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
A symbolical plate, representing the profession of medicine. In the
upper part a corpse has been laid open for examination, and three cupids
are in attendance; a fourth reads a book of reference with woful face,
and a saw and vessel would indicate that extreme measures were to be
tried. Below the name the serpent of Æsculapius twined about the rod is
placed between retorts, and herbs growing in flower-pots. The execution
of the plate is poor. John Barnard Swett of Newburyport, Mass.
[Illustration: J. B. Swett.] 844. SWORD. _William Sword._
Armorial. Chippendale. Motto-ribbon empty. Signed, _H. D. Fecit_.
845. TAYLOE. _Benjn. Ogle Tayloe._
Library interior. The shield occupies more room than anything else in
the library, and is in the immediate foreground, standing upright
against a pillar; a festoon falls over it; behind shelves of books are
seen; books are on the floor, and a globe is in the corner. Of Maryland.
846. TAYLOE. _John Tayloe of Mount Airy Virginia._
This plate is the same as the preceding, and is probably the older
print, the other being from the same copper with the name altered.
847. TAYLOR. _George Taylor._
Armorial. Of Charleston, S.C.
848. TAYLOR. (Anonymous.)
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto-ribbon empty. This plate has a
guaranteed autograph of George Taylor, the signer of the Declaration
from Pennsylvania; also dated by him in the year of Independence, 1776.
849. TAYLOR. _William Taylor._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto, _Jura sunt mea vindi cabo_. Signed,
_Maverick Sct._ Of New York.
850. TAZEWELL. _John Tazewell Virginia._
Armorial. Chippendale. Motto, _Ne quid nimis_.
851. TEN BROECK. _John C. Ten Broeck._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto, _Perge coepisti_. Not signed, but
very probably by Maverick. Of New York. A soldier of ability in the
Revolution; was with Washington at Valley Forge, and was in many
important battles. The original copper is now owned by Mr. Beverly Chew,
President of the Grolier Club, New York City.
852. THOMAS. _Geo: Thomas. Ex liber, 1798._
Pictorial. The frame is somewhat of the older Jacobean style, having a
large pediment, upon which rests a circular frame, enclosing a little
sketch of a beehive with the swarm about it, a mortar as large as the
beehive standing beside it, with the pestle in it, and an awkward branch
of a rose-bush, with two huge blossoms upon it, bending over the mortar.
Oak branches ascend on either side of the frame, and what looks as much
like a plum pudding as anything blazes away in place of a crest. The
name and date are written upon the face of the pediment. A physician of
Lancaster, Pa.
853. THOMAS. _Isaiah Thomas._
Armorial. Jacobean. Motto, _Nec elatus nec dejectus_. Of Worcester,
Mass. Publisher of “Massachusetts Spy.” Attributed to Johnson.
Illustrated in “Art Amateur,” March, 1894.
854. THOMPSON. Armorial. Of Virginia.
855. THOMPSON. _James Thompson._
Plain armorial. No motto. Signed, _P. Maverick, Durand & Co._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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