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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 90

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in the work of those artists whose studyof early authorities has imposed plain limitationsupon their range of invention. As time goes on results more obviously indi-vidual may be expected from America. Theworship of unsuitable archaisms will be aban-doned, and for the purely artificial respect for… … BY H.^NS THOMA itself, and a style probably quite unlike that whichis characteristic of European work will be de-veloped. At present American book-plates arenothing more than hints of what is ultimately tobe expected ; they show the manner in which thenative designers are feeling their way towards…

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