American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with ExamplesAllen, Charles Dexter
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American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with Examples
Allen, Charles Dexter
Bookplates -- Bibliography; Bookplates, American
Armorial. Chippendale. Motto, _Virtute patria tuemini_. A beautiful
plate. On a ribbon at the very top, _Peperi_. William P. Sparhawk,
grandson of the first Sir William Pepperell, assumed his name and was
created a baronet, Oct. 29, 1774. This was undoubtedly his plate. The
vast estates of the family were confiscated in 1778, as they were
Loyalists. The crown allowed five hundred pounds to Sir William.
665. PERKINS. _Thomas Handasyd Perkins._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. No motto. A prominent merchant of Boston.
Born, 1765.
666. PETIGRU. _James Louis Petigru._
Plain armorial. Motto, _Verité sans peur_. Prominent lawyer of
Charleston, S.C. Born, 1789; died, 1863.
667. PHILADELPHIA. _Apprentices Library Co. of Philada._
A group of implements indicative of the work done by the patrons of the
Library. On a panel of a desk are the words, _Instituted 1820_; below
this, _Science, Art, Virtue_. An open book upon the desk displays these
words, _Take fast hold of instruction let her not go for she is thy
life. Proverbs. Ch. 1. ver. 17_.
668. PHILADELPHIA. _Apprentices Library Company of Phila. Instituted
1820. Opened for girls 1842._
This plate is a little later than the former, and the scene is shifted
from the class-room to the forest: here by the running brook,
overshadowed by the pines and oaks of the forest, a scroll is found upon
a rock bearing the same quotation from Proverbs that appears upon the
preceding plate. This is a woodcut very much in the style of Anderson.
669. PHILADELPHIA. _The Carpenters Company of Philadelphia, 1724._
Armorial in form. On the shield a square is used as a chevron, and is
placed between three pairs of dividers. No tinctures. The full sun
shines powerfully from above.
670. PHILADELPHIA. _The Library Company of Philadelphia._
The name printed from type within a border made up of ornamental type.
Motto, _Communiter bona profundere Deorum est_. Signed, (_Printed by
Zachariah Paulson jun. No 106 Chestnut-street. May. 1801_).
671. PHILIPSE. _Frederik Philipse. Esqr._
Armorial. Jacobean. No motto. The shield is backed by a brick wall, the
foliations are shell-lined, and the upturned shell is in place under the
shield. Of New York. Illustrated in “Curio,” page 111.
672. PHILLIPS. _Dinwiddie B. Phillips._
Plain armorial. Motto, _Ducit amor patriae_. Of Virginia.
673. PHILLIPS. _Samuel Phillips His Book 1707._
Name-label, with ornamental type border. Grandfather of the founder of
the Academy at Andover and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
at Boston. Born at Salem, 1690.
674. PHILLIPS ACADEMY. _In usum Academiae Phillipsiae Exoniensis._
Armorial. (Phillips arms.) Chippendale. This plate is not signed, but is
very similar to the Holyoke plate by Hurd, and is undoubtedly his work.
Motto, _Pia mente studeatur_. Phillips Academy of Andover, Mass.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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