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
=Jamaica Plain News.= Sketch of a “talk” on Book-plates, by Mr. E. N.
Hewins.
Jamaica Plain, Mass. U.S.A., March 3, 1894.
Origin and Growth of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical
Society. A paper presented at a Meeting of the Society, November 9,
1893, by Samuel Abbott Green, M.D. Pamphlet.
John Wilson & Son, University Press,
Cambridge, Mass., 1893.
Describes the various book-plates used by the Society, and is
illustrated with several fac-similes.
=The Jaunceys of New York.= Pamphlet, 24 pp.
New York, 1876.
William Jauncey’s book-plate for frontispiece.
Annals of the Van Rennselaers in the United States, by Rev. Maunsell Van
Rennselaer, D.D., LL.D.
Albany, 8vo., pp. 241. 1888.
Book-plate of K. K. Van Rennselaer, to face page 214.
=Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography=, Vol. IX., page 14.
Book-plate of Sir John St. Clair. Notices on him by Charles R.
Hildeburn. 1885.
THE ENGLISH BIBLIOGRAPHY.
_By H. W. Fincham, Esq., and James Roberts Brown, F.R.G.S._
[Reprinted by their kind permission.]
=1. Bartsch (Adam).= Le Peintre Graveur, Vol. VII., for plates by Dürer
and others.
Vienna, 21 vols., 8vo, 1803-1821.
=2. Moule (Thomas).= Bibliotheca Heraldica Magnæ Britanniæ, pp. 367-388.
London, royal 8vo, 1822.
Moule used the cut on the title-page as his book-plate.
=3. The Gentleman’s Magazine.= Remarks on the invention of book-plates,
Part ii., 613.
London, 8vo, 1822.
=4. The Gentleman’s Magazine.= Book-plates (C. S. B.), Part i., 198-199.
London, 8vo, 1823.
=5. Wadd (William).= Mems., Maxims, and Memoirs, pp. 146-147.
London, Callow & Wilson, 8vo, 1827.
=6. Parsons (Rev. Daniel).= On Book-plates. Third Annual Report of the
Oxford University Archæological and Heraldic Society, pp. 17-25.
Oxford, J. Vincent, royal 8vo, 1837.
=7. Notes and Queries=, 1st Series. Book-plates, whimsical one, vi., 32;
motto, i., 212; early, iii., 495; iv., 46, 93, 354; vii., 26; xi., 265,
351, 471; xii., 35, 114.
London, 1849-1855.
=8. Dennistoun (James).= Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange ... and Andrew
Lumisden, ii., 283-284.
London, Longman, 2 vols., 8vo, 1855.
Gives the dates of three book-plates engraved by Strange.
=9. Notes and Queries=, 2d Series. Book-stamps, armorial, x., 409.
London, 1856-1861.
=10. Notes and Queries=, 3d Series. Book-plates, armorial, vi., 306; their
heraldic authority, xii., 117, 218.; by R. A., wood engraver, viii.,
308. London, 1862-1867.
=11. Beaupré (M.).= Notice sur quelques Graveurs Nancéiens du XVIII
Siècle. Nancy, Lucien Wiener, 8vo, 1862.
Contains description of a number of book-plates engraved by
Dominique Collin.
12. See American Bibliography, No. 1.
13. See American Bibliography, No. 1.
14. See American Bibliography, No. 2.
=15. Leighton, F.S.A. (John).= Book-plates, Ancient and Modern, with
examples, illustrated. _Gentleman’s Magazine_, 4th Series, Vol. I., pp.
798-804.
London, 8vo, June, 1866.
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