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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 45

An illustration from 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, leaf 45
graphi-cal examples are those which employ a woodcut 20 American Book-plates. border to surround the name, and instances canbe giv^en of such a border enclosing the nameprinted from type; festoons of flowers or of cord,and draperies of cloth, were also used as a simplesetting for the owners name.… … to the simple woodcut designs of which but asmall number are known. Always using a bor-der of floriated scrolls, he never omitted an origi-nal contrivance which is the characteristic markof his work, —a group of thirteen stars surroundedoften by a wreath. This is always found in aprominent place,…

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