Chapter I: Front Matter

LITTLE BOOKS ON ART

GENERAL EDITOR: CYRIL DAVENPORT

BOOKPLATES

LITTLE BOOKS ON ART

_Demy 16mo. 2s. 6d. net._

SUBJECTS

MINIATURES. ALICE CORKRAN
BOOKPLATES. EDWARD ALMACK
GREEK ART. H. B. WALTERS
ROMAN ART. H. B. WALTERS
THE ARTS OF JAPAN. MRS. C. M. SALWEY
JEWELLERY. C. DAVENPORT
CHRIST IN ART. MRS. H. JENNER
OUR LADY IN ART. MRS. H. JENNER
CHRISTIAN SYMBOLISM. H. JENNER
ILLUMINATED MSS. J. W. BRADLEY
ENAMELS. MRS. NELSON DAWSON
FURNITURE. EGAN MEW

ARTISTS

ROMNEY. GEORGE PASTON
DÜRER. L. JESSIE ALLEN
REYNOLDS. J. SIME
WATTS. MISS R. E. D. SKETCHLEY
HOPPNER. H. P. K. SKIPTON
TURNER. FRANCES TYRRELL-GILL
HOGARTH. EGAN MEW
BURNE-JONES. FORTUNÉE DE LISLE
LEIGHTON. ALICE CORKRAN
REMBRANDT. MRS. E. A. SHARP
VELASQUEZ. WILFRID WILBERFORCE AND A. R. GILBERT
VANDYCK. MISS M. G. SMALLWOOD
DAVID COX. ARTHUR TOMSON
HOLBEIN. BEATRICE FORTESCUE
COROT. ETHEL BIRNSTINGL AND MRS. A. POLLARD
MILLET. NETTA PEACOCK
CLAUDE. E. DILLON
GREUZE AND BOUCHER. ELIZA F. POLLARD
RAPHAEL. A. R. DRYHURST

BOOKPLATES

BY
EDWARD ALMACK, F.S.A.

WITH FORTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
1904

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY

General remarks--Various modes of engraving--Styles in bookplates

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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