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 78
ctive and beautiful in its pure form, had essentialelements of weakness, which, hardly able to resistdevelopment, were certain to cause its downfall. Armorial Book-plates. 49 As is natural to suppose, the name was bestowedupon this style because of its assimilation of theornate and liowery spirit… … !NfylesCooperZZZ>CollRegisNovEborinAnericaJtefes^etCoHRegina? deOson-Sociussci liberating of the decorative features from the stiff-ness which thralled them in the Jacobean. Notnow resembling ponderous carvings in oak andmahogany, but rising free and unrestrained, therose branches and sprigs…
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