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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
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Dc .53
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Charles Dexter, 1865-1926.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bookplates, American.
- Bookplates--Bibliography.
- Bookplates.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 437 p. plates, facisms. 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, The Macmillan company, 1905.
- 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"])
- Notes:
- A cheaper reissue of the first edition printed in 1894.
- OCLC:
- 36602280
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