... Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Book-plates and Super-libros: Held by the Club of Odd Volumes, at the Museum of Fine Arts, April 25th to June 5th, 1898. Illustrated with Reproductions of the Pirckheimer Book-plate by Dürer, Rare Old American Plates by Jos. Callender, Henry Dawkins, Amos Doolittle. N. Hurd, P. R. Maverick, Paul Revere and Jas. Turner, the Plate of the Club of Odd Volumes, by E. D. French, and the Gaffield Gift Plate of the Museum of Fine Arts, by W. H. W. Bicknell

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Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, 1898 - 189 páginas

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Página 152 - ... 261 Queen Anne. (1702-14.) Kennett, Basil. An Essay towards a Paraphrase on the Psalms, in English Verse. London, 1706. 12° superbly bound in old English red morocco elaborately tooled and gilt. Ten Royal monograms and crowns in gilt on the covers. Given by the Queen to the Duchess of Marlborough, and from the private collection of the late Duchess, Blenheim Palace, with her book-plate. 262 George II. (1727-60.) Remembrances for Order and Decency to be kept in the Vpper House of Parliam' by...
Página 157 - ALLEN (CHARLES DEXTER). American Book-Plates, a Guide to their Study, with Examples. With a Bibliography by Eben N. Hewins. Illustrated. New York, 1894. Together, 2 vols".
Página 153 - The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments ' and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches ; and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.
Página 158 - Malassis, A. Les Ex-Libris Français, depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours. Nouvelle édition revue très-augmentée et ornée de vingt-quatre planches. Paris, 1875.
Página xxiv - Attending at the Committee of the Navy about the old business of tickets, where the only expedient they have found is to bind the Commanders and Officers by oaths. The Duke of York told me how the Duke of Buckingham, after...
Página xv - ... expression." This is no doubt true to some extent. We do not find in Durer's art the classic ideal of the perfection of man's physical nature, nor the spiritual ideal of the early religious painters, nor the calm dignity and rich sensuous beauty of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance, but in it we find a noble expression of the German mind, with its high intellectual powers, its daring speculative philosophy, its deep-seated reverence, its patient laboriousness, and its love for the...
Página 158 - Dated Book-Plates (ex-libris), with a Treatise on their Origin and Development. In three parts, with about 100 illustrations.
Página xxv - The Design of this proposal is an useful and necessary embellishment, and a remedy against losing books by lending, or having them stolen : by pasting one print on the inside of the cover of each book, you have the owner's name, coat of arms, and place of abode; a thing so useful, and the charge so easy, 'tis hoped will meet with encouragement. " To have a Plate engraved will cost 10s. 6d. — NB At Mr. Parker's Cockpit on the 15th inst. will be fought a Welsh Main, for a pretty piece of work worthy...
Página i - Catalogue of a loan exhibition of book-plates and super-libros, held by the Club of Odd Volumes at the Museum ...April 25th to June 5th, 1898.
Página xix - ... are collected, exhibited, written of, and talked about. What is known as the " Early English " style is chiefly characterized by the arrangement of the mantling, which usually is made to envelop the shield of arms, spreading out at the sides like a mass of foliage. These plates were in use previous to the eighteenth century.

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