The information contained in this delightful volume is of the greatest value to collectors of French Book-plates, and the facsimiles are executed in the most artistic manner. _Dated Book-Plates_ (Ex-Libris), with a Treatise on their Origin and Development. By Walter Hamilton. London, A. and C. Black, Soho Square, 1895. Illustrated. This volume contains a list of all the known French dated plates from 1574 to 1895, with descriptions of their styles, their mottoes, artists, and engravers, and biographical notes about their owners. _Ladies’ Book-plates._ By Norna Labouchere. With numerous illustrations. London, George Bell and Sons, 1895. In the “Ex-Libris” series. This work contains a chapter on Foreign Ladies’ Book-plates, in which many interesting French ex-libris are described. _Les Ex-Libris Limousins._ Par A. Fray-Fournier. Published by M. Ducortieux, Limoges, 1895. _L’Ex-Libris de F. de Larochefoucauld, Abbé de Tournus._ La première Marque Française armoriée. Par F. S. Paris, L. Joly, Editeur, 19, Quai Saint-Michel, 1896. 350 only printed. _Les Ex-Libris Anciens aux Armes de Jeanne d’Arc._ Par A. Benoit. Miss Labouchere cites this little pamphlet on p. 214 of “Ladies’ Book-plates,” but omits to mention when and where it was published. She gives a few details of plates belonging to descendants of the family of Jeanne d’Arc, but these do not appear to be of any special interest. INDEX. Admiral of France, arms of, 51. Ailleboust d’Autun, Charles, ex-libris, 1574, 7, 11, 12, 64, 65. Albenas, M. Georges d’, 248, 249. Alphabetical classification, advantages of, 34, 35. Alsace. “Petite Revue d’Ex-Libris Alsaciens,” by A. Stoeber, 1, 6, 9, 152. “Amateur d’Autographes” on French ex-libris, 5. André, M. Henry, 17, 214, 287, _et seq._, 298. Anselme, Père. “Les Grands Officiers de la Couronne,” 32. Antoinette, Marie, farewell of, 246. Archambault, 182, 183. “Archives de la Société Française,” 10, 19, 20. Armorial bearings, abolition of, 2, 27; revival of, 3, 28. ---- book-plate, earliest French, 1; first French dated, 2, 11; second French dated, 2. “Armorial Général de l’Empire Français,” par Henri Simon, 124. “Armorial du Bibliophile,” par Joannis Guigard, 32, 80. Artists in ex-libris. Modern French, 275, _et seq._ Ashbee, Mr. H. S. Portrait, 16. Auzoles, de la Peyre, 70. Avril, Paul, 299. Bacon, Sir Nicholas. First dated English book-plate, 1574, 1, 11. Barbier, Abbot, 177. Bardin, Joannes, 72. Bargalló, Dr. F., 214-217. Barony du Bois de Ferrieres, the, 162. Bastille, Chateau de la, 104. Bayard, C., 299. Bayon, Jules le, 293. Beaujeu, Q. de, 188. Beaumont, R. J. de, 1742, 90. Bee, order of the, 55. Bégon, Michel, 255. Bellehache, Chevalier de, 1771, 93. Benoit, A. and L., 1846, 153. ----, A., 1894, 154. Béraldi, Henri, on ex-libris, 285, _et seq._ Berry, Duchesse de, 135, 136. Berryer, Mons., 149. Berulle, 71.