American Book Plates A Guide To Their Study With Examples

Download or read book American Book-plates written by Charles Dexter Allen and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Book-plates written by Charles Dexter Allen and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American book-plates written by Charles Dexter Allen and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Book-Plates written by Charles Allen and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-01-29 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Art of the Bookplate written by James P. Keenan and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is full of people who love books. People who not only love to read, but who love to possess and collect books. Since the fifteenth century truly devoted collectors have commissioned their own bookplates, known also as ex libris. Some are straightforward ? a simple label bearing the owner?s name. Others are impressive works of art in miniature. Whether plan or fancy, book plates give an owner a special sense of proud proprietorship. Even more important, they assure that if a cherished book is lent, it has a decent chance of being returned. They are an indulgence of the rich and famous, certainly. And, ?The art of the Bookplate? includes many owned by prominent people such as George Washington, Charlie Chaplin, John F. Kennedy, Joan Crawford J.P. Morgan, Walt Disney, Grace Allen, Otto Bismarck, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Houdini, Sigmund Freud, Charles Dickens, and Anita Loos. But other bookplate patrons are unknown to us, like Mabel Bishop, whose charming ex libris shows a young woman tending her garden, or Lucius Fisher, whose bookplate, naturally enough, features a fish. In this delightful book James P. Keenan, Director of the American Society of bookplate collectors & Designers, shares many of his favorite bookplates. He explains the history behind each, and discusses the artists ? some as famous as Rockwell Kent and Claes Oldenburg, others as unknown or not ex libris owners are passionate about keeping their book collections intact. As one very old bookplate proclaims, ?Steal not this book for fear of shame. For here you see the owner?s name.? The Art of the Bookplate is a book to be treasured and, of course, kept in your possession. --

Download or read book American Book-plates written by Charles Dexter Allen and published by New York : Hacker Art Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Descriptive Bibliography of the Most Important Books in the English Language, Relating to the Art & History of Engraving and the Collecting of Prints written by Howard Coppuck Levis and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: