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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 80

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 80
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… … ^^j-J!fi©A\v3crAW.lnv: tt »^cuip.^^2j>>, In its highest development the Chippendaleplate is a beautiful piece of work; the richness ofits curves, its plentitude of graceful scrolls, itsprofusion of roses in garlands or on the stem, and•the elaborate detail noticeable in all its parts, 52…

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