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
Pictorial. A large shield, heart shaped, encloses a picture of a large
plantation, evidently with a considerable settlement on the rising
ground; a stream meanders through the estate, and various kinds of crops
are under cultivation; a little summer-house is seen at the end of a
long path. A large curtain is draped over the shield, and a stag and a
lion guard it at the foot. Under all, a tablet shows a second smaller
shield quartered heraldically, and bearing a hunter’s horn, a right arm,
a quill and roll of paper, and a twig from an oak tree on the four
quarters; this is draped with a festoon of holly leaves, and a line in
Greek impossible of translation is given above it. The meaning and use
of this plate is mysterious. It came from Charleston, S.C.
677. PICKERING. _Henry Pickering._
Armorial. Crest only. Poet.
678. PICKERING. _John Pickering Junr._
Plain armorial. No motto.
679. PICKERING. _T. A. Pickering._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. No motto. Possibly by Callender.
680. PIERCE. _William L. Pierce._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto, _In futura spector_. Signed,
_Maverick Sculpt._ Of New York.
681. PIERPONT. _Charles Pierpont._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto, _Manet amicitia florebit que
semper_. Signed, _S. Hill_.
682. PIERPONT. _John Pierpont._
Simply a name-label engraved on copper. Minister and poet of Litchfield,
Conn. Born, 1785.
683. PINFOLD. _Charles Pinfold. LL.D._
Armorial. Chippendale. Motto-ribbon empty. Two different plates are
known, but they are very similar.
684. PINFOLD. _Charles Pinfold LL.D. Governor of Barbadoes._
Same as above, with title added.
685. PINTARD. _John Pintard, LL.D._
Armorial. Pictorial. Signed, _Anderson_. The shield rests at the foot of
a palm tree; an anchor lies behind it; the motto, _Never despair_, is
given on a ribbon and the motto, _Fais bien crains rien_, is on the oval
shield. The following line in Greek is also given, Κατἁ οχοχὁν ὁιωχω,
while a fourth motto, _Depressa resurgo_, is seen on a ribbon floating
over the top of the tree. This is a fine woodcut. Founder of the New
York Historical Society.
686. PINTARD. _John Pintard._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto, _Fais, bien crains, rien_. Signed,
_Maverick Sct._
687. POOR. _Benjamin Poor._
Plain armorial. Motto, _Pauper non in spe_. Father of Major Ben: Perley
Poore.
688. POPHAM. _William Popham._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. No motto. Signed, _Maverick Scp._ Of New
York.
689. POULSON. _John Poulson’s._
A name-label printed wholly from type, the border being very elaborate.
Signed, _Printed by Zachariah Poulson Junior_. Of Philadelphia.
690. POWEL. _Samuel Powel._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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