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 Societies

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Champlin Press, 1915 - 482 pages

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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.

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