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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 168

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 168
, thepreponderance of the Ribbon and Wreath stylein his designs goes to show that his work datedtowards the close of the century. His plates in this style are very light andgraceful, with no overloading; and a faithful useof the usual features of the style is apparent. In the Russell plate he was… … i^//u/a^ ty/MifeZ/f ^aiUfOvt^f 125 126 American Book-plates. ribbon and festooning are very similar, while theview within the oval frame is, of course, adaptedto the use of the books of the respective societies.Callender would seem by these signs to havebeen a lazy engraver, or to have considered…

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