Some American College Bookplates: A Presentation of Plates, Old and New, Used by Educational Institutions, Individuals, Fraternities and Clubs, to which are Added Those of a Few Learned SocietiesChamplin Press, 1915 - 482 pages |
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... HISTORICAL SOCIETY . THE CHAMPLIN PRESS .. PRINTS FROM REPRODUCTIONS 398 399 BROWN UNIVERSITY , Ives ..... BROWN UNIVERSITY , CLASS OF '86 .. BROWN UNIVERSITY , CORTHELL BROWN UNIVERSITY , DICKERMAN . OPPOSITE PAGE 51 81 .... 209 482 ...
... HISTORICAL SOCIETY . THE CHAMPLIN PRESS .. PRINTS FROM REPRODUCTIONS 398 399 BROWN UNIVERSITY , Ives ..... BROWN UNIVERSITY , CLASS OF '86 .. BROWN UNIVERSITY , CORTHELL BROWN UNIVERSITY , DICKERMAN . OPPOSITE PAGE 51 81 .... 209 482 ...
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... HISTORICAL INTEREST . - Something of the history of engraving and the arts of illustration is sure to be imbibed by those who dip into the history of book plates . Even if one only learns to distinguish between a copper plate and a ...
... HISTORICAL INTEREST . - Something of the history of engraving and the arts of illustration is sure to be imbibed by those who dip into the history of book plates . Even if one only learns to distinguish between a copper plate and a ...
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... history of a particular style of engraving or design , or otherwise throw light on the book it adorns . 5. ARTISTIC INTEREST . - Dürer , Holbein , Lucas Cranach the younger , Piranesi , Bartolozzi , Hogarth and Bewick , among the old ...
... history of a particular style of engraving or design , or otherwise throw light on the book it adorns . 5. ARTISTIC INTEREST . - Dürer , Holbein , Lucas Cranach the younger , Piranesi , Bartolozzi , Hogarth and Bewick , among the old ...
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... history of the owner within its small compass that at a glance it is evident to all that he glories in golf , has a regard for roses , rides a wheel , esteems Omar Khayyam very highly , reads Scott and Lowell , can quote Shake- speare ...
... history of the owner within its small compass that at a glance it is evident to all that he glories in golf , has a regard for roses , rides a wheel , esteems Omar Khayyam very highly , reads Scott and Lowell , can quote Shake- speare ...
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... history and character of the in- stitutional library which it is to adorn . In the remarkable array of reproductions which Major Ward has brought together under these covers a distinct contribution has been made to the litera- ture of ...
... history and character of the in- stitutional library which it is to adorn . In the remarkable array of reproductions which Major Ward has brought together under these covers a distinct contribution has been made to the litera- ture of ...
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A. W. Clark Alfred armorial Arthur artist Assistant Librarian book plate Bookplate Collection bookplate was designed Bookplates Bookplates of Princeton Boston BOWDOIN COLLEGE BROWN UNIVERSITY Catalogue Champlin Press Chicago Class Cleveland coat of arms collection of A. W. collectors COLLEGE LIBRARY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Columbus d'Ex-Libris DARTMOUTH Designed and engraved E. D. French Edit Edward Edwin Davis French etching Ex-Libris Extr Frederick fund George GIFT Grolier Club Harvard College HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge HENRY Heraldic HISTORICAL SOCIETY History Hopson INSTITUTE Iowa J. W. Spenceley jewels John Kansas KOCH Lawrence Librarian Libris London Maçon Marietta College Mass Massachusetts Memorial Library motto Museum NICKELS CARVER Ohio State University original Paris Pennsylvania presented President Princeton and Princetonians printed Protat Frères PUBLIC LIBRARY reproduction School seal shield Smith THERESE HILL Troutsdale Press UNIVERSITY CLUB University Library VASSAR COLLEGE VERITAS volumes Washington WILLIAM Winfred Spenceley Yale York City
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Page 18 - I'm not one of those selfish elves Who keep their treasures to themselves. I like to see them kept quite neat, But not for moth or worm to eat. Thus willingly to any friend A book of mine I'll freely lend Hoping they'll mind this good old mean, Return it soon and keep it clean. We have seen that the use of a book plate is no modern fad, though the collecting of the book plates is of comparatively recent origin. Various interests center around book plates. These might be listed as follows: i.
Page 368 - Engineers, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Page 17 - If thou art borrowed by a friend, Right welcome shall he be To read, to study, not to lend, But to return to me. Not that imparted knowledge doth Diminish learning's store; But books, I find, if often lent, Return to me no more. Sometimes there was appended the following advice and caution: Read slowly, pause frequently, Think seriously, Keep cleanly, return duly, With the corners of the leaves not turned down.
Page 17 - Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go; keep her, for she is thy life.
Page 426 - Essai de repertoire des Ex-Libris et Fers de Reliure des bibliophiles Lorrains.
Page 420 - The Bewick collector. A descriptive catalogue of the works of Thomas and John Bewick; including cuts, in various states, for books and pamphlets, private gentlemen, public companies, [etc.]... and wood blocks. With an appendix of portraits, autographs, works of pupils... London: L. Reeve & Co., 1866. xxiii, 562 p., 1 pl. 1 port. 4".
Page 13 - ... interest in collecting book plates. A writer in the London Daily News stirred up a "tempest in a tea-pot" some twenty years ago by an article entitled "The Burden of Book Plates." "Let infancy frolic and senile fatuity count its two-penny treasures," said this scribe, "but why, of all things, collect book plates ? Are there not door-knockers which a man may collect, or visiting cards of all ages, or muffin bells, or old books, or political walking sticks, or the decayed hairbrushes of celebrities,...
Page 386 - The Vermont Gazette or Green Mountain Post Boy, the first newspaper published in Vermont.
Page 29 - There was once a man — a real man, vigorous, wealthy and powerful. He loved his wife greatly, for she, wise, loyal, devoted, was worthy of such love. And because among all the crystals in all the world the diamond is the hardest and sparkles the brightest, and because the ruby is most charming, and the emerald gentlest — the man bought gifts of these all for his wife.
Page 152 - ... Chemistry. On the right hand side of the street, the large red structure on the campus is the General Library Building, erected in 1891, and the Duhring Memorial Stack, erected in 1915. It contains more than 500,000 volumes, among which are many notable and rare collections of books; one of these is the "Memorial Library of the Publications of the University of Pennsylvania and Her Sons," which contains several thousand volumes of writings by University of Pennsylvania men.