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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 63

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 63
ocratsand the churchmen only, and consequently whenhandwriting was not in use among the people,families were distinguished by emblems whichwere known of all. These heraldic devices werepainted on their shields, carved upon their walls, 35 36 American Book-plates. engraved upon their breast-plates,… … )^mey at Law, iu^W^iia)^ ornamental and ephemeral luxuries came to beadorned with the family coat-of-arms. The armorial bearings, stamped upon the backor sides of a book, or printed upon paper andpasted within the cover, were sufficient, withouta name, to identify the family to which it be-longed.…

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