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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 78

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; that book wasthe Bible. For Theophile Gautier, iM. Bouvenne inventeda plate in the form of an Egyptian symbol, withwhich the great aristarch must have been delighted.It represents a sort of temple dedicated to Isis,the pediment bearing the monogram of the authorof the Roman de la Momie. It is of… … BY AGLAUS BOUVENNE 51 French Book-plates the Parnassian rhymer. On behalf of Chanip-fleury, one of the leading lights of realistic litera-ture, Kouvenne designed a species of landscapescene, with a high hedge in the foreground, screen-ing a mirror—the Mirror of Truth. Bouvenne iseminently…

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