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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 77

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be regarded as in a way an evolution from theJacobean. If the parent was dignified and con-servative, the offspring was dainty and progressive;the Jacobean style maintained its dignity and 48 American Book-plates. decorous nicety to the end, but the Chippendale,which started in with a taking air of… … sank into a wild, riotous, and well-nigh sensuousprofusion of decorative expression, which beingtoo heavy for it to sustain, bore it down to its end.The character of the Chippendale plate, while at-tractive and beautiful in its pure form, had essentialelements of weakness, which, hardly able to…

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