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 39
fji^mri/fiycda services in the Revolution he has known of fromhis schooldays; — let him see these and scoresmore of similar interest, and he cannot fail torespond to the enthusiasm of their owner. Butindeed it is a pursuit, the delights of which arediscernible to those only who bring to it… … F all forms of book-plates thesimplest possible is the printedname of the owner, unaccom-panied by either motto, device,or ornamentation of any kind.Such a plate had Philip Houc,one of the founders of theMercantile Library, and inthe early twenties a mayor ofthe city of New York. His plate is…
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