Weitenkampf, Frank, 1866-1962 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 368
a, Diana,Clio, lamps of knowledge, age guiding youth to the templeof learning, temples of honor, and similar devices add theforce of their pictorial lesson. For the New York So-ciety Library a conception representing an Indian rever-ently receiving a volume from the hands of Minerva,was twice… … Book Plate of George Washington THE BOOK-PLATE 295 female with a cornucopia. And for an orphan asylumL. Simond designed, and Leney engraved, a picture ofChrist blessing children. Among the private individuals who used similar em-blematic ideas in their book-plates were Bloomfield Mc-Ilvaine (J. H.…
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