ARMORIAL BOOK-PLATES 35 PICTORIAL AND ALLEGORICAL BOOK-PLATES AND PLATES OF COLLEGES, LIBRARIES, AND SOCIETIES 57 BOOK-PLATES OF SPECIAL INTEREST 79 EARLY AMERICAN BOOK-PLATE ENGRAVERS, WITH LISTS OF THEIR WORK 104 AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF EARLY AMERICAN BOOK-PLATES 160 A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE DATED PLATES 313 AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE SIGNED PLATES, SHOWING THE EXACT MANNER OF SIGNING 314 A LIST OF MOTTOES FOUND UPON THE EARLY PLATES, WITH TRANSLATIONS 323 A FEW RECENT EXAMPLES 340 THE AMERICAN COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS 377 THE EX LIBRIS SOCIETIES 387 BIBLIOGRAPHY (AMERICAN, ENGLISH, AND FRENCH) 389 CONCLUSION 421 INDEX 423 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. COPPER-PLATES. CHARLES DEXTER ALLEN, by _E. H. Garrett_ _Title-page_ _To face page_ EDWARD HALE BIERSTADT, by _E. D. French_ 90 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 98 ALEXANDER ANDERSON, by _Anderson_ 120 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, attributed to _Callender_ 126 GEORGE GOODWIN, attributed to _Doolittle_ 132 MARSHALL C. LEFFERTS, by _E. D. French_ 352 GEORGE DUDLEY SEYMOUR, by _W. F. Hopson_ 370 FRANCIS WILSON, by _E. H. Garrett_ 376 FULL-PAGE REPRODUCTIONS. JEREH. WADSWORTH 1 MORAL LIBRARY, YALE COLLEGE 6 JAMES EDDY MAURAN 16 EUGENE FIELD 35 JACOB SARGEANT, by _Jacob Sargeant_ 46 PETER MANIGAULT, by _Yates_ 52 JOHN WILLIAMS 54 RICHARD WYNKOOP 56 SOCIAL LAW LIBRARY 66 GEORGE ALEXANDER MACBETH 79 W. F. HOPSON, by _W. F. Hopson_ 104 WILLIAM ASHMEAD COURTENAY 122