# Book-Plates

Author: Hardy, William John, 1857-1919

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41142

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Book-Plates+Hardy&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 year obtained the honours of a second edition. In England, prior to 1880, we had no work devoted to the study; but, in that year, the Honourable J. Leicester Warren--afterwards Lord De Tabley--published _A Guide to the Study of Book-Plates (Ex Libris)_. How little was then generally known about these marks of ownership is shown by the allusions to them--very few in number--that find place in the pages of such publicatio...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/book-plates-41142/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/book-plates-41142/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/book-plates-41142/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/book-plates-41142/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/book-plates-41142/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/book-plates-41142/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/book-plates-41142/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/book-plates-41142/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/book-plates-41142/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/book-plates-41142/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/book-plates-41142/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/book-plates-41142/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/book-plates-41142/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/book-plates-41142/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/book-plates-41142/chapters/1/index.md)