Weitenkampf, Frank · Henry Holt and Company · leaf 348
ous value to the books to be auctioned off.Like William Penns, it was presumably engraved inEngland. Allen notes that in the Southern colonies,many men of cultivated tastes had their plates engravedin England, while in the North native talent was gener-ally engaged. John A. Gade, in Book-plates—old… … Book Plate of George Washington THE BOOK-PLATE 253 woodcut was used. But the pictorial element also began to appear, to the extent of rows or piles of hooks, and theallegorical as well. Patriotism found vent in the em-ployment of the American Bag or the eagle, and T. Spar-row, in each of his few…
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