Dated book-plates (Ex libris) with a treatise on their origin and development (1895)
Hamilton, Walter, 1844-1899 · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 49
y so well defined,nor so easily recognised, as they are inEnglish plates by the simple terms Jacobean,Chippendale, etc. French military plates are often decoratedwith flags, cannons, and other warlike tro-phies, but book-piles and library interiorsare somewhat uncommon, as are also earlyplates… … FRENCH EX LIBRIS. 33 Another, of greater interest, is that of the famous critic, the Abbe Desfontaines (1685-1745), a fine engraving by Schmit, after Tocqu6, representing Petr. Fr. Guyot Desfontaines presb. Rothomag., with the following lines: Diiin te Phcebus amat scribaitcm, Mavius odit,Et…
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