For certain engravers, on whose work no date has been found, a century
has been named approximately from an examination of the plates they
produced.
Some of this information must necessarily be conjectural, and Mons.
Poulet-Malassis mentions certain artists and engravers of book-plates of
whose work it has not been possible either to obtain copies, or any
information whatever.
For facility of reference a strictly alphabetical arrangement of the
names has been adopted.
Wherever it was possible, the inscriptions and signatures have been
copied from the book-plates themselves, carefully preserving the
arbitrary contractions, the obsolete orthography, and even the errors
and the faulty accentuation found on many of them.
It will be observed that Mr. as a contraction for _Monsieur_ was
formerly more generally used in France than it now is, whilst Escuyer,
Escuier, or Ecuyer (for Esquire) was occasionally added after a
gentleman’s name, a custom which has, since the Revolution, become quite
obsolete.
One of the latest examples of the use of this title will be found on the
ex-libris of Jean François-Gillet, dated 1778, of which a reproduction
appears on p. 96.
A List of Artists and Engravers.
ABOT.
Engraved a plate for M.
Greppe. Designed by Giacomelli.
Modern.
TANCRÈDE ABRAHAM.
Château de Ruillé. (De la
Planche, Comte de Ruillé.)
1874. Armorial.
ADELINE, JULES.
Ex-libris de Champfleury dessiné
et gravé par J. Adeline.
Portrait plate. Modern.
(See also Aglaüs Bouvenne.)
M. Henri Bouchot reproduced
several works by this
artist.
AGRY. 14 Castiglione. Maison
Bouvet (Paris). Modern.
Bibliothèque de Mouchy.
Armorial.
Bibliothèque de Lafitte.
ALÈS _Sc_.
Hilarii Grésy, 1868. Pictorial.
Ex-libris Gustave Chancel,
1876. Pictorial.
ALIAMET _Scul_. (See Eisen.)
On a nameless armorial, designed
by C. Eisen for
Claude Antoine de Choiseul-Beaupré.
18th cent.
“J. Aliamet” on the nameless
armorial, designed by C.
Eisen, for the Marquis de
Paulmy.
ALLIN _Sculp. fecit._
Robert Jehannot de Beaumont,
Conseilleur du Roy,
etc., Verdun, 1742.
Armorial.
Conrad Robert, Comte de
Wignacourt, Major au Regiment,
etc. Armorial.
ALOYS _Comte la Rosée, fecit_
1760, on a library interior,
name indistinct; and on the
plate of Theod. Cte. Morawitzky,
1770.
_Aloys, comes de la Rosée, inv.
del. et sculpst._, on his own
ex-libris, dated 1769. He was
a German from the
Rhine provinces.
ANCELET, E. 19th cent.
ANDOUARD. 18th cent.
ANDRÉ, HENRY. Modern.
Jules Lermina. Symbolic
plate.
Alex. Geoffrey. 1893.
Henry André, Secrétaire de
la Société Française, etc.
1893.
Paul Vibert. Portrait plate.
Th^{re}. Vibert. Portrait plate.
Louis Bihn. 1893.
Abel Picard. A view of the
book-stalls on the quays
of Paris.
Ch. Guinot. 1894.
Léon Quantin. 1894.
Henry André 1894. Portrait.
Auguste-Geoffroy. 1895.
F. Bargallo. 1895. Allegorical.
L. P. Couraud. Pictorial.
Jan-des-Vignes. 1896.
Ex Libris P. P. Capucinorum
Conventus Parisiensis.
1896.
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