Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Ladies' book-plates: an illustrated handbook for collectors and book-lovers
Other Name
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
George Bell & Sons
Place
Date
1895
Physical Description
xiv, 358 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 19 cm
Collection
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Provenance Details
"To my dearest son P.N. Barnett from his loving Mother" handwritten in ink on front endpaper.
Content
1. English ladies' dated plates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
2. Women bibliophiles
3. Undated ladies' plates
4. Women's heraldry
5. Ladies book-plates by modern designers
6. Lady designers
7. Mottoes on ladies' plates
8. Foreign ladies' book-plates
9. Joint book-plates
Alphabetical lists:
1. English ladies' plates
2. Foreign ladies' plates
3. Joint plates
List of separate plates.
-Ex-Libris of H.R.H. The Princess of Teck; from the copper-plate by C.W. Sherborn
-Ex-Libris of the Countess of Pomfret. Reproduced in facsimile
-Ex-Libris of B Bagge. From the copper-plate of B. Bagge
-Ex-Libris of Katherine Cameron. From the etched plate by D.Y. Cameron
-Ex-Libris of Ethel Selina Clulow. From the etched plate by Edward Slocombe
-Ex-Libris of Blanche Hoskyns. From the etched plate by W. Monk
-Ex-Libris of Lena Milman. From the etched plate
-Ex-Libris of Alice S. Northcote. From the copper-plate of C.W. Sherborn
-Ex-Libris of Ilse Warnecke. A lithograph by Joseph Sattler
-Ex-Libris of Margaret White. From the copper-plate of C.W. Sherborn
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Bookplates as Topic history; Bookplates--Women]
Has two bookplates: Alice S. Northcote on inside front cover and P. Neville Barnett on front endpaper. Includes index, pages 354-358. See link to American edition in the Internet Archive.
Associated Notes
Collection Type
Reserve Collection
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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