Category: History - British
BOOK-PLATE collecting, at least in this country, is a thing of yesterday. On the Continent, particularly in France, it attracted attention sufficiently serious to induce the publication, in 1874, of a monograph on French book-plates by M. Poulet Malassis, which in the next yea...
BOOK-PLATE collecting, at least in this country, is a thing of yesterday. On the Continent, particularly in France, it attracted attention sufficiently serious to induce the pub...
4. CHAPTER IIIN a short paper, which in 1882 I contributed to the _Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer_, I wrote this passage:--'It is difficult to believe that the general use of book-pl...
5. CHAPTER IIILORD DE TABLEY has given us names for nearly all the styles met with in English book-plates, and it is perhaps better to accept these descriptions in the present work, adding to...
6. CHAPTER IVIN the last chapter I spoke of the leading styles followed in designing English book-plates, in, as far as possible, chronological sequence, though the reader will have noticed...
7. CHAPTER VIN turning now to consider English book-plates which show us, apart from the heraldry upon them, things wholly real, we find much that is interesting. First, we have 'Portrait'...
8. CHAPTER VII HAVE said that the use of book-plates, whether as commemorative of gifts or as marks of ownership, originated in Germany. Here, well before the close of the fifteenth century,...
9. CHAPTER VIIFRANCE, so far as a generally descriptive account of her book-plates is concerned, is certainly more fortunate than her neighbour Germany. French book-plates received attention,...
10. CHAPTER VIIIWHATEVER an American collects, he collects well: he works with a will and energy that loosens his purse-strings in a manner which makes the acquisition of valuable specimens a c...
11. CHAPTER IXI PROPOSE now to speak about the inscriptions on book-plates, and I will divide them as follows:--(1) Sentiments in condemnation of book-stealing or book-spoiling; (2) sentiment...
12. CHAPTER XHOW much more communicative, in the matter of personal particulars, are some people, upon their book-plate, than others! What a contrast, for instance, between the inscription o...
13. CHAPTER XITHERE seem to be really several good and logical reasons why we should separate, for consideration by themselves, the book-plates which have been used by ladies. To mention two:...
14. CHAPTER XIIWILLIAM 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 fa...
15. CHAPTER XIIIODDS and ends! The compiler of a volume of this sort is sure to find plenty of these,--scraps worth putting in somewhere, yet not coming precisely under any particular head. In...