  CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY | | General remarks—Various modes of engraving—Styles in bookplates | page1 | CHAPTER II
BOOKPLATES CHRONOLOGICALLY | | Very early plates—Albrecht DÜrer—Other German artists—Early English | 11 | CHAPTER III
BOOKPLATES CHRONOLOGICALLY | | Lucas Cranach—Charles V.—Hans Holbein—Early French and English bookplates—Sir Nicholas Bacon—Queen Elizabeth—Bookplates that are not armorial—Bookplates in Switzerland, Sweden, and Italy | 20 | CHAPTER IV
BOOKPLATES CHRONOLOGICALLY | | The seventeenth century begins—German plates—William Marshall—Lord Littleton—Huet, Bishop of Avranches | 30 | CHAPTER V
BOOKPLATES CHRONOLOGICALLY | | Some French and some German plates—The cap of liberty—Buonaparte—Alsace and Lorraine | 38 | CHAPTER VI
BOOKPLATES WITH MANTLING | | Viscount Cholmondeley—James Loch of Drylaw—William Pitt of Binfield | 44 | CHAPTER VII
SOME SPECIMENS INSERTED IN A BOOK KEPT IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM FOR THAT PURPOSE | | Some bookplates kindly lent by Mr. G. F. Barwick—Wrest Park plates—Sir John Lubbock | 53 | CHAPTER VIII
CHIPPENDALE AND CRESTPLATES | | William Sharp the engraver—The Rev. John Watson—Edward Trotter—Patrick Colquhoun | 62 | CHAPTER IX
MODERN BOOKPLATES | | Remarks on examples given in The Studio, special winter number, 1898-9 | 69 | CHAPTER X
VARIOUS BRITISH BOOKPLATES | | The proper place for a bookplate is in a book—Gordon of Buthlaw—Spencer Perceval—William Wilberforce—A bookplate for a special purpose—George Ormerod—Robert Surtees—Cathedral plates | 76 | CHAPTER XI
BOOKPLATES IN AMERICA | 121 | CHAPTER XII
INSCRIPTIONS IN BOOKS | | John Collet of Little Gidding—A book that was in the Battle of Corunna—Henry Howard—Sir Percivall Hart—John Crane and the Battle of Naseby | 155 | | | BIBLIOGRAPHY | 172 | | | INDEX: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W,
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