But all that has been said, so far, concerns the book-plates of English women. Foreign dames of various nationalities, and our feminine cousins across the Atlantic (see p. 150), have made a very generous use of these marks of book-possession. French women of the eighteenth century have, as the reader of Miss Labouchere's interesting pages on this part of her subject will see, for the most part, used book-stamps, many of the most beautiful French bindings gaining an additional interest and beauty from the coats of arms of their fair owners impressed upon them. There are, however, a fairly large number of book-plates known which have belonged to French women, or, at all events, to women resident in France, and amongst them one to which attaches pathetic interest from the tragic fate of its owner. I mean that of the Princesse de Lamballe, who fell a victim to her attachment to the reigning house of France during the revolting massacres of 1792. There are such things as 'joint' book-plates--book-plates which have belonged both to husbands and wives. We meet with some such in England, though not at a very early date; but in Germany they exist as far back as 1605. In England the first example, only a printed label, is in 1737--'Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Anne Pain.' Examples of this dual ownership occur frequently in modern book-plates. For other points of interest in and about ladies' book-plates the reader must consult Miss Labouchere's work; all I will do, in concluding my remarks upon them, is to say that--as might perhaps be expected--in phrases of book-possession ladies are even more outspoken than gentlemen; few, however, are so much so as Lady Dorothy Nevill, who protects her books with the words 'stolen from' placed before her name: surely she can be no more troubled by borrowers than was the Cavalier Macciucca (_vide_ p. 171). FOOTNOTES: [14] She married, in 1767, the Hon. John Damer, a son of Lord Milton. [15] A variety of this book-plate exists on which the inscription reads: 'Anna Seymour-Damer.' CHAPTER XII THE MORE PROMINENT ENGRAVERS OF ENGLISH BOOK-PLATES WILLIAM MARSHALL heads our list of engravers of English book-plates. We know of but one specimen of his work, but it is exceedingly fine--the anonymous plate of the Lyttelton family, described on p. 32. Marshall's works are dated between 1591 and 1646. Next after him comes the well-known engraver of portraits, William Faithorne (b. 1633; d. 1691), whose Portrait book-plate of Bishop Hacket is figured opposite. David Loggan, the engraver of the Isham book-plates in 1676, is the artist next on our roll. How many book-plates he designed and engraved I do not know, but there are two or three early English examples which, in their arrangement and touch, resemble somewhat closely his work for Isham. [Illustration]