Dated book-plates (Ex libris) with a treatise on their origin and development (1895)
Hamilton, Walter, 1844-1899 · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 129
ENTH CENTURY. 93 Under the year 1710 mention will befound of an armorial plate belonging to theRev. Rowland Davies. Now this was simplya nameless armorial plate, set in an earlyJacobean framework, belonging to thatreverend gentleman, which came into the this is wholly fictitious ; he tells me that… … /dtthj^ huh. Us possession of Mr. Robert Day, of Cork, whohad the inscription engraved beneath thearms, and a certain number of copies struckoff for his friends. As the plate gives thedate of the death of the Rev. Mr. Davies in1721, aged 82, it is of course obvious thatthe inscription was an…
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