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By Club of Odd Volumes
, Sylvester Rosa
Koehler, Hedwig Jaeger
Koehler, Charles Dexter
Allen, Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston Print Dept

Published 1898
Alfred Mudge & Son
, Printers

Book-plates

Original from the University of California

Digitized Aug 30, 2007

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At head of title: Museum of fine arts. Print department.

Some of the ways of making book plates I	1

b Modern period	18

FRANCE	22

THE NETHERLANDS	38

THE UNITED STATES	79

List of the principal books on book plates and book plate	159

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Boston - Page 120
Below this again, the seal of the city of Boston, and a library interior, with a bearded old man reading. The whole bound together by scroll work. ...
more pages: vii viii xxi 88

Paris - Page 30
The brothers Lambert, designers and stipple engr., are mentioned as working in Paris at the.
more pages: x xxv 2 29

Dublin - Page 4
Dublin: 1781. On the titlepage is Washington's autograph. An impression of the spurious Washington plate is inserted opposite the genuine one. ...

Nuremberg - Page xii
It was one of the " Helglein ", and was without doubt the work of one of the Formschnei- ders of Nuremberg or Augsburg. ...
more pages: 5 9 10 13

Guttenberg, NJ - Page 96
Hollyer, Samuel, engraver and etcher, Guttenberg, NJ Born in London in 1826, first came to the United States in 1851, and, after several visits to his ...

London - Page xxv
There are many collectors in England who remember the good old days when both in London and along the quays of Paris they could stuff their pockets ...
more pages: xxvi 2 3 96

Hartford - Page 110
Hartford. Circulating Library of EM Sill:—1544 Lettering with a few sprigs of vegetation in Blake's style. Reproduction of a design by WM Stone. ...

Augsburg - Page xii
It was one of the " Helglein ", and was without doubt the work of one of the Formschnei- ders of Nuremberg or Augsburg. ...
more pages: 9 10 13

New York - Page xxi
These went more to the places south of New York than to those north of that city, for in New England most of the early book-plates were made by native ...
more pages: xxiii 1 83 152

Schenectady - Page 140
Schenectady. Union College: — 2067. The seal of the College (with a bust of Minerva), above which floats a pile of three books, set against a ...

New Haven, Conn - Page 112
New Haven. Free Public Library.-— 1566. Typogr. label, with the seal of the city engr. on wood. 1567- Architectural design, with the seal of the city ...
more pages: 97 99

Lancaster - Page 143
Lancaster. Franklin &° Marshall College;— 2099- Minerva holding aloft a lighted lamp, in an architectural frame work. To left, bust of Benjamin ...
more pages: 126

Washington, DC - Page 161
1424 F Street, Washington, DC, USA 8? Illustrated. Organ of the Washington Ex Libris Society, which, on Jan. 9, 1897, became the American Bookplate ...
more pages: 162

Belfast - Page 117
Belfast. Free Library ; — 1634- Five lithogr. labels, with view of library building : — The Gift of; In Memory of Chapin Humphrey; Purchased from the ...
more pages: 73

Berlin - Page 15
Fr. Werndorf. Etching. Signed: Geyser fecit. W 2442. Meil, Johann Wilhelm, painter, designer, and etcher, born Altenburg 1733, died Berlin 1805.— 151. ...
more pages: 5 9 12 18

Baltimore, Md - Page 118
Baltimore. The Enoch Pratt Free Library : — 1663 -1665. Seven typogr. labels, one each for the principal Library and Branches i to 6. ...
more pages: 102

Philadelphia - Page 86
Sartain, John, the well-known mezzotint engraver, of Philadelphia, born in London, England, 1808, died in Philadelphia, 1897. ...
more pages: 79 143

Harrisburg - Page 143
Harrisburg. State Library of Pennsylvania :— 2096- Engr. label, with the arms of the state : This Volume is a Gift to the Library From. Haverford. ...

Cambridge - Page 2
The bookplate of William Lucy, Es f., of Charle- cote in Warwickshire, in Fuller's "The Holy State ", Cambridge: 1642. ...
more pages: 124

Mayence - Page 20
Kissel, Clemens, of Mayence. — 210. Heinrich Eduard Stiebel. Photo-mech. reprod. of a drawing, signed with monogram. Dated 1894. Krahl, Ernst, Vienna. ...
more pages: 12

Carroll, NY - Page 114
Signed : Dempsey & Carroll, NY Wallingford. Library Company:—1595. Typogr. label. Waterbury. Silas Branson Library :—1596. ...

Roanoke - Page x
of Roanoke, and George Washington. These are books which give one a foretaste of the good things which attract the collector of book-plates. ...

Muskegon - Page 131
Muskegon. Hackley Public Library :—1940. Em-blematic figures of Science and of Art hold the tablet which bears the name of the library; above, ...

Albany, NY - Page 135
Signed : RK Quayle, Albany, NY (Labels i to 3 were used from 1825-1855 ; from 1856-1889 no labels were used ; since then the fourth label has been in ...
more pages: 151

Hanover - Page 133
Hanover. Dartmouth College ; —1965. Social Friends Library: Blank shield surrounded by thistles, etc., the sun above. Engr. Printed in blue. ...

Scranton - Page 145
Scranton. Scranton Public Library.- — 2133-2137. Eleven typogr. labels on papers of different colors, for the various departments, also: Citizens' ...

Rome - Page 140
Rome. Jervis Library : — 2066- Two typogr. labels, with the seal of the library engr. on wood : — Gift of ; For general use. Schenectady. ...
more pages: 2

Brooklyn, NY - Page 129
Three typogr. labels, with the seal of the library engr. on wood : — Purchased from the amount given by AA Low, Esq., Brooklyn, NY ; City ...
more pages: 135

Buffalo - Page 136
Buffalo. Buffalo Library:—1999- Engr. label: Special Library Fund ; Typogr. label : For reference ; Typogr. label : Rules. Clinton. ...
more pages: 150

Lille - Page 30
Jouvenel, H.,engr. at Lille, beginning of 19. cent.— 331. Herbaut. Etching. Signed: H. Jouvenel à Lille. Goüel. — 332. ExLibris De Couvert. Engr. ...

Denver - Page 110
Denver. The Denver Club : — 1535- Library Interior. Signed: Cora E. Sargent. Engr. by E D. French. Proof on Imperial Japan, signed by the engraver. ...

Dover - Page 133
Dover. Public Library: —1962- Seal engr. on wood, set against a shelf with books, etc, Exeter. Phillips Exeter Academy;— 1963. Armorial. Engr. ...

Wilkes-Barre - Page 145
Wilkes-Barre. Osterhout Free Library : — 2140. Engr. label. — Wyoming Historical and Geological Society : — 2141. The seal of the Society engr. on ...

Oxford - Page 142
Oxford. 2091- Tlie Western College and Seminary: — Typogr. label, " Presented by" ; Western Female Seminary ;— Typogr. label. OREGON. Portland. ...

Pittsburgh - Page 145
Pittsburgh. Catnegie Library; — 2131, 2132. Six engr. labels, ornam. escutcheon and ribbon bearing the name in an ornam. frame: — Without lettering of ...

Topeka - Page 116
Topeka. Free Public Library:— 1627. Two por-trait plates: — "JH Hampson Book Fund." Scroll work on a black ground, reproduced by half-tone process, ...

Berkeley - Page 109
Berkeley. University of California : — 1521. Three typogr. labels : — For general use ; Gift of Alfred Greene- baum ; Gift of Mrs. Avery. 1522. ...

Dayton - Page 142
Dayton. Dayton Memorial Library : — 2083. Two small typogr : labels, in gold letters on black cloth. — Davion Public Library :— 2084, 2085. ...

Princeton - Page 134
Princeton. College of New Jersey: —1979- Library of Political Science and Jurisprudence presented by the class of 1883. With coat-of-arms. Engr. ...

Windsor - Page 147
Windsor. Windsor Library Association:—2169. Two typogr. labels: — The Beaman Donation (printed in red) ; For general use. Woodstock. ...

Norwich - Page 113
Norwich. Otis Library:—1589. Four typogr. labels : — For general use ; Given by ; Charles Boswell Fund ; Dr. Daniel Tyler Coit Fund. South Port. ...

St. Louis - Page 132
St. Louis. Mercantile Library:—1949, 1950 Three ornamental plates, signed : Heinicke-Flegel Litho. Co. St. Louis : — For general use ; Presented by ...

Chicago - Page 101
Studied at the Art Institute, Chicago, and with Olivier Merson, Paris. Studio address : Marshall Field Building (Room 818), Chicago, 111.— 1372. ...

Amsterdam - Page 4
John Randolph of Roanoke's bookplate, in Hein- sius's edition of Aurelius Prudentius Clemens, Amsterdam : 1667. (A 714.) ...

Ann Arbor - Page 131
Ann Arbor. University of Michigan:— 1932- 1938. Fifteen typogr. labels : — Presented .... by ; General Library ; The Philosophical Library of ...

New Orleans - Page 116
New Orleans. Commercial Library:—1630- Typogr. label for general use, and fine label. — State Library :— 1631. Two India rubber stamps, ...

Exeter - Page 133
Exeter. Phillips Exeter Academy;— 1963. Armorial. Engr. Attributed to Hurd. A 674. 1964- Typogr. label : Presented by. Hanover. ...

Basel - Page 9
Striedbeck (Stridbeck), Johann, engr., who worked at Strasburg, at Basel and at Augsburg, and died about 1755. — 8O- Nameless plate. ...

Savannah, Ga - Page 114
Savannah, Ga., the other: A. Hoen & Co., Lith. Bait? — Savannah Library Association : — 1602 • Typogr. label : " Presented by JH Eslill ". ...

Zurich - Page 5
Amman, Jost, painter, and etcher, born Zurich 1539, died Nuremberg 1591.—41. Holzschuher. (Name not given). Engr. Signed: IA Not dated, ...

Ithaca - Page 137
Ithaca. Cornell University : — 2O20-202 7 • Twenty seven typogr. labels : — Romance Seminary ; Latin Sem-inary ; Barnes Reference Library ; The gift ...

Munich - Page 18
Von Retberg, Ralf, of Munich, amateur painter, de-signer, lithographer, etc., born 1812. — 177. Ralf von Retberg. Lithogr. Not signed. ...
more pages: 8

Cincinnati - Page 141
Cincinnati. Public Library: — 2074. Two labels, with seal engr. on wood : — For general use ; Reference Collection, printed in red. Cleveland. ...

Jersey City, NJ - Page 84
Alexander, designer and engraver, and the first American wood-engraver of note, born in New York, 1775, died in Jersey City, NJ, 1870. ...

Waterbury - Page 114
Waterbury. Silas Branson Library :—1596. Two typogr. labels : — Bronson Fund ; Gift of. Wethersfield. Social Library. Stepney Society : — 1597- Books ...

Sacramento - Page 109
Sacramento. Free Public Library : —1524,1525. Six typogr. labels on papers of different colors. San Diego. 1526, 1527. Three typogr. labels: — One ...

Prague - Page 7
Another Sysang worked in Prague from 1720-38. — 62. Christian Ernst Graf zu Stolberg. Engr. Signed: Sy sc. Dated 1721. W 2116, where the signature is ...

Sioux City - Page 116
Sioux City. Public Library.-— 1624. Two typogr. labels, one of them with monogram. KANSAS. Lawrence. University of Kansas :—1625. ...

Taunton - Page 129
Taunton. Public Library:—1905. Two typogr. labels : .... Record labels ; By (with the seal of the town engr. on wood). Wellesley. ...

Montpelier - Page 147
Montpelier. The Vermont Historical Society ; — 2164. Typogr. label: Presented by.— Vermont State Library: — 2165, 2166. ...

Minneapolis - Page 131
Minneapolis. Athenäum ; — 1942. Two labels, with books, inkstand, lamp, engr. on wood : — For general use; A gift from. — Public Library:—1943. Two.

Magdeburg - Page 18
Clericus, Ludwig, lived in Berlin, 1879, died since in Magdeburg. —183. B. Ragoizky. Wood-engr. Not signed. W 1639. 184. Hanno von Dassel, and his ...

Vienna - Page 8
Schmitner (Schmittner), Franz Leopold, engr., of Vienna. Flourished about 1740. — 69. Freiherr von Raigersfeld. Engr. Signed : FL Schmitner sc. ...

Milan - Page 39
Scotto, either Francesco, engr. at Venice, b. about 1760, or Girolamo, engr. at Milan, b. abt. 1780. —455- Le Comte D. Boutourlin. Engr. ...

Salt Lake City - Page 146
Salt Lake City. University of Utah:—2\bQ- Students Memorial Library : Given by. Typogr. label. 2157- Martha J. Cor ay Library of Social Science ...

San Francisco - Page 109
San Francisco. Free Public Libtary:—1528, 1529, 1530. Five typogr. labels, one of them for books given. Sutro Library: 1531. Pictorial, with ...

Venice - Page 39
Scotto, either Francesco, engr. at Venice, b. about 1760, or Girolamo, engr. at Milan, b. abt. 1780. —455- Le Comte D. Boutourlin. Engr. ...

Marseilles - Page 37
Pellisier se. à Marseilles 1895. Steyert, A. — 431- Chateau de Chazey. Etching. Signed: A. Steyert inv. et sculp. 432- Avgvste Fabre. Etching. ...

San Diego - Page 109
San Diego. 1526, 1527. Three typogr. labels: — One Horion Library; two San Diego Public Library. San Francisco. Free Public Libtary:—1528, 1529, 1530. ...

Cleveland - Page 141
Cleveland. Central High School:— 2075- The Lucile Library. In memory of Eva Lucile Harris pre-sented by William J. Rainey. ...

Salem, Mass - Page 100
Edward S., of Salem, Mass., the well- known naturalist and writer on Japanese art, etc.— 1365 Нету М. Brooks. Photo-mech. reprod. of a drawing. ...

Brunswick - Page 117
Brunswick. Bowdoin College:—1635. Armorial. " Hon1? James Bowdoin, Esq! ". Engr. A 98. Late im-pression. 1636. From same plate as preceding, ...

Rochester, NY - Page 88
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, architect and designer, 104 and 105 Cutler Building, Rochester, NY —1152. Claude Fayette Bragdon. 1153. May Bragdon. 1154. ...

Brattleboro - Page 146
Brattleboro. Free Library: — 2158- Typogr. label Burlington. Fletcher Free Library : — 2159, 2160- Five labels :— For general use, engr. ; The Gift of ...

Schaffhausen - Page 11
Wachsmut (Wachsmuth), either Jeremías, de-signer and engr., born Augsburg 1712, died 1779, or Michael, engr., who worked in Schaffhausen about 1760-70 ...

Bern - Page 12
Aberli, Johann Ludwig, painter and engr., born Win- terthur 1723, died Bern 1786.— 107. Vincentz Frisching. Etching and engr. Signed : IL Aberli del. ...

Florence - Page 126
Florence. Free Congregational Society:—1843. Typogr. label.—Lilly Library Association:—1844. Typogr. label. Foxboro'. ...

Northampton - Page 128
Northampton. Public Library. Florence Branch : — 1887- Two typogr. labels. —forées Library:— 1888, 1889- Five typogr. labels :—For general use; ...

Portland, Conn - Page 151
Pelton, Oliver, born Portland, Conn., 1799. See A, P- 77- See No. 1573- Poulson, Boston. See No. 1650. Pyle, Howard, the well-known painter, ...

Walker, CA - Page 170
Walker, CA 1499« . Thoenert (Thaenert), M. 96, 97. Thomas, I. 1114. Thompson, JM 1490, 1491. Thomson, C. 727. Thomson, R. 954. Thornthwait. 608. ...

Leggett, CA - Page 180
Leggett, CA 1237. Lehnemann, HW 138. Leigh, Lord. 24. Leighton, J. 778-782. Leiningen, Prince Ernst zu. 202. Leiningen-W» sterburg, KE Graf zu. ...

Lawrence, MS - Page 167
Lawrence, MS 1338. Lebegue, L. 427, 428. Le Daulceur, L. 273. Lee. 696. Lee, T. 1540. Lee, WF 1339-1342. Légat, F. 622. Legrand, L. 297. Legros, A. ...

Columbia, SC - Page 101
TC, of Columbia, SC — 1382. JMBateman. 1383- Ellison Capers. 1384- George Erwin. 1384? WE Evans. 1385. AI Robertson. \SSQ.JohnT.SIoan. 1387. ...