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 423
not constitute a real pictorial plate. One of thefinest examples is the plate of E. G. Asay, ofChicago. In this we find ourselves intrudingupon the councils of the Muses; for we see Artseated upon a throne, with the palette and brushesidle in her lap, while about her, in gracefulmanner, recline… … record. Art likewise gives interested attention tothe recital; and Literature, with her book closed,leans upon the convenient globe, and listens. Wholly different is the plate of Allen Wallace.In this, one of the Naiadee reclines upon the over-
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