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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 26

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work of these native artisans, who weremostly self-taught in this art of engraving oncopper, is confessedly inferior to that of the Lon- Introductory. c don experts found upon the Southern plates, bothin drawing and execution, but their work is ofmore value to the collector from this very factof… … practised when the demand for the book-platearose, so that there were skilful men ready to turntheir attention to this new branch of their art. The War of the Revolution naturally affectedthe native production of book-plates, but a fewyears after its close, when Boston, New York, andPhiladelphia…

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