Concerning Book-plates: A Handbook for Collectors

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By Zella Allen Dixson

Published 1903
Wisteria cottage press

217 pages

Original from the University of Michigan

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Book Decoration in America, 1890-1910: A Guide to an Exhibition - Page 61
by Laurie W. Crichton, Wayne G. Hammond, Robert L. Volz, Chapin Library - 1979 - 87 pages
The exhibition, sponsored by the Chapin Library and the Williams College Graduate Program in theHistory of Art, was held May through August 1979.
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MnU Bulletin - Page 98
by University of Minnesota Library. Staff Association, Library Staff Association, University of Minnesota
Allen, Charles Dexter. Ex libris; essays of a collector. New York, Lamson, Wolffe, 1896. Club of Odd Volumes. Catalogue of a loan exhibition of book-plates and super-libros ...
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Bulletin of the New York Public Library - Page 296
by New York Public Library - 1977
Includes its Report, 1896-1945
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Bookplates: Being a Lecture Delivered to the Print Collectors' Club on Wednesday, November, 18th ...
by Henry John Fanshawe Badeley - 1927 - 68 pages
"This edition is limited to 500 copies, of which 300 are for presentation to the members of thePrint collectors' club ... No. 385."
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730 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut - Page 104
730 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut. This artist is the well-known illustrator of many familiar books. The twenty-five hundred picture cuts in ...

72 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, New York - Page 117
72 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. This artist, who came of a family of artists, was born in Etruria, Staffordshire, England, a place famous for its ...

303 Walnut St., Newtonville, Mass - Page 196
303 Walnut St., Newtonville, Mass. 36 blvd. des Batignolles, Paris, Fr. 5225 Jefferson Ave., Chicago, 111. Westlands, Wavertree, Liverpool, Eng. ...

1233 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa - Page 194
135 George St., Providence, RI 4 Gloucester Terrace, Regent's Park, London, NW, Eng. 1 Forres St., Edinburgh, Scot. 1233 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. ...

189 Palisade Ave., Yonkers, NY - Page 186
785 Madison Ave., New York City, NY 189 Palisade Ave., Yonkers, NY St. Petersburg, Russia. Munich, Ger. ...

35 Lakewood Road, Newton Highlands, Mass - Page 192
35 Lakewood Road, Newton Highlands, Mass. Villa Ducale Litta, Venice, It. 3 rue du Faubourg St. Georges, Nancy, Fr. 45 Junkergasse, Bern, Swit. ...

46 Hereford St., Boston, Mass - Page 188
46 Hereford St., Boston, Mass. 17 Hallesohestrasse, Berlin, SW, 46, Ger. Lannoy, M. Delano de 104 W. 120th St., New York City, Lapsley, Anna W. ...

49 N. Eighth Ave., Mount Vernon, NY - Page 178
Buck, JH 49 N. Eighth Ave., Mount Vernon, NY Burchard, Dr. Georg 64 Stephanienstrasse, Karlsruhe, Baden, Oer. Bnrnham, Katharine Orange, Cal. ...

122 Waterman St., Providence, RI - Page 182
Fargo, ND 122 Waterman St., Providence, RI Frankfort-on-Main, Ger. Milwaukee, Wis. 58 Clark St., Glen Ridge, NJ Sch6okingeu, oberamt Leonberg in ...

58 Clark St., Glen Ridge, NJ - Page 182
58 Clark St., Glen Ridge, NJ Sch6okingeu, oberamt Leonberg in Wnrtemberg, Ger. New Brunswick, NJ ...

93 Fifth Ave., New York City, NY - Page 184
93 Fifth Ave., New York City, NY Sourdeval, Manohe, Fr. 5 St. Paul's, Canterbury, Eng. 5 rue des Tiercelins, Nancy, Fr. 7 Kenton Road, Hackney, Eng. ...

484 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI - Page 182
484 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI Kineton Cottage, Olton, Birmingham, Eng. 6 Elsftsserstrasse, Leipsio, Ger. Moore Abbey, Monasterevan, Ir. ...

27 Ellsworth Ave.,Cambridge, Mass - Page 184
27 Ellsworth Ave.,Cambridge, Mass. 697 Glenwood Ave., Cincinnati, O. 113 Potsdamerstrasse, Berlin, W., Ger. Festnng KOnigstein, a. E., Saxony, Ger. ...

Boston - Page 64
This artist was the first Boston engraver. He worked with his uncle in the printing business and there received his early training as an engraver. ...
more pages: 23 40 69 76 83 90 97 123

North Attleboro, Massachusetts - Page 95
French was induced by a manufacturer in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, to take 95.

Fargo, North Dakota - Page 95
Fargo, North Dakota. An artist who has more than the usual ability to produce original and dainty plates. Of the seventy designs bearing his signature ...
more pages: 182

Philadelphia - Page 83
An early American engraver who began his work in Boston and moved to Philadelphia in 1730, where most of his best work was accomplished. ...
more pages: 66 68 69 71 190

Saranac Lake, New York - Page 95
Saranac Lake, New York. Prevented by ill health from continuing his college course at Brown University, Mr. French was induced by a manufacturer in ...

Chicago - Page 119
4833 Lake Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Shaw is an artist architect, like so many of the artists already mentioned. He has made many of the plates of ...
more pages: 96 125 184 186 190 196

Sewanee, Tennessee - Page 115
Sewanee, Tennessee. Ospovat, Henry. London, England. One of the very few Russian artists making book-plates. Is best known as an illustrator of books ...
more pages: 190

London - Page 63
At the completion of his term of apprenticeship, he went to London and opened a shop for himself; but city life was hateful to him and in less than a ...
more pages: 23 62 73 88 93 112 135

Albany - Page 36
of Albany, who for more than twenty years had been his faithful friend, collected them and had them issued in an edition of 35 volumes. ...
more pages: 72

Oxford - Page 38
Appointed soon after his graduation from Oxford to have the charge of sending out clergymen to the colonies, he early learned how meager ...

New York - Page 69
One of his earliest plates is that of John Burnet, of New York, signed in full and dated 1754. He went to Philadelphia from New York and made plates ...
more pages: 44 60 68 78 81 96 131

New Haven - Page 69
Of New Haven,'Connecticut. This artist was born in Connecticut and was his own art master. He was famous for an engraving of " The Battle of Lexington ...
more pages: 186

Minneapolis - Page 90
Brown is an architect artist and was trained to his profession in the School of Fine Arts in Minneapolis, having been a pupil of Kobert Koehler, ...

Hartford, Connecticut - Page 171
of Charles Dexter Allen, of Hartford, Connecticut, who, although no longer a collector of book-plates, having sold two large collections, ...
more pages: 192

Granville, Ohio - Page 26
The center-piece represents her present summer home, "Wisteria Cottage," at Granville, Ohio, where she spends the non-resident quarter of her ...

Lisbon - Page 62
In 1802 he went to Lisbon, to take up his residence there as head of the National Academy. ...

Annapolis, Maryland - Page 39
and fully equipped eighty parochial libraries in England and thirty- nine in America, including the one started at Annapolis, Maryland, then numbering ...

Belfast - Page 133
Vinycomb settled in Belfast, as the designer of the firm of Messrs. Marcus Ward and Company. He is best known by the plate of Walter Besant,* which ...

Cleveland, Ohio - Page 112
672 East Prospect Street, Cleveland, Ohio. Marks, Henry Stacy. 5 Saint Edmund's Terrace, London, NW, England. A native of London and long one of its ...
more pages: 176

Zanesville, Ohio - Page 25
The upper circle represents "Merino Farm," on the road between Marietta and Zanesville, Ohio, so named for the large number of merino goats on the ...

Plainfield, New Jersey - Page 94
Plainfield, New Jersey. An American artist and creator of many book-plates. Mr. Edwards is a specialist in the field of book illustration and ...

Edinburgh - Page 168
Henderson Smith, of Edinburgh. Ex Libris-Club "Basilea."* Basle, Switzerland. This club exists for the purpose of good fellowship among the members ...

Marietta - Page 25
The upper circle represents "Merino Farm," on the road between Marietta and Zanesville, Ohio, so named for the large number of merino goats on the ...

York - Page 97
York, held in January of 1894, and excited much interest in ex-libris circles. It brought Mr. French his first order (outside his family circle), ...

Washington, DC - Page 178
Catholic University of Washington, DC America Cattle, Frederic Ravenswood, Heanor, Derbyshire, Eng. * The largest collection in the world. ...
more pages: 180 182 188

Tiverton, RI - Page 176
Tiverton, RI 4 Otis Place, Boston, Mass. 84 rue Judalque, Bordeaux, Fr. Adelaide, South Australia 39 blvd. de la Chapelle, Paris, Fr. ...

Providence, RI - Page 176
64 Avenue Road, Regent's Park, London, NW, Eng. Berlin, Germany Hanover, NH University. Place, New York City, NY 46 Cooke St., Providence, RI Agram, ...
more pages: 194

Brooklyn, NY - Page 196
28th St., Brooklyn, NY 14 gr. Klosterstrasse, Magdeburg, Ger. Elmhurst, 111. 107 Bishop St., Manchester, Eng. 303 Walnut St., Newtonville, Mass. ...
more pages: 180

Excelsior, Minn - Page 200
PO Box 832, Washington, DO 147 Franklin St., Boston, Mass. 14 Crofton Road, Peokham Road, SE, London, Eng. Plymouth, Eng. Bern, Swit. Excelsior, Minn. ...

Roxbury, Mass - Page 178
28 Akron St., Roxbury, Mass. Le Vallon, Guernsey, Eng. Stockholm, Sweden 27 Schillerstrasse, Stuttgart, Ger. Carnegie, Mrs. ...

Dorchester, Mass - Page 188
35 Allston St., Dorchester, Mass. PO Box 2068, Boston, Mass. 60 rue Conscience, Antwerp, Bel. 1726 Corcoran St.,Washington,DC St. ...

Flemington, NJ - Page 180
481 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY Hanover, NH II Alaunstrasse, Dresden, Ger. Myrtle Hill, Cork, Ir. Flemington, NJ 23 Wallstrasse, Charlottenburg, ...

Cincinnati, Ohio - Page 190
40 Lafayette Place, New York City, NY 2405 Auburn Ave., Cincinnati, 0. Sewanee, Tenn. Alais, Fr. 31 Comely Bank Road, Edinburgh, Soot. ...
more pages: 180

Williamstown, Mass - Page 192
45 Junkergasse, Bern, Swit. Alder Hill, Meanwood, Leeds, Eng. 419 Broadway, Milwaukee, Wis. Williamstown, Mass. 73 Grand rue, Villa 23, St. Gervais, ...

Derby, Conn - Page 194
Derby, Conn. Birkenhead, Eng. 540 King's Road, London, 8. W., Eng. War Dept., Washington, D. 0. 5003 McPherson Ave., St. Louis, Mo. z E. ...

Englewood, NJ - Page 188
1726 Corcoran St.,Washington,DC St. Maclou, rue Eugene-Dutuit, Rouen, Fr. Englewood, NJ 100 E. 17th St., New York City, NY 463 Town St., E., Columbus, ...

Hyde Park, Mass - Page 194
Neponset Ave.,Hyde Park, Mass. 698 Trnmbull Ave., Detroit, Mich. Vladimir, Russia 8 rue de PArsenal, Arras, Fr. Derby, Conn. Birkenhead, Eng. ...

Newtonville, Mass - Page 192
269 Lowell Ave., Newtonville, Mass. 17 Waterloo Place, Cork, Ir. Hameln-on-the-Weser, Hanover, Ger. Philadelphia, Pa. Kingston, Ulster Co., N. ¥. ...

Baltimore, Md - Page 194
Lexington St., Baltimore, Md. Knoll House, Frome, Somerset) Eng. 135 George St., Providence, RI 4 Gloucester Terrace, Regent's Park, London, NW, Eng. ...

East Aurora, NY - Page 186
East Aurora, NY 95-1V Amalienstrasse, Munich, Ger. 47 Lindenstrasse, Hamburg, Ger. South Lodge, Campden Hill, Lon-don, W., Eng. ...

St. Louis, Mo - Page 194
5003 McPherson Ave., St. Louis, Mo. z E. Lexington St., Baltimore, Md. Knoll House, Frome, Somerset) Eng. 135 George St., Providence, RI ...

Milwaukee, Wis - Page 182
Milwaukee, Wis. 58 Clark St., Glen Ridge, NJ Sch6okingeu, oberamt Leonberg in Wnrtemberg, Ger. New Brunswick, NJ ...
more pages: 192

Worcester, Mass - Page 190
Sewanee, Tenn. Alais, Fr. 31 Comely Bank Road, Edinburgh, Soot. 72 Elm St., Worcester, Mass. 95-IY Amalienstrasse, Munich, Ger. ...

Nottingham - Page 199
Nottingham. German. Engraved. American. Russian. EDFrench. Celebrities. Heraldic. Spenceley. None. Armorial. Early Amer. Alphabet ...

Richmond, Va - Page 178
1 Sohwerinstra88e,Berlin,W., 30,Qer. 68 rue Pierre Charron, 8me, Paris, Fr. London, Eng. 517 W. Marshall St., Richmond, Va. 9 Park St., Boston, Mass. ...

Lowell, Mass - Page 180
48 Wanalancit St., Lowell, Mass. 481 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY Hanover, NH II Alaunstrasse, Dresden, Ger. Myrtle Hill, Cork, Ir. ...

Prescott, Wa - Page 213
106, 192-3 Portraits, 160 Potts, John L., 192-3 Poulet-Malassis, 59 Powell, Douglas, 112 Powell, JC, Ill Pratt, John SA, 99 Prescott, Wa. ...

Detroit, Mich - Page 194
698 Trnmbull Ave., Detroit, Mich. Vladimir, Russia 8 rue de PArsenal, Arras, Fr. Derby, Conn. Birkenhead, Eng. 540 King's Road, London, 8. W., Eng. ...

New Brunswick, NJ - Page 182
RI Frankfort-on-Main, Ger. Milwaukee, Wis. 58 Clark St., Glen Ridge, NJ Sch6okingeu, oberamt Leonberg in Wnrtemberg, Ger. New Brunswick, NJ ...

Laramie, Wyoming - Page 186
Laramie, Wyoming 4 Hamilton PI., Boston, Mass. 3 Schillstrasse, Berlin, W., Ger. 3 qnai St. Thomas, Strnsburg, Ger. 1054 Walnut St., Newton High-lands ...

Rochester, NY - Page 182
Rochester, NY 50 Kestrel Ave., Herne Hill, London, Eng. Saugatnck, Conn. Tan-y-bryn, Aberystwith, Eng. Dflsseldorf, Ger. Fargo, ND 122 Waterman St., ...

208 W. 45th St., New York City, NY - Page 188
Address. Kyle, Dr. James O. 208 W. 45th St., New York City, NY ...

Manila - Page 30
Ohio Memorial Alcove, Manila, 1902. The Ohio Memorial Gift Plate of the Columbus Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to the American ...
more pages: 31 33

Paris - Page 156
Joly, and issued from Paris, this style of book-plate has been chiefly exploited. Landscape. Usually seen in combination with 156.
more pages: 37 50 89 97 102 159

Venice - Page 62
He spent six years of preparatory study in Venice under the famous Wagner. In 1764 he went to London, where he made a great success of his work, ...

Rome - Page 121
Mr. Sherborn began his work as engraver of art jewelry. He worked in Paris, Switzerland, Florence, and Rome, in which ...

Munich - Page 17
One copy of this plate has been valued by its owner, Ludwig Rosenthal, of Munich, at £30.* But plates are also valuable and interesting from the fact ...

Berlin - Page 195
Berlin. None. H. Provence. Cheshire. Proofs. Early. American. Ladies. Spenceley. Old Armorial. Scotch. None. Libraries ...