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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 88

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Annorial Book-plates. 55 shaped, is not set against a background, and hasabsolutely no carved work about it; the shieldis often unsupported, but is sometimes hung byribbons or festoons from wall-pins above; thedecoration, as the name suggests, consists princi- … pally of ribbons, and wreathing in various forms.At the present day we use in our wall-paper,upholstery, and wood-carving on furniture andmantels, and even on outside cornices, a certainform of orarland or festoon tied with ribbon whichwe call Colonial; in a general way this re- 56 American…

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