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
82. BLAKE. _Willm. P. & L. Blake’s Circulating Library at
the Boston Book Store._
An engraved label enclosed in an ornamental oval
frame. Signed, _S. Hill. Sc._
83. BLANC. _William Blanc. Middle Temple. Dominica._
Crest only. Motto on a garter enclosing the crest,
_Frangas non flectan_.
84. BLATCHFORD. _Thomas W. Blatchford._
Plain armorial. Motto, _Providentia sumus_. Signed,
_Wm. D. Smith sc._
85. BLEECKER. _Bleecker._
Plain armorial. A festoon of cloth behind the
shield.
86. BLENMAN. _Jonathan Blenman, Attoray, Genl. & Judge of
ye Admty. in Barbadoes._
A small plate, without motto, rather poorly engraved.
A little ornamentation of Jacobean
manner appears at either side, and the mantling is
rather profuse, but well above the shield.
[Illustration: Absalom Blachly.]
87. BLOOMFIELD. _Bloomfield._
Armorial. Chippendale. Rudely drawn books
used in the frame. Motto, _Pro aris et focis_.
Signed, _J. Trenchard_. Major Joseph Bloomfield
was a soldier in the Revolution, Governor of New
Jersey, Brigadier-General in War of 1812, member
of Congress, 1817-21. Illustrated in the “Art
Amateur,” April, 1894.
88. BOLLING. _Robt. Bolling Esq’r._
Armorial. Chippendale. Figures are used as
supporters which would appear to symbolize the
freedom of the Garden of Eden, and the learning
of classic Greece. Motto-ribbon empty; no crest.
Of Chellowe, Va. Illustrated in “Curio,” page 15.
89. BONAPARTE. _Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte._
A plain label, with an ornamental type border.
Nephew of Napoleon the Great. Born in England,
1805; died in Baltimore, Md., 1870.
90. BOND. _T. Bond, Surgeon._
Armorial. Chippendale. Signed, _W. H._ Native
of Maryland; 1712-1784. A distinguished physician
and surgeon of Philadelphia.
91. BOOTH. _Benjn. Booth._
Crest only. Autograph in a wreath under the
crest. Of New York, until the Revolution broke
out.
92. BOOTH. _George Booth._
Literary. A lighted candle and books in confusion
are placed upon a table. The name is
carved upon the edge of the table. On one of the
book-covers appears the Booth crest. An etched
plate.
93. BOSTON. _Shakspeare Circulating Library, Charles Callender,
No. 25 School Street, Boston._
A very curious old woodcut, with a large oval
medallion of the famous writer for whom the
library was named placed in the centre against a
rough rock background; the masks of Comedy
and Tragedy lie at the foot, and the hilts of foils
can be made out; a garland of roses falls at the
right hand, and the rays of the sun come over the
top. This is a rough engraving, very black and
indistinct.
94. BOSTON. _Social Law Library. Boston._
The name appears on a curtain looped up and held
by cord and tassel; above this a small oval encloses
a view of four waterspouts, each from behind a
rock; above this the circular frame encloses a hand
bearing a lighted torch; on the frame is the motto,
_Vestra cura alitur_, and the date 1804; a pile of
books above for crest, with _S.L.L._ on the cover
of one.
95. BOUCHER. _Jonathan Boucher._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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