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. Pictorial. A cherub is seated, busily reading, at the right
side, while on the left his companion blows lustily upon a horn, in the
direction of the sky, whence a third cherub approaches, displaying a
long ribbon upon which is the motto, _Omnes fremant licet dicam quod
sentio_. The whole design rests upon a bracket garlanded with roses.
800. SMITH. _Thomas Smith._
Armorial. Of Gloucester, Va.
801. SMITH. _Thomas Smith Junr. Esqr._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto, _Nec aspera terrent_. Signed,
_Maverick Sculpt._ The customary landscape beneath the shield, and the
signature on the open scroll. This plate is a copy of the James Scott
Smith plate, and is much better work. Of New York.
802. SMITH. _Thomas J. Smith._
Armorial. Of New York. Signed by Maverick. Lawyer and scholar.
803. SMITH. _William Smith._
Armorial. Chippendale. Motto, _Chacun a son goût_. Not signed, but
undoubtedly by Hurd. Of Massachusetts.
[Illustration: Samuel Smith Esquire]
804. SMITH. _William Smith._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto, _Tutus si fortis_. Signed, _Maverick
Sculpt._ Of New York.
805. SMITH. _William Smith A.M._
Armorial. Jacobean. Motto, _Nil utile quod non honestum_. Of New York.
Rather wild in appearance.
806. SMITH. _William Smith LL.D. Charleston S. Carolina._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto, _Fidem servabo genusque_. Statesman
and lawyer. Born, 1784; died, 1840.
807. SMITH. _William Loughton Smith._
Diplomatist. Statesman of Charleston, S.C. Born, 1758; died, 1812.
808. SMITH. _William P. Smith A.M._
Armorial. Jacobean. Motto, _Deus nobis haec otia fecit_. Signed, _Thomas
Johnston Sculp._ The most ambitious Jacobean plate of our early period.
Probably the plate of William Peartree Smith of New York. Illustrated in
“Art Amateur,” May, 1894.
809. SMYTH. _Andrew Smyth._
Armorial.
810. SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATING THE GOSPEL. _Sigillum Societatis De
Promovendo Evangelio In Partibus Transmarinus._
Allegorical. An oval frame bears the Latin inscription and a broad
ribbon underneath bears the following, _The Gift of the Society for
propagating the Gospel in Foreign parts, 1704_. The scene is off the
coast; a three-masted ship, with all sails set, is within a few feet of
the shore; the missionary, whose height is equal to one half the
foremast, stands before that mast with Bible in hand and is already
preaching to the natives who, with outstretched hands, come running down
the declivity. The imminent danger of the ship is possibly the real
cause of the interest on the part of the natives. The full sun bestows
his blessing, and a serpentine ribbon in mid-air bears the motto,
_Transiens adiuvanos_. Two varieties. Illustrated in “Curio,” page 11.
811. SOUTH CAROLINA. _Protestant Episcopal Society for the Advancement
of Christianity in South Carolina._
A printed label.
812. SPAIGHT. _Spaight._
Plain armorial. Motto, _Vi et virtute_. Of North Carolina.
813. SPOONER. _Joshua Spooner._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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