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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 144

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^ pleas-ing and intelligent features, and wearing a cap,white neck-cloth, and clothes of a pattern whichgive him a decidedly clerical appearance. The only book-plate work mentioned in thisarticle is the large plate for Harvard College. Itis said that the prints done in red ink were foruse in the… … Early American Engravers. 105 Dr. Sewell of the Old South Church, done in1764, and a few other examples of his art arementioned. He is (probably inaccurately) claimedto be the first person who undertook to engraveon copper in the United States. He was a man ofnatural talent and real genius, was…

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