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Book-Plates By W. J. H ardy,
f.s.a.
London Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner dr5 Co., Ltd. M D C C C X C III
P re fa c e HAVING vindicated in my introductory chapter the practice of collecting book-plates from the charge of flagrant immorality, I do not think it necessary to spend many words in demonstrating that it is in every way a worthy and reasonable pursuit, and one which fully deserves to be made the subject of a special treatise in a series of Books about Books, If need were, the Editor of the series, who asked me to write this little hand-book, would perhaps kindly accept his share of responsibility, but in the face of the existence of a flourishing ‘ex libris ’ Society, the importance of the book-plate as an object of collection may almost be taken as axiomatic. My own interest in this particular hobby is of long standing, and happily the appearance, when my manuscript was already at the printer’s, of Mr. Egerton Castle’s pleasantly written and profusely illustrated work on English Book-Plates has relieved me of the dreaded necessity of writing an additional chapter on those modern examples, in treating of
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I.
INTRODUCTORY. BOOK-PLATE collecting, at least in this country, is
a thing of yesterday. On the Continent, particularly in France, it attracted attention sufficiently serious to induce the publication, in 1874, of a little monograph by M. Poulet Malassis, which in the next year ob tained the honours of a second edition. In England, prior to 1880, we had no work devoted to the study ; but, in that year, the Honourab le J. Leicester-Warren —now Lord de Tabley—published A Guide to the Study of Book-Plates {Ex Libris). How little was then generally known about these marks of owner ship is shown by the allusions to them—very few in number—that find place in the pages of such publica tions as The Gentleman's Magazine or Notes and Queries: for that reason, the skilful handling of the subject by Lord de Tabley, and his zeal in compiling the treatise, arc all the more conspicuous. A
C H A P T E R II. TH E EARLY USE OF BOOK-PL ATES IN ENGLAND .
I n a short paper, which in 1882 I contributed to the Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer, I wrote this passage:—‘ It is difficult to believe that the general use of book-plates should have been a hundred and fifty years in reaching this country from the Continen t; and yet there is rather more difference than that between the date on the earliestknown German example (1516) and the time when English-d ated specimens appear at all plentifully. Surely the many English men of letters who amassed large libraries in the sixteenth century, and the first half of the seventeenth, must have possessed book - plates ; and yet, where are their book-plates now? ‘ Many, no doubt, have perished with the bindings in which they were fastened, but some are doubtless still e x ta n t; and we may yet hope that, when the interest in these labels becomes more widely diffused, more than one or two specimens will be brought to light, bearing an engraved date sufficiently early to dispel the idea that this country was a century and a half behind its German neighbours in the general practice of using book-plates.’ 18
The E a rly Use o f Book-Plates in E ngland 19 Mr. Daniel Parsons, who may be properly called the father of book-plate literature,—his contribution, in 1837, to ‘ The Third Annual Report of the Oxford University Archaeological and Heraldic Society,’ was certainly the first paper on the subject that ever appeared,—com mented on this hope of mine in the number of the same magazine issued in the following January, and was despondent as to evidence being forthcoming to prove the early use of book-plates in England. Well, in that I expressed the belief that investiga tion would bring to light a number of sixteenth and seventeenth century dated book-plates, I was perhaps wrong—early English dated book-plates have not been found in anything approaching plenty; but I was also wrong in suggesting that proof of the early use of book-plates in this country could only be proved by dated examples; the existence of examples which, from internal evidence, are proved to be of early date, is really equally valuable; and as these have certainly come to light in considerable numbers, I think a good case has been made out on behalf of our fellow-countrym en. I do not pretend that early English plates are so plentiful as early German ones. Many individual specimens are known to e x is t; but there are very few that are recorded as existing in more than a few collections, and some are unique. From some cause or other, early English book-plates are a rarity ; and I propose, therefore, to speak individually of the
C H A P T E R III. 1 STY LES’
IN ENGLISH BOOK-PLATES.
L ord de T abley has given us names for nearly all the styles met with in English book plates, and it is perhaps better to accept these descriptions in the present work, adding to them another—‘ Simple Armorial ’—for the earliest plates, and, indeed, for the great majority of those anterior to 1720. It is not only in book-plates that we see this style adopted : it is used in almost every representation of shields of arms in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, be it on a memorial brass, in sculpture, or on a stained glass window. The style is simple and effective. The shield, nearly always symmetrical, is surmounted by a helmet, on which is the wreath and crest. From the helmet is outspread more or less voluminous mantling. In the earlier examples this terminates, generally in tassels, before reaching the base of the shield. In later examples its heavy folds descend quite to the base, and often ascend upwards from the helmet to the level of the top of the crest. Below the shield is a narrow scroll for the motto, which is not always given, and at the bottom of all is a bracket (on which the owner’s name is inscribed), 38
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having indented edges. Occasionally, but not often, the mantling, instead of being foliated, hangs from the helmet in stiff folds at the back of the shield, its upper corners being tied up and tasselled. The book-plate of Thomas Knatchbull, dated in 1702, shown opposite, is a very fair, though not a very early, example of this style. In some instances the shield is placed on one side—its right hand upper corner being thus brought to the centre of the helmet. The Simple Armorial style was, roughly speaking, not much used after 1720. Besides the book-plates described in the foregoing chapter, nearly all of which belong to the ‘ Arm orial5 style, there are sundry others worthy of particular observation, should the reader meet with them. There is, for instance, the book-plate of ‘ The Right Hon ble James, Earl of Derby, Lord of Man and ye Isles, 1702/ the grandson of the James, seventh Earl, who suffered for his loyalty, and of the gallant Charlotte Trdmouille. This is a very striking book plate in every way ; its size—6 i X 8i inches—makes possible the introduction of some fine bold work, which is rendered even more effective by the fact that the arms portrayed are simply those of Stanley ; so that there is no crowding in of quarterings. The decoration is that common to the book-plates of peers, or of other persons entitled to use supporters at the tim e: the mantling spreads from the helmet, and terminates at the heads of the supporters; these stand upon the motto-scroll. There is a smaller
CHAPTER
V.
ENGLISH ‘ PICTURE’ BOOK-PLATES.
I n turning now to consider our English book plates which show us, apart from the heraldry upon them, things wholly real, we find much that is interesting. First, we have ‘ Portrait ’ book-plates, those which, either combined with heraldry or entirely without it, show us the features of the owner of the volume. There are but few of such book plates, but they are so interesting that we shall speak of them by themselves later on (p. 157-9). However, book-plates of this kind or ‘style’ are common to all periods, and so we have mentioned them here in their proper place in our survey. Then we have book-plates in which books them selves—book piles or book shelves— are the pre dominating feature in the design ; with these, Mr. Vicars, in the pages of the E x Libris Journal, has dealt exhaustively. Though the book-plates which show us library interiors would seem naturally to come into this class of examples, I have been forced to except the majority of them, and to speak of them in the previous chapter, as being in nearly every case at least tinged with allegory. We have seen that, even in the sanctum of a doctor of divinity, Cupid 72
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frolics about as happy, and as busy, as in a maiden’s boudoir. Still there are a few ( Library Interiors ’ entirely free from allegory. Take, for instance, the book-plate of Sir Robert Cunliffe. Here we have the interior of a library with a window to the right. Every ornament is thorough ly ‘ Chippendale ’ in character ; the legs of the table, the cartouche (which contains the name), the shield, and the woodwork surrounding the window. On the table is a globe, upon a stand, the supports of which terminate in Chippend ale scrolls; an inkstand with a pen on it, and two books, one closed, and the other open. There are numbers of books confusedly disposed on the shelves, the ceiling of the room is plain, and there is only a plain line for a cornice. The arms occupy the centre of the plate, and appear to be suspended in mid-air, the foot of one of the scrolls only resting on the table. Again, the book-plates of ‘The Manchester Sub scription Library,’ ‘ The Manches ter Circulatin g Library,’ and ‘ The Rochdale Circulatin g L ibrary’ all show interiors of libraries, but free from allegoric inmates. These three book-plates are nearly ident ical. There are shelves of books at the sides, a tiled floor, a table in the foreground, a panelled ceiling with a cornice ; and, at the end of the room, perhaps a passage. There is a round arch containin g a window of three lights, the centre one having a round top. I he general appearance of the room is classical. Very similar is the book-plate of the Liverpool
CHAPTER
VI.
GERMAN BOOK-PLATES.
I HAVE said that the use of book-plates, whether as commemorative of gifts or as marks of ownership, originated in Germany. Here, well before the close of the fifteenth century, we find at least three un doubted book - plates, examples of which have sur vived until the present day, and have quite recently been discovered fulfilling the function for which they were originally intended. Fastened to the cast - off cover of an old Latin vocabulary was discovered the most ancient of these book-plates. It is printed from a wood block, and is rough in execution. It shows us a hedgehog carry ing a flower in its mouth, trampling over fallen leaves; above is the inscription, ‘ Hans Igler, das dich ein igel knssi Following, in point of date, closely after this curious book-plate, comes a small woodcut, represent ing an angel who holds a shield, on which is displayed a black ox, with a ring passed through its nose. A written inscription beneath it states that the book for which it was intended, and in which it was found, belonged to Hildebrande Brandenburg aus Biberach, who presented it to the Carthusian monastery of 84
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Varsovie. Here we have some examples of the book-plates both of distinguishe d laymen and ecclesiastics. The probability is that none are of an early date, and they are certainly not conspicuous as works of art. The Russian style is perhaps the more distinct, though in many respects resembling the French, especially that shown in the more pronounced examples of the Louis XV. epoch.
C H A P T E R V III. AM ERICAN BOOK-PLATES.
an American collects, he collects well: he works with a will and energy that loosens his purse-strings in a manner which make the acquisition of valuable specimens a comparatively easy matter. It is well, therefore, that book-plate collecting has found its way over the Atlantic, and that there is now a goodly body of American book-plate collectors who are giving the requisite amount of attention to American examples, and who are not keeping to themselves the result of their labours. No doubt, ten years hence, we shall know a great deal more about American book-plates, but even now there is enough on record to make it worth while to consider them in a short chapter by themselves. Book-plates which bear upon them American addresses appear with the opening of the eighteenth century, and we will speak of them first; but they were, without doubt, the work of engravers in the then mother country.1 The library owners of Virginia sent to England for these book-plates, or their sons ordered them there, whilst paying the W HATEVER
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The same remark applies to other book-plates bearing colonial addresses, such as that of ‘ Isaac Royall, Esq., of Antigua.’ H
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IX.
INSCRIPTIONS ON BOOK-PLATES IN CONDEMNATIO N OF BOOK - STEALING OR BOOK - SPOILIN G, AND IN PRAISE OF STUDY.
I PROPOSE now to speak about the inscriptions on book-plates, and I will divide them as follows:—(i) Sentim ents in condem nation of book - stealing or book-s poiling ; (2) sentime nts in praise of books or of stu d y ; and (3) personal particu lars of the owner of the book-plate, which last class shall receive attentio n in a separate chapter. In all three cases illustrations may be approp riately drawn both from English and foreign examples. Let me begin by calling the reader’s attentio n to the fact, which I commented upon in my first chapter, that in nearly all inscriptions on book-p lates it is the volume in which the book-p late is placed, and not the book-p late itself, that is spokesman. Take the in scription on one of the earliest examp les : ‘ Liber Bilibaldi Pirckheimer, Sibi et amicis.’ Bilibald Pirckheimcr’s book for himself and his friends ! Here is an amiable intentio n ; but the plan did not work, and we do not find the sentim ent often repeated. In the good jurist’s day printed books were not numerous, and they were costly. Then might a man be reasonably 122
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regarded as a dog in the manger, who shut the door of his bookcase against those anxious to benefit by the work of the printing- press; then mankind at large had not demonstr ated the fact that general morality does not extend to returning borrowed books. Hence, I say, it was that on this early book plate we have the expressio n ‘ Sibi et amicis.’ School-boys — and I daresay, if one could only learn the truth in such matters, school-girls too— have a habit of inscribing their school-books with verses, denouncing in decidedly forcible language the school-fellow who steals—i.e, borrows and forgets to return—a ny particula r volume, and at the end of these verses is depicted a gallows from which hangs the lifeless body of the thief. When did school-boys first thus protect their possessions? Few school books survive for use by many successive generatio ns, so we have no means of answering the question satisfacto rily; but in a book—no t a school-book— published in 1540, there is written (so a correspon dent of Notes and Queries informs us), in writing more than three centuries old, these verses below’ the owner’s signature :— ‘ My Master’s name above you se, Take heede therefore you steale not mee ; For if you doe, without delay \ our necke . . . for me shall pay. Looke doune below and you shal see 1 he picture of the gallowstree ; Take heede therefore of thys in time, Lest on this tree you highly clime.’ [Drawing of the gallows.]
CHAPTER
X.
PERSONAL PARTICULARS ON BOOK-PLATES.
How much more communicative, in the matter of personal particulars, are some people, upon their book - plate, than others! What a contrast, for instance, between the inscription on Walpole’s book plate—‘ Mr. Horatio W alpole’ — and that on one of Pepys’s, on which he styles himself 1 Esquire,’ and states that he is of Brampton in Huntingtonshire, 1 Secretary of the Admiralty of his Mat King i Charles the Second,’ and Descended of y e ancient family of Pepys of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire.’ Of course Sam Pepys was a vain man, that we all know; but the difference between the two inscrip tions has more to do with the fashion of this time than with the characteristics of the two men. In enlarging on his pedigree, social position, and secretaryship to the Admiralty, Pepys was only following the custom of his day. There are many examples of similar in scriptions on book-plates contemporary with Pepys’s : —‘ Charles Pitfeild of Hoxton, in the Parish of St. Leonards, Shoreditch, in Middlesex, Esq r * descended of the ancient family of the Pitfeilds of Symsbury in Dorsetshire, and is now married to Winifred, one of the daughters and Cceheyrs of John Adderley, 136
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of Coton in Stafordshire, Esqr-’ And again:—‘S Henry Hunloke of Wingerworth, in Derbyshire, Bart. In y e escocheon of pretence is ye Armes of Katherine his Lady, who was sole daughter and heyre of Francis Tyrwhit of Kettleby, in Lincolnshire, Esqc, ye last of y e Eldest branch of ye great and ancient family.’ But this habit of expressing pride in ancestry, though it became less frequent, certainly survived Pepys’s time. Mr. Paul Ryland, F.S.A., has a copy of the Eikon Basilike, printed in 1649, o n the title-page of which is written, ‘Dan. Mercator.’ Within the book is an armorial book-plate engraved in the Jacobean style, and, since it belonged to a man born in 1640, one of the early examples of that style. The owner was the eminent mathe matician, Nicholas Mercator, who was born at Holstein, and afterwards settled in England, where his mathematical ability was recognised by his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Nicholas was proud of his ancestors’ efforts in the cause of Protestantism, and also wished his English friends to be aware of them ; he therefore inscribes his book plate, ‘ Nicholas Mercator, a Descendant of the Kauffmans of Prague, in Bohemia, Coadjutors with Luther in the Reformation.’ On the Continent, lengthy eulogies of ancestors are common, and they commence at an early date. Here is one, which is also a sigh for the purity of nobility in ages past. It is uttered in 1565 by John Giles
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C H A P T E R X I. l a d ie s ’ b o o k - p l a t e s .
T here seem to be really several good and logical reasons why we should separate, for consideration by themselves, the book-plates which have been used by ladies. To mention two : there are certain differ ences (such as the shape of the shield in which the arms are borne) which, by the rigid laws of heraldry, must appear on these book-plates when belonging to a maid or widow ; moreover, ladies’ plates are generally more fanciful in their decorative accessories than the majority of those owned by the sterner sex. Many of them, indeed, have much beauty as pictures. Some of our earliest dated English book-plates belonged to ladies. It is true these are merely name tickets, such as that of Elizabeth Pindar, 1608, in the Bagford Collection, kindly pointed out to me by Mr. W. Y. Fletcher; but the fact of their existence deserves notice, because it shows the readiness of the fair sex to lay hold of a new fashion,—and having a book plate in the early years of the seventeenth century was a new fashion, at least in England. The first Armorial ladies’ book-plate is that of the Countcss-Dowager of Bath, already very fully described here. I will only add that her ladyship would have 143
C H A P T E R X II. THE MORE PROMINENT ENGRAVERS OF ENGLISH BOOK-PLATES.
W illiam Marshall heads our list of engravers of English book-plates. We know of but one specimen of his work, but it is exceedingly fine—the anonymous plate of the Lyttleton family, described on p. 27. Marshall’s works are dated between 1591 and 1646. Next after him comes the well-known engraver of portraits, William Faithorne (b. 1633 ; d. 1691), whose Portrait book-plate of Bishop Hacket is figured opposite. David Loggan, the engraver of the Isham book-plates in 1676, is the artist next on our roll. How many book-plates he designed and engraved I do not know, but there are two or three early English examples which, in their arrangement and touch, resemble somewhat closely his work for Isham. About this same date Michael Burghers was engraving book-plates in E ngland; he appears to have left Holland in 1672, and to have settled in Oxford. The earliest book-plate of his that I have seen is that of Thomas Gore, already described ; perhaps he found the allegory with which he em bellished it was not popular with Englishmen, and his other book-plates—we know of two or three—are 150
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ODDS AND ENDS.
ODDS and en d s! The compiler of a volume of this sort is sure to find plenty of these,—scraps worth putting in somewhere, yet not coming precisely under 1 any particu lar head. In the first place, Portrai t' book-p lates claim attentio n. We have seen th^t they exist, but, alas > that they are so few ; for, to any reasona ble person, members of the Herald s’ College, of course, excepte d, a man’s features are certainly more interesting than his armorial bearings. In Englan d, Sam. Pepys adopted the style, which was not then unknow n on the Continent. Pirckheimer perhaps origina ted it, by placing, as I have already said, a portrai t of himself at the end of the volumes, which contain ed his now familiar book - plate by Durer on the front cover. The Pepys’s example exists in two sizes, that figured opposite and a larger one ; both arc by White. I have failed to find any allusion in his ‘ D iary’ to the engraving of these book - plates, though , as we have seen, he refers to the prepara tion of another one (see p. 8). He very likely took the idea of a ‘ P ortrait’ book - plate from that which Faithorne, either in or soon after 1670, prepare d to place in the volumes 157
A dams, John, President U.S.A ., 119. Adam son, Benjamin, 153. Adderley, Winifred, daughter of John, 136. Affleck, J. H ., 83. Age of owners, given on book plates, 141, 142. Albosius, C., 100. Allegory, in English book-plates, 29, 5 M b 144------in Frenc h book-plates, 106, 107. ------ unknown in Scotch book plates, 55. Allen, engraver, 79. ------George, 78. American book-plates, 113-121. Am mam, Jost, engraver, 91, 92. Anderson, engraver of American book-plates, 116. ----- John, 88. Anonymous book-plates, frequent in early times, 37. Anson, Thomas, 66. Apthorpe, East, 49. Atkinson, Buddle, 83. B acon, Sir Nicholas, 23, 100. Bagford Collection, 2, 23, 143. Baldry, John, engraver, 60. Barber, Joseph, engraver, 10-13.
Barberini, M. (Urban VIII.), 111. Barlow, Charles, 46. Bartolozzi, F., engraver, 1 . 56, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 83, 142, 155, 156. Bath, Lady, 24, 30, 143. Bavaria, Grand-Ducal library of, 96. Becat, H., 107. Bell, Thomas, 81. Bengough, J., 41. Bennet, R. H. Alexander, 65. Berry, Agnes, 71, 149. ----- Mary, 135, 149. ----- Robert, 149. Bessborough, Lady, 13, 68. Bewick, Thomas, engraver, 78, 80-S3, 135, 155, 156. Bickham, engraver, 119. Bielke, Thure , 109. Biggs, Mr., 83. Birnie of Bromhill, 55. Blackstone, C., 154. Bloomfield, Robert, 164, 165. Boetius, 95. Bonner, 135. Book borrowing, 122. ----- spoilingand stealing, mottoes, etc., on book- plates , in con demnation of, 121, 123, 125, 126, 12S, 129, 130, 131, 132, T
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Book-plate, appropriateness of the name, 5. ----- collecting, early days of, i-3------------its morality, 4, 5. ----- decoration upon, reveals the owner’s character, 108. ----- the antiquity of the name, 6-14. Book-plates, earliest, 14, 84, S5. ----- early use of, in England, 17. ----- engravers of English, 150156. ----- hand-drawn, 14, 92. ----- sizes of, 16, 89. ----- the largest, 89. Books, objects of decoration on book-plate, 72, 75. ----- sentiments expressed on book-plates in praise of, 133i35> i5 8 Bosch, Lewis, 135, 158. Bouchart, A., 101. Boucher, 106. Boutats family, engravers, i n . Bowles, Henry, 154. Boyle, Lord John, and the Boyle library, 160. Brackstone, James, 50. Bradshaw, Ellerker, 47. Brampton, 144. Brandenburg, Ilildebrande, 84. Bransby, J. IT., 79. Bray, Dr., and his ‘ associates,’ 162, 163. Breiner, Count, 89, 90. Bridgeman, H. Toye, 153. Brownlowe, Sir William and Lady, 40. Brydges, Hon. James, 40. Buchsheim, monastery of, 85. Burbon-Busset, Viscount de, 105.
Burghers, Michael, 29, 57, 58, 150. Burnet, Bishop, 3, 5. ----- John, of New York, 117. Burton, Dr. John, 61. Byrd, William, 114, 115. Bysshe, Sir Edward , 28. Cairnes , Lady, 57. Callendar, 116. Cambridge, Colleges at, 46. ----- University, 59-61, 157. Carew, Sir Nich., 10. Carington, Francis, 152. Carr, Anne, daughter of William, 13s. ----- Thomas, 83. Carter, Thomas, 35. Caryer, Richard, 51. Cassano-Serra, Duke of, no. ‘ Celestial ’ style in English book plates, 53. ‘ C. E. F. E .’ (anonymous book plate), 51. Ceys, A. T., 107. Charles x n i. of Sweden, n o . Charlton, Charles, 82. ----- James, 83. Chetwynd, Walter, 32. ‘ Chippendale ’ style in English book-plates, 48-51. Chodowiecki, 94, 95. Chorley, W., 135. Clapham, A., 83. Clark, Charles, 130. Clayton, Sir Robert, 35. Clonfert, Bishop of, 46. Cobbe, R. C., 154. Collett, John, 141. ----- Thomas, 141. ----- William, 141. Collins, S. T., 154.
Index Colonial book-plates, see American book-plates. Columbine, Francis, 41. Conway, Field-Marshal, 148. Conyers, John, 152. Cornwallis, Lord, 41. Cotes, Rev. H ., and his quarrel with Bewick, 82. Courtenay, William, 25. Coxwould, 162. Cranach, Lucas, 91, 92. Crewe, Lord Bishop of Durham, 41. Cunliffe, Foster, Charles II.’s god son, 66. ------Sir Foster, 66. ----- Sir Robert, 66, 73. Currer, John, 65. Custos, Dominick, 94. Cypriani, 66, 68.
D amer , Anne Seymour, 71, 146, 148, 149. Dates on book-plates, their advan tages, 33. ------misleading, 34. ----- prevalent in England, 169817/4, 36. Davies, Dr. Rowland, Dean of Cork, 140. Dawkins, Henry, 116-118. De Barry, Countess, 104. De Boyer, Vincent, 104. De Caylurs, Count, 106. De Fleurieu, 107. De Gricourt, the Abbe, 107. Delafaye, Charles, 51, 153. De la Vallee, M., 101. Delphin editions, 103. De Malherbe, Francis, 21, 104. De Maridat, Peter, 133. De Menzes, Isabella, 69, 142.
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Derby, James, Earl of, 39. ----- Countess of (Charlotte Tremouille), 39. Dering, Sir Edward, 26, 27, 138. ------Thomas, 117. De Sales, Charles, IO2> ----- St. Francis, 102. Diamond, Dr., 158. Dobson, Rev. J., 153. Doeg, Alexander, 83. Doolittle, engraver, 116. Drayton, Lady Betty Germain at, 148. Drummond, Dr, Thomas, 64, 154Duche, Rev. F., his letter to Washington, 120. Du Guernier, Louis, 57, 58. Duick, John, 63. Durer, Albert, 15, 86-89, 9 1 Duthy, John, 154.
E bner , Hieronymus, 86. Egerton, Randolph, 32, 138. Eisengrein, Martin, 17. Elam, Samuel, of Rhode Island, 121. Ellison, Robert, of New York, H5English book-plates, 1 Allegoric,’ 56-71. ----- ‘ Celestial,’ 53, 54. ----- ‘ Chippendale,’ 48-52. ----- ‘Jacobean,’ 42-48. ----- ‘ Pictorial,’ 72-83. ----- ‘ Simple Armorial,’ 38-42. ----- ‘ Wreath and Ribbon,’ 52, 53Erasmus, 89. E x libriS) a name for book-plates, 6. Eyncs (or Haynes), 29.
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F aber, John, Bishop of Vienna, 124. Faithorne, William, 29, 30, 150, 157. ‘ Farmer’s Boy, The,’ 164. Fenwick, John, 142. Fitzherbert, Thomas, 153. Flanders, book-plates executed there, i n . Fleming, Francis, 153. Foote, B. H., 51. Ford, 66. Fox, Charles James, 36. French book-plates, chiefly inter esting from their possessors, 103. ----- early, 99-101. ----- ecclesiastical, 101, 102. ----- styles, compared with those in England, 105, 106. ----- wild allegory upon, 71. French Revolution, how immor talised on book-plates, 105. Fuhr, Philip, 153. Fust, Sir Francis, 34.
Gage, Sir Thomas, 70. Garrick, David, 5, 127. Gascoigne, T., 65. Gaultier, Leonard, 101. George i.’s gift to Cambridge Uni versity, 59, 151. George in ., his book-plate, 67. Germain, Lady Betty, 147, 148. ----- Sir John, 148. German book-plates, the earliest, mechanically produced, 84. ----- elaborate, 96. ----- many by Durer, 86-90. Gift or legacy book-plates, 30, 31, 59. Godfrey, John, 41.
Goodford, Samuel, 47. Gore, Thomas, 29, 57, 150. Gosden, Thomas, 76. Graeme, Elizabeth, 120. Gravelot, 61. Gray’s Inn library, 74. Greene, John, 28. ----- T. W., 77. Gribelin, Simon, 152, 163. Gueulette, Thomas, 107. Gusthart, Robert, 153.
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R acket , Bishop, 30, 150, 158. Hagenau, Fred, von, 94. Hamner, Sir Thomas, 159, 160. Hare, Sir Thomas, 47. Harington, Gostlet, 41. Harleian collections, 26, 145. Harley, Edward, 145. ----- Robert, 159. Harrold, Countess of, 47. Harvard College, 117. Haviland, Thomas, 153. Haynes (or Eynes), 29. Hedio, Andrew, 125. Renault, Mons., 106. Henshaw, 70. Heraldry, punning or grotesque, 87, 164, 165. ----- verbally described on book plates, 151. ‘ Heralds, a fig for,’ motto, 164. Hewer, William, 74. Hibbart, William, 62, 154. Hibbins, L. H ., 48. Hillary, William, 153. Iloadly, Dr. John, 154. Hoare, Frances Anne, 149* ----- Henry, 47. ----- Richard, 70, 149. ----- Richard Colt, 149.
Index Hogarth, William, 45, 61, 62, 83, 154, 164. Holcombe, John, 53. Hollar, 27, 28. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 121. Ilolzschuher family, 92, 93. Hommeau, C. F., 127. Horoscopic book-plate, 141. Huet, Dr. 103. Hughes, John, 153. Hulett, John, 160. Hungerford, Sir George, 30. Hunloke, Sir Henry, 32, 137. Huntingdon, Selina, Countess of, 147. Hurd, Nath., 116, 117. Hustler, James, 47. ----- Sir William, 41.
I ’ANSON, Sir T. B., 53. Igler, Hans, 84. Initial letters, used to indicate heraldic metals and tinctures on book-plates, 32. Irish book-plates, their character istics, 54, 55. Isham, Sir Thomas, 8-10. Italian book-plates, n o , i n . ----- early, hand-drawn, 14.
J acob, Herbert, 134. ‘Jacobean,’style in English book plates, 42-48. Jacobite soldiers, pay-notes for, designed by Strange, 155. James IL, statue of, i i . Jaqueri, J. E., 153. Jeffreys, Judge, 147. Jenkins, Miss, her collection of book-plates, 2.
Jodrell, Paul, 40. Johnson, 116.
KALERIN, Susanna, 93. Kendrick, Dr., 7§« Kennett, White, Bishop of Peter borough, 75. Kent, Duke of, 47. Kilian, Lucas, 94. ----- Wolffgang, 91, 93, 94Kilmore, Bishop of, 52. Knatchbull, Thomas, 39. Knight, Hon. Henrietta, 154. Knoringen, J. G., 137, 138. Kress, J. W., 93. L adies ’ book-plates, 143-149. I Lambert, George, 62. Landscapes on book - plates, 75-83Larson, William, 11. Le Bas, 155. Legat, Francis, 149. Le Grand, 104. Le Mercier, Father, 105. Liar, an honest, 127. Libraries, public, or parochial, 73, 126, 127. ‘ Library interiors ’ represented on book-plates, 61, 62, 64, 65, 72, 73) 74> 98, 108, 109. Lilienthal, Michael, 126. Linarti, Filippo, 158. Liverpool Library, 74. Lloyd, Rev. John, 134. Locker, Captain William, 76. Loggan, David, 8, 150. Long family, arms of, 144. Lovat, Lord, 161. Lullin, A., 108. Lumisdcn, Andrew, 10, 64, 154.
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Lynch, Philip, 47, Lyttleton, Sir Edward, 27, Macciucca, F. V., 129. Macdonald, H., 132. ‘ Malleus Hereticorum,’ the, 128. Manchester Subscription Libraries, 73Mantling on the ‘ Simple Armor ial’ book-plates, 39, 41. Marius, George, 99. Marks, John, 132. Marshall, William, 150. Marsham, John, 28. Marlborough, Duchess of, 148. Mason, Dame Anna, 46, 144. Massy, Francis, 153. Maury, Cardinal, 104, 105. Mavericks, the, engravers, 116. ‘ Menagiana,’ quotation from, 127. Mercator, Dan., 137. ----- Nich., 137. Methuen, Sir Paul, 160. Mitford, John, 71. Moises, Edward, 83. Moor, O., 133. Morghen, Raphael, n o . Mottoes given in three languages on old German book-plates, 68. Mountaine, Robert, 153, 154. Muilman, Peter, 77. Musgrave family, 152. Myller, Sebastian, Bishop of Adramytteum, 94. Mynde, 76.
N ack, T. B., 7. Name-tickets, 33, 99, 102, 116, 128.
Newcastle, John Holies, last Duke of, 145. Newcastle-on-Tyne, scenes in the neighbourhood of, introduced by Bewick into his book-plates, 32. Newdigate, Richard, 41. Nicholson, Gilbert, 35. ----- 77Nott, Fettiplace, 32. Nuremberg, Monastery of St, Laurence in, 87-89.
‘ O dds and ends,’ 157-165. Oliver, Gulielmus, 153. Ord, John, 50. Oringen, 91, 92. Oxford colleges, 46. ----- lady, 13, 62, 144, 145. ----- university, verses on want of loyalty, 60.
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P aget , Justinian, 32. Papal book-plates, h i . Parochial libraries, 126, 127, 152, 162, 163. Parsons, Daniel, 19. Paynter, David, 35. Penn, Sophia, 154. ----- Thomas, 114. ----- William, 114. Pennant, Henry, 153. Penny, Nich., 41. Pepys, Samuel, 8, 32, 136, 157. Perrault, Francis, 158. Personal particulars on book plates, 136-142, 161. Petrarca, Giuseppe, 90. Petra - Sancta, his system ' of expressing metals and tinctures, 20.
Index Picart, B., 108. ‘ Picture ’ book-plates, 73-83. Pine, John, 59-61, 151. Pirckheimer, Bilibald, 15, 86, 87, 122,123,157,158,159. Pitfield, Charles, 32, 136. Pocklington, Joseph, 51. Polish book-plates, i n . Pollard, 70. Pollen, Rev. G., 53. Pomer, Hector, 87, 88. Pomfret, Lady, 146, 147. ‘ Pompadour, L a,’ 104. Pope, Alex., his figure introduced in the design of a book-plate, 63Portal, Joseph, 154. ‘ Portrait ’ book-plates, 30, 72, 86, 149, I57-I59Powlet, C. S., 154. ------G., 154Priestley, Joseph, 79. Prince, Thomas, and his library, 116. Prior, Matthew, 139, 160, 161. Pye, 77.
Q uarterings , numerous, on book-plates, 40. ----- arrangement of, on German book-plates, 93.
R aby, Lord, see Strafford. Raignauld, of Riomi, 101. Reilly, John, 42, 125, 126. Revere, 116, 117Rieterin, Margretha, 87. Robinson, John, 47, 153. ----- Thomas, 134. ----- Sir William, 36. Rochdale Circulating Library, 73.
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Roe, 70. f Rococo ’ style in French book plates, 106. Roos, Lord and Lady, 40. Rosenberg, Count of, 96. Ross, T., junior, 63. Rowney, Thomas, 41. Royal, Isaac, 113, note. Russian book-plates, i n , 112.
Sadeler , Giles, 91, 96, 97. ----- Joseph, 91, 94. St. Alban’s grammar school, 48. St. David’s, Bishop of, 47. St. Francis de Sales, 103. St. Jane Frances de Chantal, 103. St. John in Patmos, 163. St. Paul figured on a book-plate, 9iSt. Peter figured on a book-plate, 92. St. Thomas’s Hospital, 48. Sartor, James, 151. Sartorius, Chris., 151. Sayer, John, 41. Scharff, G. B., 134. Schintz, Dr. C. S., 95. School-boys and girls and their books, 92, 93. Scotch book-plates, their charac teristics, 54, 55. Scroope, Simon, 40. Seyringer, John, 133. Shakespeare figured on a book plate, 63. Shelburne, Lord, 79. Sheraton, Thomas, 52. Sherwin, J. K., 56, 66, 71, 155, 156. ‘ Sibi et Amicis,’ the sentiment, 122, 123. Sibmacher, Ilans, 92, 93.
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Signcira, 69. ‘ Simple Armorial’ style in Eng lish book-plates, 41. Skinner, IT., 153, 154. ----- J., 5b 63, 152, 153----- Matt., 153. Skorina, F., translator of the Psalms into Russian, 90. Sloane, Sir II., 11. Southey, Robert, 81. Southwell, family of, 29, 32, 76, 138. Spanish book-plates, i l l . Speratus, Paulus, 90, 125. Stapylton, Sir Bryan, 36. ----- Martin, 36. ‘ Stella, Journal to,’ 147, Sterne, Laurence, 162. Strafford, see Wentworth. Strange, Sir Robert, 10, 63, 154, I 55Strawberry Hill, 78, 148, 149. Stuart, Charles James Edward, portrait of, by Strange, 155. Sturgis, John, 154. Surtees, Robert, 55. Swaffham parish library, 163. Swedish book-plates, 109, n o . Swift, Dean, alludes to Mat. Prior and Wentworth, 139. Swiss book-plates, n o . Sydenham, Sir Philip, 75, 141, 152. Symons, John, 53.
T albot, Colonel, 25. Terry, 77. Texts from Scripture on book plates, 24, 88, 95, 97, 126, 127, 132, 133Thompson, Sir William, 41. Thoms, Mr., 158, 159.
Thoresby, historian of Leeds, 142. Tinctures and metals, how ex pressed in heraldry, 20, 21, 22, 88, 90, 101. Tommins, Jean, 66. Tower of London, Record Office in, 76. Towneley, Richard, 141, 142. Tremlowe, William, 35. Tresham, Sir Thomas, 24. ‘Tristram Shandy,’ 162. Troschel, Hans, 91, 93. Turner, 116. Tyneside scenes, introduced by Bewick into his book-plates, 32. Tyrwhit, Hath., co-heir of Francis, 137. U rban v iii ., h i .
Vandergucht , Mich., 151, 152. Vennitzer, John, 140, 141. Vienna, Bishop of (John Faber), 124.
W. PI., see Hibbart, William. Wakefield, Gilbert, 78, 79. Wale, Samuel, 146. Wall, T., 64. Walpole, Plorace, 13, 76, 78, 81, 136, 148, 149. Walters, Henry, 153. Warrington ‘ Loyal Volunteers,’ picture of, 78. ----- view of town in 17S3, 78. Washington, George, 118, 119. ----- Richard, 119. Waterhouse, Edward, 29. Way, G. L., 80.
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Winnington, Francis, 47. Welbeck, 144. Wolsey, Cardinal, 15, 22. Wentworth, Sir John, 40. ‘ Woogiana,’ 96. ----- Thomas, Earl of Strafford, Worlidge, 154. 139, 140. ‘ Wreath and Ribbon’ style in Weobley parish library, 164. English book-plates, 52. Wernerin, 95. Sir Christopher, 11. Wren, Wessenbrun, monastery of, 126. Wadham, 61. Wyndham, Westover, Virginia, 115. 138. 32, William, Wharton, White, R., 157. j Y ates, 66. Wight wick, George, 131. ----- James, 79Wilkes, John, 161, 162. Willis, Sherlock, 126. Willmer, William, 25. Z ell , William von, 85. Wiltshire, John, 63, 152.
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