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 44
signs, — areusually found to be printed on good white hand-made paper, which was seldom trimmed with care; Name-labels and Mottoes. 19 occasionally a tinted paper is found, — yellowmore often than any other, but sometimes a blueor green; these served the less pretentious of ourancestors in lieu of… … In making up these ornamental borders thetype was usually set in the form of a parallelo-gram, occasionally in a square, oval, circle, ordiamond, and seldom in fanciful shapes. The mostambitious plate of this kind which has comeunder my observation is that which once gracedthe books of Mary…
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