The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer (Volume 2) (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer. Bote on OEnglisD TBoofe'-Piate0. No. II. (See Vol. I. page 173.) S one who studies and collects book-plates, I should like to add a few notes on the above subject. Although only a beginner and an amateur, I have in my wanderings accumulated a goodly stock. I think to the student of heraldry and genealogy, book-plates are as interesting and valuable as the escutcheons on old church brasses and monuments. How many cases there are in which we should not have known to whom a book had once belonged, if it had not been that it contained an old plate with the arms of the owner inside its cover, although unaccompanied by any name or any other clue. I have in my possession several plates that bear on them only the arms of their owners, without either motto or name. Then, again, book-plates are valuable as in some instances they have become the only reliable examples of the arms of a family or an individual. Then there comes into account the pleasure of hunting and collecting them. How many happy half-hours has one spent among the second-hand bookshops and stalls of London and the country, looking over old volumes in search of them The favour of communications on this subject from other collectors is invited.--ed. A. M. & B. VoL. 11.--No. 8. f I have bought books for the sake of the book-plates which they contain; one of my best I bought in a " sixpenny lot;" among them was a French edition of the Odyssey of Homer, which contained the plate of Sir Thomas Gerard, of Bryn, Lancashire, in the beautiful Chippendale style, and dated 1750. Among my collection I have not many early, dated book-plates, although I have early specimens, for, judged by the engraving and the owners' names, some of them must date from early in the eig...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer. Bote on OEnglisD TBoofe'-Piate0. No. II. (See Vol. I. page 173.) S one who studies and collects book-plates, I should like to add a few notes on the above subject. Although only a beginner and an amateur, I have in my wanderings accumulated a goodly stock. I think to the student of heraldry and genealogy, book-plates are as interesting and valuable as the escutcheons on old church brasses and monuments. How many cases there are in which we should not have known to whom a book had once belonged, if it had not been that it contained an old plate with the arms of the owner inside its cover, although unaccompanied by any name or any other clue. I have in my possession several plates that bear on them only the arms of their owners, without either motto or name. Then, again, book-plates are valuable as in some instances they have become the only reliable examples of the arms of a family or an individual. Then there comes into account the pleasure of hunting and collecting them. How many happy half-hours has one spent among the second-hand bookshops and stalls of London and the country, looking over old volumes in search of them The favour of communications on this subject from other collectors is invited.--ed. A. M. & B. VoL. 11.--No. 8. f I have bought books for the sake of the book-plates which they contain; one of my best I bought in a " sixpenny lot;" among them was a French edition of the Odyssey of Homer, which contained the plate of Sir Thomas Gerard, of Bryn, Lancashire, in the beautiful Chippendale style, and dated 1750. Among my collection I have not many early, dated book-plates, although I have early specimens, for, judged by the engraving and the owners' names, some of them must date from early in the eig...

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General Books LLC

Country of origin

United States

Release date

2012

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First published

2012

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Dimensions

246 x 189 x 9mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

164

ISBN-13

978-1-153-87733-6

Barcode

9781153877336

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1-153-87733-3



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