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 66
his the mantling, running out beyondthe edges of the shield, curls both upward anddownward, and conipletely envelops three sides; Armorial Book-plates. 39 the design takes on a strong resemblance to oakleaves, and a single leaf of this is engraved uponthe helmet: the background, or space… … In the plate of The Honourable Wm. Car-michael, Esqr., the mantling is not so completelytransformed into the oak-leaf design, although thelatter is here apparent. The plate oijcr. Dtinimer,Anglus Amcricanus is peculiar in that the spaceenclosed by the scroll-work is lined with the solidbrick wall…
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