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 79
y, but rising free and unrestrained, therose branches and sprigs seem to be copied fromNature herself; not arranged with careful nicetyand labored uniformity as formerly, but springingfrom any convenient niche, they add grace anddelicacy to the whole design. The helmet is seldom 50 American… … freer, and less imposing; the shield is never foundof any set rectangular pattern, but often is pear-shaped, shell-like in form, or indeed not unlike theoyster or the human ear in general outline; thescallop shell which formerly serv^ed as a base forthe shield to rest on, is now broken into dainty…
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