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Stone, Wilbur Macey, Heritage Book Shop (Los Angeles, Calif.), former owner. CLUW · 1902 · New York : Tonnelé & Company · 86 pictures

A survey of contemporary American and British bookplate design compiled by Wilbur Macey Stone and issued by Tonnel\u00e9 & Company in New York in 1902, addressed to collectors, printers and private book owners. The plates are small black-and-white line blocks: reading women in Pre-Raphaelite dress, owls, ships and candles set in framed roundels, with flowering trees, ribbons, stylised rose borders and hand-lettered EX LIBRIS panels left blank or filled with a name.

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