American book-plates : a guide to their study with examples / by Charles Dexter Allen ... with a bibliography by Eben Newell Hewins ... illustrated with many reproductions of rare and interesting book-plates and in the finer editions with many prints from the original coppers both old and recent.
1905
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Title
American book-plates : a guide to their study with examples / by Charles Dexter Allen ... with a bibliography by Eben Newell Hewins ... illustrated with many reproductions of rare and interesting book-plates and in the finer editions with many prints from the original coppers both old and recent.
Created/published
New York : The Macmillan Co., 1905.
Description
xiv, 437 p., plates : facsims. ; 20 cm
Associated name
Allen, Charles Dexter, 1865-1926, author.
Hewins, Eben Newell.
Finchman, Henry Walter.
Brown, James Roberts, 1905.
Hamilton, Walter, 1844-1899.
Hewins, Eben Newell.
Finchman, Henry Walter.
Brown, James Roberts, 1905.
Hamilton, Walter, 1844-1899.
Note
A cheaper reissue of the first edition printed in 1894.
Frontispiece and title vignette omitted.
Frontispiece and title vignette omitted.
Contents
Name-labels and mottoes
Armorial book-plates
Pictorial and allegorical book-plates and plates of colleges, libraries and societies
Book-plates of special interest
Early American book-plate engravers with lists of their work
An alphabetical list of early American book-plates
A chronological list of the dated plates
An alphabetical list of the signed plates
List of mottoes
A few recent examples
American collectors and collections
Ex-libris societies
Bibliography (American [by E.N. Hewins] ; English [by H.W. Fincham and J.R. Brown ; reprinted from the Journal of the Ex-libris society ] ; French [by W. Hamilton ; reprinted from his "Handbook of French book-plates"])
Armorial book-plates
Pictorial and allegorical book-plates and plates of colleges, libraries and societies
Book-plates of special interest
Early American book-plate engravers with lists of their work
An alphabetical list of early American book-plates
A chronological list of the dated plates
An alphabetical list of the signed plates
List of mottoes
A few recent examples
American collectors and collections
Ex-libris societies
Bibliography (American [by E.N. Hewins] ; English [by H.W. Fincham and J.R. Brown ; reprinted from the Journal of the Ex-libris society ] ; French [by W. Hamilton ; reprinted from his "Handbook of French book-plates"])
Place of creation/publication
United States -- New York (State) -- New York.
Item Details
Call number
Z994.A5 A4 1905
Folger-specific note
Bookplate of Franklin H. Chase.