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 36
it was pasted, but it is done daily. Surelyno one can find fault with this — a skilful opera-tion resulting satisfactorily to the plate-collectorand to the book-owner. Introductory. 13 Again, no intelligent book-plate collector willseparate the plate of a famous man from thebook which has been its… … thither, plate and all, save for his discriminatingeye, while a valuable book no one would think ofdespoiling. Would an intelligent collector, hav-ing a book from the library of George Washington,with his plate upon the cover and his autographin its accustomed place, think of soaking off tlieplate…
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