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American book-plates, a guide to their study with examples ... With a bibliography by Eben Hewins ... Illustrated with many reproductions of rare and interesting book-plates and in the finer editions with many prints from the original coppers both old and recent (1905)

Allen, Charles Dexter, 1865-1926, Norwood Press. (1905) bkp CU-BANC, Hewins, Eben Newell · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 141

An illustration from American book-plates, a guide to their study with examples ... With a bibliography by Eben Hewins ... Illustrated with many reproductions of rare and interesting book-plates and in the finer editions with many prints from the original coppers both old and recent, 1905, leaf 141
th the palm and cypresstrees on the hillside. This plate is produced ina new manner, being a gelatine print or half-tonedirect from the pencil sketch. It preserves a verysoft and pleasant effect; indeed, one feels sure itwill smirch if rubbed. Laurence Hiittou in his plate places a full-length… … The name of the owner is given on a ribbon atthe bottom of the design. The books of the lamented actors, Ediuin Boothand Lawrence Barrett^ were marked with book-pLites, the former using a plain armorial with noname engraved upon it, and the latter showingthe mask of Tragedy upon an open volume,…

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