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 408
pports theworld of letters. Litterae is inscribed upon theimmense globe which rests upon his shoulders. Two children of the forest, a boy and a girl,with flowing hair and meagre garments, come A Few Recent Examples. 355 towards us in the plate of A. L. Hollingsiuorth,of Boston, bearing between them… … sentiment. So thick, indeed, is the tangle ofbrush, that the loss of their clothes must be laidto their passage through it. In the plate of Dr. George L. Parmelee, ofHartford, a herald in court costume is proclaim-ing, through his long trumpet, the loss of a book.The banner hanging from the horn…
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