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
975. YOUNG. _The Property of Ammi B. Young. Lebanon. N.H._
A small, neatly engraved label.
976. YOUNG. _Thomas J. Young._
Rector of St. Michael’s Church, Charleston, S.C. Born, 1803. Three
plates.
977. YOUNG. _William Young._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto, _Labore_. This plate has very
flowing mantling, which terminates at either side in eagles’ heads; from
their beaks depend the slight festoons which place the plate in the
Ribbon and Wreath class.
978. UNIDENTIFIED. (Name defaced.) _Property of......... Bookbinder, U.
S. A._
Pictorial. An open book; on the first page, a cradle; on the second, a
coffin; behind the book, a sword, quill, and anchor. The following
mottoes are used:--
_See some strange comfort ev’ry state attend._ POPE.
_Ah, when the dream of life shall be passed, what will have availed
all its agitation, if it leave not one trace of utility behind?_
VOLNEY.
_Crescit amor nummi.
Stultum est in alieno foro sigitare._
A very rude woodcut.
979. UNIDENTIFIED. (Name defaced.)
Pictorial. An eagle soars aloft, bearing an oval frame with the name of
the owner upon it; the broad rays of the sun behind the eagle light up
the pine trees on the distant hill-tops. In the lower right-hand corner
the smoke rises from the chimney of a house whose roof is just visible,
shaded by a peculiar tree.
980. UNIDENTIFIED. (Name defaced.)
Pictorial. An eagle holding a small United States shield in his beak,
and a ribbon on which the United States motto is given, _E pluribus
unum_. In the oval beneath, _Use this carefully and return it
immediately_. A Bible under all. Signed, _W. Barber. Sculpt._
981. UNIDENTIFIED. Armorial.
Arms, Vert three garbs ppr. Crest, a swarm of bees about a hive.
Chippendale. Motto, _Libertas et patria mea_. Signed, _H. Dawkins
Sculpt._
982. UNIDENTIFIED. Pictorial.
Within an oval frame we see the interior of a large room, which might be
a library but looks more like a school-room; seated at a desk in the
centre of the room is a man in the elaborate costume of the gentleman of
the last century; books are before him, and on the floor beside him; a
large globe is at hand; the appearance of the seated scholar is that of
a professor waiting for his class to file in. The name is given upon a
ribbon which is tied above, but it has been cut out of the specimen at
hand. Signed, _A. Godwin. Sculp._
ADDITIONS WHILE PRINTING.
983. BOSTON. _Boston Architectural Library._
A large label made up of type ornaments and a woodcut festoon.
984. CHAMPION. _Epaphroditus Champion, Jr._
Plain armorial. Motto, _Pro rege et patria_. Signed, _P. Maverick, Sc._
985. CHIN. _Henry Chin._
Armorial. Virginia.
986. EDGAR. _William Edgar._
Plain armorial. No motto. Of New Jersey.
987. HAVERHILL. _Haverhill Library._ (Mass.)
A small woodcut label; festoons and an ancient coin.
988. KUNZE. _Johann Christopher Kunze, Prediger in Philadelphia._
Pastor of a Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. Printed label.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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