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Modern book-plates and their designers (1898)

White, Gleeson, 1851-1898, Uzanne, Octave, 1852-1931, Carré, Jean, Singer, Hans Wolfgang, b. 1867, Schölermann, Wilhelm, 1865-1923, Khnopff, Fernand, 1858-1921 · [London : The Studio · leaf 77

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ouquindesecrated by the pencil of one of these beardeddraughtsmen, who were introducing here, there,and everywhere the note of grim and mysticfatalism. It is for this reason that the genuine Romantic book-plate is so scarce. Some few there are to be found which expressthe feeling of the moment—such… … and Aldindespised50 es and other rarities, Gothic and Latin,the Romantic movement, belittled ANONYMOUS things were produced in a flabby style of heavylithography, with neither art nor taste to redeemit. None of them deserves special mention ; in-deed, many seem to belong to the category of fancy…

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