Chapter XVII (1)

ARTISTS AND ENGRAVERS WHOSE SIGNATURES ARE FOUND UPON FRENCH BOOK-PLATES.

In the following list no attempt has been made to enumerate every separate ex-libris signed by each artist; such works as would best illustrate their style, or the period they worked in, only have been selected, or plates possessing other features of interest, literary, artistic, or personal.

It must be borne in mind that a large proportion of the early French plates bore no owners’ names, although they were frequently signed by the engraver. Many of these plates have been identified by the arms, the mottoes, or other peculiarities in design, but some still remain unidentified.

Where engraved dates appear on the ex-libris these have been mentioned, but no notice has been taken of dates inserted in manuscript, these, as is well known, being quite unreliable.

For certain engravers, on whose work no date has been found, a century has been named approximately from an examination of the plates they produced.

Some of this information must necessarily be conjectural, and Mons. Poulet-Malassis mentions certain artists and engravers of book-plates of whose work it has not been possible either to obtain copies, or any information whatever.

For facility of reference a strictly alphabetical arrangement of the names has been adopted.

Wherever it was possible, the inscriptions and signatures have been copied from the book-plates themselves, carefully preserving the arbitrary contractions, the obsolete orthography, and even the errors and the faulty accentuation found on many of them.

It will be observed that Mr. as a contraction for _Monsieur_ was formerly more generally used in France than it now is, whilst Escuyer, Escuier, or Ecuyer (for Esquire) was occasionally added after a gentleman’s name, a custom which has, since the Revolution, become quite obsolete.

One of the latest examples of the use of this title will be found on the ex-libris of Jean François-Gillet, dated 1778, of which a reproduction appears on p. 96.

A List of Artists and Engravers.

ABOT.

Engraved a plate for M. Greppe. Designed by Giacomelli. Modern.

TANCRÈDE ABRAHAM.

Château de Ruillé. (De la Planche, Comte de Ruillé.) 1874. Armorial.

ADELINE, JULES.

Ex-libris de Champfleury dessiné et gravé par J. Adeline.

Portrait plate. Modern. (See also Aglaüs Bouvenne.) M. Henri Bouchot reproduced several works by this artist.

AGRY. 14 Castiglione. Maison Bouvet (Paris). Modern.

Bibliothèque de Mouchy. Armorial.

Bibliothèque de Lafitte.

ALÈS _Sc_. Hilarii Grésy, 1868. Pictorial.

Ex-libris Gustave Chancel, 1876. Pictorial.

ALIAMET _Scul_. (See Eisen.) On a nameless armorial, designed by C. Eisen for Claude Antoine de Choiseul-Beaupré. 18th cent.

“J. Aliamet” on the nameless armorial, designed by C. Eisen, for the Marquis de Paulmy.

ALLIN _Sculp. fecit._ Robert Jehannot de Beaumont, Conseilleur du Roy, etc., Verdun, 1742. Armorial.

Conrad Robert, Comte de Wignacourt, Major au Regiment, etc. Armorial.

ALOYS _Comte la Rosée, fecit_ 1760, on a library interior, name indistinct; and on the plate of Theod. Cte. Morawitzky, 1770.

_Aloys, comes de la Rosée, inv. del. et sculpst._, on his own ex-libris, dated 1769. He was a German from the Rhine provinces.

ANCELET, E. 19th cent.

ANDOUARD. 18th cent.

ANDRÉ, HENRY. Modern. Jules Lermina. Symbolic plate.

Alex. Geoffrey. 1893.

Henry André, Secrétaire de la Société Française, etc. 1893.

Paul Vibert. Portrait plate.

Th^{re}. Vibert. Portrait plate.

Louis Bihn. 1893.

Abel Picard. A view of the book-stalls on the quays of Paris.

Ch. Guinot. 1894.

Léon Quantin. 1894.

Henry André 1894. Portrait.

Auguste-Geoffroy. 1895.

F. Bargallo. 1895. Allegorical.

L. P. Couraud. Pictorial.

Jan-des-Vignes. 1896.

Ex Libris P. P. Capucinorum Conventus Parisiensis. 1896.

Docteur Jules Le Bayon. 1896.

Ex Libris du Marquis de Gourdon de l’Echo. Armorial.

APOUX. Modern. Ex Libris Lucien Bodin. Pictorial. Motto, “_Oh! combien gai c’est!_”

ARIBAUD, J. P. 18th cent.

ARTHAUD. 18th cent.

AUBLÉ. 18th cent.

P. AUDINET _Sculp._ Rev. H. S. Cotton. Angling scene.

AUDRAN, J. 18th cent. Engraved the monogram trophy plate for Louis XV., designed by A. Dieu.

AUGER, E. Modern. Designed the plate for Mons. Charles Givelet of Reims. Motto, “_Remensia colui, mihi et amicis._” Engraved by A. Bellevoie. (See Les Bibliophiles Rémois, pp. 101, 116.)

AUGUSTUS _In. et Sculp._ Madame De Bouchard. Label. 18th cent.

AUROUX, N. 17th cent.

A. AVELINE _Sculp._

On the armorial ex-libris of Carolus de Brosses, Comes Tornaci, Baro Montis, etc., with the motto “_Homunculi quanti sunt_.” 18th cent.

M. Poulet-Malassis devotes considerable space to this very little man--Charles de Brosses--and his quarrel with Voltaire. De Brosses had two other armorial book-plates engraved by Durand, from which the unfortunate motto was omitted.

Charles de Brosses, Comte de Tournay, was born in Dijon in 1709, and died in Paris in 1777. He was a true bibliophile, and his books were sumptuously bound in morocco stamped with his arms--_azure three trefoils or_.

They were sold in Dijon in 1778. See an illustrated article on his ex-libris in “Les Archives de la Société Française,” Jany., 1896.

AVISSE _fecit_. (Signature indistinct.)

Josephi Xaupi, 1750 and 1765. Ecclesiastical.

AVRIL, PAUL. Modern. Philippe Gille.

Ex-Libris H. S. Ashbee. 1890. Portrait rebus plate.

Ex-Libris Geo. B. de Forest (of New York). Library interior.

A. B. _del._

M. Arthur Benoit, of Berthelming in Alsace, designed several book-plates for himself and for his late brother Mons. Louis Benoit, librarian to the city of Nancy. These ex-libris contain views of Alsatian buildings and costumes.

Mons. A. Benoit designed a modern plate for himself, copied from a library device of the last century; Motto, “_Avec le temps_.”

See “Petite Revue d’Ex libris Alsaciens,” p. 37.

BACHELEY, _del. et sculp._ 1768. P. R. Le Cornier de Cideville. Armorial.

BALTAZARD. 1755.

L. F. BAOUR, _fecit_. P. L. de Carbon, sen. Armorial. 18th cent.

BAQUOY, C. 18th cent.

BARBAT, _à Chalons_, 19th cent. Ex libris C. Remy. Armorial.

Mons. Charles Remy, Membre de l’Académie de Reims, carries the arms of a Chevalier de l’Empire, a title granted to his father, the Baron Claude Charles Remy, on April 25, 1811. (See “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” p. 117.)

C. BARON _Sculp._ Bibliothèque de Madame Victoire de France. 18th cent.

This has the arms of France in a lozenge. (See p. 53, “Ladies’ Book-plates.”)

BAUMÉS _fecit_. Ex-libris D. D. Postic. Armorial. 18th cent. Reproduced in “Ex-Libris Ana.”

BAUMÉS, _à Montpellier_. 18th cent.

BEAU, _fils_. 18th cent.

BEAUMONT _fecit_. On the armorial Ex Libris Vaucresson de Cormainville, etc., 1743.

And “Gravé par Beaumont, grav^{r} ord^{re} de la ville,” on the “Ex-libris D. Jacobi Olivarii Vallée, Equitis, regi à Consilius, et in Camerâ regiarum Rationum Magistri Anno 1730.” Armorial. Two supporters.

H. BÉCAT _inv._ Signed the large allegorical “Ex-libris Thomæ Gueulette et amicorum.” With the motto, “_Dulce est desipere in Loco_.” See reproduction.

Simon-Thomas Gueulette was a prolific writer of farces for the Théâtre Italien, and the Théâtre des Boulevards; he died in 1766.

BÉHA, _Lith. Metz._ Ex-libris Arthur Benoit. Modern; armorial.

BEILLET _Impr. 35 Quai de la Tournelle_. Modern.

Bibliothèque de Mme. la Comtesse de Montblanc, Baronne d’Ingelmunster. Armorial.

J. D. BELEAU, _à Rouen_, 1724.

BELILLE, _à Verdun_. 19th cent.

BELLANGE, JACQUES. Painter and etcher. Born at Nancy, October 13th, 1594; died about 1638.

He is supposed to have engraved the large armorial plate for Melchior de la Vallée, dated 1613. (See “Archives de la Société Française,” vol. ii., February, 1895.)

BELLANGER _Inv. et Sc._ Signed an allegorical book-plate for Simon Thomas Gueulette, the novelist and farce writer, who died in 1766. (See also H. Bécat.)

BELLEVOYE, ADOLPHE. Modern.

Mons. Bellevoye, an engraver, formerly of Metz, afterwards of Reims. Engraved a landscape plate for himself, inscribed: “Bibliothèque d’Adolphe Bellevoye de Metz”; also the plates for Mons. Charles Givelet and Mons. Anatole Paroissien. (See “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” pp. 91, 101, and 113.)

BERAIN C., 17th cent.

BERGER D., 1786.

BERLIER. 1740.

BERT, J., _à Granmont_. 18th cent.

BERTHAULT _sculp._ 1777. Ex Museo J. G. R. Boscheron. Armorial.

BES. 18th cent.

BEUGNET. 1769. Le Comte de Luzignem. Armorial.

BIDA, ALEXANDRE. 19th cent. Designed a book-plate for Mons. Félix Solar. It was engraved by M. Pollet.

M. Solar had a second book-plate engraved by Paul Chenay.

BIDAULT. 1707. Nameless armorial, no motto.

BILLÉ. 18th cent.

BINARD, J. Modern. Ex Bib: Michaelis Chasles. Engraved label.

BIS, _à Douay_. 18th cent.

BIZÉMONT-PRUNELÉ (André-Gaspard Parfait, Comte de Bizémont-Prunelé.)

Signed _Bizémont, sc., London_, 1794 on his ornamental card: “M. Bizemont, Drawing Master, 19, Norton Street, near Portland Street.” He was then residing in London as a political refugee, earning his living by his talents.

There is a plate, which was designed and engraved for him by Ch. Gaucher in 1781, on which his full names and title are given.

M. Bizémont-Prunelé also etched a pictorial plate for his wife, Marie Catherine d’Hallot.

J. BLOCQUET, 1672. The large nameless armorial plate of Charles Maurice le Tellier, archevêque de Reims. (See M. Poulet-Malassis, page 23.)

BOILY, L. Nameless armorial. Motto, “_Sine macula_.”

L. BOISSON _Sc._ (1881.) Ex-libris C. Sagnier, Juin, 81. Pictorial.

BONNARD. J. B. H. 17th cent.

E. BONNEJOY _del. et sc._, 1875. Ex Libris Docteur Bonnejoy. Pictorial. Motto. “_Salus ex aquis._” (The Doctor is a vegetarian, and an abstainer.)

J. BONNETON _scul._ 1888. J. Bonneton, président du tribunal. Library interior.

DE BONRECUEILLE. 18th cent.

ED. BOUCHARDON _in. del._ On the plate of Louise le Daulceur, engraved by herself. (See also Louise le Daulceur.) 18th cent.

BOUCHER, FRANCOIS. 18th cent. Designed the plate, but did not sign it, for Le Président Hénault de l’Académie Française. It was engraved by the Comte de Caylus. (See Poulet-Malassis, pp. 28, 33, and 58.)

Ex Libris Joannis Laurentii Aublé, signed “F. Bouchier _in._ Pariset _Sc._”

This handsome armorial plate is reproduced by Poulet-Malassis, p. 58.

Ex-libris de Crozat, baron de Thiers. Armorial.

Reproduced by H. Bouchot.

_F. B. inv._ is also found on the nameless plate of the Chevalier de Valori, with J. H. V. (Valori), _scul._

BOUCHY _Sculp._ Steph. Ign., et Joan. Jac. Michelet fratres, Capellani S^{ti}. Petri Bisontini 1714.

Signed the following--“Bouchy _Sculp._ Vesuntione:--”

Ant. Ign. de Camus de Filain, 1732.

Ex Libris Antonii Lengroignet, 1732.

And another plate dated 1739.

BOULLAY, J. 19th cent.

BOULONOIS _fecit_. 18th cent. Signed the large decorated armorial “Ex-libris Franc. Le Vignon Doct. Me. Paris.”

BOURCIER, JEANNE. Signed _Gra^{e}. de Jeanne Bourcier, Bar le Duc_, 1760, on the armorial plate of Antoine de la Falloize, Seigneur du Bau de Chaumont.

BOURGEOIS. 18th cent.

BOUTET, HENRI. Modern Ernest Maindron (a collector).

Ex-libris Catel. Fantaisie. Motto, “_Nocturna versate manu, versate diurna_.”

BOUVENNE, AGLAÜS. Designed and engraved the following:

Ex-libris Ch. Asselineau, with the curious enigmatical motto, “_La femme qui n’est pas la colombe et le roseau est un monstre_.” M. Asselinea had another book-plate by Braquemond.

He was an employé in the Bibliothèque Mazarine, and produced some bibliographical works. He died in June, 1874.

Jules Cousin. A punning plate (a gnat).

A mon cher Edouard Castillon-Aglaüs Bouvenne, 1882. Motto, “_Travail liberté_.”

Ex Libris Mario Proth. (Author and Art Critic.) Motto, “_Sempre Vagare_.”

Maurice Tourneux. Author and critic, died in 1867.

Ex Libris Alexis Martin, 1868. Pictorial.

Théophile Gautier. Monogram. 1872.

Ex Libris Champfleury, 1874. Eau-forte.

Ex Libris François Coppée. Monogram on a lyre.

L. West, 1876. Library interior.

Victor Hugo. View of the Towers of Notre Dame, Paris, 1870.

Octave Uzanne, 1882. Pictorial. Author and art critic.

Monogram (for M. Benoit). Motto, “_Avec le temps_,” Signed, Agaus (sic) Bouvenne, _Inv. Sculp._ ’83.

Ex Libris de Madame la Comtesse de Noë, 1888. Fantaisie.

For M. Léon Sapin the Bookseller of the Rue Bonaparte, Paris, a plate showing an avenue of fir trees (Sapins) Signed, _Aglaüs Bouvenne sc. à l’ami L. Sapin_. (See “Archives de la Société Française,” May, 1895.)

BRACQUEMOND _del. et sculp._ on the cypher book-plate of Aglaüs Bouvenne, 1875. Motto, “_Colligebat--quis perficiet_.”

Mons. Félix Braquemond also designed the following plates:

A monogram plate for Paul Arnauldet, signed B. Motto, “_Nunquam amicorum_.”

Charles Asselineau.

Philippe Burty. An allegorical design for this author, art critic and collector. Motto, “_Libre et fidèle_.”

Georges Pouchet.

Edouard Manet, the painter. With the motto “_Manet et manebit_.” In the first state there were accessories peculiar to the worship of Priapus, which were removed.

Christophe, the sculptor.

He also designed a plate for himself. (See Poulet-Malassis, p. 38.)

BRANCHE. 18th cent. “Bibliothèque de M. de Villiers du Terrage, Pr. commis des Finances.”

This was an armorial plate, style Louis XVI., the owner of which was a Viscount, yet bore the coronet of a Marquis. He survived the revolution, aristocrat though he was, and served in the Ministry of Police, under the first Empire and the Restoration.

BRASPACHER. 1775.

BRÉANT. 18th cent.

BRENET _fecit_. Louis Pfyffer de Wyher, Capitaine aux Gardes Suisses. Armorial. 18th cent.

Ce livre Appartient à M^r. Le Maire. Armorial.

R. BRICHET _inv. sculp._ I. Ph. Grauss. Armorial.

Dumont de Valdajou. Chirurgien. Armorial. 18th cent. (See reproduction.)

BRIOT, ISAAC. 17th cent. Signed “Briot” on the plate of Claude Sarrau, who died in 1651.

Isaac Briot signed an engraving of Henri IV. lying in state, dated 1610.

BROCHERY _fecit_. J. Hoop. Pictorial plate, no arms or motto. 18th cent.

BROCHERY, THÉRÈSE. On the ex-libris of Alexis Foissey of Dunkirk. Two states, one with coronet, one without. 18th cent.

B. H. DE BROCKES. Clemens Augustus. 1760. Ecclesiastical.

BRONDES. “Joannis Baptistae Grenier Caus. Patroni.” Armorial.

BRUPACHER _fec._ Ex: Lib: Monast: St. Petri. Montis Majoris 1765. Armorial. Ecclesiastical.

BUHOT, FELIX. A famous etcher and book illustrator, born at Valognes in Normandy, but now resident in Paris.

M. Octave Uzanne wrote a critical account of his works in “Le Livre” for March, 1888, but no mention is made of any ex-libris engraved by him.

BURDET. 19th cent.

BURTY, J. 3 Rue de la V^{le}. Estrapade.

Lejay, _fils ainé_. Rue St. Etienne des Grès, 12, Paris. Landscape.

C. (COMTE DE CAYLUS.)

Engraved the plate designed by Boucher for Le Président Hénault de l’Académie Française. 18th cent. (See Poulet-Malassis.)

CALLOT, JAQUES. Of Nancy, died 1635.

I have never heard of an ex-libris by this famous engraver, but some may yet be found, as he had a preference for fine small work suitable for this purpose.

CALMETTES, F. 19th cent.

De la Bibliothèque de Madame Anatole France. Engraved label.

CARPENTIER, J. B. 18th cent.

CARS, J. F. 18th cent.

CATELIN, J. B. 18th cent.

CATHEY. 18th cent.

CAVA, F. 18th cent.

CHABANY.

De Maridort. Armorial.

CHAPPRON, P. H. MEÛNIER.

Engraved an armorial plate for himself, dated (See “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” p. 57.)

CHARLES, C.

J. G. F. Chassel, 1792. (See Warren’s “Guide,” p. 147.)

“C. Charles in.” on a nameless plate, dated 1739, signed J. C. Fran^{s}. _sculp._

CHARPENTIER. 1709.

CHAUVEAU, FRANÇOIS. (Died in 1676.)

Ex-libris de Clerget. Armorial.

A majestic armorial plate for Jérôme Bignon, is also attributed to Chauveau.

CHAUVET, J. Modern.

Ex Libris D. Jouast. (A journalist.)

H. S. Ashbee (of London).

CHEFFER, A. _Grav._ 22, Rue Dauphine. Modern.

PAUL CHENAY _Sculp._

Ex-libris F. Solar. Modern.

This plate is after a design by Andrea del Sarto, and was printed on the catalogue of the library of M. Solar, sold in 1860.

Mons. Félix Solar had another ex-libris, designed by Bida, and engraved by Pollet.

L. CHENU. F. 1780. Desmaison invenit.

Ex-Libris Bouju. Armorial.

CHEVALIER. 17th cent.

CHEVALIER _sculp._ 18th cent.

M. L’Abbé Desmarestz. Armorial. Ecclesiastical.

CHEVRIER, L. Modern.

A nameless etched plate, dated 1875, representing a child beneath a pile of old books.

CHINON, B. 18th cent.

P. P. CHOFFARD _fecit._

On the plates of De Cursay, de Landry, etc., 1756. De Cursay-Thomasseau, 1756.

Ex-libris de Buissy, 1759.

Franc. Jos. Ant. Hell (of Alsace), 1773.

Ex-libris Souchay, Eq^{is}. Lugduni “C. Monet _del._ P. P. Choffard, _sculp._ 1776.” This handsome plate is reproduced in “Ex-Libris Ana.”

Jean Armand Tronchin, 1779.

Thellusson, 1782. Poulet-Malassis speaks of Thellusson as a Prussian Baron, whereas he was a descendant of a French Protestant family, and in 1806 was created Baron Rendlesham in the peerage of Ireland.

Andreas de Salis, Curia Rhaetorum.

Pinsot d’Armand.

M. Henri Bouchot reproduces a lady’s armorial plate, nameless, engraved by Choffard, after a design by Moreau le Jeune.

CHOLLET. 18th cent.

CHOUBARD _sculp._

H. CHRISTOPHE _Lith. Nancy._

Ex Libris A. Benoit, Berthelmingen, 1894.

Ex Libris Francisci de Chanteau.

L. CHRISTOPHE _Nancy_, 1852.

M. Ch. de Beauminy. Armorial; literary.

CLOUZIER, A. 18th cent.

COCHIN, CHARLES NICOLAS.

Known as _Cochin fils._ 18th cent.

He signed a nameless plate _Cochin inv._ 1750. (De Lafosse, sc.)

Also a nameless armorial plate for the Abbé Leblanc. _C. Cochin filius inv._ (C. O. Galimard, _sculp._), and another for Poisson de Marigny, dated 1752.

He also designed an armorial plate for the Marquise de Pompadour. (See Poulet-Malassis, p. 60.)

C. N. C. _d._ (_Cochin fils._)

Ex Libris Le Vassor de la Touche. (See J. Ingram.)

L. P. C. _inv._

On the plate of L. P. Couraud, also signed _Henry-André del. et sc._

Mons. Couraud also designed an armorial plate for himself.

COCHON, J. Modern.

Ex Libris M. Descoutures.

COLE. 18th cent.

J. COLIN. 1685.

COLINET _fecit._ 18th cent.

M. Thierry de Villedavray. Armorial.

COLLARD. 18th cent.

COLLIN, DOMINIQUE (known as Collin père). 18th cent.

This famous engraver was born at Mirécourt, in Lorraine, in 1725. He first studied engraving under a goldsmith in Metz, and afterwards under Jean Striedbeck of Strasburg.

In 1752 Collin married and settled in Nancy, where he soon acquired a reputation, and was named engraver to the town, and also to the King of Poland, Stanislas, Duc de Lorraine et de Bar.

He died in Nancy, December 21st, 1781. He produced more than 300 engravings, on many of which he signed himself “graveur du feu roi de Pologne.”

A catalogue of his works was given by Mons. le Conseiller Beaupré in “Les Mémoires de la Société d’Archéologie Lorraine,” and a supplemental list, drawn up by Mons. A. Benoit, with illustrations, appeared in the “Archives de la Société Française,” April, 1895.

His son, Yves Dominique Collin, also worked on book-plates, and, judging by the few known examples of his work, would probably have surpassed his father, but, unfortunately, his career was brief. He was born in Nancy, in February, 1753, and died in the same city on April 26th, 1792. He signed his plates _Y. D. Collin, fils._

The following is a list of the known book-plates of Dominique Collin; his mode of signature varied, and he spelt his name Collin or Colin indifferently.

Bourgeois.

Des Salles.

Du Perron.

Aubrussel.

Charles, Comte de Lavaux, etc.

Lespée.

Maillart.

Mengin.

Regnard de Gironcourt.

Riston. (See reproduction.)

Bibliothèque de Mr. J. Anthoine. (Very rare plate.) Armorial. Library interior.

Hr. M. B. Bach. Armorial; signed _D. Colin fecit_, 1747. Reproduced in the “Archives de la Société Française,” April, 1895, as the earliest known dated ex-libris engraved by Collin in Alsace.

Nameless armorial, dated 1748.

Friedrich Alexander Freyherr von Schell. Signed _D. Colin fecit_, 1751.

Nameless armorial, with supporters, 1750.

Bibliotècque de Mr. Héré. 1752. Armorial; pictorial. (See reproduction.)

Nameless armorial, dated 1754.

Sirejean Fils. 1754. Armorial; pictorial.

M. Thibault, Conseiller d’Etat, Procureur Général de la Chambre des Comptes. 1756. Signed _Collin sculp. Nanceii_.

Bibliothèque de R. Willemet. Mtre. Apothicaire a Nancy.

Pictorial. Signed _Collin, graveur du feu Roi de Pologne, duc de Lorraine_.

Le Comte de Carvoisin. Armorial.

Y. C. Monogram on a cartouche, signed _à Nancy par Collin graveur du feu Roi de Pologne_. A very scarce example. Reproduced in “Archives de la Société Française,” May, 1895.

A nameless armorial, dated 1756. (Millet de Chevers.)

Bibliothèque de D. Laflize, Maitre en Chirurgie à Nancy. 1768.

Another plate of D. la Flize, Doct. en Médecine, with a different inscription, and not dated.

Two plates for M. Thouvenin, Consr. du Roy. 1769.

Ex-libris Ant. Jeanjean, Can. ad St. Pet., etc.

Le Chanoine Jeanjean died about 1791. (See “Archives de la Société Française,” July, 1895.)

COLLIN, Y. D. 18th cent.

Yves Dominique Collin fils (son of the preceding).

Aubert, 1787.

Malvoisin, abbé commendataire de Sainte Sauve (Amiens), 1785.

Also a nameless armorial, not dated, which is reproduced in the “Archives de la Société Française” for April, 1895.

COLLIN, _à Reims._ 17th cent.

COLLIN, J. 18th cent.

COLOT. 18th cent.

COMPANON _deli._

Mondolet. Armorial.

COQUARDON. 18th cent.

CORDIER. 18th cent.

CORLET _fecit._

Nicolas Jean Baudelot, Capitaine des Bombardiers du Roy. Armorial. 18th cent.

COUPEAU, CH. G.

A. J. S. Armorial; pictorial.

J. DE COURBES _fecit._

Nameless armorial. Motto, “_In manus tuas Domine sortes meae._” 17th cent.

COURBOIN, FRANÇOIS. Modern.

P. G. Audigier.

Ex Libris G. Bourcard. Fantaisie.

Monsieur F. Buhot. Fantaisie.

Ex Libris G. de Gayffier. (Poet.) Armorial.

CH. COURTRY. _Aqua forti_, 1894.

On the portrait plate of Henry André.

COUTELLIER _sculp._

Nameless armorial plate, no motto. 18th cent.

CROISEY _sculp._ 18th cent.

Mérard de Saint-Just.

Armorial, with supporters. Motto, “_L’Honneur et l’Amour._” Reproduced in “Ex-Libris Ana.”

CYS, A. T. (See Adrien Théry, à Cisoing.)

DANCHIN _à Cambray_. 18th cent.

Ex Libris De Warenghien de Flory. Armorial.

Domini de Wavrechin. Armorial; pictorial.

DAPSOL, _fecit._

De la Bibliothèque de Mr. Milange de St. Genez. 1787. Armorial.

Denis Gilbert Rouher, Abbé du Chapitre d’Artonne, Curé de Chaptuzat, 1787.

Armorial; ecclesiastical.

L. DARDEL, _sculp._ Modern.

The armorial plate of Mons. Anatole de Barthélemy, membre honoraire de l’Académie de Reims. Motto, “_Quod natura dedit tollere nemo potest._”

Reproduced in “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” p. 90.

DAUDIN.

Michaeli Begon et amicis. 1702. (See reproduction.)

DAULCEUR, LOUISE. (See Le Daulceur.)

DAVID. 18th cent.

DEBEY, F.

Biblioth. D. D. de Fréval. Armorial. 18th cent.

DECACHÉ. 18th cent.

DEJEAN. 18th cent.

DELAFOSSE _sculpsit._ 1751.

Nameless library interior for the Académie de Nancy. Motto, “_Animum censoris sumet honesti._” Designed by H. Gravelot.

He also engraved a nameless armorial, designed by Cochin fils in 1750.

DE LA GARDETTE _fecit._

Designed and engraved the armorial--“_De la Bibliothèque de M. Lavoisier de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, regisseur des Poudres et Salpetres de France. F^{er} General du Roy._”

Armorial, coronet of count, and supporters. The title of “Fermier Général du Roy” cost this man of science his life; he was guillotined, May 7, 1794.

This plate, in pure Louis XVI. style, was reproduced by Poulet-Malassis.

DELAITRE. 18th cent.

A library interior plate, having the inscription “D. D. LE LEU D’AUBILLY, _dicat qui gratitud coelo sculp Delaitre_.”

Beneath the design is a small shield, bearing azur, a chevron or, between three wolves’ heads. The D’Aubilly is an old-established Rémois family, to whom the artist was under obligations.

This interesting plate is reproduced in “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” p. 103.

DELARBRE. 18th cent.

DELATRE, CH. Modern.

Ex-libris Alberti Metzger, Milhusini. Armorial. (See reproduction.)

DE LAUNAY _le jeune sculp._

1779, on the armorial _Ex Libris Duché_, designed by P. Marillier. (See reproduction.)

DELAUNEY. 19th cent.

Donné à la Bibliothèque de la Ville de Paris, par---- MDCCC.

Armorial; pictorial.

DELCOURT _fils, à Tournay._ 18th cent.

P. DELOYSI _sc._ 17th cent.

On the handsome nameless armorial plate of Pierre Sarragoz, of Besançon, who died in 1649. Reproduced in “Ex-Libris Ana.”

Pierre Deloysi, styled _Le Vieux_, was a goldsmith and coin engraver in Besançon.

Engravings by him are now very rare.

DELTEIL, LOYS. Modern.

D’ELVAUX _Sc._

On a nameless plate designed by Monnet. 18th cent.

D’EMBRUN. 18th cent.

DEMENGEOT, C. 19th cent.

Signed, “_Inv. & Sculpt._” on the library interior, inscribed “_Bibliothèque de Francisque Sarcey_.”

DE MEUSE. 18th cent.

DEMILLE, M. 19th cent.

DE MONCHI.

“Papillon minoris.” Canting arms.

DENISZARD, _inv. et sculps._

On the ecclesiastical plate of P. N. Vingtdeux, a priest bibliophile of the eighteenth century. (See “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” p. 85.)

DEROND _f._

A. Leguien. Decorated shield.

DEROND, J. 18th cent.

DESCAVES, A. 19th cent.

DESMAISON _invenit_, 1780. _L. Chenu, f._

Ex-Libris Bouju. Armorial.

DESNOYERS. 19th cent.

DEUNEL _Sculp._ 1767.

On a nameless plate having the Grimaldi arms. This might have belonged to Charles Maurice Grimaldi, chevalier de Monaco, comte de Valentinois, who died in 1790. Motto: “_Deo Juvante._”

DEVAMBEZ, _Graveur à Paris._

Auguste Vincent. (Musical Composer.) Design, musical instruments. Modern.

L. P. Couraud.

Bibliothèque de Charles Monselet. Library interior. (See reproduction.)

DIEU, A. 18th cent.

Designed the handsome monogram and trophy ex-libris of Louis XV., which was engraved by J. Audran.

DIGOUT, NICOLAS. Modern.

Bibliothèque de Madame Chavernac. Motto: “_To kill time or amend, I am a ready friend._” Armorial; pictorial.

A. DOCAIGNE _fecit_, 1762.

Le Commissaire Laumonier. Armorial.

D’ORVASY, _à Nancy_. 18th cent.

DOYEN. 18th cent.

DREER. 18th cent.

DREVET, C. 18th cent.

F. GUMBERT DROZ _fecit._

On the armorial plate of Philipe de Reynold. 1730. (Possibly Swiss.)

DUDOUT. Or Dudouit.

De Flaghac, Capne. de Dragons. 1779. Armorial. Motto, “_Laudate anima mea Dominum._”

DUFLOCQ. 18th cent.

CL. DUFLOS _sculpsit._

On a handsome armorial plate (after a design by Sebastien Le Clerc) in 1701 for Geoffroy, ancien grand garde du corps des Apothicaires de Paris.

“_Matthaeus Franciscus Geoffroy, Pharmacopoeorum Parisiensium antiquior Praefectus, aedilis et consul._” Motto, “_Turris fortissima Deus._”

DUFOUR-BOUQUOT. 19th cent.

DUMONT. Modern.

A landscape with initials A. D. (Mons. A. Duriez.) 1893.

DU PALLUET. 18th cent.

DUPLAIS-DESTOUCHES. 1890.

Bibliothèque du Docteur Félix Durosier.

Punning armorial.

DUPLESSIS. 18th cent.

DUPONT _del. et sculp._

Ex Libris A. Kuhnholtz Lordat. Armorial; pictorial. Modern.

DUPRÉ, J. R. 18th cent.

DURAND. 18th cent.

M^r. de Fenille. Armorial. “George M^{quis} de Massol de Serville. L^{ant} Colonel de Ca^{vrie}. Fils a Guillaume L^{ant} General des armés du Roy.” Armorial.

Carolus de Brasses, Comes Tornaci, etc. (who died in 1777).

Two armorial plates, similar in design, but having different inscriptions. (See “Les Archives de la Société Française,” January, 1896.)

See A. Aveline for more details.

Ex-libris Thomassin. Armorial.

Mr. De D’Alleray. Pictorial.

J. L. Ainard de Clermont-Tonnere. Abbatis, etc. Armorial; ecclesiastical.

A. DURAND, Paris.

Dacquet. Pictorial.

This appears to be an old design re-engraved.

Reproduced by Poulet-Malassis, p. 3, 2nd edition. He considers the design to be of Flemish origin.

DURAND, D. V. 18th cent.

Named by Poulet-Malassis.

DURAND, _à Lyon_. 19th cent.

Named by Poulet-Malassis.

DURAND. _Lith. Melun._

Ex Libris P. Guiraudi, 1680-1880. With the arms of Renaud, Genas, and Comte de Balincourt. Motto, “_Da laborem dabo fructus_.”

DURIG _Sc._

Magon de Terlaye. Armorial.

DURIG, _à Lille_. 18th cent.

Seraphin Malfait. Negociant à Lille. Pictorial.

DUSEIGNEUR, A. 19th cent.

DUSSIGMERT, M. 1874.

EISEN, CHARLES. Mde. d’Arconville. C. Eisen _del._ Louise Le Daulceur _sculp, et in._

à M. d’Arconville. 1749. A pictorial plate designed by Louise Le Daulceur.

A nameless plate of M. de Monteynard (see Poulet-Malassis pp. 28, 61), engraved by Le Mire.

_Ch. Eisen invenit,_ on the nameless armorial of the Bishop Choiseul-Beaupré; _C. Eisen del._ on a nameless plate, dated 1749, and engraved by R. Strange; and _Eisen inv._ on a nameless plate bearing the arms of the Marquis de Paulmy.

It was to this marquis that Eisen dedicated his work entitled “_Œuvre suivie contenant différents sujets de décorations et d’ornements, etc._” This contained many heraldic designs, cartouches and decorative garlands, from which the engravers of his time frequently borrowed hints for the ornamentation of their heraldic ex-libris.

ETIOLES.

M^{r}. P. L. N. Meulan. Armorial.

FASSOLE, C. H. Strasbourg. Modern.

Albert Richard. Pictorial.

FAUGRAND. 18th cent.

FAURE. 18th cent.

FAYS. 1784.

De la Bibliothèque de Mr. Fays. Par son fils en 1784. Armorial.

FÉRIET, A. DE (Nancy).

A. Bretagne. Directeur des contributions directes. Nancy. Pictorial. Modern.

Signed, _H. Christophe, exc._

Ex-libris Francisci de Chanteau. Armorial; pictorial. Signed, _H. Christophe, exc. Nancy_.

Leon Germain. Nancy. Pictorial.

FERRAND _Sculp._ 1730.

Michel, Comte de Faultrières, Exempt des Gardes du Corps, etc. Armorial. Motto, “_Tendre et Feal_.” (See reproduction.)

ET. FESSARD _sculp._ 1737.

On the plate of Jacobus Henricus Tribourdet, designed by H. Gravelot.

C. FICHOR _del._ 1874. Ad Varin _sc._

Bibliothèque du comte de Lavaur de Ste. Fortunade. Armorial.

FLAMEL, NICOLAS.

M. Henri Bouchot reprints a plate designed by this artist for the Duc de Berry in fifteenth century style.

FLAMEN, A. B. 17th cent.

Guillaume Tronson. Motto, “_Virtuti non divitiis_.” (See Poulet-Malassis, p. 22.)

FLAMENG, LÉOPOLD. 19th cent.

Produced ex-libris for the bibliophile Pierre Deschamps, and for the Docteur Gérard Piogey.

FLIPART. 18th cent.

FONBONNE, M^{lle}. 18th cent.

De Hansy, à Paris, 1768. Library interior.

FONTANALS _Dijon_, 1809.

FORNET _Lith._ 1893. (Alsatian.)

On the armorial plate of Edmund Engelmann, of Mulhouse.

Printed in colours, see “Les Archives de la Société Française,” Juillet, 1894.

FOUGERON _sculp._

Pembroke Society. Allegorical.

FOUQUET. 18th cent.

FROBEN.

_Symbolum Conradi Lycosthenis._

(Before 1561; the earliest known Alsatian ex-libris.) See “Les Ex-Libris Alsaciens.”

J. C. FRAN^{s}, _scul._ _Nanceii C. Charles in. 1739._

On a nameless French plate, no motto. (_J. C. François_, of Nancy.)

A. FRANÇOIS _sculp._ 1827.

On a nameless armorial; no motto.

GAGNEUX, P. 17th cent.

C. O. GALIMARD _sculp._

On a nameless armorial, designed by C. Cochin fils, for the Abbé Leblanc, and on another, with the arms of Poisson de Marigny, also designed by Cochin, and dated 1752.

GALLAUDET, E.

John Chambers, Esq. Chippendale; armorial.

GAMOT, JOS. 18th cent.

GANHY, J. B. DE. 18th cent.

GARDETTE. (See De la Gardette.)

GAUCHER, CH. _De l’Académie des Arts de Londres._ Charles-Etienne Gaucher was a pupil of Basan, and Le Bas, and famous as an engraver of portraits.

Signed, _C. Gaucher inc._ 1775, on plate of Cabre,--and _Dessiné et gravé par Ch. Gaucher de l’Acad. des Arts de Londres_ on the plates of François Grangier de Lamotte, etc., 1779, and Messire André-Gaspard Parfait, comte de Bizémont-Prunelé, 1781. (See Bizémont.)

Gaucher also designed a plate for “Jac. Desmares in senatu Paris,” and one bearing the arms of Séguier. (See Poulet-Malassis, p. 66.)

GAUCHEREL. 1831.

Bibliotheca Pichoniana inchoata ab anno 1831.

(Rétouché par Ad. Varin en 1873.) Armorial.

GAULTIER, LÉONARD. 17th cent.

Nameless armorial. Alexandre Bouchart, Sieur de Blosseville, etc., 1611. Reproduced by Henri Bouchot.

The earliest known _dated_ French armorial book-plate.

GAVARNI. 19th cent.

(See M. Poulet-Malassis, p. 39.) He credits this celebrated caricaturist with having designed the ex-libris used by the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, authors of “L’Art du dix-huitième siècle,” and other works written conjointly.

The book-plate is exceedingly simple; it represents a left hand, two fingers of which are pointing to the letters E. J. traced on a sheet of paper. This was engraved by Jules de Goncourt himself.

C. G. GEISLER, _à Geneve_. 18th cent.

Plate of J. L. Robillard, with canting arms; it is dated, but very indistinctly.

GEORGE. 18th cent.

Duc de Brissac. Armorial.

GEORGEL, M. Modern. (Madame Marie Georgel.)

Ex Libris Henri Tausin. Pictorial. (See reproduction.)

A design for a headpiece for the “Archives de la Société Française,” vol. iii.

Ex Libris Marthe de Borniol. Initials on a lozenge, surrounded by flowers, books, and musical instruments. Reproduced on p. 152, vol. ii., “Archives de la Société Française,” 1895, and a large size, issued as a separate plate.

GERMAIN. 18th cent.

GIACOMELLI, H. Modern.

A son ami Conquet (Léon Conquet). Reproduced by M. Henri Bouchot.

M. Greppe, a _fantaisie_ designed by Giacomelli, and engraved by Abot.

Giacomelli also designed plates of an equally artistic character for Ballon, Bavoillot, Chevrier, François Courboin, Georges Duplessis (Conservateur du Cabinet des Estampes), Paillet, Piédagnel, Sciama, and many others.

GIFFART, P. 17th cent.

Petrus Bulteau de Préville Miles. Armorial.

De Villers de Rousseville. Large armorial in two states, both rare.

GIFFART, P. 18th cent.

Nameless armorial plate. Motto, “_Antiqua Ætate decorae_.”

GILBERT. 17th cent.

GILLOR _sc._ Modern.

Ex Libris Paul Bellon. Literary. (See Henri Bouchot, page 75.)

GIRALDON, ADOLPHE. 19th cent.

Bibliothèque de Mr. de Pellerin de Latouche. Motto, “_Est-il meillcure munition à cet humain pélerinage?_” Armorial.

GIRARD, H. 19th cent.

GLOMY. 18th cent.

GOBY _Sc. r. du Bac._ 19th cent.

Guerrier du Maste. A literary plate, about 1830.

GODARD, _à Alençon_. 18th cent.

A. GODREUIL _del._ 1867.

Bibliothèque du Montessart (Baron Pichon). Landscape. (See also A. Guillaumet and Varin.)

GOSSART. 18th cent.

Mr. Le Vte. de Gauville. Armorial. No motto.

GOSSELIN. 1770.

GOSSET, J. 18th cent.

Nameless armorial plate. No motto or date.

GOUEL, P.

Ex-libris Hérambourg, 1777.

A nameless armorial, dated 1778.

GOUJEAN. Modern.

Alfred Piet. Pictorial.

GOZO (Gozora). 19th cent.

J. GRANDJEAN _Sc._ Modern. Ex-libris Francisci de Chanteau. (See reproduction.)

H. GRAVELOT, _invenit._ Delafosse _sculpsit_.

Nameless library interior (Académie de Nancy), 1751.

H. Gravelot _inv._ Major _sc._, 1747, on the nameless plate (probably that of an actor), with the motto “_Facies mutat semperque decenter_.”

On the plate of Mr. Thiroux d’Arconville, Président au Parlement. Mde. Le D. (Daulceur) _sculp._

Also the plates of Thiroux de Gervillier, and Jacobus Henricus Tribourdet, 1737.

The signatures _Gravelot inv. J. Pine sculp._, are found on the armorial library interior plate of J. Burton, D.D., of which the design was appropriated for the plates of Wadham Wyndham, Esq., and Thomas Gaisford.

(See Poulet-Malassis, page 59.)

GREGOIRE _à Rennes_.

“Ecuyer Patrice Sus. Hamart de la Chapelle. Cons. du Roi, etc. Docteur Aqr. au College des Medecins de Rennes.” Large armorial.

GRIBELIN, SIMON. A French engraver who came to England about 1680, and died in 1733.

He signed _S. Gribelin sculp._ on the plate of Sr. Philip Sydenham, Bart., 1699, and engraved plates for several other English people, and for parochial libraries.

GROSTOST, F. Lithographer of Strasbourg. Modern.

Signed the charming little nameless pictorial plate of M. Jacques Flach, formerly of Strasbourg, afterwards a solicitor in Paris. It is on this plate that the lines addressed to the owner’s books occur:

“_Plaisants, je vous aime; Sérieux aussi, Frivoles de même; Pédants, merci!_”

(See “Ex-Libris Alsaciens,” page 21.)

GROUX, HENRI DE. Modern.

M. Rémy de Gourmont.

GUÉRARD, _à Beaucaire_. 18th cent.

GUERARD, N.

R. P. Placidia Sta. Helena. Aug. disc. Gal. Regio Geographi. Pictorial. Motto, “_In hoc signo vinces_.”

NICOLAS GUIBAL. Peintre ordinaire du Duc de Wirtemberg. Born at Luneville. (See “Archives de la Société Française,” vol. ii., March, 1895.)

Designed a book-plate for himself, dated 1775, “N. Guibal, Pr. Peintre du Duc de Wurtemberg.” Literary.

GUIBERT, J. B. 18th cent.

EMILE GUILLAUDIN _Sc._ 1881.

Boscary de Villeplaine. Armorial.

T. G. GUILLAUME _sc._

Cottin de Fontaine. Early Armorial. 17th cent.

GUILLAUME. 18th cent.

A. GUILLAUMET _sc._ 1867. A. Godreuil _del._

Bibliothèque du Montessart (Baron Pichon). Landscape.

GUSTAVE. 19th cent.

HALM _Sculp._ 1766.

On two nameless plates designed by _Wille filius_.

Halm was probably a pupil of Wille senior.

HAMEL. 19th cent.

HELMAN. 1767, 1768. “J’appartiens a Cleenewerek de Crayencour.”

Armorial. Three states.

HELMAN _le jeune._ 18th cent.

HÉRISSET _sculp._ 18th cent. De la Bibliothèque de Mr. Le Cat, Docteur en Médec: etc., 1741.

Doctor Le Cat was a famous French surgeon, born in 1700. An allegorical design.

HILLEMACHER, FRÉDÉRIC. A talented engraver, who illustrated the edition of Molière published by Perrin of Lyons, died 1886. He engraved book-plates for

Georges Champion,

Eugène Piot, the bibliophile, and one for himself: “Bibliothèque de Frédéric Hillemacher.”

HIRSCH. 19th cent.

HOUAT. Ex bibliot Costeana. Armorial.

A. HOUAT, _l’ainé_. 18th cent.

HUMBELOT. 18th cent.

HUOT, G. Paris. Modern. A. P. (Pontilly--Monogram.) (See reproduction, p. 321.)

Ex Libris Farnou. See in “Ex-Libris Ana.”

Ex Libris Bosch, a curious allegorical design.

Ex Libris de A. Hustin. Monogram.

HUQUIER, J. G. 18th cent. Jacques Gabriel Huquier _fils_, signed his own pictorial _Ex Libris J. G. Huquier_ (see in “Ex-Libris Ana,” p. 9). He also designed and engraved a handsome plate for Le Berche, and the pictorial.

Ex Libris G. Bernard de Rieux, signed _Huquier sculp. docq. inv._

Both Huquier senior and Huquier junior had the same Christian names, and as both were engravers in Paris their identity is somewhat confusing. The father died in 1772, the son twenty years later.

INGRAM, J. 18th cent. Colleg. Scotor. in Acad. Paris. Armorial; pictorial; ecclesiastical. (See “Ex-Libris Ana,” p. 55.)

He also engraved the Ex Libris Le Vassor de la Touche, designed by C. N. Cochin _fils._

P. C. I. _inv. et sc._ 1785. Signed the nameless plate of _Joseph Froment_, with the motto “_D’nus incrementum dat_.”

JACQUEMART, JULES. Modern. Libraire Techener.

Philippe Burty.

Bibliothèque du Château d’Aramon.

(M. Jules Jacquemart, a clever _eau-fortiste_, died in Paris in 1880.)

JACQUES (_à Rouen_). 18th cent. C. Baillière. Academ. Rothom. (Rouen). Pictorial, with scientific instruments.

JACQUOT. 18th cent.

JANINET, F. 18th cent.

JEANJEAN. 18th cent. A nameless armorial, signed _Jeanjean sculp._ is described in “Les Archives de la Société Française,” April, 1895.

JEUNE, DAVID. Nimes, 1885. Vauvert, “_Prosper Falgairolle_.”

JONVEAUX _f._ 19th cent. Claudius Nassé, pastor. Armorial.

JONVEAUX. (Of Verdun.) 18th cent.

Signed an armorial plate for Raimondus Lamarre, and another almost identical for a Doctor Clouet. Both plates are reproduced in the “Archives de la Société Française,” vol. ii., p. 37.

L. JOUBERT _inv. et sc._ Ex Libris Annemundi Charret. Armorial. 18th cent.

FME. JOURDAN _sculp._ 1788. Bibliothèque de M. le V^{te}. de Bourbon-Busset, Premier Gentilhomme de la Chambre, etc.

On this plate the Vicomte claimed relationship with the Royal family of France, by his arms and supporters, but in 1793 he deemed it advisable to cover his arms and high sounding titles with a simple label bearing the inscription “_Bibliothèque de Louis Antoine Paul Bourbon-Busset, Citoyen Français, 1793_.” (See reproductions.)

Bourbon-Busset was born at Busset, the 19th November, 1753; he survived the Terror and died in Paris, February 9, 1802. Guigard mentions the “_Catalogue des livres_ _de la Bibliothèque de feu le citoyen Bourbon-Busset, 20 nivose an xi. Paris: Silvestre._”

JUDÉE. 19th cent.

JUNDT, GUSTAVE. _De Strasbourg_, 19th cent.

Composed the book-plate for M. Charles Mehl. See “Ex-Libris Alsaciens.”

By G. Huot.]

KRAUS, J. U. Ex-libris Bibliothecae D. Zach. Conr. ab Uffenbach. M. F. Two sizes. See “Ex-Libris Alsaciens.”

P. L. Jean Louis Gourgas. Armorial.

LACHAPPELLE, P. 18th cent.

LACHAUMÉE. 18th cent.

LA COMPARDE. 18th cent.

LACOSTE. 19th cent.

LADAME. 17th cent. Engraved several book-plates which were afterwards reproduced in the “Armorial de Segoing.”

LALAUZE. 19th cent.

LALAUZE, ADOLPHE. 19th cent. Ex Libris Aubert Raymond. This pretty little fantaisie plate is reproduced in “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” page 110.

A. D. (Adolphe Dauphinot, membre titulaire de l’Académie de Reims.) This design is also reproduced in “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” page 96. It represents the Muse of Painting supporting a shield on which are the arms of Reims; below are books, engravings, and guns, whilst above are two dolphins, in allusion to the name of the owner.

M. Dauphinot is an enthusiastic collector of engravings.

C. Glinel. Fantaisie.

Mons. Charles Glinel was the author of a “Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas,” published in Reims, in 1884.

E. L. (Mons. Ernest Lemaitre, a solicitor of Laon). Fantaisie. Motto, “_Mieux qui pourra_.”

V. M. (Mons. Victor Marteau, who designed this plate for himself, and had it engraved by Mons. Lalauze). The design shows a cupid sitting on a book, holding a hammer (marteau). In the background are emblems of manufacturing industry.

This plate is reproduced in “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” page 110.

LAMÇON _fecit_. 18th cent. Charles François Dumars de Vaudoncour. Armorial. About 1750.

LANCELEVÉE, L. Modern. Le Theil près Bernay (Eure).

An armorial plate for la Comtesse Le Pellerin de Gauville, reproduced in “Les Archives dela Société Française,” Mai, 1896, with a history of the family, Le Theil.

LANÇON, _à Nancy_. 18th cent.

LANDRY _sculpsit_. 17th cent. Messire Paul Armand Langlois, chevalier, conseiller du Roy en ses conseils et Maistre Ordinaire de son hostel.

A handsome armorial.

LAPAIX, C. 1878. Ex Libris F. des Robert. Armorial. Léon Le Brun. 1884. Armorial.

LAPORTERIE _sc._ 18th cent. De Bourscheit Burgbroel, etc. Armorial.

DE LA LAUNE _del. et sc._ 18th cent. Mr. Chanorier. Armorial.

A. LAVAU _Sculp. à Bordeaux_. De la Bibliothèque de Mr. de hilorieur Conseilleur au Parlement de Bordeaux, 1765. M^{e}. des Requêtes, 1776. Armorial.

LEBAS, 1741.

LEBEAU. 18th cent. Antoine Louis Du Pré de St. Maur Officier aux Gardes françoises, _par son très h. Serviteur Lebeau_. This officer was born in 1743, and married in 1774, about which period, probably, this elegant trophy plate was engraved. It was reproduced in the “Archives de la Société Française,” Oct. 1894.

LE BLOND. _Dessiné et gravé par Le Blond_, on a nameless armorial, dated 1785. A modern armorial plate for Thomas Harrison is signed “_Le Blond sc. 4 Walbrook_.”

LE CLERC, G. 17th cent.

LE CLERC, SÉBASTIEN. 17th cent. A famous engraver of Metz, and afterwards of Paris, whose works were described by Jombert in his “Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre de Seb. Le Clerc” (Paris, 1774), in which mention is made of seven armorial “marques de bibliothèques” all signed by him.

Poulet-Malassis mentions four others, in different sizes, all for Nicolas Martigny de Marsal, all signed, and two dated 1655 and 1660.

In 1701, he signed _S. Le Clerc invenit_ on the armorial plate inscribed “_Matthæus Franciscus Geoffroy_,” which was engraved by Cl. Duflos. This design was afterwards appropriated by P. Picaut, (or Picault) for a M. Veronneau of Blois. Jombert, in his catalogue, described this plate for M. Geoffroy, on which the motto was, “_Turris fortissima Deus_.”

S. Le Clerc is credited with having been the first to depart from the formal, but correct heraldic style, as shown on the plates of André Felibien, and Alexandre Petau, in order to adopt the oval shield (of Italian origin) set in a foliated cartouche, the Renaissance style, in fact, which gradually developed into the Louis XIV. style.

See “Ex-Libris Ana” (p. 31), for further details about the works of Le Clerc. The following plates are named as engraved by him:

Jean Baptiste de Jouanne, Marquis de Saumery.

Pierre Le Febvre (of Metz).

Maurice Le Tellier, archevêque de Reims.

Denis Godefroy de Tralage.

M. de la Reynie.

Bibliotheca Thuana.

Le Duc de Bouillon. Etienne Baluze.

M. de Beringhen. Reproduced by M. Henri Bouchot.

LECLERE. 18th cent.

LOUISE LE DAULCEUR. 18th cent.

This clever engraver signed her name in several ways.

Le D.

Louise Le D. _sculp._

Madame Le D.

Louise Le Daulceur.

Daul _sculp._

L. Daul _sculp._

Louise Daul:

She herself had two book-plates, one inscribed M^{de} Le Daulceur, is signed “_Ed. Bouchardon in. del. Louise Le D. sculp._” the other, a smaller one, is not signed.

Madlle. Le Daulceur studied under Bouchardon, and in examining the plates signed by her, it will be seen that she engraved after designs furnished by Bouchardon, Pierre, H. Gravelot, C. Eisen, and Durand, whilst Poulet-Malassis speaks of her as “une femme du monde, amateur de talent, gracieux intermédiaire entre les artistes ses maîtres et ses amis.”

Her talents appear to have been principally devoted to illustrating books of poems for her friends, and it is supposed that the ex-libris she engraved were probably works of love. The following is a list of them.

La Comtesse de Mellet, two, one after Bouchardon, the other signed: _Le D._

Montigny--two, a large and a small one.

Mignot de Montigny--after Pierre.

Le Comte Thiroux de Gervillier--after Gravelot.

Thiroux d’Arconville--after Gravelot.

Madame d’Arconville--after C. Eisen.

(This, signed in full, _Louise Le Daulceur sculp. et inv._ is reproduced on p. 218, “Ladies’ Book-plates.”)

Madame Du Tailly.

Madame d’Alleray--after Durand.

There is also a delicate little plate of Mademoiselle d’Alleray, with the arms on a lozenge supported by a wild rosebush, which has been attributed to Louise Le Daulceur, but it is not signed. The original plate is in the possession of Dr. Bouland, President of the French Society, and impressions from it were issued with the “Archives de la Société Française,” in June, 1894.

LE DUC, VIOLLET. 19th cent.

LE FÉRON, _à Rennes_, 1767.

LEFÈVRE. 19th cent.

L. LE GRAND _sculp._ 18th cent.

Nameless armorial plate, for Madame Du Barry. Motto, “_Boutez en avant_.”

This plate was engraved by Le Grand after a design by Cochin fils some time before 1774. It has two shields and supporters, and what is somewhat unusual in French book-plates, there is a crest above the coronet.

Poulet-Malassis is of opinion that this plate was little used by Madame Du Barry, whose books, handsomely bound in red morocco, bore her arms stamped in gold on the sides. Louis XV. remarked, “La Marquise de Pompadour avait plus de livres que la comtesse, mais ils n’étaient pas si bien reliés, ni si bien choisis.”

LEGROS, ALPHONSE. 19th cent.

About 1874, this artist (who then resided in London) engraved the copper for the well-known _Ex libris Léon Gambetta_, of which only a few impressions were taken, and these were never employed as book-plates.

Forgeries exist, and have been sold by the dealers in large numbers.

The original plates may be known by a small circle on the bottom left-hand corner of the design in which are the letters A.B. See “Archives de la Société Française,” April, 1895, with which was issued an impression from the original copper.

LEGUAY, EUGÈNE. Modern.

Ex Libris Eugène Leguay. Reproduced in “Ex-Libris Ana.”

LEJEUNE. 18th cent.

LE KEUX, J. H. Mr. Le Keux, although of French Huguenot descent worked in England all his life, and died in Durham on February 4, 1896. He is best known from his engravings for the architectural works by Pugin, Ruskin, Wright and others.

He did a handsome seal book-plate for himself, and others for English owners; indeed, his name is only included here because its French appearance might mislead an inexperienced collector.

E. libris Juliane Boyd. 1877.

Edward Arthur White, F.S.A. 1878. Seal.

LELOIR. Modern.

M. Maurice Faulque de Jonquières. Fantaisie.

LEMAIRE _sculp._ 18th cent.

Ex libris Caroli Ludovici Alexandri de Beauffort, Marchionis de Beauffort et de Mondicourt. Armorial. See “Archives de la Société Française,” vol. i., p. 140.

LEMAITRE, 1772.

LE MASSON, ANTOINE. 17th cent.

N. LE MIRE _inv. et sculp._

On the allegorical ex-libris of the author, J. B. Descamps.

Ex libris J. J. Isambert, 1746. Armorial; pictorial.

He also engraved the elaborate nameless plate of M. de Montaynard, designed by Ch. Eisen. This design was afterwards appropriated for the book-plate of M. de Noyel. (See Poulet-Malassis, pp. 28, 31.)

“N. Le Mire _sculp._ 1777” on a plate designed by J. Moreau for the Marquis de Rognes. (See Moreau.)

LE ROUX, J. 1704.

Nicolas Remy Frizon de Blamont, Président au Parlement. Signed “J. Le Roux f. à Paris le 14 aoûst 1704.” M. Frizon de Blamont had another plate dated 1694. (See “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” p. 66.)

J. LE ROY _fecit_ 1782.

Des Livres de Mr. Dubut Curé de Viroflay, etc.

Armorial; ecclesiastical. (See reproduction.)

(This artist must not be confounded with Cl. Roy.)

LE SAGE. 18th cent.

LETORT, _Graveur._ _Rue Castiglione_. Modern.

T. J. Foord Bowes. Armorial.

LE VEAU.

Ex libris de Brinon.

Ex libris Jouvencel.

LIZARS. 19th cent.

E. LOIZELET _sculp._ Juin, 1876.

Ex Libris A. Beurdeley.

A floral design.

LORDONNÉ _f._ Adole.

De Saporta. Armorial.

Motto, “_Fortis Custodia_.”

LOREAU _à St. Omer_. 18th cent.

Louis de Givenchy. Armorial.

LORPHELIN _à Clermont_.

Nameless decorated armorial.

LORTHIER _f._ 18th cent.

De la Biblioteque de Lélarge Officier au grenier à sel de Reims.

This rococo plate is reproduced in “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” page 76. The Lélarge family still exists in Reims.

JOANNES DE LOYSI _fecit_, 1659.

Nameless armorial, two varieties. Qy. Philippe.

LOYSI, P. DE. See P. Deloysi.

LUC. 19th cent.

LUCAS _delineav. et fec._ à M. le Mquis de Courtarvel.

Armorial. Military trophy. 18th cent.

LUSSAUT. 18th cent.

C. M. M.

Ant. Duchene. Prevot des Batims. du Roi. Armorial.

MAINGOURD, E. 19th cent.

MAJOR, _sc._ 1747.

On a nameless plate, designed by H. Gravelot, with the motto “_Facies mutat semperque decenter_.”

MALBESTE, _à Paris_, 1827.

Ex Bibliotheca Seren^{mi}. Principis Friderici de Salm-Kyrburg, anno 1827. Mantled armorial.

MANDORMET _ft._ 17--.

Ex Musæo Cli. Imbert.

Armorial.

MANESSE, H. 19th cent.

MANESSIER. 18th cent.

MANFUI _f._

L’abbé Johann Bapti Berna. Literary.

R. G. MANUEL _inv._ 18th cent.

Rud. Gab. Manuel. Armorial.

LÉOPOLD MAR, _Paris_.

Ex Libris L. Mar 1895.

MARCHAND. 18th cent.

C. C. MARECHAL, 1785.

On a nameless plate with the inscription: “_Papier parley, quand less Bouche se taisent_” (_sic_).

MARETZ. 17th cent.

P. MARILLIER _inv. et del._ 1779 on the armorial _Ex Libris Duché_, engraved by De Launay le jeune. (See reproduction.)

MAROTTE, LÉON. Modern.

Designed and engraved an interesting plate for J. Cartault. Motto, “_Chacun à son tour._”

A. MARTIAL _f._ Imp. Beillet, Quai de la Tournelle, 35, Paris.

On the library interior of Henry d’Ideville, dated 1867, with the motto, “_Fais ce que dois advienne que pourra._”

MARTINET _del. fec._

Ex Libris J. T. Aubry.

Monogram. 18th cent.

Ex libris Joannis Thomae Aubry. Doct. Theol. Soc. Sorb. Rectoris S. Ludovici in insulâ. Motto, “_Ite ad vendentes et emite vobis._”

J. T. Aubry was curé de Saint Louis en I’lle, Paris.

See “Les Bibliophiles Rémois,” page 180.

MATH (Mathan). 17th cent.

MATHEY _Sculp._

Mr. Brochant du Breiul, Conseiller au Parlement. Armorial. 18th cent.

MATTHIS, C. E. Alsatian artist.

“_A mon cher ami Louis Mohr_, 1879.” This plate has the lines:

“_Tel est le triste sort de tout livre prêté,

Souvent il est perdu, toujours il est gâté_.”

See “Ex-Libris Alsaciens.”

MAUGEIN, M. 18th cent.

MAURISET. 18th cent.

MAURISSET, J. C. 18th cent.

MAVELOT, _Graveur de Mademoiselle_.

Louis François du Bouchet, Marquis de Souches conseiller d’Estat prevost de L’Hostel et Grand Prevost de France. 17th cent.

MEISSONIER. Modern.

This famous artist signed with his well-known monogram the plate for Vigeant, the fencing master. It represents two monkeys with drawn swords.

Motto, “_Ense Vigeant_.”

MERCADIER, J. 18th cent.

“_J. Mercadier inv. et sculp._” on the very fine armorial ecclesiastical plate:--

Franciscus Tristanus de Cambon Episcopus Mirapiscencis. Plate mark 9½×7.

MERCHÉ _fecit._

A L’Hospital Comtesse, 1753. A lady’s armorial plate.

Mr. Taverne de Burgault, 1771. Armorial.

MERCHÉ _à Lille_.

Henricus Le Couvreur canonicus Ipprensis.

(The coronet was cut out at the time of the Revolution.)

Felix de Wavrans, Episc. Iprensis, 1762. Armorial.

Mr. le Ch^{er}. de Palys Montrepos, 1769. Armorial.

MERCHÉ, _Graveur des Etats, à Lille_, 1772.

J. Bowens. 1772. Armorial.

J. C. D. MERCHÉ, 1786.

MERLOT _Fecit._

Le Chevalier de la Cressonniere. Armorial. 18th cent.

C. MERVES _del. Imp. Lemercier & Cie._, 1887.

Ex Libris F. N. J. Edouard Schutzenberger ancien bâtonnier de l’ordre des avocats de St. Dié. Pictorial.

MESSAGER _Sculp._

Ex Libris Joannis Baptistae Rivière. Regis Poloniae Elect. Saxon. Legationia Secretarii. Pictorial. 18th cent.

METIVET, L. Modern.

Bibliothèque Eug. Jacob. Angels on Jacob’s ladder, signed _L. M._

METZGER, J. R. (of Strasbourg).

Designed and engraved the armorial plate, “Ex bibliotheca Schoepfliniana” in 1762. See “Ex-Libris Alsaciens,” p. 33.

P. H. CHAPPRON MEUSNIER _inv. et sculp._ on the Ex Libris Chappron, 1762.

MICAUD _fec._ 18th cent.

F. N. E. Droz. Causidici Acad. Bisunt (Besançon) socii. Armorial; pictorial. Female figure holding a MS. inscribed “_Histoire de Pontarlier_.”

J. MICHEL _de Genève_.

Signed “_Michel fecit, Arelatensis_” on a nameless armorial, dated 1727, and “_Michel fecit Arelate_ (Arles) on the armorial Ex Libris D. G. De Loinville, 1727.

“_J. Michel inven, et incidit Avenione_” (Avignon), on a nameless armorial, dated 1730.

“_J. Michel Genevensis inv. deli et incidit Avenione_” on the armorial plate of Villeneuve de Martignan, 1732.

“_Michel sculp._” on the armorial ex libris of D. De Pellissier, 1732, and of Andrae Barthel dated 1733.

MICHEL, MARIUS.

Monogram plate.

MILLIÈRE _sculp._, 1782. _Jombert inv._

D. P. (De Prony). Floral design.

MOITTE. 18th cent.

MONCHI, DE. 18th cent.

C. MONET _del._

Ex libris Souchay, Eq^{is}., Lugduni, 1776. Engraved by P. P. Choffard. Reproduced in “Ex-Libris Ana.” Poulet-Malassis ascribes another plate to him, signed “_Monnet inv. D’Elvaux sc._”

MONIER _sculp._

Ludovico Vacher Pastori Vitellensi, 1768. (Curé de Vitteaux, Côte D’Or.)

A punning armorial. (See reproduction.)

L. MONNIER _fecit._ _Divione_ 1762.

Ex Libris P. A. Convers Laudonensis. Armorial.

MONNIER. 18th cent.

Ex Libris Claudii Thibault, 1768. Armorial festoon.

L. MONNIER, Modern.

Le Belin. Canting arms.

J. D. DE MONTALEGRE _fecit._ 18th cent.

On a nameless plate, query of Polycarp Muellen, about 1740. Pictorial. P.M. in monogram. Two sizes.

FRANÇOIS MONTULAY _fecit._

Ex Libris Delaleu. 1754. Armorial; pictorial. (See reproduction.)

MONTULAY _lenée_.

(For Montulay l’aïné.)

Signed a nameless armorial book-plate for Jules-Hardouin Mansart, the celebrated architect, who was Director of Public Buildings under Louis XIV. 17th cent.

J. N. MOREAU, _le Jeune_ signed _inv. et sculp._, 1770, on the armorial plate “Du Cabinet de livres de A. P. de Fontenay, Sgr. de Sommant,” etc.; and _J. Moreau del._ on the Ex libris Marquis de Rognes, 1777.

“_Moreau sculp._” on the Ex Libris Ludovici des Champs des Tournelles.

“_Moreau in. fecit_ 1768” on a nameless armorial.

“_Moreau i. et s._.” on the nameless armorial of Moreau d’Hemery, and _J.M. Moreau jeune_ on a nameless plate, dated 1766. (See Poulet-Malassis, page 63.)

C. MOTTEROZ _Imp._ Modern.

De la Bibliothèque de Jules Richard.

MOULINNEUF. 18th cent.

MOYNIER, L. Modern.

Ex Libris L. Moynier, 1873. Monogram.

MOYREAU, MME. 18th cent.

MÜLLER. 1779.

J. Reuss. Armorial; pictorial. (_Par son ami Müller_ 1779.) See p. 329.

NICOLE _à Nancy_.

Nameless armorial plate, 1744, and another dated 1745, said to be for Le Preudhomme de Fontenay.

Mr. L’Abbé de Seichamps, 1747. Armorial.

Mr. le Président Gallois, Con^{sr}. d’Etat. 1763. Armorial.

De la Bibliothèque de Linsigne Eglise Primatialle de Lorraine, 1767.

(See reproduction.)

Le Chevalier Dumars de Vaudoncour, etc., 1753.

Armorial; pictorial.

Mr. de Provenchères. 1762. Armorial. No motto.

And a large number of other dated plates.

NICOLE _fils, à Nancy_, 1754, 1755.

NION. 18th cent.

NOBLIN. 18th cent.

AD. NOEL _gr._ Modern.

Ex Libris de Marie Georgel.

Reproduced on page 219, “Ladies’ Book-plates.”

PIERRE NOLIN, 1650.

Signed an armorial plate for “Charles, Marquis et Comte de Rostaing,” and “Mre. Simon Chauuel, Chevalier Seigneur de la Pigeonnière, Conseiller du Roy,” etc., both of which were reproduced in the “Trésor Héraldique Armorial,” published by Charles Segoing in 1657, containing copies of more than sixty other book-plates either by Pierre Nolin, or borrowed by him from the owners, or from other engravers. (See Poulet-Malassis, page 25.)

NONOT _fecit._ 18th cent.

Manchon. Armorial.

NONOT, CHARLOTTE. 18th cent.

T. NOUVIAN _sculp._ Modern.

Léon Germain, Nancy. (See reproduction.)

OBERKAMPFF. Modern.

Ex Libris Bilco. Literary.

OBLIN _sc._

Bibliothèque de Mr. Berryer. Armorial festoon. Berryer had another armorial plate, not signed.

(See reproduction.)

OGIER, _à Lyon_, 1696.

And signed _Ogier fe Lugduni_ (Lyons), 1704, on the nameless plate of Froissard-Broissia.

OLLIVAULT _à Rennes_. 18th cent.

J. C. Villers. Books, violin, etc.

De la Bibliothèque de Laussat.

Ex Libris de Mr. de Sarrobert. Armorial.

OLLIVAULT, _à Paris_, 1788.

Madame du Bu de Longchamp, 179-.

Livres de M. N. de Château-Giron. A charming design. Motto, “_Pensez y ce que vous voudrez_.”

Reproduced in “Ex-Libris Ana,” page 20.

P. PAGNIER, 1879.

Ex Bibli. Lardet. Armorial.

M. PALAISEAU _sc._

Ex Libris Alphei Cazenave Doct^{is}. Medici: 1835.

Ex Libris Le Roy, Doct^{is}. Medici. 1835.

PALLIÈRE, F. 18th cent.

De la Bibliothèque de Mr. de Polverel, Ecuyer. Avocat au Parlement.

Decorated armorial.

Lamouroux. Armorial.

PALLUET, DU.

J. A. T. Chambon de Contagnet. Armorial. No motto.

PAPILLON.