of the Trias left their footprints upon the
shifting sand of the period, which now remains in rock-form, preserving the
careless and capricious track-imprints, so book-plates have lingered hidden in
odd volumes, and from them, as chance brings them forth, we may gather
certain knowledge of art, history, biography, politics, heraldry, and other
flowers in the garden of knowledge that were otherwise forgotten. They and
those who collect them have a place in the world in spite of the strictures of
many misguided critics.
Book-plates have many and various conceptions, according to the artists
who wrought them, and a striking contrast is presented between the plate of
Hildebrand Brandenburg of 1480 and a current plate from the hand of any one
of our best book-plate artists. The period of book-plate history covers at
least 400 years, and if we allow the legendary claims of Japan to priority in
the use of book-plates, the extent of the period is at once very largely
expanded. Collectors generally have not yet reached the point, however,
where they may safely go back to the tenth century as the dawn of the book-
plate. It is safer, less nebulous, and much more satisfactory to allow to Ger-
many her claim of introducing the indication of book-ownership by means
of them. Printing and book-plates may, without violence, be considered
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cognate, or nearly so. Certain it is that, with the introduction of printing, a
field for book-plate use and usefulness quickly arose, and was soon firmly
established.
The earliest book-plates were, many of them, certainly very crude, when
measured by present-day standards. Crudeness in art form cannot, however,
be urged against those derived from Diirer, Jost Amman, Hogarth, and some
others who were workers, from whose hands came book-plates. The crea-
tion of early book-plates was, however, not all in the hands of such masters.
Other and less able artists thpre were whose products, while full of interest,
because of antiquity or for other reasons, are anything but beautiful.
The rise of the book-plate was followed by immediate popular favor in its
behalf, and the transition from the simple typographical label to the more
artistic forms was speedy. Following the label we have, in rapid sequence,
according to the very generally recognized artistic nomenclature devised by
Warren, and somewhat anjplified by others, varying armorial and heraldic
types, the Jacobean, Georgian, Chippendale, or Rococo, Ribbon and Wreath
or Festoon, the Celestial, Allegoric, and finally the Pictorial, which includes
the Book-pile, Library Interior or corner. Landscape as best exemplified possi-
bly by Bewick, Architectural, Portrait, Urn, Ruin, and picture-forms not all of
which are as yet officially classified.
The mission of the book-plate was, is, and will always be to indicate the
ownership of the books in which they find a place — lest we forget. If there
was only one way in which this could be done, all book-plates would be
alike ; but diversified possibilities of art interpretation arise, so that an endless
variety is easily one of the features of book-plates. A book-plate is again
representative of the owner, and symbolizes him in a certain way, as his
visiting card and his note-paper do otherwise and otherwhere. These stand-
ards of representation were tinctured or colored during the prevalence of the
Jacobean, the Chippendale, or other period with those prevailing forms that
were for the moment current. One form succeeded another, and, particularly
in France, political history is frequently written on a man's book-plate, as
testimony is also borne to the belief in the fabulous animals of mythology that
are imprinted upon many book-plates that are now interesting chapters in
book-plate zoology.
There seems also to be a kind of national flavor about book-plates, so that
an English plate would not easily be mistaken for a French or German plate,
and an American plate differs from an English, Russian, Spanish, Bavarian, or
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any other kind. The identification of what is known among collectors as an
anonymous plate, that is to say, an armorial or other plate not bearing the
owner's name, is not always an easy task. It signifies much research and
some considerable familiarity with book-plate styles, as well as artists and the
dates when they flourished.
The veteran collector, with an ample reference library and a wide knowl-
edge of history and heraldry, is sometimes unable to solve the problem, and if
the professors fail, where shall the inexperienced student appear? If, per-
chance, the book-plate maker has happily signed the plate, the difficulties are
greatly lessened, for the plate must belong to the period bounded by the life
of the engraver. A plate of the Chippendale style and period must be identified
with an owner who was contemporaneous with the currency of the Chippen-
dale book-plate, which was approximately from 1750 to 1780, and so on. The
magic keys, in unlocking such secrets and leading to plate identification, are
long-continued patience and industry, combined with enthusiasm that is un-
dying. Thus the closed doors are opened and the unknown plate is identified,
otherwise not.
The Germans are great producers of book-plates. They are also fond of
the use of color in their plates, which they succeed in introducing by means of
lithography, which is constantly employed by them in the production of book-
plate forms in which the grotesque element finds great popularity. Joseph
Sattler is one of the most notable German figures as a book-plate designer.
Many of his plates are exceedingly rich in point of color and color combination.
A pronounced humor is, as well, easily characteristic of Sattler's plates.
Book-plates are very popular in France. They did not come into use in
that country, however, so early by a hundred years as in Germany. There is
an art delicacy that is characteristic of a good French plate that neither Sattler
nor any other German artist can approach. Revolutions and political events
influence French book-plate designs of the period between the close of the
eighteenth and the advent of the nineteenth century that lend to them a special
interest not present in the plates of any other country.
The influence of the first Napoleon extended to as small a detail as the
frequently unconsidered book-plates of France. It is to him that we owe
the origination of the toque, designed by Louis David, and surmounting the
escutcheon by means of the color modification of which, in connection with
ostrich plumes, various in number, rank was indicated, instead of by means of
the modified helmet and its barred vizors open, closed, in profile, etc., etc.
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In modern French book-plates, as in their salon pictures, the nude female
figure finds a frequent place. Neither Swiss nor Italian plates are especially
noteworthy. Many Spanish examples lurk as yet undiscovered in old Castilian
volumes. The sharp eye of the collector who searches them out will work in
a field almost unexplored, and he will have his just reward. There are some
few Russian plates, but Russian art has, for the most part, been employed in
producing objects other than book-plates. Whatever she may have had in
the way of such achievements is borrowed in motif almost entirely from the
more versatile French of the Louis XVth period. None of her book-plate
products have as yet been artistically notable. In Austria there are a few
names in connection with book-plates that have stood out most conspicuously
in the past. According to Wilhelm Scholermann, a recent authority, these are
Dietl, Yunker, Kenckel Konperz, Nicolai, C. Dietell (of Graz), Alois Count
Ros6e, Fr. Mayer, and Fr. Schauer (the engraver).
There are but three modern Austrian book-plate designers of note. These
are Ernst Krahl, Hugo Strohl, and Emil Orlik. Something has been done in
Belgium in a book-plate way, and while Belgian book-plates are not common
and those that have existence there in collected form are but little known, yet,
difficult of access as they continue to be, they have a diversity of style and a
careful finish that make them exceedingly interesting, as well as valuable as a
department. A. Donnay, A. Rassenfosse, and E. Berchmans, the value of
whose poster work has received deserved recognition with the rise of the
poster, have turned aside to create some of the best examples of the Belgian
ex-libris. In Australia, Norman Lindsay is a new but promising book-plate
designer.
The rise of the book-plate has done something more than furnish fuel for
the collector's fire. It has encouraged art and craftmanship as nothing else
could ever have done. Because of it many artists have not only lived but
have made names for themselves in a world naturally cold, indifferent, and
easily capable of regarding with unconcern the starvation of one who. with
such stimulation as the unobtrusive book-plate can and does furnish, it can
load with honors and all but overcome with laudation and panegyric.
Heraldry largely owes its latter-day existence to the book-plate, which
has revived and given life to a latent interest in coats-of-arms, their meaning
and construction, not to mention their absurdities, that was fast passing, and
but for them would have entirely passed. Heraldry once had a greater signifi-
cance than it is easy for us now to realize. It was then an exact science, and
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a knight's escutcheon, universally used at tournaments, during the crusades,
always and everywhere, was an absolute identification of him. Heraldists
found it needful to their prevailing scheme to assign arms to Adam, Noah,
Abraham, Moses, and others similar.
Those days are gone, but in the chance book-plate we catch glimpses of
the days of chivalry, of the armored knight and his good steed, going forth to
right the wrongs that cried out for redress then as now. The armorial book-
plate speaks to us of those days and sheds a ray of light that makes the dark-
ness less dense than it would be without this feeble, flickering rushlight. The
careful study of the book-plate leads to a better appreciation not only of the
suits of armor in which the knights were arrayed as they went up and down
the earth inspired by chivalry, but of the motives upon which knighthood was
rooted and grounded. We of selfish to-day may well take a book-plate leaf
out of the book that tells us of an age when knighthood was in flower and
when noble deeds were common without money and without price.
The use of book-plates in America was of course an importation. The
early settlers here could not forget the traditions of the mother country. Hence
the pioneer American book-plates. For some time we had no native facilities
for engraving such plates here. England was, without doubt, the source of
origin of the book-plates first used in the American colonies. The first notable
essay toward engraving book-plates in the colonies was made in Boston,
Mass., by Nathaniel Hurd, who was born in 1730 and died in 1777. Very
little more is known of him. He engraved for the most part in the Chip-
pendale style and did some excellent work.
Thomas Johnson, James Turner, and Paul Revere were contemporary
workers with Hurd. Of the first two we know only too little. Following
those just named were others whose work is now well known to, and highly
prized by, collectors. Something like a thousand early American book-plates
are known to those to whom the gentle art of collecting appeals. Chief among
them all in interest, as well as in value, is the plate of George Washington. It
has often been reproduced and copies may easily be had, but an original
Washington plate would be cheap at less than one hundred dollars, and even
at that price they are not frequently to be met with.
Interest in book-plates rose and fell. During the time of Hurd, and after-
ward, there seems to have been considerable active interest in the subject.
Alexander Anderson, who was the first American wood-engraver, produced a
few. Abel Bowen, Joseph Callendar, Henry Dawkins, Nathaniel Dearborn,
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Amos Uoolittle, E. Gallaudet, Peter Rushton Maverick, and William Rollinson
are a few of the others who followed as popular engravers of book-plates.
Subsequent interest appears to have waned, and it was not until about
1850 that the modern revival of book-plates and their production and use
seems to have taken place. Even then the interest was not pronounced, and
it was not until 1886 that the publication of some articles by Lawrence Hutton
in the Book Buyer caused something like a proper appreciation of them.
One of the earliest collectors in the United States was the late James Eddy
Mauran, of Nciwport, R. I., whose collection contained, at the time of his
death, some 3,500 plates. The British Museum has, perhaps, the finest col-
lection of book-plates in the world. It is certainly the largest. It was a
bequest of the late Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks. K.C.B. The Biblioth^que
Nationale at Paris has a collection mounted in some sixty volumes folio, but
they are ill-arranged, and no attempt has apparently been made to group them
according to nationality, style, period, or otherwise, except alphabetically,
which is liable of course to bring a Russian plate of the present day next to a
fifteenth century German plate or to secure other incongruities equally repellant.
One of the largest American collections, according to a recent estimate, is
that of H. S. Rowe, of Boston, the number of whose gathered specimens is
put down as approximating 20,000. Miss Maria Gerard Messinger has a
notable collection.
Public libraries are coming more and more to give consideration to book-
plates. Some have even established collections of plates. Book-sellers no
longer give away the bits of paper that signify book-plates, found in old
volumes that come into their hands, as they formerly did. Book auctioneers
note in their catalogues the presence of a book-plate as an additional charm to
a vended book.
The days described by Hardy, when he used to go to a shop in a dingy
street, leading off Oxford Street, and there select as many book-plates as were
new to his collection at the uniform price of a penny apiece, are no longer
with us. One searches in all London in vain for such prices now, and the
same is equally true in our own country.
The method of arrangement is a vexed one with many collectors, but the
tendency now appears toward the individual and uniform mount. Henry
Blackwell, of New York, uses this method in his fine collection and cases the
mounts in slip-cover boxes with open front, permitting quick removal and
easy comparison of specimens. James T. Terry, of New Haven, Conn., also
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uses the individual mount arranged and ruled for notes relating to the attached
plate.
Public exhibitions of book-plates have been given in Boston, New York,
Chicago, and to some extent elsewhere. Something of a wider popular in-
terest in the subject has thus easily been created, and has resulted in an increased
demand for and use of such plates on the part of many owners of even small
private libraries.
Designs for book-plates appear in the French salons, in the Royal Academy
exhibitions in London, and frequently in American art exhibitions. The maga-
zine bibliography is already large and is steadily growing. There is a very
considerable class to whom they will never appeal, to whom a book is just
like any other merchandise, and it makes no difference how the book is bound
— in short, who care for none of these things; but, on the other hand, there
are a select few to whom they signify much, and to this company of book-
lovers and fanciers, book-plates will reveal more and more of charm, with
their present rising that now bids fair to continue.
Book-plate collectors are, generally speaking, exceedingly fraternal. Flour-
ishing Ex-Libris societies exist in London, Paris, and Berlin. An attempt to
establish a similar American society was made in 1897, with headquarters at
Washington, D. C, but it was unfortunately not permanently successful.
A book-plate is a unique thing. Primarily, as previously pointed out, it
indicates ownership of the book in which it appears, truly, but that is not all.
It must have an art voice. It stands for something and it may as well be an
inspiration toward knowledge acquisition. The book-plate enthusiast cannot
help being a book-lover. It is incompatible that he should be an enemy of
books.
The rise of the book-plate has not been pernicious. It can never be
Nestling in a book unknown and unseen until the book is opened, whether
quaint or commonplace, artistic or otherwise, it speaks with a mute eloquence
to all those not absolutely dead to its many lurking charms.
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ON THE SELECTION OF A BOOK-PLATE.
THERE was a time when a simple typographical label was all that
was required in the way of a book-plate. Stationers, printers, and
booksellers kept such in stock with appropriate verses thereon and a
blank space that waited for the insertion of a written or printed
name therein. This answered the purpose perhaps, but so did the
autographic inscription, that is included by the French under the comprehensive
term of ex-libris.
Many persons speedily arose to whom the typographical label was in-
adequate. It lacked the distinctive, as well as the artistic quality, the same
border frequently recurring ; and to an age, one of whose products was
Albrecht Durer, art doubtless had even a greater significance than with us,
with all our achievements and progress, of which we love to boast.
The diffusion of learning was restricted in the beginning of book-plate
history, but heraldry was triumphant, and a man was better known by his
pictured arms than by his name, which not all could read and spell. Heraldry
lent to the earliest book-plates a distinction that we of America, in this day
and generation, do not properly appreciate, not alone because of a kind of
antipathy to things heraldric, but also because of the decline of our knowledge
of this old-time science.
In the early days of printing, which made a place for the book-plate,
heraldry bounded the horizon, and after the plain label, a man wishing a
book-plate placed his arms thereon and the thing was finished. To-day a
broader field lies before the man who contemplates the choice of a book-plate;
casting aside the armorial, a thousand art forms yet remain to him to minister
to his taste and to offer him that which shall be a mark of individuality.
It is not easy to select that which shall thus fittingly represent the man
and stand for him symbolically, without violence and without offence. The
recent exhibition held at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts has revived cur-
rent interest in the subject of book-plates, but one is bewildered at the
multitudinous variety encountered at such a place.
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The Allegoric has a certain blandishment, but it is often weighed in the
balance and found wanting. The portrait plate suggests the pedant, and
savors of conceit. The book pile finds those who criticise. The library corner
or interior can be made attractive with proper treatment, which is also true of
most of the other possible book-plate forms. So likewise with the landscape
plate and some others, but if there be a particularly pleasing present-day
tendency, it is undoubtedly toward what is called the pictorial. The selection
of some art bit, that tells a story, that speaks without words, that, it would
seem, is the ideal plate. Many seek, but few find.
No matter what the medium may be, whether steel, copper, wood, stone,
or zinc; whether engraved, etched, lithographed, photo-engraved, or produced
by other means, the result often disappoints. The longed-for ideal is missed,
and some men have multifarious plates because of this, and disappointments
that thus arise. In a matter where such a variety of taste is possible, it is hard
to point out that which shall be a guide for all. A Hogarth plate is interesting
and artistic : many would rejoice if it were possible for them to have a Hogarth
plate, but it might not appeal to, and stand adequately for, some others who
are equally good citizens.
Few men can, of themselves, absolutely create their own plates. They
must have art interpretation of their ideas. The influence of the designer and
engraver consequently becomes very great. Much can be gained by the ex-
amination of the plates of others. Ideas are thgs suggested, and inspirations
arise that may be turned to good account. There is, and must ever be, some-
thing very pleasing in a book-plate and its quiet unobtrusiveness; it stands
with its silent record of ownership, as it were. **like a sentinel who has per-
ished at the post of duty," constantly warning the borrower of his procrastina-
tion. A book-plate of itself is not much in the world, but now and then, it
yet signifies a great deal. It happens more frequently than we think that it is
the things small and weak that overmaster and put to confusion the strong and
the mighty ones. A book, no matter how utterly insignificant it may be, in
which a George Washington plate undoubtedly appears, suddenly has a value
added to it, before which the value of the book without the identifying plate
is zero.
Sometimes to the art fabric of the book-plate is added the charm of color,
and black and white do not remain alone in combination, but prismatic drafts
are made that are set forth in gorgeous array, and to the design mass is added
the color mass. The book-plate implies the sometime lending of books (nearly
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always an unsatisfactory experience, with apologies to Grolier), and provides
for mottoes and epigrams bearing on the sins of those who borrow, and return
not again. It will be found a most interesting experience to devise and select
features for your book-plate, and to synthetize and combine them so that the
resultant product shall rise into one satisfactory whole.
One is easily led into the collecting of book-plates when once he has one
of his own, for the chances are he will want to see and know what others
have that he has not, and harmless pleasure thus comes to him, that those,
strangers to such allurements, cannot have, Andrew Lang to the contrary not-
withstanding. It is not always that so happy a choice can be made as that
which enters into and constitutes the chief embellishment of the plate of Oliver
Wendell Holmes. On his plate appears a section of the ** Chambered Nautilus,"
about which the genial doctor wrote a well-remembered poem. There is no
doubt as to the chosen decoration being entirely representative, and it stands
altogether as a most admirable selection. Whitelaw Reid introduces into his
book-plate a dainty picture of his country seat, surmounted by a shelf of books
as a decorative feature. James Phinney Baxter, of Portland, Maine, shows his
own portrait, and a corner of his library, on his plate, with a pleasant two-line
motto. Francis Wilson has caught and fixed upon his plate the king's jester
of old time, with his cap and bells, reading old folios and ancient manuscripts
in the library, while the hour-glass marks the unconsidered flight of time. No
one but an out-and-out book-lover could devise such an appropriate plate, nor
one that so well signifies the owner and his love of books.
John P. Woodbury, of Boston, on his plate, has had recorded his favorite
authors on the backs of tall copies of their works, grouped in orderly con-
fusion, together with the portraiture of three sides of his own library, that
makes one envy the happy owner shown seated there amid surrounding books
and choice art objects.
Once book-plates were few, now they are many, and new ones arise
daily. The examples here considered may be multiplied again and again
without exhausting the subject, nor will they always, even so, be found to fit
the requirements of the seeker after a book-plate of his own. They will afford
hints and serve as guides to help him, but that is all. The final joy lies in the
complex inspiration of finding out for one's self something new, and not in
copying that which has previously been.
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SOME OF THE
MORE IMPORTANT RECENT AMERICAN ENGRAVERS
AND DESIGNERS OF BOOK-PLATES.
Edwin A. Abbey
F. Adams
Max Bachmann
Mrs. William Elliot Baillie
Charles 1. Berg
E. H. Bernard
W. H. H. Bicknell
E. B. Bird
John G. Bolton
Claude Fayette Bragdon
Frank Chouteau Brown
H. C. Brown
Arnold William Brunner
John H. Buck
E. J. Burro wes
M. T. Callahan
E. B. Campbell
Richard Cathie
Jay Chambers
George Wharton Edwards
Dr. Henry C. Eno
Edwin Davis French
Edmund H. Garrett
B. G. Goodhue
H. E. Goodhue
Frederick W. Gookin
Fred. W. Goudy
George R. Halm
Theodore Brown Hapgood, Jr.
Frank Hazenplug
Samuel Hollyer
Winslow Homer
W. F. Hopson
F. Arthur Jacobson
C. M. Jenckes
Haydon Jones
William J. Jordan
Charles Rollinson Lamb
L. E. Levy
Will H. Lowe
Henry Mayer
Miss L. Beulah Mitchell
Miss B. C. Pease
F. J. Pfister
Miss Prindiville
Howard Pyle
Frank Rathbun
Christia M. Reade
Louis J. Rhead
Bruce Rogers
Albert Rosenthal
J. A. Schweinfurth
Miss Sarah M. Scribner
Howard Sill
Sidney L. Smith
J. Winfred Spenceley
David McNeely Stauflfer
Wilbur Macey Stone
H. Warren Tuttle
Thomas Tryon
Charles A. Walker
George Merwanjee White
Thomson Willing
Andrew Kay Womrath
Michael Wolf
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOK-PLATE
LITERATURE.
AUeiii Charles Dexter.
American Book-Plates. A Guide to their Study, with examples — with
a Bibliography by Eben Newell Hewins. New York and London, 1894.
Ex-Libris. Essays of a Collector, with twenty-one copper-plate prints.
Boston and New York, 1896.
Ames & RoUinson.
Book-Plates. New York City, 1898.
Anonymous Author.
Essai de Bibliographic Canadifinne. With addenda of some 300 Cana-
dian book-plates. Quebec, 1895.
Appletons' Annual Encyclopaedia for 1898.
Book-Plates. By W. G. Bowdoin.
Arnold, Edward.
Composite Book-Plates, 1897-8. London, 1898.
Benoit, Arthur.
Les Ex-Libris dans les trois 6v6ches. Toul, Metz, Verdun, ISS2-1790.
Paris, 1883.
Bouchoti Henri.
Les Ex-Libris et les marques de possession du livre. Paris, 1891.
Carlander, C. M.
Svenska Bibliotek och Ex-Libris. ) vols. Stockholm, 1889-94.
Castle, Egerton.
English Book-Plates, Ancient and Modern. London, 1893.
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Craig, Edward Gordon.
Book-Plates. A Booklet of over a dozen examples (some hand-coloured)
of Ex-Libris. Designed and engraved by Edward Gordon Craig, and
printed on a brown-toned paper. 350 copies only. A few copies on
white hand-made paper. At the Sign of the Rose. Hackbridge, Surrey,
1900.
Book-Plates. A set of 45 Ex-Libris Labels. Designed and engraved (23
hand-coloured) by Edward Gordon Craig, including the Book-Plates of
Miss Ellen Terry (four designs). Miss Cissy Loftus, Miss Marion Terry,
William Winter, John Drew, and James Pryde. At the Sign of tne
Rose. Hackbridge, Surrey, 1900.
Dempsey & CarrolL
Book-Plates. New York City, 1897.
De Rieffenberg.
De marques et devises mises & leur livres par un grand nombre d'ama-
teurs. Paris, 1874.
Elkington, J. S. C.
Ex-Libris. A Disquisition concerning Book-Plates, with a few remarks
on the cult thereof. By J. S. C. Elkmgton and examples from the pen
of Norman Lindsay. Melbourne, Australia, October, 1900.
Eve, G. W.
Decorative Heraldry. A Practical Handbook of its Artistic Treatment.
Chapter on Book-Plates. George Bell & Sons. London, 1897.
Fincham, Henry W.
Artists and Engravers of British and American Book-Plates. A book 01
reference for book-plate and print collectors. New York (and London),
1897.
Fincham, H. W. and Brown, F.R.G.S., James Roberts.
A Bibliography of Book-Plates. Printed for private distribution. Ply-
mouth. 1892.
Franks, F.R.S., V.P.S.A., Augustus W.
Notes on Book-Plates, No. i. English dated book-plates, i574-i8oa
Printed for private distribution. London, 1887.
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Gade, John A.
Book- Plates, Old and New. With illustrations. New York, 1898.
Griggs, W.
Examples of Irish Book-Plates from the Collections of Sir Bernard Burke,
C.B., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms. Privately issued by his Son.
London, 1894.
Eighty-three Examples of Book-Plates from Various Collections. Plates.
Privately printed. London, 1884.
Examples of Armorial Book-Plates. Second series. Plates. London
(1891), 1892.
HamUtoiii Walter.
French Book-Plates. A handbook for ex-libris collectors. London,
1892.
Dated Book-Plates (ex-libris), with a Treatise on their Origin and
Development. In three parts, with about 100 illustrations. London,
1895.
Hardy, W. J.
Book-Plates. London, 1893. Second edition, 1897.
Hlldebrandt, Prof. Ad. M.
Heraldic Book-Plates. Twenty-five Ex-Libris. Invented and drawn
by Prof. Ad. M. Hildebrandt. London, 1894. 2 vols.
Ingold, C. P.
Les Ex-Libris Oratoriens. Paris, 1892.
Joly, L.
Album d'Ex-Libris Rares et Curieux du XVll® au XIX® Si^cle. Paris,
1895.
Ex-Libris Ana. Noticis Historiques et Critiques Ex-Libris Fran9ais.
Paris, 1895.
Ex-Libris Imaginaires et Supposes de Personnages C61ebr6s Anciens et
Modernes. Album de Trente-cinq Planches Grav6es. Paris, 1895.
Kissely Clemens.
Symbolical Book-Plates. Twenty-five Ex-Libris. Designed and drawn
by Clemens Kissel — Mayence. London, 1894.
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Labouchere, Norma.
Ladies* Book-Plates. An Illustrated Handbook for Collectors and Book-
lovers. London, 189s.
Leiningen-Westerburgy Count Zu.
German Book-Plates. Translated by G. Ravenscroft Dennis. Ex-Libris
Series. The Macmillan Company, 190 1 (announced).
Lemperly, PauL
A List of Book-Plates Engraved on Copper. By Edwin Davis French.
With supplement plates, 134 to 144, and Index by Arnold Wood.
Cleveland, Ohio, 1899.
Mathews, F. Schuyler.
The Writing-Table of the Twentieth Century. Being an account of
Heraldry, Art, Engraving, and Established Form for the Correspondent.
With chapter on Book-Plates. Brentano's, 1900.
Moringy Thomas.
Book-Plates. London, n. d.
One Hundred Book-Plates Engraved on Wood. The De la More Press,
S2 High Holborn, W. C. London, 1900.
Fifty Book-Plates Engraved on Copper. The De la More Press, 52 High
Holborn, W. C. London, 1900.
Poulet-HalassiSy A.
Les Ex-Libris Fran9ais, depuis leur origine jusqu'i nos jours. Nouvelle
edition revue tr^s-augment6e et orn6e de vingt-quatre planches. Paris,
187s.
Rylands, F. S. A., J. PauL
Notes on Book-Plates (ex-libris), with special reference to Lancashire
and Cheshire examples and a proposed nomenclature for the shape of
shields. Plates. Privately printed. Liverpool, 1889.
Seyler, Gustav A.
lllustriertes Handbuch der Ex-Libris Kunde. Berlin, 1895.
Slater, J. H.
Book-Plates and their Value, i Plate. English and American plates.
London, 1898.
^he rise: of the: book-plate:
Spoffordy Ainsworth Rand.
A Book for All Readers. Chapter on Book-Plates. G. P. Putnam's
wSons, 1900.
Stitt, J. Carlton.
Ex-Libris Exhibition. Some notes on the decorative treatment of
English Ex-Libris from 1574 to 1830, with a list of the Book-Plate De-
signers of today. Liverpool, 1895.
Terry, James.
Ex-Libris Leaflets (3). The Rose family of Sutfield, Conn. ; Rev. John
Tyler, of Norwich, Conn. ; and Abraham Pettibone, of Burlington,
Conn. New Haven, Conn., 1896.
Teske, Charles (Editor).
The Book-Plates Ulrick, Duke of Mecklenburgh. Wood-cuts by
Lucas Cranach and other artists, besides several Ex-Libris of some other
members of the Mecklenburgh Dynasty. J. A. Stargardt. Berlin, 1894.
Thairlwall, F. J.
An index to (Warren's) *'A Guide to the Study of Book-Plates."
Plymouth, 1894.
Triptych Designers, The.
A Few Book-Plates and other Dainty Devices by the Triptych. Illus-
trated. Edition limited to 250 copies. New York, October, 1900.
Vaster, J. F.
XL Musical Book-Plates, with a list of more than CCC mottoes to be
found on this class of Book-Plates. Frederik Muller & Co. Amsterdam.
Vicars, Arthur, F.S.A.
(Ulster King of Arms). Book-Plates (Ex-Libris). Series I. Library
Interior Book-Plates. Series II. Literary Book-Plates. Series III. Book-
Pile Ex-Libris. Plymouth. Reprinted from Ex-Libris Journal for private
circulation. 1893.
Vinycomb, John.
On the Processes for the Production of Ex-Libris (Book-Plates).
London, 1894.
Lambert (of Newcastle-upon-Tyne), as an Engraver of Book-Plates.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1896.
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Wamecke, F.
Die deutschen Biicherzeichen (ex-libris) von ihrem Ursprunge bis zur
Gegenwart. Mit einem Titelbilde von E. Doepler. d. J. 21 Abbil-
dungen im Text und 26 Tafeln. Berlin, 1890.
Rare Book-PIates (ex-libris) of the XVth and XVIth Centuries. By
Albert Duerer, H. Burgmair, H. S. Beham, Virgil Solis, Jost Amman,
etc. Edited by Frederick Warnecke. H. Grevel & Co. London, 1894.
A Score of Book-PIates. Designed and drawn by G. Otto. 'With a
preface by Frederick Warnecke. London, 1894.
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the first time in America.
Zeitschrift.
Berlin, 189 1-1900.
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A SELECTED LIST OF
AMERICAN PERIODICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
TO BOOK-PLATE LITERATURE.
Art Amateur, The.
Ex-Libris Notes. Illustrated. Check List of American Book-Plates.
Vol. XXX., 92, 121, 148, 173. New York, 1894.
American Book-Plates. By Charles Dexter Allen. Reviewed by Henry
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II 2- 1 14, 1 59-161. New York, 1886. By Laurence Hutton.
Some English Book-Plates. A Review of Mr. Castle's Book. Illustrated,
v., 19-22.
Some French Book-Plates. A Review of Mr. Hamilton's Book.
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. Book-Plate Collections. No. i. By Henry Black well. April, 1895.
The Sewall Collection of Book-Plates. No. 2. By Henry Blackwell.
May, 1895.
The Dodge Collection of Book-Plates. No. 3. By Henry Blackwell.
June, 1895.
The Hewins Collection of Book-Plates. No. 4. By Henry Blackwell.
July, 1895.
The Clark Collection of Book-Plates. No. 5. By Henry Blackwell.
August, 1895.
The Libbie Collection of Book-Plates. No. 6. By Henry Blackwell.
September, 1895.
The Rowe Collection of Book-Plates. No. 7. By Henry Blackwell.
January, 1896.
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1896.
^he rise: of the: book-plate:
Book-Lover's Almanac, The.
The Art of the Book-Plate, by Henri Pene DuBois, with seven caricature
designs by Henriot. The Carroll Book-Plate, by Charles Dexter Allen.
Illustrated. New York, 1893.
Booklover, The. page
A Classical Book-Plate. By Rhead 60
An American Book-Plate 35
An Artistic Book-Plate. By Rhead 79
Book-Plates. By Rhead 53. 9'
Centennial Book-Plate. By A. B. Bogart 69
Design for Book-Plate 23
Book-Plates for Cultured Collectors 115
Book-Plates. Illustrated. New York, 1890 13
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The Book-Plate of S.S. Oceanic. October, 1899.
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Book-Plates of Brooklyn Book-Lovers. Mrs. Jenny Young Chandler.
December 17, 1899.
Chicago Evening Journal.
Blackwell Exhibit of Book-Plates. April 10, 1895.
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Christian Union, The.
The Book- Plate and How to Make It. New York, April 30, 1892. By
E. Ireneus Stevenson.
City Mission Record.
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Collector, The.
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The Book-Plate of Jacob Sargeant. Illustrated. Charles Dexter Allen.
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Shall Americans Assume Badges? Lancaster Book-Plates. Cleansing
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Book-Plates of the Signers of the Declaration. Jenison-Walworth
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Dubbs. IX., 1 17-120.
Shall We Collect Book-Plates? W. G. Bowdoin. IX., 131-132.
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Book- Plate of Sophia Penn. Ex-Libris Typothetae Diaboli. Rev. Dr.
J. H. Dubbs. IX., 132-134. Ecclesiastical Book-PIates. Book-worm
on Book-Plates. Rev. Dr. J. H. Dubbs. IX., 143-146.
Ex-Libris Societies. English Engravers of Book-PIates. Rev. Dr. J. H.
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Book-PIates and Printers' Marks. Ex-Libris Aftermath. Rev. Dr. J. H.
Dubbs. X., 4, 5.
Book-Plate Zoology. W. G. Bowdoin. X., 39, 40.
Some English Inscriptions on Book-PIates. W. G. Bowdoin. X., 26, 27.
Ladies* Book-PIates. W. G. Bowdoin. X., 52. 53.
Book-Plate Hunting in Europe. Aldine (Mr. George F. Allison).
The Identification of Book-PIates. W. G. Bowdoin. X., 61-64.
Book-Plate Hunting. W. G. Bowdoin. X., 73, 74.
The Pictorial Plate. W. G. Bowdoin. X., 112.
Some Continental Notes on Book-PIates. W. G. Bowdoin. X., 118-
120.
French Book-PIates. W. G. Bowdoin. XI., 2-4.
A Plea for Book-PIates. W. G. Bowdoin. XI., 2^-26.
A Brooklyn Book-Plate. W. G. Bowdoin, XI., 60.
Hostility to Book-Plate Collecting. W. G. Bowdoin. XL, 89-90.
Book-Plate Collecting as a Hobby. W. G. Bowdoin. XII. , 24, 2s.
The Book-Plate Art of Joseph Sattler. W. G. Bowdoin. XII., 36.
Inscription on Book-Plate. George Wightwick. XII., 50.
The Modern Tendency in Book-Plate Designing. W. G. Bowdoin.
XII., 81. New York, 1899.
Critic, The.
Book-PIates of New England Authors. A Review of Mr. Castle's Book.
Illustrated. XIX., 82, 83.
Some American Book-PIates. Illustrated. XX., 88, 89. New York,
1893.
Blackwell Exhibit. March 23, 1895.
Curio, The.
11-17-61-66, 110-114. American Book-PIates and their Engravers.
Illustrated. By Richard C. Lichtenstein. New York, 1887.
^he rise: of the: book-plate:
Club of Odd Volumes, The.
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition (Book-Plates, etc.). Boston, 1897.
Dial, The.
Private Book-Marks. A Note of Mr. Hardy's Book. Chicago, III.,
February i, 1894.
Elite, The (Chicago, 111.).
Blackwell Exhibit. April 13, 189s.
Ex-Libris.
July» 1896, to April, 1897. Washington, D. C.
Hartford Post. The.
Hundreds of Book-Plates in the Collection of a Hartford Gentleman.
Illustrated. Hartford, Conn., August 19, 1893.
Home Magazine, The.
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House Beautiful, The.
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Blackwell Exhibit. April 20, 1895.
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XLIX., 2. New York. December 9, 1897.
Inland Printer, The.
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In Lantern-Land.
On Book-Plate Designs. Vol. I., 74, 7'>. Hartford, Conn. May 6,
1899.
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Jamaica Plain News.
Book- Plates. A Review of Mr. Castle's Book. Illustrated. Jamaica
Plain, Mass. July 8, 1893.
Journal, The Morning.
Blackwell Exhibit of Book-Plates at Brentano's. New York. March
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Literary Collector, The.
The Book-Plate Vandal. A. J. Bowden. New York. October i, 1900.
Literature.
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Literary World.
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Henry Dubbs. Boston, Mass. August 13, 1881.
Loan Exhibition of Book-Plates and Super Libros, Catalogue of.
Held by The Club of Odd Volumes at the Museum of Fine Arts. April
25 to June s, 1898. Boston, Mass.
Magazine of Art.
'*Ex-Libris." A Review of Mr. Castle's Book. New York, December,
1 893.
New York Times, Saturday Review of Books and Art.
Review of **A Guide to the Study of Book-Plates" (Warren). By
W. G. Bowdoin. August 4, 1900.
Nation, The.
Review of Fincham's Book. New York, February 10, i8q8.
New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
Early Southern Heraldic Book-Plates. By Richard C. Lichtenstein.
XLI., 296. Boston, 1887.
XL., 29S-299. Boston, 1886.
vS
"She RISE of THE BOOK-PLATE
optimist, The.
Anent Book-PIates : Being a Thumbnail History by Jay Chambers.
Vol. I., No. 5. Boone, Iowa. January, 1901.
ProYidence Sunday Jotirnal.
Collecting Book-Plates. By Mrs. E. H. L. Barker. Providence, R. I.
November i^, 1891.
Reformed Church Messenger.
Peter Miller's Book-Plate. By Rev. Dr. Joseph Henry Dubbs. Phila-
delphia, Pa. June, 1889.
Rochester Herald. The.
Blackwell Exhibit. April 21, 189s.
Scientific American Supplement.
Book-PIates of Celebrated Women. A Review of Labouchere's Book.
Vol. XLI., 16,797. February 22, 1896.
Studio, The.
Some Recent Book-PIates. Mostly Pictorial. Gleeson White. April,
1897.
British Book-PIates. Gleeson White.
French Book-PIates. Octave Uzanne.
American BookrPlates. Jean Carr^.
German Book-PIates. H. W. Singer.
Austrian Book-PIates. W. Scholermann.
Belgian Book-PIates. Fernand Khnopff. London and New York.
December, 1898.
Sunday Herald, The.
Many Interesting Types of Book-PIates. Boston, Mass. April 2-^, 1899.
Sunday Sun, The.
South Carolina Book-PIates. Charleston, S. C. January 4, i8qi.
Sunday Times-Herald, The.
Blackwell Exhibit of Book-PIates at Brentano's, Chicago. Chicago,
III. April 7, 1895.
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^he rise: of the: book-plate:
Tribune, The.
Blackwell's Exhibit of Book-Plates at Brentano's, New York. March
IS and 17, 189^.
Washington Post, The.
Blackwell Collection of Book-PIates at Brentano's. Washington, D. C.
Washington, D. C. May 19, 189s.
Y Drych.
Blackwell Exhibit of Book-Plates at Brentano's, New York. Utica,
New York. March 21, 1895.
40
'She RISE of THE BOOK.PLATE:
A SELECTED LIST OF
ENGLISH PERIODICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
TO BOOK-PLATE LITERATURE.
Academy, The.
Art Books. Review of Warren's Book. London, November 13, 1880.
Antiquary, The.
Vol. I. Notes on Book-Plates. 75-77.
Book- Plates (W. Hamilton). 117, 118.
Book-Plates. 189.
Notes on Curious Book-Plates. 236, 237.
Another Chapter on Book-Plates. Alfred Wallis. 256-259. London,
1880.
Vol. II. A Supplementary Chapter on Book-Plates. 6-10.
An Essay on Book-Plates (E. P. Shirley), lis- 118.
Book-Plates. 133, 272. London, 1880.
Vols. 111. and IV. 77, 106-1 11. London, 1881.
Art Journal, The.
New Series, XV., 267-270. Notes on Book-Plates. Illustrated. M. A.
Tooke. London, September, 1876.
Book^Plate Annual, The, and Armorial Year-Book.
A. & C. Black. London, 1894.
Book-Plate Collectors' Miscellany, The.
A Monthly Supplement to the ** Western Antiquary." Illustrated.
Edited by W. H. K. Wright, F. R. Hist. Society. Plymouth, 1890,
1891.
4«
^he rise: of THE BOOK-PLATE
Bookseller, The.
"A Guide to the Study of Book-Plates." Review of Warren's Book,
**A Guide to the Study of Book-Plates/' London, October 6, 1880.
Book-Worm, The.
Book-Plates and their Mottoes. 205. London, June, 1880.
A Hunt for Book-Plates in Paris (W. Hamilton). 171-173.
The Avery Book-Plate. 202. London, 1892.
Catalogues of the Annual Exhibitions of the £z-Libris Society.
London.
Chambers' Encyclopaedia.
Book-Plates. New Edition. VoL 11., 309. London. 1889.
Daily News.
Book-Plates, Etc. (Leader on). London, April 29, 1881.
Genealogist, The.
Vol. V. Review of Warren's Book. London, 1881.
Gentleman's Magazine, The.
Remarks on the Invention of Book-Plates. Part II., 613. London. 1822.
Book-Plates (C. S. B.). Parti., 198, 199. London, 1823.
Book-Plates, Ancient and Modern, with Examples. Illustrated. John
Leighton, F.S.A. Fourth Series, Vol. 1., 798-804, London, June, 1866.
Globe, The.
Book-Plates. W.J. Hardy. London, November 3, 1891.
Book-Plates. London, July 25, 1891.
The Latest Hobby. London, March 29, 1895.
Graphic, The.
The Reader. Review of Warren's Book. London, October 16, 1880.
Library, The.
Andrew Lang. London, 1881.
4=
"Bhe rise: of the: book-plate:
Notes and Queries.
First Series.
Book- Plates, Whimsical One, VI., 32.
Motto, 1., 212.
Early, III., 495. IV., 46, 93, 3t^4. VII., 26, XI., 26^, 351, 471.
XII., 35, 114. London, 1849-18^5.
Second Series.
Book-Stamps, Armorial, X., 409. London, i8s6-i86i.
Third Series.
Book-PIates, Armorial. VI., 306.
Their Heraldic Authority. XII., 117, 218. By R. A., wood engraven
VIII., 308. London, 1862- 1867.
Fourth Series.
Book-PIates, Armorial. IV., 409, 518. V., 65, 210, 286. IX., 160.
Exchanged. X., 519. London, 1868-1873.
Fifth Series.
Book-Plate, R. T. Pritchett's, IX., 29, 7s.
Query, X., 428.
Book-Plates, Armorial, I., 386.
Exchanged, I., 60, 199. II., 1^9.
Punning, IV., 464. V., 3s.
Handbook of, VI., 465. VII., 36, 76.
Heraldic, VI., 369, 543. VII., 28, }(>, 76, 2^^, 43s, si5-
Earliest Known, VII., 76, 2}^.
Mottoes on, VII., 427. VIII., in, 2s8.
Collections, VII., 435. 515. VIII., 38,79, 118, 158, 178, 360. XI., 260.
Book-PIates. Dated, VIII., 200, 298, 397, S17. IX., 198. XI., 446.
XIL, -^y
How to Arrange Collections, IX., 20.
Papers on, IX., 360. London, 1874-1879.
Sixth Series.
Many References. London, 1880-1885.
The Book-Plate's Petition. A Poem. Austin Dobson. January 8,
1881.
4?
"She rise: of the: book-plate:
Oxford University Archaeological and Heraldic Society.
Third Annual Report. On Book-Plates. Rev. Daniel Parsons. Oxford,
J. Vincent, 1837.
Palatine Note Book.
Vol. 1. Book-PIates. is, 16, 30, S2, S3, 69, 114, 195. Illustrated. 217
Of Jesus Collection. Camb. 128.
Walpole's. 209. Manchester, 1882.
Paper and Printing Trades Journal.
Ex-Libris. Illustrated. March, page 48. September, page 19. London,
1881.
Printing Times and Lithographer.
Curiosities of Book-Plates. VII., 26S-268, 290, 292. London, 1882.
Publishers' Circular, The.
Book-Plates. London, August 8, 1891.
Saturday Review, The.
Book-Plates. Review of Warren's Book. London, October 20, 1880
Book-Plates. A Review of the Ex-Libris Journal. London, July 2S>
1891.
Scottish Review, The.
Book-Plates. XXI., 315-329. London, April, 1893.
Tit-Bits.
Who Has the Finest Collection of Book-Plates in this Country?
London, October 21, 1893.
West Middlesex Advertiser, The.
Leaves from a Library on Book-Plates. Walter Hamilton, F.R.G.S.
March 26. April 2, 9, 16, 2]^, 30. May 7, 14. London, 1881.
44
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BOOK-PLATE INSCRIPTIONS.
If thou 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 learning's store,
But books, I find, if often lent,
Return to me no more.
Read slowly, pause frequently, think
seriously, keep cleanly, return duly with the
corners of the leaves not turned
down.
— Samuel Rankin, Baltimore, Md.
(and many others).
If any one should borrow me,
Pray keep me clean
For 1 am not like linen cloth.
That can be washed again.
As the Sun colors flowers
So Art colors Life.
— W. W. Chevalier.
4S
66e RISE of THE BOOK-PLATE
Eagles and Books Fly or Sink Alone.
He who lendeth a book taketh chances.
To take chances is to gamble.
It is wicked to gamble.
Kind friend, ye who seek to borrow, tempt me not to sin.
— Arthur T. Vance, New York.
" Go to them that sell, and buy for yourselves."
— D. W. Jayne.
"The ungodly borroweth and payeth not again."
With welcome use — but use with care ;
The wicked borrow — but never return.
— William Belcher, New London, Conn.
The wicked borrow, but do not return again;
See thou art not of that number.
— Aaron Putnam.
Who loves not knowledge.
Who shall rail against her beauty.
May she mix with men and prosper.
— Samuel Davis.
40
15he RISE qf THE BOOK-PLATE
Rivers always lead to ports and end as books
do, blending with the sea.
" The pen is mightier than the sword."
— George W. Childs, Philadelphia, Pa.
Who learns and learns, but does not what he knows,
Is one who plows and plows, but never sows.
—James Phinney Baxter, Portland, Maine.
Cherish virtue.
— Sally King.
"Send him back carefully, for you can if you like,
that all unharmed he may return to his own place."
(Suggested by Andrew Lang.
This book was bought and paid for by
D. C. COLESWORTHY.
Borrowing neighbors are recommended to
supply themselves in the same manner.
Price, seventy-five cents.
A good Book is the Best of Friends, the Same
Today and Forever (Martin Tupper).
— Gilbert North.
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My friend 1 should you this book peruse,
Please to protect it from abuse ;
Nor soil, nor stain, nor mark its page.
Nor give it premature old age :
And, when it has effected all.
Please to return it ere I call.
All the while this eternal court is open to you.
— Paul Lemperly, Cleveland, Ohio.
** Hold to Nature."
— Charles M. Skinner, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Reading maketh a full man.
— Edwin S. Crandon.
Missing.
A book from the library of
J. Bryant.
" Far more seemly were it for thee to have
thy Study full of bookes than thy
purses full of mony " (Lilly).
— Samuel Putnam Avery, N. Y.
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