Charles Dexter Allen PREFACE. CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. INTRODUCTORY. NAME-LABELS AND MOTTOES. ARMORIAL BOOK-PLATES. PICTORIAL AND ALLEGORICAL BOOK-PLATES, AND PLATES OF COLLEGES LIBRARIES, AND SOCIETIES., BOOK-PLATES OF SPECIAL INTEREST. EARLY AMERICAN BOOK-PLATE ENGRAVERS. A LIST OF EARLY AMERICAN BOOK-PLATES. A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE DATED PLATES UP TO 1800. AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE SIGNED PLATES. A LIST OF THE MOTTOES FOUND UPON THE EARLY AMERICAN BOOK-PLATES, WITH TRANSLATIONS. A FEW RECENT EXAMPLES. AMERICAN COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS. THE EX LIBRIS SOCIETIES. BIBLIOGRAPHY. AMERICAN, ENGLISH, AND FRENCH. THE AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. By Eben Newell Hewins. CONCLUSION. INDEX. Contents. List of Illustrations. In certain versions of this etext, in certain browsers, clicking on this symbol will bring up a larger version of the illustration. Index.: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W. (etext transcriber's note)

AMERICAN BOOK-PLATES
(EX-LIBRIS)

American Book-Plates

A Guide to their Study with Examples

By Charles Dexter Allen
Member Ex-Libris Society London · Member Grolier Club New York
Member Connecticut Historical Society Hartford

With a Bibliography by Eben Newell Hewins

Member Ex-Libris Society

Illustrated with many reproductions of rare and interesting book-plates
and in the finer editions with many prints from the original
coppers both old and recent



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New York · Macmillan and Co. · London
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Copyright, 1894,
By MACMILLAN AND CO.


Norwood Press:
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