Dated book-plates (Ex libris) with a treatise on their origin and development (1895)
Hamilton, Walter, 1844-1899 · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 126
book-plates about1745 or 1750. He was a neat artist in theearly, and hardly developed, Chippendalestyle, and in a curious arabesque fashion ofhis own. He did not date his Ex Libris,some fourteen of which are here catalogued.I know of no particulars respecting Moun-taines life. When the above… … engraved by Robert Mountaine for himself;it has the monogram R.M. in the centre, is signed R.M., and is a typical example of hissomewhat scratchy but graceful style. Al-though not dated, a reproduction of it isgiven; as if my conjecture as to its ownershipshould prove correct, the plate is indeed…
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