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
Görlitz, C. A. Starke, 3 vols., folio, 1876.
Contains many fac-similes of German book-plates.
=149. Siennicki (S. J.).= Recueil des éditions des imprimeurs célèbre de
l’Italie, de la France, et de la Belgique conservées dans la
Bibliothèque de l’Université Imperiale de Varsovie.
1878.
Contains fac-similes of remarkable book-plates in Warsaw University
Library.
=150. Leighton, F.S.A. (John).= Suggestions in design, ... with
descriptive and historical letter-press, by J. K. Collings, F.R.I.B.A.
Blazon, Heraldry, Rebuses, &c., plates, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54.
London, Blackie & Son, 4to, 1880.
151. See American Bibliography, No. 6.
=152. Asta Libraria Antiquaria Catalogo=, N. 42.
Florence, Franchi & Co., February, 1886.
The catalogue contains fac-similes of a Medicean Super Libros, and
of another not identified.
=153. Griggs (W.).= Illustrations of Armorial China. Plates.
Privately printed, folio, 1887.
Contains a number of fac-similes of book-plates.
154. See American Bibliography, No. 17.
=155. The Strand Magazine=, Vol. II.
London, 4to, 1891.
Page 120, the book-plate of H. Stacy Marks, R.A.
=156. Blackburn (Henry).= Randolph Caldecott, a personal reminiscence,
194-196.
London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 8vo, 1891.
Contains a description of the “Seaman” book-plate by R. Caldecott,
with illustration.
=157. Theydon Mount=: its Lords and Rectors. Edited by J. J. Howard,
Farnham Burke, and the Rev. L. N. Prance.
Privately printed, 4to, n.d. (1891).
Contains a fac-simile of the book-plate of “Sir Edward Smith, of Hill
Hall, Co. Essex, Bart.,” and another.
158. See American Bibliography, supplementary list.
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The following articles having appeared since the English list was
prepared, are here inserted:--
=The Yellow Book.= An Illustrated Quarterly. Cuts of book-plates by Aubrey
Beardsley and R. Auning Bell, p. 251.
London, Elkin Mathews and John Lane.
Boston, U.S.A., Copeland & Day, Vol. I., 8vo, April, 1894.
=The Strand Magazine.= The handwriting of Mr. Gladstone, with fac-similes.
Vol. VIII., No. 43.
London, 8vo, July, 1894.
Fac-simile of early book-plate of Mr. Gladstone.
=Daily News.= Book-plate collecting. A review of Mr. Hamilton’s “Dated
Book-plates, Part I.”
London, July 17, 1894.
=Quakerana=, No. 5, July, 1894, page 77. Note of Ex Libris Society’s
exhibition in July, 1894, with special reference to book-plate of
William Penn.
London, Edward Hicks, Jun., 14 Bishopsgate Street Without, E.G.
=The Studio=, edited by Gleeson White, has contained several articles on
book-plates. Vol. III., No. 16, July 16, 1894: result of a prize
competition for a book-plate design, with 22 designs reproduced; Vol.
III., No. 17, August 15, 1894: cuts of three book-plates and review of
Hamilton’s “Dated Plates.”
London, 1894.
ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOK-PLATES.
_By H. W. Fincham and James Robert Brown, F.R.G.S._
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