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
Under the name is the verse beginning--
_If thou art borrowed by a friend,_
_Right welcome shall he be_, etc.
Signed, _Sold by N. Dearborn & Son_. Undoubtedly engraved by Dearborn.
159. CHILD. _Isaac Child, Boston._
Literary. Four shelves of books. Probably by Dearborn.
160. CHILD. _Thomas Child._
Armorial. Chippendale. Motto, _Fari aude_. Not signed, but evidently the
work of Nathaniel Hurd. First Postmaster of Portland, Me.
161. CHILD. _William Henry Child._
Armorial in form, but displaying no arms on the shield. Crest, two doves
with olive branches in their mouths. The initials _W. H. C._, in cipher,
occupy the shield. Ribbon and Wreath. No motto. Very similar in design
to the plate of George Grote, the historian. Illustrated in “Art
Amateur,” April, 1894.
162. CLARK. _D. Lawrence Clark._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto, _Semper idem_. Undoubtedly the arms
are not genuine: the argent field of the shield is charged with a branch
of holly, and the crest is the American eagle, with a star above its
head.
163. CLARK. _John Clark. M.D._
Plain armorial. Motto, _Semper idem_. The arms are undoubtedly assumed;
az. an oak branch ppr. Crest, an American eagle, with a star (mullet)
above.
164. CLARKE. _Alfred Clarke._
Crest only. Motto, _Soyez ferme_. Of Cooperstown, N.Y.
165. CLARKE. _George Clarke._
Crest only. Motto, _Soyez ferme_. Signed, _J. F. Morin. Sc. N.Y._
166. CLARKE. _Peter Clarke._
Armorial. Chippendale. Motto, _Coronat virtus cultores suos_. Printed in
blue ink.
167. CLARKSON. _David Clarkson Gent._
Armorial. Jacobean. No motto. Of New York. Illustrated in “Curio,” page
66.
168. CLARKSON. _M. Clarkson._
Armorial, plain. No motto. Matthew Clarkson was for twenty-one years the
President of the Bank of New York.
169. CLEBORNE. _C. I. Cleborne. M. D._
Armorial. The shield canted to one side, surmounted by the helmet; it
and the mantling is enclosed within a circular ribbon, on which the
motto, _Clibor ne sceame_, is given. A second ribbon over the design
bears the motto, _Virtute invidiam vincas_. Signed, _Jarrett London_.
170. CLEVELAND. _Stephen Cleveland._
Pictorial. A very unusual plate: a full-rigged British man-of-war, with
ten guns peering from the loop-holes, is hastening from the observer;
the English ensign flies from the stern. A very spirited piece of work.
It is said that his commission as Captain in our Navy just after the
Declaration was the first one issued. Born in Connecticut, 1740, died in
Massachusetts, 1801.
171. CLINTON. _De Witt Clinton._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto, _Patria cara carior libertas_.
Signed, _P. R. Maverick. sculpt._ Governor of New York, 1817-1822, and
1824-1827. Illustrated in “Art Amateur,” February, 1894.
172. COCK. _William Cock._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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