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BOOK PLATES AND 
 THEIR VALUE. 
 
 EX 
 
 J. H. SLATEE. 
 
 JBditor 0/ " Book Pbiobs CuBEBNT " and "SaI;B Prices;" 
 
 Author of " The Libbaey Manuaii," " Early Editions," 
 
 " Engravings and Their Value," 
 
 " Round and About the Bookstalls," 
 
 &c., &c. 
 
 ENGLISH AND AMEEICAN PLATES. 
 
 London : 
 
 HENRY GRANT, 
 47, Essex Street, Strand, London, W.C. 
 
 1898. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 This Book is introduced as a handy Amateur's G-uide to 
 the Collection and Study of Book-Plates. The object in 
 ■writing it has been to ear-mark, as it were, a selection of 
 the most noticeable plates and to assign them, in as few words 
 as possible, to the respective classes to which they belong, 
 as well as to take a popular survey of the subject of Book- 
 Plate Collectiag. 
 
 I think that the priced catalogue of plates contained in 
 the second part of the work may not be without its uses, 
 while the advantage of having, for the first time, an 
 alphabetical list of some of the m^ost representative specimens 
 to refer to, will be sufficiently obvious. 
 
 J. H. S. 
 
 London. 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 Chapter I. — ^A Survey: Introductory and Historical 9 
 
 „ II. — Systems of Classification ... ... 27 
 
 ,i III. — ^Noted Engravers of English Plates ... 45 
 
 „ IV. — American Plates ... S6 
 
 „ V. — The Principles of Valuation 66 
 
 Alphabetical List of some of the most 
 noted Book-Plates arranged under 
 their owners' names with the prices 
 
 realised at auction for the same ... 81 
 
PART I. 
 
 ON THE SUBJECT GENERALLY. 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 A Survey : Inteoductoet and Histoeicai. 
 
 On tTirning to that almost inexhaustible storehouse of 
 
 useful information — ^"The Gentleman's Magazine" — ^we 
 
 find on page 613, vol. xcii., part 2, the following curious 
 
 entry: — 
 
 This is to give notice to the gentlemen and ladies whose arms 
 are engraved on the plates of the equestrian statue of Ejng 
 James, published by Joseph Barber, music and copper-plate 
 printer, in Humble's-buildings, Newcastle, that the publisher, 
 being the sole proprietor of the plates, has cut out separately 
 each gentleman's coat of arms from the copper plate, and pro- 
 poses to deliver to each gentleman, whose arms are inserted, 
 the plate of his arms and one himdred prints on fine paper at 
 the price of 2s. 6d. The design of this proposal is a useful and 
 necessary embellishment, and a remedy against losing books, 
 by lending, or having them stolen ; by pasting one print on the 
 inside of the cover of each book, you have the owner's name, 
 coat of arms, and place of abode; a thing so useful and the 
 charge so easy, 'tis hoped will meet with encouragement. 
 
 This notice or advertisement was issued by the above- 
 mentioned Joseph Barber, a bookseller, carrying on business 
 at Newcastle in 1743, who seems to contend that, although 
 he may not have been the inventor of this special method 
 
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 of preserving books from the iron grasp of the borrower or 
 the thief, he was at any rate the first to introduce it into 
 that part of the country in which he lived. Barber, indeed, 
 seems to have been a man of resource, for, having obtained 
 all available subscriptions to the print itself, he next be- 
 thought him of the excellent plan of cutting up the copper 
 plates which contained the names and arms of the sub- 
 scribers, and thus, as it were, reaping subscriptions from 
 subscriptions by inventing a new use for old material. The 
 armorials were If inches by IJ inches in size, eminently 
 suitable for the purpose to which it was proposed to put 
 them. 
 
 The history of the equestrian statue, as related by Mr. 
 W. J. Hardy, on page 12 of the new (1897) edition of his 
 " Book-Plates," is distinctly worth giving in brief. It seems 
 that in the year 1685 the Town Council of Newcastle-on- 
 Tyne had voted £800 for the erection of " a figure of His 
 Majesty in a Roman habit, on a capering horse, in copper, 
 as big as the figure of His Majesty, King Charles I., at 
 Charing Crosse, on a pedestal of black marble." The work 
 was carried out with the approval of Sir Christopher Wren, 
 and the effigy of King James the Second accordingly stood 
 in the Sandhill Market until his flight, when it was un- 
 ceremoniously pitched into the Tyne, to be fished up later 
 on and cast into church bells, doubtless in a spirit of the 
 
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 deepest irony. Sir Hans Sloane possessed the original 
 drawing of the statue, and from this Barber made his en- 
 graving, in smticipation, no doubt, of a big sale when the 
 war-clouds which were gathering from all quarters of Scot- 
 land should burst and aimihilate the enemies of the Stuarts. 
 Though the course of events led to a precisely contrary 
 result, the ingenious Jacobite seems to have been in some 
 measure rewarded, for books are extant containing the 
 labels which he describes in his advertisement. These labels 
 are in fact, ex libris, crude and rough in design, but scarce 
 and valuable by reason of their history and associations. 
 
 This reference in " The Gentleman's Magazine " to what 
 we now know as " Book-Plates " was reproduced by 
 Thomas Moule, on page 367 of his " Bibliotheca Heraldica," 
 1822, but that work, having nothing to do, except inci- 
 dentally, with the subject imder discussion, I pass it by 
 with the remark that the author has unwittingly preserved 
 one of the earliest references to the practice of pasting slips 
 inside the covers of books by way of asserting the owner- 
 ship of them. That it is not absolutely the earliest refer- 
 ence is plain, for on the 21st of July, 1668, seventy-five 
 years before the days of Barber, Samuel Pepys had written 
 in his diary, "Went to my plate-makers, and there spent 
 an hour about contriving my little plates, for my books of 
 the King's Four Yards," a phraseology which impUes that 
 
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 these little plates for books were even then no new things, 
 and may, consequently, have been written of before on 
 many occasions. For my part, however, I know of no 
 earlier reference than this of Pepys, though, of course, Book 
 Plates themselves, if not written about, have been in exist- 
 ence and used in precisely the same way as we use them 
 now for hundreds of years. Mention has, indeed, been 
 made of three plates dating from, or, rather, assigned to, 
 the middle of the 15th century, but precision and accuracy 
 are no more to be expected in this matter than they are in 
 questions relating to the invention of the various styles of 
 engraving, the origin of every one of which, except the 
 Mezzotinto process, is distinctly open to doubt. 
 
 There is, indeed, no very strong authority in support of 
 the age of any so-called 15th century book-plate, and under 
 all the circumstances the designs made by Albrecht Diirer 
 for Jerome Ebner in 1516 and for Bihbald Pirckheimer 
 about the year 1503 (assigned by some authorities to about 
 1524), may be conveniently looked upon as foremost of all 
 plates in point of time. Bartsch describes the genuine 
 Pirckheimer plate (there are copies) in the 7th volume of 
 " Le Peintre-Graveur," page 192, where we read, " Deux 
 ecus soutenus par deux genies ailes, au dessus desquels est 
 ecrit; sibi et amicis P. Dans la marge du bas on ht: 
 Liber Bilihaldi Pirckheimer: dans celle du haut est une 
 
IS 
 
 inscription en hebreu, une seconde en langue grecque et la 
 suivante en latin : Iniciiim sapientia timor domini." Diirer 
 also designed a dated portrait plate for the same person and 
 many other plates as well, his own included, all of which 
 Bartsch catalogues under the generic title, " Les Armoiries." 
 Some of these are supposed, not without reason, to have 
 been also specially ordered for affixing in books, a-nd one in 
 particular actually bears the reason for its existence on the 
 face of it — ^the "Liber Hieronymi Ebner, 1516," mentioned 
 above. Some authorities are of opinion that this Ebner 
 plate is older than the undated Pirckheimer label, but the 
 question is too iatricate, and, from our point of view, un- 
 important to be worth arguing. It may be noted, however, 
 that Pirckheimer anticipated the celebrated inscription, " lo 
 Grrolierii et Amicorum," by several years. 
 
 We in England were slow to taJie example in matters of 
 this kind, for it was not until 1574 that Sir Nicholas Bacon 
 imported the German custom of employing moveable ex 
 libris to indicate ownership. His is the earliest English en- 
 graved book-plate at present known, in fact, it is one of the 
 two which were produced in this country prior to the year 
 1600, the other being the plate designed for Sir Thomas 
 Tresham in 1585. This seems a bald ra:ord to boast of, 
 but very probably the flood of Ught which is now being 
 directed to ex lihris not merely in the mass, which would be 
 
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 of little account, but in minute detail, wiU eventually dis- 
 close other sixteenth century English plates. Not that they 
 are at all likely to be numerous, for singularly few examples 
 engraved prior to the Eestoration are preserved to us, and 
 we may be certain that the activity of a hundred years, 
 which harS no greater result to show than this, cannot have 
 been remarkable. 
 
 Difficult as the origin of the book-plate would be to dis- 
 cover, it would be infinitely more laborious to trace the 
 first collector and to establish his identity. It is assumed, 
 but rashly, that collectors of book-plates are the most recent 
 recruits to the ranks of the covetous, that the desire for 
 acquiring what one dictionary calls " a piece of paper 
 stamped or engraved with a name or device and pasted in 
 a book to show the ownership," is a new and strange mania 
 which seized upon a few of us but yesterday, maintains its 
 grip to-day with difficulty, and to-morrow may vanish com- 
 pletely as though it had never been. I do not pretend to 
 know who first bethought him to coUect other people's book- 
 plates; this most probably is a secret that will never be 
 disclosed, for antiquarians are not gossips, and seldom com- 
 mit their thoughts or acts to paper without some very good 
 and specific reason. It is, however, a mistake to assume 
 that the collector has no pedigree ; that he sprang up like a 
 mushroom in the night. 
 
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 So far back as 1823 one " C. S. B." waxed eloquent on the 
 subject of book-pjates (see "Gentleman's Magazine,'' vol. 
 xciii., page 198), and describes with pride the plate of Sir 
 Francis Fust, of Hill Court, in Gloucestershire, which 
 afPorded "a splendid heraldic display and may be also 
 interesting to the Bibliophilist when he is informed that 
 this family (Fust), now extinct in this country, was said to 
 be the same which produced the immortal printer of 
 Mentz." And then this correspondent continues in words 
 to which many people of artistic tastes wUl probably demur, 
 " I beg to add, that, although Book-Plates are engraved by 
 an inferior class of artists, yet we have one or two extant 
 by the hand of the celebrated Hogarth, which from their 
 rarity, are eagerly sought after by the curious collector." 
 
 And thus we have proof positive that in the year 1823 
 there were collectors who eagerly sought for engraved plates 
 by Hogarth, whose name indeed is remarkable in another 
 connection, namely, that it is in John Ireland's " Hogarth 
 Illustrated," the first volume of which appeared in 1791, 
 that the word "Book-Plate" is used, so far as is known, 
 for the first time. The author says, " The works of 
 Callot were probably his first models, and shop-biUs and 
 book-plates his first performances," and these we are told 
 elsewhere were sold for the most part to Mr. Bowles at the 
 Black Horse in Cornhill for the weight of the copper plates. 
 
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 The mere fact that no symptoms of genius dawn in these 
 plates, a remark which must, by the way, be credited to 
 Horace WaJpole aad not to me, did not in the least diminish 
 the desire to possess them, and to this day they take high 
 rank with those of WiUiam Marshall, Eobert White, George 
 Vertue, Thomas Bewick and many other masters. 
 
 The comparative antiquity of book-plate collecting is also 
 testified to by Dr. Howard, who, writing in "Notes and 
 Queries " on the 30th of June, 1877, informs us that forty 
 years before that he had commenced a collection of heraldic 
 book-plates which then contained upwards of 20,000 ex- 
 amples, and then he continues, " Miss Jenkins, of Bath, 
 made a large collection of these plates about the year 1820. 
 This collection, contained in four quarto volumes, and 
 numbering over 5,000 examples, was purchased by me at 
 Messrs. Puttick and Simpson's sale rooms many years ago. 
 I also obtained subsequently the collection of foreign book- 
 plates made by Dr. WeUesley, of Oxford. Many of these 
 are remarkable examples, some being struck off on vellum, 
 and others dating from the latter half of the sixteenth cen- 
 tury. With the exception of a few book-plates collected by 
 Bagford, now in the British Museum, I never heard of any 
 other collections." There were such collections, however, 
 and enthusiastic collectors, too, if the testimony of 
 " C. S. B." is of any value, and no doubt designs by famous 
 
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 artists would almost at any time, irrespective altogether of 
 the purpose for which they were intended, attract the 
 attention of connoisseurs. 
 
 Indeed, to this day, the fame of a designer or engraver 
 often establishes the interest and even pecuniary value of 
 a plate and elevates it to a position which the owner, 
 possibly a mere nobody, could never have anticipated. We 
 can well imagine that the early days of an artist's career 
 are not always, or, indeed, often, spent in luxurious ease, 
 and that any commission, however small, would be accept- 
 able as an earnest of greater things to come. As many a 
 pictiure painted in youth's early day against pressure of 
 circumstances, more or less acute, afterwards becomes of 
 paramount importance by reason of the artistic comparison 
 it is capable of affording, so some book-plates have also this 
 valuable attribute. They often represent early commissions 
 executed with the greatest skUl the artist had it in his 
 power at the time to bestow, and as such are or may be of 
 the greatest interest and value. Hence, rightly or wrongly, 
 this cardinal rule is advanced, to be accepted or rejected at 
 the pleasure of the reader, but which, in any case, is not 
 devoid of reason, that the highest quality a valuable book- 
 plate is capable of possessing has reference to the artist who 
 produced it. This assertion is of a dual nature, depending 
 upon (1) the identity of the artist, (2) his work and its 
 details, but not necessarily the quality of the design. 
 
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 In accordance with, this rule, one of Hogarth's early 
 eSorts, even though it should disclose "no symptoms of 
 genius " whatever, is to be preferred to the most elaborate 
 and artistic design that matured contemporary skill can 
 produce. A plate by Hogarth is a most important step, so 
 to speak, in a marvellous career. A modem design may 
 certainly for anything we know to the contrary, be highly 
 prized hereafter as the early work of some artist now in his 
 age of neglect, but the chances are enormously against such 
 a contingency, and, moreover, collectors of book-plates are 
 increasing in number daily and designs are no longer 
 evolved from the braias of struggling geniuses in embryo. 
 This scrap of business has left their hands long ago and 
 passed iato those of specialists hasting to be rich. 
 
 Another rule which I consider applicable, though only in 
 the second degree, has reference solely to the owner of a 
 book-plate, and yet it must be admitted that from one point 
 of view all sorts of embarrasing questions might arise from 
 the secondary position assigned to it. For instance, is a 
 fine specimen of the plate which Hogarth designed for the 
 Foundling Hospital in 1747, to be preferred to the gift 
 plate which "The Most Noble Rachel Dutchess of Beau- 
 fort" caused to be designed in 1706? Both are very rare, 
 and from a pecuniary point of view perhaps there is not 
 very much to choose between them. Both are distiactly 
 
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 desirable and perhaps it is just as impossible to draw a 
 general comparison between them as it is to estimate the 
 relative utUity of dissimilar objects. 
 
 Nevertheless, it is submitted that in the case put, the 
 choice should logically fall upon the plate by Hogarth, for 
 the reason that has already been stated. Although the 
 design of the Beaufort plate is in some respects the superior 
 of the two, yet it cannot compete with its later rival in any 
 single point except this. The sentiment attaching to it is 
 not the same, and artistically it is not of equal importance, 
 though possibly of superior merit. Therefore, the rule 
 holds in this case as in all others, except a few which will 
 prove exceptions to it, that the. artist is to be preferred to 
 the owner, assuming both to be relatively of equal standing 
 in the eyes of the world. On the other hand, where one is 
 vastly more popular than the other, then no rule is neces- 
 sary to distinguish what has been pubhcly recognised, and 
 the collector will, of course, choose that which his discretion 
 wiU at once tell hiTn must necessarily be preferable. 
 
 But it will be said that the vast majority of book-plates 
 have not the distinguishing features which have been 
 assumed to exist in these two instances, and this is so true 
 that we may safely assiune that seventeen specimens at 
 least, out of twenty, which come to the hands of the col- 
 lector are remarkable for nothing except possibly a 
 
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 modicTun of artistic merit. In these cases, scajrcity is the 
 chief consideration, and £is scarcity is brought into being in 
 two ways, either by reason of a very few specimens having 
 been originally produced, or because all want what only a 
 limited number can have, it becomes advisable to carefully 
 note what plates have been found by experience to be more 
 difficult to procure than others and also to distinguish the 
 various degrees of scarcity that exist among them. 
 
 For some time past, collectors have been in the habit of 
 classifying their plates, not so much with regard to the 
 periods from which they date as by reference to the style 
 in which they are executed. The convenience of this system 
 is that, generally speaking, a chronological arrangement is 
 preserved, for it has been found that, as in the case of 
 prints properly so called, style is a variable and yet imita- 
 tive quantity, which can often be assigned to a definite 
 period or era, with great precision and accuracy. 
 
 With regard to quite modern plates, however, by which I 
 mean those which are being designed every day for contem- 
 porary collectors of books, there is no hard and fast rule 
 which could be called into requisition for purposes of 
 classification. Some collectors arrange plates of this kind 
 with reference to the names of the artists, of whom there 
 are many in America, as well as with us, who are possessed 
 of a skill which would have been accounted rare in any age. 
 
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 Others classify according to subjects, it being the fashion at 
 the present time to design what may be called " Picturesque 
 Plates," in which various styles are more or less happily 
 blended, so that arrangement by reference to style is, in 
 these instances, out of the question. Other collectors take 
 the owners' names, and arrange alphabetically as they did 
 in nearly all instances before the Hon. Leicester Warren 
 (the late Lord de Tabley) reduced the collection and study 
 of book-plates to a system. 
 
 It is a pity that Warren's " Guide to the Study of Bock- 
 Plates" is now so difficult to procure, for it occupies not 
 only the unique position of being the first work specially 
 devoted to the subject which ever appeared in this country, 
 but is, so far as its system of classification is concerned, 
 nearly always followed by collectors at the preseoit time. 
 Though not wishing to anticipate the ensuing chapter, 
 Warren's system of classification may now be briefly noted. 
 
 In the first place, he recognises the leading styles 
 of English Book-Plates to be (a) The Jacobean ; (h) 
 The Chippendale, the former covering a period roughly 
 spoken of as from 1700 to 1745, and the latter constituting 
 a leading artistic fashion in English ex libris after 1750. 
 Then he proceeds to classify what he calls " occasional 
 fashions," such as (e) allegoric book-plates, which, when 
 historically considered, may have been evolved from such 
 
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 examples of the Jacobean ex lihris " as present to us their 
 frames most heavily adorned with angels, term-figures, 
 amorini, or satyr's heads " ; (d) Landscape Plates, which 
 Thomas Bewick made fashionable ; («) Plates of Historic 
 interest, noticeable, not on accoimt of any special features 
 they possess, but simply and solely on the ground of their 
 being associated with great names ; (/) English dated Book- 
 Plates of the 17th and 18th centuries ; {g) Plates remark- 
 able as containing mottoes directed against borrowers, or 
 concerning books, or in praise of study ; and, finally (li) 
 Plates designed by talented artists, from the era of William 
 Marshall, an engraver who practised in London between the 
 years 1591 and 1649, to the days of Skinner, of Bath, 
 Bartolozzi, Bewick, and Perkins and Heath, the last-named 
 of whom engraved the weU-known armorial plate of the 
 Duke of Sussex. 
 
 Such are the main features of Warren's classification, 
 which, considering the almost complete absence of English 
 literature bearing upon the subject at the time in which 
 he wrote (1880), is a conspicuous example of skilful hand- 
 ling. Of late, a great deal has been done by other writers 
 in the way of sub-division, and no doubt as time goes on and 
 the subject continues to attract attention, a more minute 
 analysis will be adopted by the principal collectors who, in 
 pursuance of the well-known and invariable rule, wiU cer- 
 
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 tainly carry with them the great majority of their fellows 
 and cause a complete revolution in the whole system of 
 airangement. Already there are signs of this. Ladies' 
 .Book-Plates, having been found for the most part scarce, 
 have a treatise to themselves, and an era anterior to the 
 Jacobean is sometimes recognised in the " Tudoresque," 
 which embraces the most ancient English plates known to 
 exist, the "Carolian" style and that attributed to the 
 artists of the Restoration period. 
 
 A good deal has been said of late about what has been 
 called the " morality " of collecting Book-Plates, and it seems 
 to me that the word is capable of two interpretations accord- 
 ing to the point of view from which it is regarded. When 
 a plate is removed from the cover of a book, either one or 
 the other or both may or may not be materially injiired 
 according to circumstances. If the volxime belonged to a 
 man of world-wide renown, as evidenced by his plate which 
 has remained on the cover ever since he pasted it there, 
 peirhaps a century or more ago, it would not only be highly 
 " immoral," but extremely foolish to detach it. The 
 pecuniary value of the book would fall appreciably^ and the 
 plate itseK would lose most of its associations. And here 
 comes a point which no collector of book-plates can afford to 
 overlook. The proper place for a label of this kind is un- 
 doubtedly on the inside cover of a book, and I predict that 
 
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 sooner or later a drastic rule wiU be laid down, and in- 
 sisted upon by wealthy collectors, that the value of a plate 
 is enhanced when it is found in its natural position. 
 Then wiU come the days of worthless volumes franked by 
 lordly plates, the microscope and the rest of it. 
 
 Collectors of every kind of object and of every rank and 
 grade, are, at first, broad in their views, then they become 
 exclusive, and finally so highly technical in their demands, 
 that cult arises within cult, and money becomes paramount. 
 Thirty years ago who would have dreamed of paying £100 
 for a postage stamp "with original gum"? Gum, or no 
 gum, it would have sold perhaps for 5s., an absurd and 
 outrageous price in the opinion of those to whom private 
 collections are anathema or at the best afford a simple and 
 childlike excuse for spending a maximum of money in the 
 shortest possible space of time. 
 
 And so, if experience and the evidence furnished by past 
 days are of any value at all, will it be with book-plates, the 
 most recent objects of the collector's regard. At present 
 rules are comparatively few, but after a whUe their number 
 and stringency wiU assuredly increase. The collector will 
 be fettered when all sorts of minute and arbitrary dis- 
 tinctions are invoked to establish " uniquity." Trial plates 
 and proofs, many with "errors," are almost certain to be 
 discovered in quantities later on. The collection of book- 
 
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 plates will then become a science, and their thorough appre- 
 ciation an art. The collector must, moreover, mate up his 
 mind to he abused without stint. He has already been dis- 
 tinguished (to his discredit) from the book-lover, and wiU 
 more than ever be charged with ruining the appearance of 
 valuable works for the mere sake of some worthless bits of 
 paper to which his unhealthy desires have gravitated. He 
 wiQ be classed with John Bagford, the shoemaker of the 
 Turnstiles, who formed the finest collection of title-pages in 
 existence, and with his less intelligent and unholy crew 
 who went about within the memory of many yet hving, 
 ripping and tearing with the destructive energy of an army 
 of Goths. Yet, let none of these aspersions, nor many 
 more that will be levelled, disturb his gravity, nor check his 
 ardour, for if he be true to himself such charges wUl, we 
 may be sure, fail in their effect. 
 
 Against the accumulation of book-plates and inferentiaJly 
 against their manufacture also, for the former practice in- 
 evitably encourages the latter, there is but one single 
 objection, so far as I can see, which can possibly have any 
 weight with a judicial mind. 
 
 Years ago, before the book-plate was seen in almost every 
 library, fine bindings, many of them blazoned with the 
 arms and motto of their owner abounded. In those days 
 the wealthy had their books clothed to a pattern; their 
 shelves bore witness to the magic art of Le Gascon or 
 
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 Derome. Maioli, Grolier, Diane de Poictiers, Henri II. 
 and other kings of France, Madame de Maantenon and a 
 bevy of Royal favourites, bibliophiles by the score in every 
 rank of life, asserted their ownership of a book in such a 
 way that aU men who once saw but the outside of it could 
 never forget. Then there were other book-lovers who, 
 caring for none of these things, scribbled their autographs 
 on title-pages, a bad practice, possibly, for the mob to 
 foUow, but one that has, in certain cases, embalmed great 
 names and handed them down to us to be assimilated not 
 with our knowledge of history, but with day-dreams that 
 almost conjure up the bearers of them in the flesh again. 
 
 The universal use of the book-plate is fast introducing a 
 new order of things in both these respects, the efifect of 
 which will be more uncomfortably felt by the generations 
 yet to come than by us. Never again will some mighty 
 " O. Cromwell " record his name and virtues on the fly-leaf 
 of a battered Bible, nor will the name of Shakespeare's 
 prototype, for whom we are aU so anxiously waiting, appear 
 on a copy of the " Essayes of Montaigne," or on that of any 
 other book. Never will the library of any man glitter with 
 the beehive of the Duchesse du Maine, or Longepierre's 
 golden fleece. The book-plate has already almost banished 
 such evidences of ownership as these. Some day it may do 
 so entirely, to our bane, and herein hes the solitary objection 
 of which I spoke. 
 
CHAPTER n. 
 
 Systems of Classification. 
 
 It has akeady been pointed out that Warren's System of 
 Classification is the one very frequently adopted by col- 
 lectors of ex lihris at the present day, and that that author 
 ■was the first to place the study of them on an intelligible 
 basis. I do not know how many different EngHsh book- 
 plates there may be in the world, but certainly many 
 thousands, and it is reaUy very surprising how these can 
 be marshalled into order, and classified and arranged merely 
 by reference to style. Every now and then a plate will 
 appear which is of irregular design, having reference to the 
 period when it was engraved, but these are comparatively 
 few in niunber, and, moreover, are rarely completely out- 
 side the pale of the dominant fashion of the time. Even 
 these free-lances generally show some traces of contem- 
 porary art, and can therefore be assigned to their proper 
 position without diificulty. A scallop shell, deftly intro- 
 duced among a mass of fohage, or a slender plant blossoming 
 from a diminutive urn apparently without any reason at 
 all, and as it might be by the purest of accidents, is quite 
 
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 sufficient to justify an espert in ignoring prominent but 
 irregular features which in themselves would be sufficient 
 to embarrass him. We are not speaking now of quite 
 modem plates, many of which show a combination of styles 
 suggested by the past, and others no style at aU, but of 
 old plates, and those which were engraved up to within 
 twenty-five or thirty years ago, before the collection of 
 book-plates became a popular pursuit. Someday it wiU 
 become necessary to arrange contemporary book-plates into 
 classes, or, at any rate, to classify them on some principle, 
 but how this is to be done is not at all clear. Possibly, they 
 will be placed in alphabetical order under the owners' 
 names, probably under those of the designers or emgravears, 
 — but " the morrow shall take thought for the things of 
 itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evU thereof." 
 
 In this short monograph I have not, I am thankful to 
 say, been under the necessity of taking any notice of purely 
 modern plates, and, consequently, it is not incumbent upon 
 me to enter into details with regard to them. The arrange- 
 ment advocated by Mr. Egerton Castle in his "English 
 Book-Plates," may, however, be referred to as probably the 
 most satisfactory that has yet been attempted. He classifies 
 contemporary plates as follows : — 
 
 Armorial — ^Die-Sihker Style. 
 
 Seals and Vesicas. 
 
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 Printers' Mark Style. 
 
 Heraldic — ^Allegoric. 
 
 Heraldic — Symbolic. 
 
 Pictorial (Non-Heraldic). 
 It would certainly be a difficult matter to invent a design 
 which could escape one or other of these heads, but as name 
 labels are book-plates, if they are used as such, and as no 
 provision has been made for them, the artist-sophist need 
 not despair of inventing something which shall give the 
 experts so much trouble as to induce them to open an 
 account with irregularities of all kinds, luider one generic 
 head. As a contribution to the Ust, the plate which forms 
 the frontispiece to this little book may be welcome, it only 
 as the representative of the waifs and strays for which, 
 sooner or later, some provision will certainly have to be 
 made. The plate has been in existence several years, as will 
 be observed from the date, and not having been designed 
 with any object except the legitimate one of ear-marking a 
 considerable collection of works on astrology and other 
 occult subjects, is as much entitled to Hve as any other in 
 the whole history of books and book-men. 
 
 Leaving contemporary plates belonging to living persons, 
 and returning to the classification of those which are, after 
 aU, the most favoured specimens in every collection, we are 
 compelled, whether we like it or not, to follow the system 
 
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 devised by Warren. Special sales of book-plates have been 
 held by auction quite recently for the first time on record, 
 and the auctioneers have in every case followed the arrange- 
 ment of Warren, which has, as a consequence, become more 
 estabhshed than ever, though it is by no means immaculate. 
 AU the authors who have, since his day, approached the 
 subject have accepted the position because it has the pre- 
 ponderance of convenience in its favour, and also because, 
 on the whole, it is not without its merits. Yet the fact 
 remains that the so-caUed " Jacobean " style, for example, 
 is, and must be, from the very nature of the case, a mis- 
 nomer, for the particular style which passes by the name is 
 not observable until about the year 1700, unless the plate of 
 "John ReUly, of the Middle Temple, Esq.," which is dis- 
 tinctly " Jacobean " in style, can be assigned to a slightly 
 earlier period. But the last James left this country for its 
 good in 1688, and for that aU-sufficient reason an explana- 
 tion is essential. Warren gives this when he states that the 
 prevaiUng style of decoration existing in the days of James 
 II., is the same as that observable in most of the book-plates 
 which were engraved from about 1700 to 1745, and for that 
 reason he calls it "Jacobean," and to this extent is the 
 choice of the name justified. 
 
 Although I have, in the second portion of this work 
 catalogued a collection of book-plates in strict alphabetical 
 
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 order, yet it was foimd impracticable to dispense with the 
 use of the old terms which are undoubtedly in general use. 
 It consequently becomes necessary to explain them. 
 
 1. Baelt Aemokial, sub-divided by Mr. Egerton Castle 
 into — 
 
 The Tudoresque Style, which may be assigned to the 
 
 years 1574-1625. 
 The Carolian Style, in vogue from 1625 to 1660. 
 The Restoration Style, in vogue from 1660 to 1700. 
 The characteristics of the Early Armorial Style are — 
 
 (a) Shield, externally plain, square, surmounted by 
 helmet and crest, and pointed at the base. The 
 mantling from the helmet is comparatively slight, 
 motto on a scroll. No tinctures or other directions 
 for blazoning. 
 
 (b) The shield becomes scrolled and wavy in outline 
 and mantling more profuse. The heraldry often in- 
 correct. 
 
 (c) The shield, scrolled and wavy in outline, is some- 
 times enclosed within wreaths of palms, bays, or 
 ribbons, no crest, motto on a scroll below {e.g. the 
 plate of John Marsham). This style was evidently 
 borrowed from France where it was prevalent during 
 the reign of Louis XIII. {cir. 1620). 
 
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 (d) Gradual return to Style A, but sMeld not quite so 
 plain, and sometimes pointed. Helmet and crest, 
 motto below on a broad scroll, mantling rather 
 fuUer. 
 
 (e) As in d, but mantling becomes more and more 
 voluminous until in some cases it threatens to bury 
 the shield {e.g., the plates of Samuel Pepys and 
 the Marriott family). 
 
 (r) As in d, but mantling blown upward as though by 
 
 the wind. 
 (g) Mantling from the helmet designed in pleats like a 
 
 cloth. 
 (h) Inscription (after the Restoration) often very 
 verbose, and descriptive of the owner's family and 
 social position. 
 These are the salient features of book-plates engraved prior 
 to the year 1700, or about that date. There is, however, no 
 strict line of demarcation, and more than one of these 
 characteristics may sometimes be foimd in unison. Nor is 
 there any guarantee that the variations weiB introduced 
 strictly in the order named, for there is, as might be ex- 
 pected, a distinct tendency to " overlap.'' 
 
 It was pointed out in the last chapter that the most 
 ancient EngHsh engraved book-plate known to exist is that 
 of Sir Nicholas Bacon, father of the famous Lord Bacon, 
 
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 of Verulam. Sir Nicholas was born in the year 1510 at 
 Chislehurst, in Kent, and died on the 20th February, 1579, 
 so that, under any circumstances, the date of the ex libris, 
 which he probably but rarely used, could be ascertained 
 with tolerable certainty. It is, however, met with in two 
 states, the first heraldicaUy coloured, and inscribed with the 
 actual date (1574): "N. Bacon eques auratus & magni 
 Sigili Angliee Custos librum lunc bibliothec83 Cantabrig 
 dicavit," and the second without either inscription or date, 
 and imcoloured, but evidently printed from the same 
 block. It is essentially an armorial plate showing a square 
 shield pointed at the base, quartering the arms of Bacon 
 and Quaplade, a family recognised in the Herald's 
 Visitation of Oxfordshire in 1566 ; crest : A boar j)ass. 
 erm. charged on the side with a mullet, or. Motto : Mediocria 
 firma." This, then, is the earhest engraved English book-plate 
 which has so far been discovered. The great Cardinal 
 Wolsey had an illuminated armorial composition, a speci- 
 men of which — ^the only one known — ^is to be seen in a 
 folio volume once belonging to Henry VIH., now in the 
 King's Library, British Museum, and this, no doubt, is 
 many years older than the Bacon plate. It is not, however, 
 a book-plate in either a popular or a technical acceptation, 
 being simply a sketch drawn by hand, such as is not un- 
 commonly seen on the initial page of some old manuscript. 
 
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 The second, or if we count the Wolsey label, the third and 
 only remaining English book-plate of the sixteenth century 
 hitherto brought to light is dated " 1585, Jun. 29," and 
 was engraved for Sir Thomas Tresham, one of whose sons, 
 Sir Francis, was among the leading spirits of the "Gun- 
 powder Treason and Plot." 
 
 So far our work is easy, for it is possible to say that 
 protracted search among the reUcs of the sixteenth century 
 has been productive of just two engraved plates, and no 
 more, each of which is distinguished by the same heraldic 
 characteristics — the crested helmet above, the mantlet in 
 foliage, the shield externally plain, internally quartered, the 
 motto on a scroU either above or below. This strict style 
 continued in vogue until about 1650, and as years went on 
 the number of plates largely increased, the seventeenth 
 century, as a matter of fact, being somewhat prolific in this 
 species of ornamentation. AU plates of the seventeenth 
 century are, however, more or less scarce and valuable, the 
 Parliamentary Wars, the Great Fire, and many other mis- 
 fortunes, which dogged the footsteps of the Stuarts, being 
 responsible, no doubt, for the destruction of countless 
 volumes with their owners' ex libris. 
 
 Although the early Stuart period is "armorial," and in 
 that respect precisely similar to the " Early English 
 Period," a distinct change will be observed to be gradually 
 
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 creeping over the style. Even, the plate of William 
 WiUmer, reproduced in the "Miscellanea Genealogica et 
 Heraldica," N.S., vol. iv., page 239, which prohably dates 
 from the year 1600 or thereabouts, has several distinct 
 points in difference. The crest springs from the hehnet as 
 usual, and the shield is plain and pointed at the base as 
 before, but the mantling is much more flowing and 
 elaborate, suggestive of a later style (b). 
 
 This WiUmer plate is rather important, for, in addition 
 to being a fine specimen of early heraldic work, it is dated 
 twice. The inscription runs, " Ex dono WiUielmi WiUmer 
 de Sywell in com. Northamtonse Armigeri quondam 
 pencionarii in ista Domo. Viz in Anno Domini 1599, sed 
 dedit in Ano Dni 1613." The " ista Domus " referred to 
 . was " Sydney Sussex CoUedge," Cambridge. 
 
 Book-plates of this period are not only very scarce in 
 themselves, but there are remarkably few varieties to be 
 met with. It is not so long since the imiversal opinion was 
 that there were no English book-plates at aU prior in date 
 to the Restoration, and though this has now been proved to 
 be otherwise, the varieties hitherto discovered are 
 singularly few. It may be accepted as certain that book- 
 plates prior in date to about the year 1680 are anything 
 but numerous, and that it was not the general custom to 
 use them. In proof of this, reference may be made to a 
 
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 letter quoted in part by Mr. Egerton Castle. The author 
 had written to Lord de Tabley with reference to the 
 existence of early national examples in his collection, and 
 was informed in reply that an ancestor of his own, Sir 
 Peter Leicester, a most exact and laborious antiquary and a 
 thorough book-worm, who lived in the time of the Civil 
 Wars, and on tUl past the Restoration, was destitute of a 
 plate. Lord de Tabley said, " I have all his library and all 
 his MSS. He was a man of all others quite certain to have 
 had a book-plate if such a thing had been fairly known. 
 But there is not a trace of one, though all his books are 
 inscribed most elaborately with his name and their proper 
 number in his library. I think," he concludes, " that this 
 can be taken as fair evidence that the book-plate of a living 
 man was at that time an exotic custom to an English man 
 of letters." And this, most people who study the question 
 wiU have to admit, for it is practically certain that not only 
 Sir Peter Leicester's Library, but most others of that date 
 which have come down to us^ either intact or in sections, 
 are either absolutely destitute of any mark of ownership at 
 all, or else inscribed with pen and ink. 
 
 In like manner it is certain that comparatively few 
 plates, which have survived, belong to the Commonwealth 
 period. The grim Puritan affected simphcity and, more- 
 over, the books he read were, for the most part, ponderous 
 
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 Theological Treatises, Commentaries of the Fathers, and 
 Works of Biblical Controversy, in which book-platea 
 would certainly appear to be considerably out of place. 
 If a comparison can be drawn between one class of book 
 and another with the object of calculating the possibihtiea 
 for or against a plate being found within the cover, I 
 shovdd say that the old Puritan book of controversy is the 
 most unlikely in the whole range of English literatxire 
 that could be selected to this end. What more incongruous, 
 when we come to consider it, than an heraldic display 
 keeping watch and guard over the writings of that uncom- 
 promising denouncer of men and vanity, TertuUian, or over 
 the controversies of Jonathan Edwards, whose sleepy 
 lucubrations prose interminably of Hell. Every book- 
 plate has, and must have, a spice of vanity in its com- 
 position, and vanity was, in Puritan eyes, one of the 
 cardinal sins to be stamped down and have the life crushed 
 out of it on every available opportunity. 
 
 2. The Jacobean Style, the characteristics of which 
 are — 
 
 (a) The abolition of the helmet, and, consequently of 
 the mantling, so that the shield was left bare. To 
 supply this noticeable absence of decoration, the 
 shield was eventually set in a patterned background 
 and with it enclosed in a frame, usually of elaborate 
 
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 design. This background (known as "lining") is 
 engraved to a pattern either of fish-scales, lattice- 
 work, or brick-work, or it may be simply cross- 
 hatched. The frame, though gracefully foliated, is 
 heavy, as if carved from solid mahogany. 
 
 (b) a bracket to support the frame is added, and upon 
 it, in the middle, either above or below, is engraved 
 a scaUop-sheU, and very frequently a fanciful hmnan 
 head. On the bracket, or on ledges added to the 
 frame, are ornaments of various kinds, such as term 
 figures, female busts with butterfly wings, cherubs, 
 and so forth. 
 
 (c) From about the year 1730, till the "Jacobean" 
 Style gave place to the "Chippendale," the orna- 
 ments become intrusive by reason of their number 
 and exaggerated designs. 
 
 The " Jacobean '' style of decoration is first noticed, though 
 only in a very minor and imperfect degree, on certain 
 college book-plates, notably those of Trinity HaU and Pem- 
 broke HaU, and on the plates of Margaretta Mason and 
 John Reilly. These plates are specially mentioned by 
 Warren as introducing a new and distinct style, which 
 began to be common about the year 1725, was at its height 
 some five years later, and was finally superseded by the 
 "Chippendale" ornaments. 
 
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 3. The Chippendale Stttle, the characteristics of which 
 are — 
 
 (a) a friUing or border of open shell-work surrounds 
 the shield, which is generally of a peculiar shape 
 somewhat resembling a jargonelle pear, slightly 
 curved in outltne and set on end. Prom the shell- 
 like border spring slender flowering plants. A crest 
 sometimes surmounts the shield, and the owner's 
 name is often inscribed in a frame which occupies 
 the lower portion of the design. Plates in this style 
 with hehnet and mantling are extremely rare. 
 
 (b) The floral accessories of the shell-like frame grow 
 more numerous and prominent. 
 
 (c) The floral accessories grow unnaturally profuse and 
 altogether irrational, a dragon makes its appearance, 
 and later on shepherds, shepherdesses, sheep, all 
 kinds of fruit and flowers, sometimes packed in 
 baskets or arranged in vases, books, and, in fact, 
 any other articles that took the artist's fancy and 
 enabled him in a measure to conceal the poverty of 
 his design. 
 
 The "Chippendale" Style is detected as early as 1714 in 
 the Book-Plate of East Apthorpe. It became popular about 
 1740, was at its zenith in 1750, and about 1760 began to 
 deteriorate in the manner referred to in paragraph c. By 
 1780, it had practically ceased to exist. 
 
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 4. The Weeath and Eibbon Style, the chaaracteristics 
 of which are — 
 
 (a) a plain shield of Georgian design, or heart-shaped, 
 surmounted sometimes by a crest and decorated in 
 the upper part with festoons or garlands. Encirchng 
 the base of the shield are two branches of pahn, 
 holly, or bay, tied by the stems and bending grace- 
 fully upwaxd. 
 
 (b) By degrees the festoons and wreaths grow less 
 observable, until eventually they disappear alto- 
 gether. 
 
 One of the earhest plates of " Wreath and Ribbon " design 
 is that attributed to " G. L., Bishop of Kilmore," which 
 is dated 1774. The style continued in vogue until the end 
 of the century or perhaps a Kttle later. 
 
 5. The Allegoeical Style is distinguished by a figura- 
 iive design, in which the principal subject is disclosed by 
 another subject resembliog it in its properties and circuin- 
 stances. Thus a soldier might suggest his martial instincts 
 by a classical allusion to the God of War, and a scholar 
 his desire for knowledge by a figure of Pallas. The 
 "Allegorical" style is first noticed in the book-plate of 
 Thomas Gore, which Michael Burghers designed about the 
 year 1675, but it cannot be said to have become at all 
 general till 1736, when John Pine was employed to design 
 
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 a plate of this kind to place within Bishop Moore's books 
 ■which George I. had presented to Cambridge University 
 several years before. After this date, the style became 
 more general, and has never been entirely neglected. The 
 popular sa5ring that the "Jacobean" Style came into 
 prominence in the days of Queen Anne, and that it 
 generated the "Allegorical" Style, is, however, only half 
 true, for allegory was in use years before " Jacobean " de- 
 signs were utilized for the decoration of book-plates. What 
 is perhaps meant is that the " Jacobean " Style encouraged 
 allegory, and to this no reasonable objection can be taken. 
 
 6. The Landscape Style. So also it is but half true to 
 say that " Chippendale " designs, and the prevailing taste 
 there was for them, generated the passion for " Landscape," 
 which would rather seem to have arisen by a natural process 
 of selection. In 1770, for example, Mynde engraved an 
 exterior view of the Tower of London, and as it was ex- 
 pressly required for ensuring the safe custody of the books 
 belonging to the Library of the Public Record Office then 
 deposited in the White Tower, nothing could have been 
 more suitable or spontaneous. At the foot of this plate is 
 a frame bearing the inscription, "Ex Libris Tabularii 
 PubKci in Turre Londinensi," and springing from it here 
 and there are traces of that sheU-Iiko scroll work and floral 
 decoration which marks the " Chippendale " era, but which 
 
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 is, nevertheless, evidently subsidiary to and not the cause of 
 the design as a whole. The "Landscape" Style may be 
 said, broadly, to date from this view of the Tower, and to 
 have been brought to a high state of perfection by 
 Bewick, who, in the year 1797, prepared a plate for Thomas 
 Bell, and for many years afterwards continued to engrave 
 in the same style for his numerous patrons and friends. 
 
 7. The Sea-Scape Style. This, as the name impKes, is 
 the direct antithesis of the " Landscape " variety. Plates in 
 this style were used chiefly by of&cers of the navy or 
 merchant service, ship-bmlders and others whose fortunes 
 were intimately associated with the sea. An example 
 occurs in the plate of Alexander Doeg, where a newly-built 
 ship is represented as standing in her stocks. 
 
 8. The Literary Style, consisting of plates repre- 
 senting — 
 
 (a) Piles or tiers of books. 
 
 (b) Library interiors, generally with allegorical 
 accessories. 
 
 (c) Books in conjunction with a landscape. 
 
 The " Literary " Style has been in favour for many years, 
 and is so now, doubtless by reason of its suitability. A 
 very good example of class a is afforded by the plate of 
 WOliam Hewer, of Clapham, who was secretary to Samuel 
 Pepys, the diarist. The style in which this plate is en- 
 
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 graved is eminently cliaracteristic of the whole series. A 
 number of large volumes aa:e placed on their sides, and upon 
 this foundation are erected two coliunns of books in three 
 tiers, one over the other. On the summit is a row of books 
 relieved by parchment scrolls and manuscripts. The 
 square design thus formed is completely filled by a scroll 
 upon which is engraved a monogram, and the date, 1699. 
 Below is a scroll containing the inscription. Library in- 
 teriors are generally treated aUegorically, as in the plates of 
 Dr. Drummond and T. Gascoigne, though the plate en- 
 graved in 1750 by Pine for the Benchers of Gray's Inn is 
 an example in which allegory is banished in favour of 
 heraldic display. Where books are represented ia con- 
 junction with landscape, it is usually at the expense of 
 probability, for in very many cases they are thrown aim- 
 lessly on an expanse of meadow, or left to rot among shrubs 
 and weeds. 
 
 9. PoRTEAiT Plates. Old plates of this natxire are ex- 
 tremely rare, and consequently highly prized by collectors. 
 The best-known examples are those of John Hacket, Bishop 
 of Lichfield and Coventry, engraved by Faithome in 1670, 
 and of Samuel Pepys, the diarist, which was engraved by 
 White about 1688. There are, however, many contem- 
 porary plates which contain portraits, either of the owner, 
 or of some well-known man of letters. 
 
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 10. Name Labels. These are tmdoubtedly book-plates 
 when found pasted within the covers of books, or when they 
 axe known to have been vised in that way. They consist 
 merely of the owner's name, and perhaps address, within a 
 more or less ornamental border. Sometimes the date is 
 added, and occasionally mottoes and texts, or even literary 
 references appear as well. These name labels, which were 
 in frequent use as early as the commencement of the seven- 
 teenth century {e.g., the label of Elizabeth Pindar), were 
 subsequently prepared by booksellers who used to give them 
 away to their customers. It is suspected, however, that in 
 some cases at least they did duty solely as visiting cards, in 
 which case they would not have any claim to notice in a 
 work devoted to ex libris. The practicaJ, if not absolute, 
 impossibility, of proving this, has caused all labels of this 
 kind to be classed together as primitive book-plates, and 
 treated accordingly. 
 
 One or other of these ten species or styles will be found to 
 meet the case of almost every book-plate known to exist, 
 or which can possibly be imagined. I say " almost," because 
 there are a few irregular varieties which could not easUy be 
 assigned to any class which I have enumerated. To call, 
 for instance, the plate of Robert Bloomfield, "Armorial," 
 or " Chippendale," would be absurd, for it is a travesty of 
 both styles. Its very motto bewrays it — " Friends in need 
 and a fig for the Heralds." 
 
CHAPTER ni. 
 
 Noted Engravers op English Plates. 
 
 That the contention advanced in the first chapter and 
 incidentally supported throughout this book, to the effect 
 that the fame of a designer or engraver often establishes the 
 interest and even pecuniary value of a plate, is not without 
 justification, will be obvious when we come to glance at 
 some of the names associated with this kind of work. To 
 urge that the designing of book-plates ranks with the 
 highest branch of art would be absurd, and it would be 
 equally absurd to suppose tha,t the artists, who have at one 
 time or another in this country devoted a little of their 
 spare time to the execution of commissions of the sort, could 
 possibly have regarded their handiwork when it was finished 
 with the same lively satisfaction that a m.ore important 
 subject would have induced. It is no use permitting enthu- 
 siasm to make free with common sense, and for my part I 
 fail to see that a book-plate has ever yet represented the 
 genius of its author in its highest and purest form. 
 
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 Albrecht Diirer designed a number of plates, but they axe 
 very far from approaching his best work, in point of merit. 
 He had not the same latitude for expression, nor the same 
 scope for enterprise in an armorial shield as in comphcated 
 subjects like "Adam, and Eve" and "The Knight of 
 Death," and this is invariably true, and not merely so in 
 particular instances. AU artists, and not merely a few, 
 have been necessarily " cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd " when they 
 undertook to design book-plates, which it must be remem- 
 bered were mainly armorial tiU about the beginning of the 
 present century. Contemporary plates, however, often show 
 great originahty, and some of them are reaUy beautiful 
 examples of art. That book-plates have their merits can be 
 disputed in no way, and it is wrong to class them with 
 postage stamps to their disparagement, as ignorant writers 
 in the newspapers have for some time past been en- 
 deavouring to do. StOl, it is weU to avoid the other extreme 
 to which I have alluded, and to recognise at once that the 
 more prominent of the artists whose names are mentioned 
 in this chapter did not derive their reputation solely from 
 book-plate designing. Those who, like Skinner, of Bath, did 
 so, are not usually regarded as being in the front rank, 
 though some of them are mentioned because they cannot be 
 ignored in a work devoted to ex libris. They were 
 speciahsts and must be recognised as such. 
 
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 Baetolozzi (Francesco). This celebrated designer and 
 engraver was born at Florence in 1725 and died at Lisbon 
 in 1815, after working many years in London. He en- 
 graved, whUe here, a number of book-plates, the most 
 important being those belonging to Sir Foster Cunliffe, 
 H. F. Bessborough (dated 1796), Isabel de Menezes, and 
 Richard Hoare. The plate for Sir Thomas Gage was en- 
 graved by TiiTTi at Lisbon in 1805. 
 
 Bewick (Thomas) was bom at Cherrybnrn, near New- 
 castle-on-Tyne, in 1753, and died at Gateshead on the 8th 
 November, 1828. This talented artist, who is justly re- 
 garded as the reviver of wood-engraving in England, is 
 credited with about 100 book-plates, some being from 
 copper and others from blocks. Nearly all of these are in 
 the Landscape Style, with prominent dark foliage and 
 gnarled or broken oak-trees, though there are a number of 
 exceptions, e.g., the plate of John Anderson, which repre- 
 sents a sportsman on horseback, and that of Alexander 
 Doeg, disclosing a ship on stocks. Some of the Bewick 
 plates are simple armorial, without any ornamentation. 
 
 BuEGHEES (Micheal), who flourished in Holland in 1670, 
 and came to England a few years later, excelled in engraving 
 ruined abbeys, pavements, and other antiquities, which he 
 executed to the order of Heame, the antiquary. Hia 
 
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 English portraits, notably that of William Penderill, of 
 Boscobel, mtat 84, though stiff and laboured, are much 
 sought after. To him is ascribed the curious aUegorical 
 plate of Thomas Gore, and several armorials. 
 
 Faithoene (William). WiUiam Faithorne, the elder, 
 worked chiefly with the graver and produced in this style 
 the portrait of John Hacket, Bishop of Lichfield and 
 Coventry, which was undoubtedly used by the divine as a 
 gift-plate. The fine armorial plate ascribed to the Marriott 
 Fanuly was also engraved by this artist. William Faithorne 
 was born in London about the year 1616, and died in 
 Printing House Yard, Blackfriars, in 1691. 
 
 Gribelin (Simon). This French engraver, who was bom 
 at Blois in 1661, and died at London in 1733, engraved 
 three book-plates for Sir Philip Sydenham and several 
 library labels. Gribelin's prints, though neatly executed 
 with the graver, are cold and unsympathetic, and his 
 drawing is frequently incorrect. 
 
 HiBBART (William), an English etcher who was residing 
 at Bath in 1760 and executed several book-plates marked 
 with the initials "W. H." which caused them at one time 
 to be attributed to Hogarth. With these exceptions, 
 Eibbart's prints consist entirely of portraits, and closely 
 foUow the style of Worlidge. 
 
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 HoGAETH (William), the most masterly delineator of 
 combined humour and tragedy that the world has seen, was 
 bom in the parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, London, 
 on December 10th, 1697. His works are, of course, too 
 weU known to need even the most casual reference. Only 
 two book-plates can be ascribed to biTn with absolute cer- 
 tainty, viz., those which he executed for John Holland and 
 George Lambai^;, both contemporary painters. Plates 
 signed " W. H." are by WUliam Hibbart, of Bath, and not 
 by Hogarth, though they are sometimes ascribed to him. 
 
 LoGGAN (David), the German engraver, is credited with 
 several book-plates, his best performance of the kind being 
 two executed for Sir Thomas Isham in 1676. The first 
 plate was incorrect in heraldic details, so Loggan engraved 
 a second. Both plates are extant, and are highly prized by 
 collectors. Loggan, who was bom at Dantzic in 1630, Uved 
 for many years in England, and died at London in 1693, 
 leaving behind him a large assortment of portraits, many of 
 them exceedingly rare when in proof state. 
 
 Marshall (William). The first English engraver whose 
 name is foimd upon a book-plate was William Marshall. He 
 engraved the ex libris of the Lyttleton family, used pro- 
 bably for the first time by Sir Edward of that name, who 
 was appointed Lord Keeper in 1641. The plate was en- 
 graved prior to that date, and may be assigned with 
 reasonable probabiUty to about the year 1630. William 
 
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 Marsliall was celebrated for his portraits, all of which are 
 executed with the graver only ia a dry, tasteless style. 
 Some of them are, however, very scarce, notably those of 
 Shakespeare, forming the frontispiece to his " poems," pub- 
 lished by Thomas Cotes in 1640; Wilham, Earl of Stirling, 
 in an oval of laurel leaves, and the " Vera effigies reUgiosa 
 dominse Margarita Smith" (Lady Herbert). 
 
 MouNTAiNE (Robert). This artist, Kke Skumer, of Bath, 
 is known only as the engraver of a number of book-plates, 
 all of which are ia the " Chippendale " Style. He seems to 
 have beeai working from 1735 to 1755, and during that 
 time executed nearly sixty plates known to collectors. A 
 list of these is given in Vol. II. of the Ex Libris Journal. 
 It may be said generally that Mountaine's plates are at a 
 dead level of insipidity, and show httle or no originality in 
 design. 
 
 Pine (John), deservedly celebrated for his 18 large plates 
 engraved after the tapestry hangings of the House of Lords, 
 representing the several engagements between the English 
 and French in 1688, etc., designed, inter alia, the plate 
 which was placed in Bishop Moore's books which George I. 
 had presented to the University of Cambridge, but which 
 were not removed until 1734. This plate is described by 
 Warren as being in the " ormulu chimney-piece clock " style, 
 and is certainly a very exaggerated piece of allegory. Pine's 
 
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 edition of " Horace," 2 vols., 1733-37, is weU known to book- 
 coUectors, and his features have been perpetuated to all 
 time by Hogarth. 
 
 Sherwin (John Keyse) (1751-90) was one of the pupils 
 of Bartolozzi, and a man of exceptional talent, his print of 
 the Finding of Moses, where Pharaoh's daughter is reprsr 
 sented by the Duchess of Devonshire, and her attendant 
 maids by various ladies of the Court, being one of the 
 finest productions of its kind of the 18th century. The 
 artist's book-plate executed in 1773 for John Mitford, is of 
 good allegoric design and execution. 
 
 Skinner (Jacob ? ), who flourished at Bath from about 
 1732 to 1753, probably established himself ia that centre of 
 fashion with the express object of engraving book-plates for 
 the visitors who frequented the town. Nothing whatever is 
 known of him, and his sole claim to recognition lies in. the 
 fact that he engraved a considerable number of bookplates, 
 most of which are marked with his initials or name, and 
 dated. Skinner has always been a favourite with collectors, 
 for he designed in several styles — " Armorial," " Jacobean " 
 and " Chippendale," and much of his work belongs to tran- 
 sition periods, so that the influence of one prevalent style 
 upon its successor can be accurately traced by the simple 
 process of ajranging bis plates in order of date, and com- 
 paring one with another. The following list of twenty- 
 
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 three names of owners, for eax:h of whom Skinner engraved 
 a plate, is presented in order of date : — 
 
 Musgrave, of Eden Hall, 1732. 
 
 Sir John Smyth (not dated, but about 1735). 
 
 John Conyers, 1737. 
 
 Prancis Carington, 1738. 
 
 Francis Massy, 1739. 
 
 William Oliver (the Elder) (not dated, but about 1740). 
 
 John Wiltshire, 1740. 
 
 John WiUiam Fuhr, 1741. 
 
 Henry Pennant, 1742. 
 
 Thomas Haviland, 1742. 
 
 William HiUary, 1743. 
 
 Charles Delafaye, 1743. 
 
 Johnson Robinson, 1744. 
 
 John Hughes, 1745. 
 
 Benjamin Adamson, 1746. 
 
 Henry Toye Bridgeman, 1746. 
 
 Henry Walters, 1747. 
 
 John Wodroofe, 1747. 
 
 Thomas Fitz-herberfc, 1749. 
 
 Francis Fleming, 1750. 
 
 Robert Gusthart, 1750. 
 
 William Oliver (the Younger), 1751. 
 
 Revd. J. Dobson, 1753. 
 
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 No doubt many book-plates by Skiimer yet remain to be 
 discovered, but at present the above comprise all tbat are 
 known. 
 
 Skinner (Matthew), who was working at Exeter in 1732, 
 is credited with three plates, the most important of which is 
 that of Peregrine Francis Thome. Nothing is known of 
 the life or history of this artist. 
 
 Strange (Sir Egbert). This well-known engraver, the 
 first to make historical engravings popular in this coimtry, 
 was one of the pupUs of Le Bas. He was bom in the 
 Orkneys in 1721, and died at London in 1792. His best 
 book-plates are those of Andrew Lumisden, who was Secre- 
 tary to the Young Pretender and Dr. Thomas Drummond. 
 Both are of allegorical design, and may be ascribed to about 
 the year 1745, or a little later. 
 
 Van deb Gucht (Michiel), who was bom at Antwerp 
 about the year 1660, and hved in England for many years, 
 was employed chiefly by booksellers to engrave portraits and 
 frontispieces, many of which are to be met with in Claren- 
 don's "History of the EebeUion," 1732, folio, and other 
 editions. TTir first book-plate was designed for Sir William 
 Fleming, and is dated 1716. 
 
 Veetub (Geoege), one of the first members of the Royal 
 Academy, instituted by Sir Godfrey KneUer in 1711, en- 
 graved a very large number of plates, consisting of portraits. 
 
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 copies from ancient pictures and antiquities of all kinds. 
 He designed the fine allegorical ew libris of Henrietta, 
 Countess of Oxford, and a number of works of the same 
 kind, all of which are in demand. An account of his life, 
 with a complete list of his plates, will be found in Walpole's 
 " Anecdotes of Painting," 3 vols., 8vo., 1888. 
 
 WoRLiDGB (Thomas), author of "Select Collection of 
 Drawings from Curious Antique Gems,'' 2 vols., 4to., 1768, 
 and an artist of great repute, engraved the Armorial 
 " Jacobean " plate of " The Honourable Henrietta Knight." 
 It is not dated, but may with tolerable accuracy be referred 
 to the year 1740. 
 
 There have been scores of Enghsh esngravers who executed 
 book-plates for their patrons; in fact, if the nimiber were 
 extended to hundreds, the computation would probably not 
 be excessive. The above Kst contains the names of eighteen, 
 of whom the two Skinners and Mountaine are only included 
 because they executed a considerable niunber of plates, 
 which are consequently of the greatest use for purposes of 
 comparison. The remaining fifteen names are those of the 
 only Enghsh artists of prominence who are known to have 
 designed or engraved ex libris, and it must be confessed 
 that the hst is meagre in the extreme. Until the com- 
 mencement of the present century, and then only in a very 
 minor degree, it could seldom have been worth the while 
 
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 of a first-rate engraver to spend his time in producing plates 
 for which he could not possibly expect any great recompense 
 and the probability is that such plates as were produced by 
 artists of high rank were executed more from motives of 
 friendship than with any object of reward. This was clearly 
 so with respect to the two Isham plates engraved by 
 Loggan, as well as those produced by Hogarth for his 
 painter friends Holland and Lambart. If this explanation 
 is considered satisfactory, it may account for the paucity of 
 great names, which is distinctly observable whenever we 
 come to examine even large coUections of ex libris. Per- 
 haps Bartolozzi set the example of engraving plates of this 
 kind for reward, but then Bartolozzi could obtain high 
 prices, and, moreover, his work was so fashionable and in 
 such great demand that he would accept almost any com- 
 mission which an army of assistants and pupils was capable 
 of executing under his supervision. Whether he himself did 
 more than design the book-plates attributed to him, even if 
 he did that, is extremely doubtful. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Amebican Plates. 
 
 DtTEiNG the last few years a great deal of light has been 
 thrown upon what was once rather an obscure subject — The 
 Origin and History of American Book-Plates. The re- 
 searches of Mr. C. D. Allen in particular have contributed 
 not so much to clear up doubts and difficulties, though he 
 has been very successful in this respect also, as to marshal 
 a mass of crude and ill-digested information, and to invest 
 it with an authority it never possessed before. His work, 
 "American Book-Plates" (Bell & Sons, 1895), is in every 
 respect such a satisfactory production that the casual 
 reader might perhaps be excused for thinking that it con- 
 tained all that could possibly be written on the special 
 branch of the subject to which it is devoted. We know, 
 however, that finahty is an impossible factor, and that a 
 last word always remains to be spoken. It seems to me that 
 a good many last words will have to be lavished before a 
 direct answer can be given even to what might appear on 
 the face of it to be a very simple question, but which is in 
 reaUty not only exceedingly compHcated, but the sure for» 
 runner of many others which will be every whit as difficult 
 to solve. 
 
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 The quesftion is this : " Who was the owner of the first 
 American book-plate?" If we only knew which was the 
 first Americaoi plate, we could probably answer the ques- 
 tion, but we do not, and very likely shall never know, for 
 nothing short of a written document containing a specific 
 reference to some particular plate could ever ear-mark it 
 sufficiently to render its identification a matter of certainty. 
 Some day, perhaps, the diary of an American gossip, equal 
 in garrulity to old Pepys, may come to Kght, and in it we 
 may find the minutest details chronicled, and among them 
 some reference to " my Httle plates for my books," though 
 even that would not be sufficiently conclusive to afford 
 material for an answer to our question. It woTild merely 
 set the date a step backwards and leave tha main point 
 absolutely untouched. 
 
 Then, again, another difficulty presents itself. What is 
 an American plate? A plate used by somebody who hap- 
 pened to be living in New England, no matter where 
 engraved, or one which was engraved there; or are both 
 conditions essential ? As Mr. Allen points out, the oldest 
 American plates were in vtse in the southern States, and 
 that these were engraved in England is certain. The 
 northern States followed the fashion — if fashion it can be 
 called — at a later date, and the plates in use there, were, no 
 
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 doubt, engraved on the spot. The book-plate of William 
 Penn, which is dated 1702, is often called American, 
 whereas, in point of fact, it is English, for in 1701 Peon left 
 Pennsylvania for good and all to become a prisoner in the 
 Fleet, and destined never again to see his "plantation." 
 His son, "Thomas Penn, of Stoke Pogeis, in the County of 
 Bucks," used the same plate, with necessary alterations, 
 and that, too, must necessarily be English should the 
 previous argument be considered satisfactory. 
 
 So also the plates of WiUiain Byrd and Eobert EUiston, 
 the latter dated mdccxxv., and the former of about the 
 same age, were almost certainly engraved in London, and 
 it is not until we come to the book-plate of the " Rev. John 
 WiQiams," 1679, and the name label of Thomas Prince, 
 1704, that any substantial claim can be set up on behalf of 
 the American engravers. This, of course, is not surprising. 
 Book-plates of the 17th century and the beginning of the 
 18th, are not particularly numerous, even here, where our 
 closer touch vith the continent of Europe might have been 
 expected to produce more important results, and a stretch 
 of several thousand mUes of water was not then so easily 
 bridged as it is now. Besides, book-plates, though soma 
 protection to the volumes in which they are placed, are not 
 a perfect guard, and as no popular demand was in question 
 then, as is now the case, their utility might very well be 
 
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 called in question. Book-thieves cannot be frightened away 
 by an " owner's name," or "the fear of shame," or any other 
 consideration, which does not disclose a prospect of imme- 
 diate detection and punishment. In reality ex libris are 
 not proof against malice aforethought, though they may be 
 against carelessness. As the Anglo-Saxon race is eminently 
 practical, and generally looks to utility in its estimate of 
 most things, it is not to be wondered at that the Con- 
 tinental habit of using book-plates should have been ignored 
 for the best part of a century, and afterwards left to 
 traverse the Atlantic as it pleased. 
 
 By the middle of the 18th century, however, the book- 
 plate had firmly established itself in America, though, 
 curiously enough, no original style is observable. The 
 plates of the earliest period are all either simple armorial, 
 or tinged with " Jacobean " or " Chippendale " influences, 
 and then follow the ribbon and wreath and pictorial styles 
 just as they do here. The early plates of purely American 
 origin may not, perhaps, be so finely engraved, and the 
 various styles would take some little time to cross the 
 water, but that is the only difference that is observable in 
 them. For instance, the ribbon and wreath design first 
 appeared in England about 1770, but was not in use in the 
 United States until twenty years later at least. Perhaps 
 the Pictorial Style was the most original, as witness the 
 
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 plate of the " Society for Propagating the Gospel/' engraved 
 in 1704, and several others of early times. 
 
 It seems clear that the interest attaching to early 
 American, plates is practically confined to those which 
 have belonged to famous personages. This is so in all cases, 
 of course, to a greater or less estent, but is especially notice- 
 able in the case of plates which have an American origin. 
 In England some few, very few, artists of the first rank, 
 have, as we have seen, occasionally devoted a little time 
 to the production of ex lihris, and the names of William 
 Marshall, Faithorne, Bewick, and others add lustre to the 
 performances with which they are associated. Contem- 
 porary American plates, are, in the opinion of many who 
 may be considered competent to judge, often superior in 
 execution, as well as design, to anything we in England 
 care or are able to produce, or, let us say these plates are, 
 as a general rule, distinguished by greater attention to 
 detail and more dominated by refinement. This was not 
 always so, however, indeed, in past times, American 
 engravers of ex libris were usually men of very little 
 artistic reputation. With a few exceptions, this was the 
 case here, indeed, the fact is so evident that it cannot be 
 explained away. Though we may argue to the utmost 
 limit of probability, the bald fact remains that up to a few 
 years ago, book plates were not looked upon as works of 
 
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 art at all. They were mere " pot-boilp.rs," undertaken for 
 the sake of the few shillings the execution of them might 
 produce, just in the same way as George Morland might 
 dash oflf a pig-stye scene for the pawn-shop, or paint a 
 public-house sign to pay for his score. 
 
 It will now be convenient to give a short list of the more 
 noted American engravers whose names are occasionally 
 found on book-plates. Mr. AUen mentions others of less 
 importance, and has entered very fully into the pesr- 
 formances of most of them, and to his work collectors are 
 necessarily referred for any further information that may 
 be required. 
 
 Anderson (Alexander). The first American wood- 
 engraver, bom in New York in 1775 ; died in 1870. This 
 artist is credited with seven book-plates, four of which are 
 from wood-blocks, notably that of John Pintard, LL.D. 
 Anderson's own plat© is engraved on copper in the 
 " Chippendale " style, and is a fine piece of work. 
 
 Annin (W. B.). This engraver was in partnership with 
 G«orge C. Smith at Boston, from 1820 to 1837. About 
 half-a-dozen plates are ascribed to these artists. 
 
 Callendee (Joseph). Bom at Boston in 1751, died 
 there in 1821. CaUender's plates, numbering 22 at the 
 present time, are analysed as foUows : Plain Armorial, 4 ; 
 Chippendale, I; Allegorical, 4; Ribbon and Wreath, 8; 
 Pictorial, 3; Unclassified, 2. 
 
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 Dawkins (Hbney). This engraver, who was probaHy of 
 English nationaUty was working ia America from about 
 1754 to 1780. The 20 plates attributed to him ajre aU in 
 the " Chippendale " style, often grossly exaggerated. 
 
 DoOLiTTLE (Amos). Bom in 1754; died in 1832. An 
 historical engraver of considerable eminence, who is credited 
 with haH-a.dozen book-plates, among them two for Yale 
 College, both of "Allegorical" design. 
 
 Gailaudet (Elisba). Living in New York about the 
 year 1780. His best plate is that of John Chambers, en- 
 graved in the " Chippendale " style. Edward GaUaudet, a 
 relative of the above, who was working some twenty years 
 later, is credited with a single plate, that of the GaUaudet 
 family. 
 
 TTtt.t. (Samuel). Working at Boston at the close of the 
 last century. The four plates with, which he is credited are 
 all from copper. 
 
 HtTED (Nathaniel). Bom at Boston in 1730; died in 
 1777. Probably the most talented of the early American, 
 engravers. Hurd's style was chiefly " Chippendale,'' but a 
 few "Jacobean" and "Ribbon and Wreath" plates are 
 known. Vide the plates of Robert Hale, Theodore 
 Atkinson, Edward Augustus Holyoke, John Marston, 
 Philip Dumeresque, the Harvard College plates, and others. 
 
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 Johnson oh Johnston (Thomas). Born at Boston in 
 1708; died tiiere in 1767. Three plates are attributed to 
 this engraver. 
 
 Maverick (Petee Rushton). This engraver was bom in 
 England in 1755 ; emigrated to America when about 20 
 years of age, and died in New York in 1807. He executed 
 about eighty plates, the majority of which axe in the 
 "Ribbon and Wreath" style. 
 
 Reveee (Paiil). Bom at Boston, 1735; died there in 
 
 1818. Only five plates by Paul Revere are known, viz., his 
 
 own, and those of Gardiner Chandler, David Greene, Epes 
 
 ^, 
 
 Sargent, and WiUiam Wetmore. 
 
 RoUiiNSON (W tt.t.tam ). This engraver was bom in 
 England in 1760, and is supposed to have died at New 
 York about the year 1820. Twelve book-plates are attri- 
 buted to Eollinson, and all are signed by him. Of these 
 six are in the " Ribbon and Wreath " style. 
 
 Smith (George C). See Annin (W. B.). 
 
 Smithees (J.). An EngUsh engraver, who emigrated to 
 Philadelphia in 1773. He executed five plates in America, 
 two being of "Chippendale" design, one "Pictorial," and 
 two plain " Armorial." 
 
 Teenchaed (James), a pupil of Smithers, was bom in 
 New Jersey about 1746, and was working at Philadelphia 
 
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 forty years later. The plate of the Bloomfield family is 
 signed by him, and the Luther Martin plate is also regarded 
 as his work, though it is not signed. 
 
 TuKNER (James). Celebrated as having designed the 
 plate of John Franklin about the year 1740. Only three 
 other plates are attributed to him, viz., those of Sir John 
 St. Clair, Isaac Norris and James Hall, the last not signed. 
 
 This short list, which comprises all the better known en- 
 gravers of old American ex libris, might be augmented by 
 the addition of many others who executed a single plate or 
 perhaps two, but as nothing whatever appears, as yet, to be 
 known of them beyond their bare names, it would be of 
 little use entering into particulars. They were probably of 
 local fame, if such a word can reasonably be used, and when 
 dead were speedily forgotten — ^they shared the fate of the 
 vast majority of mankind. 
 
 Among the engravers who are mentioned will be found 
 the name of Paul Eevere, who was one of those who 
 planned and executed the historical destruction of the tea 
 in Boston Harbour. But Paul has a greater title to 
 immortality than this. On the night of April 18th, 1775, 
 he was despatched by General Joseph Warren to Charles- 
 town, to give notice of the English expedition to seize the 
 stores at Concord, and it was his journey thither which 
 
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 forms the theme of Longfellow's " Paul Eevere's Ride," 
 in which it will be remembered that — 
 
 It was two by the village clock, 
 
 When he oame to the bridge in Concord town, 
 
 He heard the bleating of the flock, 
 
 And the twitter of birds among the trees, 
 
 And felt the breath of the morning breeze. 
 
 Blowing over the meadows brown. 
 
 Even a book-plate may be invested with romance when wa 
 
 look at it in the fading light of the past. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 The Peinciples op Valuation. 
 
 There is really only one way of practically testing the 
 monetary value of a book-plate, and even that is, as yet, by 
 no means settled on a firm and substantial basis. So far as 
 books are concerned, the market has, to a very great extent, 
 settled down, but, then, books have been habitually sold by 
 auction in this country since 1676, when the "Catalogus 
 Variorum et insignium Librorum instructissimse Biblothecse 
 clarissimi doctissimique Viri Lazari Seaman" was distri- 
 buted among London book-lovers by William Cooper, of 
 Little Britain. This, the catalogue of the first library ever 
 sold by auction in, this country, was probably issued in 
 trepidation, though the result of the sale was so gratifjdng to 
 everyone concerned, that a fashion sprang up, which has 
 continued to this present day, of disposing of collections of 
 books, and sometimes even of single volumes, to the highest 
 bidder. By this process a healthy competition is supposed to 
 be engendered; it certainly obviates the disappointments 
 and disputes which nearly always accompany sales by private 
 treaty, and it stifles much of that suspicion which invariably 
 haimts iuexperienced vendors that they may not, after aU, 
 have received the fuU value of what they have parted with. 
 
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 A specific sale by auction, whether of books, book-plates, 
 or any other species of property, cannot, however, be im- 
 plicitly relied upon as affording good evidence of value for 
 many reasons. Circumstances alter cases. Buyers may have 
 more money at one time than another; a fleeting fashion 
 may temporarily ruin all calculations. But in the end, and 
 by means of a close analysis and comparison of prices openly 
 realised at different times, we can certainly arrive at the 
 market value of almost anything with tolerable precision 
 and accuracy by the simple device of taking a broad general 
 survey of auction statistics. 
 
 Though isolated specimens of book-plates have certainly 
 been sold by auction on many previous occasions, and even 
 collections in bulk at sales primarily held for the dispersion 
 of other objects, generally books, it seems tolerably certain 
 that the first sale ever held in this country where book- 
 plates were exclusively catalogued and disposed of, either 
 singly or in very small parcels at a time, was held by Messrs. 
 Puttick & Simpson, of Leicester Square, on January 28th, 
 1897. 
 
 On this occasion the smns realised came as a distinct 
 surprise to collectors. The plate of one EUeker Bradshaw, of 
 Risby, went for £1 12s., while Dr. Charlett's " Book-pile " 
 brought £1 18s., prices described as " simply scandalous " by 
 those Philistines, who recalled the circumstance that one 
 
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 might, only a year or two ago, have boiight any nximber of 
 specimens, "Book-pile," "Jacobean," or otherwise, for a 
 penny apiece. In those days book-plates were regarded as 
 so many bits of paper, too trivial for the notice of broad- 
 minded men, and pestilent into the bargain, inasmuch as the 
 anxiety of a few collectors to possess them led to the whole- 
 sale mutilation of books in which they were found. Charges 
 of this kind, though not true, passed with a very good 
 appearance of truth, and probably did more to estabhsh the 
 fashion of book-plate collecting on a firm basis than any other 
 species of encouragement could possibly have done. To call 
 a collector approhrious names merely because he appreciates 
 or does something which the world knows Httle of and to 
 charge him with practices of which he is innocent, is the way 
 above aU others to make him run his own course, a philo- 
 sophical observation which, I regret, for my own sake, has 
 no claim to origiaality. What is more to the point, however, 
 is that this sale of the 28th of January last was productive of 
 some very high prices which have not been maintained, and 
 hasi in addition invested the practice of collecting book- 
 plates with a public interest which it never had before. 
 The Ex-Libris Societies of England, America, France, and 
 Germany are all private associations of collectors who had 
 hitherto dealt privately with each other, chiefly by way of 
 exchange, or with the dealers, whose prices were regulated on 
 
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 the prindple that a book-plate is worth neither mor^ nor 
 less than what it will fetch. 
 
 In looking through the first sale catalogue already referred 
 to, and others which have since appeared in different parts of 
 the world, the first thing that strikes the eye is a truly 
 temarkable variation in the prices realised. One 
 " Chippendale " plate sells perhaps for Is., and another of the 
 same size and of very similar appearance for ten times as 
 much or more. A collection of 340 modem armorials is 
 disposed of for £2 4s., or roughly speaking, l|d. each, wl^le 
 a miscellaneous parcel of " Jacobeans " goes for, propor- 
 tionately, twenty-five times as much. The question is: 
 What is the reason of this great disparity in price ? As no 
 reason has, so far as I know, at any time been given, I 
 venture to submit the following observations in the hope that 
 they may, whether strictly logical or otherwise, have the 
 effect of bringing us one step nearer to a solution of this 
 difficult question of value. 
 
 In the first place, it appears to be weU understood that 
 the least esteemed plates of all are modem armorials de- 
 signed or engraved, or engraved as well as designed, by artists 
 of no special reputation. Many of these plates are im- 
 .deoiably scarce in the sense that the owners keep them 
 entirely for their own use and will not sell them, but yet they 
 are not valuable. Nobody wants them; the very fact of an 
 
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 immense number of others of the same kind being met with 
 every day invests the whole species with a plebeian brand. In 
 exceptional cases, however, such plates have a distinct value, 
 and when this is the case, it will be found that they either 
 bear a date, or have been designed by some celebrated artist, 
 or belong to an owner who has risen above the common level 
 in some particular walk of life. These considerations aflect 
 the principle of value in the case of all plates except the very 
 oldest, but are especially relevant to the class of ex-libris 
 referred to by Mr. Egerton Castle as being designed in the 
 much-despised "Die-Sinker Style." The 340 axmorials 
 which, as previously narrated, brought £2 4s., were ordinary 
 specimens of this class, and there can be no question that 
 they were well disposed of. 
 
 Book-plates which bear a date have, as a rule, a special 
 value, and the older they are the more worthy of attention. 
 It is in the last degree iUogical to print any date on a book- 
 plate, and comparatively few persons have done so. The 
 owner of a hbrary, if he really wished to keep a record of the 
 dates when his books were acquired, would either enter par- 
 ticulars in a register or mark each book appropriately on the 
 fly-leaf or elsewhere. To persist in using a plate, dated, say, 
 1800, for twenty or thirty years after it was engraved, would 
 not seem, to be an effective method of attaining the end in 
 question. Dated book-plates were, however, sometimes used 
 
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 ■with other objects, as to perpetuate the foundation of a 
 library, or eiven to commemorate some special incident in the 
 owner's cjureer, or in that of his family, but whatever the 
 object, it is clear that plates of this kind have been com- 
 paratively scarce at all periods. They are valued with 
 reference to the particular class to which they belong, and 
 this element of date has consequently a varying importance, 
 a dated plate being worth more from a marketable point of 
 view than one of a similar kind without a date. Thus the 
 " Die-Sinker," which would not be cheap at 2d., may well be 
 worth 3d. or 4d., or even more, if dated. The law of supply 
 and demand regulates the price in aU instances. 
 
 Then we have plates which bear the engraver's name as 
 well as that of the owner, and these, too, have a special value 
 apart, altogether, from their style, though that also must be 
 taken into consideration. Generally speaking, modem signed 
 plates, not in the " Die-Sinker " style, belonging to imim- 
 portant persons, sell at about 3d. each, though this price is 
 often much exceeded, as, for instance, when engraved by an 
 artist of estabhshed reputation. When the owner Is well 
 known, a further accretion in price takes place. In 
 estimating the probable value of a modern plate, the elements 
 of style, plus date or no date, plus artist, plus signature or 
 no signature, plus owner, must aU be considered and 
 weighed in the balance and the price fixed upon the basis of 
 
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 demaud, and the probable nimiber of copies that are at hand 
 to satisfy it. This last factor is the crux of the situation, 
 and the auction statistics so far available show dearly that 
 English book-plates, so far as scarcity and value are con- 
 cerned, and the demand there is for them, may be tabulated 
 as foUows: — 
 
 1. Sixteenth Century Plates (Aemoeiai.). — These' are 
 efxtremely scarce, only three varieties being known. From 
 the very nature of the case there is a legitimate demand for 
 these which cannot be satisfied, and the price asked for a 
 strong specimen wotdd, no doubt, be an arbitrary one. 
 
 2. Portrait Plates. — Old specimens are very rare, pricej 
 running from £1 up to perhaps £5 or even more. They are 
 valued primarily with reference to the position and 
 reputation of the owner. 
 
 3. Allegorical Plates. — These are scarce; if old, the 
 value running from 8s. or 10s. to £2 or £3. The average 
 calculated upon a number of specimens is high because this 
 style was never very popular in England, and the comparar 
 tively few plates known to us are mostly executed by artists 
 of great reputation. 
 
 4. Seventeenth Century Plates (Armorial) (Dated). 
 — These are scarce, being worth from 5s. up to about 20s. 
 The average auction price is, however, about 7s., undated 
 plates being about a third less. 
 
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 5. BooK-PniES, dated, about the same ; undated plates of 
 this description usually sell for less, from 4s. to 7s. being the 
 limits. 
 
 6. PiCTOEiAL Plates, dated, from 3s. or 4s. to 7s. Un- 
 dated, less. A considerable number of these plates were, 
 howeveo", engraved by Thomas Bewick, and these have a 
 special value up to 10s. or 12s., these limits being not often 
 exceeded. 
 
 7. Jacobean Plates. — ^These are, as a rule, scarcer than 
 "Chippendale" plates, mentioned below. Average prices 
 range from. Is. to about 6s. according to period. Very early 
 "Jacobean" plates sell for more still, and as usual, dated 
 specimens are more esteemed than those which are undated. 
 
 8. Plates of Liteeaey Design other than Book-Pilbs. 
 — These appear to bring from Is. to 5s., the average being 
 about 3s. Again, the element of date must be carefully 
 weighed. 
 
 9. Chippendale Plates. — Prices run from Is. to 5s., the 
 average being a];K>ut 2s. 6d. As usual, date is an important 
 factor. 
 
 10. Ladies' Plates begin at about 3d. each and run to £1 
 or more, though the average would not seem to exceed 2s. 6d. 
 
 11. Ribbon and Weeath. — ^In this instance, the average 
 does not much exceed Is. or Is. 6d. 
 
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 12. Purely Modern Plates, which include armorials and 
 also designs modelled on those of old plates with variations 
 and additions. These seldom bring more than Id. or 2d. 
 each. When they do, it is by reason of special incidents of 
 ownership or execution, or because the plates are dated. 
 
 13. Plates of any Kind which aSord evidence of 
 transition from one style to another, and yet preserve traces 
 of both. Book-plates are objects of artistic interest, and art 
 seldom or never undergoes a sudden change, but gradually 
 assumes new modes of expression. This is noticeable in the 
 case of many early " Chippendale " plates, which preserve 
 distinct traces of " Jacobean " influence. Skinner, of Bath, 
 worked in. various styles, and many of his plates belong to 
 transition periods. For that reason they are instructive and 
 much sought after by collectors. All plates of this character 
 have accordingly a rather higher value than they would have, 
 had they belonged to a well-defined and purely normal style. 
 
 I am aware that the valuation of books or book-plates, 
 prints, or other articles of a literary or artistic nature is 
 surrounded by so many different personal interests that no 
 positive agreement between competitors can be expected. 
 The owner of some interesting object invariably over-values 
 its importance and worth as he finds out directly he has 
 occasion to seU it. Dealers very naturally ask as much as 
 they think they are Hkely to obtain, and buyers pay as little 
 
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 as possible. An article may have a ready marteta^le value 
 at one time and a totally differeiit value at another, as, for 
 example, in the case of that well-known portrait of Miss 
 Farren (Countess of Derby), by Sir Thomas Lawrence, which 
 sold by auction a few months ago for £2,415, the previous 
 known price being no more than £82 19s., realised in 1863. 
 Values fluctuate with circumstances, though such a great 
 disparity as this is phenomenal. StUl, they change, and the 
 only possible course is to change with them, anticipating their 
 ups and downs, so to speak, by observing the state of the 
 market for the time being and acting accordingly. For 
 instance, no one who knew anything about pictures would 
 have expected to get Sir Thomas Lawrence's portrait of Miss 
 Farren, in. this year of grace, for even £500, let alone 
 £82 19s. Why ? Because he would know that all finished 
 portraits by this master, and not merely that of Miss Farren, 
 have increased so enormously in value since 1863 that £500 
 would have been obviously much too little for one of this 
 world-wide importance. 
 
 So, though in a much humbler degree, is it with Book- 
 plates. The specimen which sold for a penny ten years ago 
 might bring £1 to-day, and in tabulating the market values 
 I have been actuated by no other consideration than that 
 of eixtracting present-day statistics from a mass of un- 
 assimUated detail of contemporary value. 
 
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 Since ■writing the foregoing, I have seen Mr. W. H. R. 
 Wright's article in the June (1897) number of The Genea- 
 logical Magazine, entitled " Book-Plates and their Value," 
 and I am glad to find that the result of my researches, made 
 independently, and based solely on auction statistics, is in 
 remarkable agreement with his. That the prices quoted may 
 be taken as current for plates of the kind mentioned is 
 extremely probable, and I reproduce Mr. Wright's details so 
 that my readers can, if they choose, compare them with 
 those I have set down, and from the joint experience of both 
 of us draw their own conclusions. 
 
 " For Early English and Jacobean, minimum, price, Is. 6d., 
 average 5s. each. 
 
 " Chippendale from Is. upwards, average 3s. This price 
 works out exactly for a collection of 650, including dated, 
 signed, American, etc. 
 
 " Kibbon and Wreath from 6d. upwards. For a collection, 
 of 600, including some dates and a few Americans, the 
 average Tvorks out at Is. 
 
 " Early dated from 5s., or average about 9s. 
 
 " Modem dated from 6d., average about Is. 
 
 " Spade Shields from 4d., average price for several hundred 
 examples, 6d. each. 
 
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 " Pictorial from 6d., average 5s. for ordinary good ones. 
 
 " Book-PUes from 2s. 6d. upwards, average Ts .6d. 
 
 " Literary from Is. 6d., average 3s. 6d. 
 
 " Plain armorial from 2s. to 6s. per dozen, average 3s. per 
 dozen. 
 
 " Signed from 4d. upwards. A collection of 1,000 would 
 average just 3s. each.. 
 
 "Ladies' from 4d. upwards, or about an average of 2s. 
 each for 500 varieties.'' 
 
PART II. 
 
 Book Plates & their Value. 
 
Notes. — The following list of book-plates is arranged in 
 alpliabetical order under the names of the owners. 
 
 The prices marked have been realised at auction during 
 the year 1897. Where no auction statistics are available, 
 a qualif5dng word prefixing any given price shows that it 
 has been estimated. 
 
Alphabetical List of Noted 
 Book-Plates. 
 
 Abercoen (Anne Jane). Armorial, coronet and 
 supporters. No date, but about 1815. Inscription, " Anna 
 Jane Abercom." This lady was tbe Marcliioness of 
 Abercom. She died in 1827. 3s. 
 
 Aberceombie (James). Armorial, "ribbon and wreath" 
 style. Mottoes, "Vive ut Vivas" and "Meus in arduis 
 aequa." An American plate. 4s. 6d., again 3s. 
 
 Adams (Hannah). Name label, inscribed "Hannah 
 Adams, Medfield, 179 — ." An American plate. 8s. 
 
 Adams (John). Armorial, crested, within an oval garter. 
 The device surrounded by 13 stars. Inscribed, "John 
 Adams " in script. The owner of this scarce plate was 
 second President of the United States^ 1797-1802. No sale 
 record, but probably from £2 to £3. 
 
 Adams (John Quincy). Armorial, crested, the shield 
 surrounded by two single flowering branches bending upward 
 and tied together at the bottom with a ribbon. Inscribed, 
 " John Quincy Adams " in script. No motto. The owner 
 of this plate was sixth president of the United States, 
 1825-9. £1 16s. 
 
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 Several other plates are attributed to John. Quincy 
 Adams. One is a mere label containing the owner's name 
 in a simple line framework, and two others are armorial. 
 In the first the shield is surrounded by a garter on which 
 is engraved the motto " Fidem-Libertatem-Amicitiam." 
 In the remaining plate the shield is quartered and 
 surrounded by a garter with the motto " Fidem, Libertatem, 
 Amicitiam retinebis." Around the device are 13 stars. 
 All these plates are very scarce. About £2. 
 
 Adamson (Benjamin). Armorial, crested, " Jacobean " 
 shield and frame, with " Chippendale " embellishments ; 
 on a scroll below the inscription " Benja Adamson." 
 Engraved by J. Skinner of Bath, in 1746, (dated). 5s. 
 
 ArrLECK (J.H.). Pictorial, escutcheon among foliage. 
 Inscription: "J. H. Affleck, Newcastle-upon-Tyne." This 
 plate was engraved by Bewick about the year 1810. 7s. 6d., 
 agaia 6s. 
 
 Agae (Lydia). Pictorial, an eagle within an oval frame 
 bearing a ribbon on which is the word "Property." An 
 American plate engraved in 1806. No sale record, but 
 about 5s. 
 
 AiLESBTjBY Family, The. Set of five plates, including the 
 three rare ones, 12s. 
 
 Albany (H.E.H., The Duke of, K.G.). Royal coat of 
 arms, three crests above, rare 10s. 
 
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 Albaky Society Lxbeaey. A curious plate with a 
 framework of " Jacobean " design. In the upper part is 
 a view of an Indian with bow and arrow shooting from a 
 copse ; around is the inscription " May concord prevail and 
 the undertaking prosper." In an oval below is a portrait, 
 and at the foot the date 1759, and "Albany Society 
 Library " on a scroll. An American plate. 18s. 
 
 Alexander (Eliza.). Pictorial, a cupid on a cloud holding 
 a shield and in his right hand a branch. On the shield is 
 a crest and the inscription " Eliza Alexander." Not dated, 
 but about 1810. 5s. 
 
 Allan (George). Landscape, engraved by J. Bailey. 
 In the foreground is an altar and by the side of it on the 
 ground an escutcheon and a variety of objects including bows 
 and arrows. In the distance a cathedral in ruins and still 
 further away a village and a church with a spire. Inscription 
 " Geo. AUan, Darhngton, engraved by J. Bailey." No date 
 but about 1790. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Allan (John). Pictorial, the name of the owner 
 printed across an open book ; in the background an anchor. 
 No date but engraved about 1730 or thereabouts. An 
 American plate. About 12s. 
 
 Allison (Joseph J.). Armorial, of "Chippendale" 
 design; above the escutcheon is an hour-glass, a globe, books 
 
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 and other articles. Motto: "Hinc labor et virtus." No 
 date, but about 1760. An American plate. About 7s. 6d. 
 
 American Academy op Arts. An allegorical plate. In 
 an oval, Minerva armed with, shield and spear, standing by 
 the seashore, a sickle and various scientific apparatus on 
 the ground beside her. In the distance, to the right, a ship 
 and on the left, trees on a hiUock. Inscription above " Sub 
 Libertate Florent," below, " American Academy of Arts amd 
 Sciences, MDCCLXXX." Underneath is a dispro- 
 portionately large cloth containing the words " The Gift of," 
 a space being left blank for the necessary addition. Engraved 
 by Callender. About 15s. 
 
 Anderson (George). Name label as follows ; " This 
 Buik appertayneth unto me George Anderson, Burges, 
 Merchand and Master of the Church Works in the 
 honourable Citie of Aberdene in the yeare of our 
 Redemption, 1626, the first of April." A very rare label. 
 £1 5s. 
 
 Anderson (John). This plate discloses a man on horse- 
 back with inscription " John Anderson, St. Petersburgb.." 
 It was engraved by Thomas Bewick about the year 1790, 
 and afterwards used by him as a vignette in his " British 
 Birds." (2 vols. 8vo., 1797-1804). 4s. 6d. 
 
 Anderson (John). Landscape, a man angUng from a 
 projecting rock on which is the name " Jno. Anderson, Jimr.," 
 
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 vegetation very profuse. No date but engraved by Thomas 
 Bewick about the year 1800. 5s. 
 
 Anderson (Matthew). Landscape plate, by Bewick, 
 with distant view of Newcastle. Inscription : " Matthew 
 Anderson, St. Petersburg." 4s., again 3s., again 2s. 6d. 
 
 Andrews (Henry). Minerva, standing, armed with 
 spear, by her side a pedestal or perhaps altar upon which is 
 an owl. The name is in large capitals on the shield. No 
 date, but engraved by S. Harris about 1800. An American 
 plate. About 5 s. 
 
 Anson (Thomas). An allegorical plate, same subject and 
 design as that belonging to Sir Poster Cunlifife (q.v.), but 
 engraved by Yates after a design by Cipriani. Inscription 
 "Thomas Anson, Esq., of Shugborough.'' No date but 
 about 1800. 4s. 6d., again 3s. 
 
 Apprentices Library (The). Pictorial, in the fore- 
 ground is a hermit addressing two boys, beyond, a lake and 
 high mountain, on the summit of which is a temple. Behind 
 the hermit is a fluted column and a tree. Inscription 
 "Apprentices' Library, Presented by.'' No date but 
 engraved by Anderson about the year 1800. An American 
 plate. About 10s. 
 
 Apthorp (East). Early " Chippendale " design with the 
 shell pattern and flowers, but the groundwork of the shield 
 
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 hatched in horizontal lines. Inscription " East Apthorp, 
 A.M., Cambridge, 1741." A scarce plate. 14s. 
 
 Apthorp (Thomas). Armorial, of " Chippendale " design 
 with the addition of a large bee. Motto : " Just© rem para." 
 No date, but about 1770. An American plate printed in 
 blue ink. About 7s. 
 
 Argyll (Duke of). Seal plate, engraved by G. W. Eve. 
 Pine and rare. 5s. 
 
 Ash (John). Armorial, "Jacobean" design. The frame 
 designed to a scale pattern ; above, a demon's head. Date, 
 about 1735. 2s. 
 
 AsHTON (N.). Armorial, a large escutcheon, crested, 
 resting on a table, on which is also an inkpot and pen, books 
 and a globe ; behind, book-shelves with books, to the left a 
 window with small sqxiare panes. Hanging from, the table 
 is an ornamental scroll, inscribed, " N. Ashton, Esqr." No 
 date, but engraved by Billinge about the year 1700. 8s. 
 
 AssHETON (William). Armorial, crested. Inscription : 
 " William Assheton, Esq., of Gray's Inn, Judge of the Court 
 of Admiralty of Penn., 1718." No motto. An American 
 plate. About 15s. 
 
 Aston (Henby). Armorial, " Jacobean " design, inscribed, 
 "E libris Hen Aston." This plate was engraved in 1740. 
 4s. 6d. 
 
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 Athol (John, Duke of). Armorial, surmotuited by ducal 
 crown, supported. Motto, on a scroll below : " Furth For- 
 tune and fill the Fetters.'' Inscription : " His Grace John 
 Dukeof AthoU, 1711." A fine plate. 10s. 
 
 Atkinson (Btjddle). Landscape, an angler by the side 
 of a stream; in the foreground, a shield with crest. No 
 date, but engraved by Bewick about 1810. 5s. 
 
 Atkinson (Theodore). Armorial, crested, of " Chippen- 
 dale " design. Below the shield is a large shell, from which 
 comes a stream of water caught in a bowl below. Inscription : 
 " Theodore Atkinson." No motto or date, but engraved by 
 N. Hurd, about the year 1760. An American plate. 10s. 
 
 Atleb (William Augustus). Armorial, of " Chippendale " 
 design, empty scroll beneath. Inscription : " Willm. Augs. 
 Atlee, Esqr., of Lancaster, Pennsylvania." No date, but 
 about 1775. An American plate. About 7s. 
 
 Aubrey (Sir John). Armorial, crested, mantling very 
 fuU and elaborate; 5| inches by 3f inches. Inscription: 
 "Sr John Aubrey, of Lantrithyd, in the County of 
 Glamorgan, Baronet, and of BoarestaU, in the Coimty of 
 Bucks, 1698." A fine and very rare plate. £3 12s. 6d., 
 again £1 14s. 
 
 Austen (Kobeet). Pictorial, female figure, arms, etc. 
 No date, but about 1790. 4s. 6d., again 2s. 
 
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 Aylesfoed (Bael of), a bold and vigorous design, con- 
 sisting of 9 fluted columns in the background, before which 
 is a rock supporting books and an inkstand and pens. The 
 inscription, "Earl of Aylesford, Packington, Warwicks," 
 appears as though engraved on a slab let into the face of 
 the rock. No date, but about 1770. This plate is usually 
 attributed to Piranesi, but may have been designed by 
 Heneage, third earl of Aylesford. 6s., again 6s., again 2s. 
 
 Aylohde (Henky). Apparently the interior of a ruined 
 monastery, in the background an arch and dismantled 
 column. In the foreground an old dower chest, books, a 
 sword, seals, and parchments, on one of which is engraved in 
 Gothic letters, "Henry Aylord©.' Another parchment 
 displays the escutcheon. No date, but engraved by WiUiam 
 BeU Scott, about the year 1855. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Bacon (Sir Edmund). Armorial, early EngUsh. In- 
 scription : " The Honorable Sir Edmund Bacon, of Garboldi- 
 sham, Co. Norfolk, Bart." Sir Edmund was a descendant of 
 Sir Nicholas Bacon, hereafter named. 3s. 
 
 Bacon (John Thomas). Book-Pile design. Arms on 
 shield in centre. Motto : " Dum spiro spero." Inscription : 
 " John Thomas Bacon." Not dated, but about 1745. Eare. 
 12s., again 13s. 
 
 Bacon (Sir Nicholas). This plate is met with in two 
 varieties. The first is heraldicaUy coloured and bears the 
 
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 date 1574. The inscription reads : " N. Bacon eques auratus 
 et magni sigilli Angliae custos librum. hunc bibliothecas 
 Cantabrig dicavit." The second plate is without either 
 inscription or date, and uncoloured. Motto, on a scroll 
 below : " Mediocria Firma." Both plates are armorial, 
 crested, mantling very full above, but flowing down each 
 side of the shield in a single curl tipped with a tassel. 
 Only one or two specimens known. 
 
 Bailey (Wilham). Armorial, the escutcheon crested and 
 displayed against a cloudy and tempestuous sky. Motto, on 
 a scroll below : " Aut nunquam tentes aut perfice.'' The 
 inscription reads: "Unus ex libris Giiliehni Bailey, Bel- 
 fastiensis, No.—, 1823." 5s. 
 
 Bainbeidgb (G. C). Landscape, a bold and rugged rock 
 upon which is engraved the name " G. C. Bainbridge." At 
 the foot of the rock a setter. No date, but engraved by 
 Samuel Howitt, about the year 1815. 3s., again 4s. 6d. 
 
 Baltimoee (Lord). A crest, with two flags issuing from a 
 ducal crown, a Baron's coronet above. Inscription : " E. 
 Bibliotheca Baronis de Baltimore, A.D. 1751." This is a 
 circular plate. 4s. 6d. 
 
 Bancker (Abraham). Pictorial, an eagle bearing aloft a 
 scroll containing the motto: " SubHmiora petamus," and 
 an oval within a wreath, upon which is engraved a large 
 " 4." Below, a ship in full sail, trees and rocks to the 
 
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 right. Inscription: "Abraham Bancker," in script. No 
 date, but engraved by Maverick about the year 1785. The 
 plates of this family consisting of Charles N. Bancker, 
 Evert Bancker, Jimr., and Gerard Bancker, aU show the 
 figure " 4.'' These are all American plates. From 8s. to 10s. 
 
 Bancks (John). Nameplate, the inscription, "John 
 Bancks, 1740," within curled ornamental branches. Two 
 figures seated below with books, a scroU and lyre. 4s. 6d. 
 
 Bancroft (George). Pictorial, a cupid holds a frame, 
 upon which is engraved the words "Eis 3>A02." This 
 plate is sometimes found with the motto, " Sursum corda," 
 but it is in other respects the same. George Bancroft, the 
 historian, was bom in 1800, and this plate was engraved 
 some fifty years later. 8s. 6d. 
 
 Banner (Richard). Armorial, "Jacobean" design, in 
 two states. 8s. 
 
 Baecock (Mary). Name label inscribed: "Mrs. Maxy 
 Barcock, August 24th, 1700." 5s. 
 
 Barlow (Charles). Armorial, elaborate "Jacobean" 
 design, with the usual scale pattern, trellis work and scaUop 
 shell. Inscribed, " Charles Barlow, Esq., of Emanuel 
 College, Cambridge, 173 — ." The mantling from the heshnet 
 is distinct, and not involved in the lower omam.entation. 12s. 
 
 Baerell (Joseph). See Russell (Thomas). 
 
 Baerow (W.). Armorial, crested, shield raised above a 
 
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 table, •with, two festoons or garlajxds hanging from its upper 
 points; around, two branches tied together below. On 
 the edge of the table the inscription, " Revd. W. Barrow, 
 LL.D., S.A.S.," and the date 1789. This plate was engraved 
 by Thomthwaite. £1, again 7s., again 4s. 
 
 Babtlett (Mabtha). Name label, printed, "Martha 
 Bartlett. Her Book. Oxford. Printed at the Clarendon 
 Printing House. Octob. 4, 1729." 3s. 
 
 Bateman (William). Book-Pile design, arms on shield in 
 the centre. Inscription: "Wm. Bateman, F.A.S., of 
 Middleton-by-YoIgrave, in the County of Derby." Not 
 dated, but about 1825. 7s., again 5s., again 2s. 
 
 Bath (Dowager Countess or). This plate consists of a 
 shield (HeraldicaUy very incorrect-, a woman being 
 restricted to the lozenge), qviartered with the arms of Bath 
 and impaling those of Pane, surmounted by a coronet and 
 surroimded by an endless scroU on which are the words, 
 " Non est mortale quod opto " ; " Bon temps viendra " ; 
 " Ne vUe fano " ; " Semper eadem." This was a gift plate, 
 as is evident from a further inscription : " Ex Dono Rachael 
 Comitissse Bathon Dotarise An Dom., MDCLXXI." The 
 first EngUsh Armorial plate used by a lady. £1 15 s. 
 
 Bayly (T.). Armorial, "Jacobean" design, dated 1707. 
 8s. 
 
 Beaufort (The Most Noble Henry, Duke of). 
 
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 Armorial, crested, and supported. Dated, 1705. Rare. 
 15s., again 4s. 6d. 
 
 Bbaufoet (Rachel, Duchess op). Armorial, crested, 
 and supported ; Mantling voluminous and convoluted, but 
 does not reach to the shield, which is externally quite plain. 
 Motto, on a ribbon: "Mutare vel timers spemo." 
 Inscription, on a scroll below : " The Most Noble Rachel, 
 Dutchess of Beaufort, 1706." This fine and large plate, 
 after having the inscription altered, was used by the Duke. 
 £2 4:S. (Duchess's plate). 
 
 Bedford (John, Duke of). Armorial, crested, and 
 supported. " Jacobean " design, the ground of the frame in 
 a scale pattern. Manthng distinct. No bracket. Motto : 
 " Che sara sara." Inscription, on a scroU : " The Most 
 Noble John, Duke of Bedford, 1736," in script. 10s. 
 
 Bedford (Wriothesley, Duke of). Armorial, crested 
 and supported. Motto : " Che sara sara." Inscription : 
 " The Most Noble Wriothesley, Duke of Bedford, Knight 
 of ye Most Noble Order of the Garter, 1703." 9s., again 6s. 
 
 Belcher (Jonathan). Armorial, of " Jacobean " design. 
 Motto : " Loyal au mort." Inscription : " Jonathan 
 Belcher. E. Societate Medij Templi." No date, but about 
 1740. An American plate. 16s. 
 
 Belcher (William). Pictorial, designed in the style 
 of Bewick. The shield rests upon a dark background of 
 
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 shrubs, conspicuous among which, to the right, is a weeping 
 willow. On a scroll, the motto: "Loyal au mort." No 
 date, but about 1800. An American plate. 16s., again 10s. 
 
 Belchiee (J.). Armorial, "Jacobean" design, printed 
 in red. No date, but about 1725. 15s. 
 
 Bell (T.). A Landscape, in the foreground an oval shield 
 with the inscription, " T. Bell, 1797," resting against the 
 stump of a tree. In the distance a Church Tower rising 
 above the trees. Engraved by Thomas Bewick. This cut 
 is remarkable as being the earliest dated Bewick book- 
 plate. 2s. 
 
 Bengough (James). Armorial, crested, the mantling, 
 which is heavy and stiffly cut, is brought to the base of the 
 shield. No motto. Inscription: "James Bengough, of 
 the Inner Temple, London, Gent., 1702." 12s. 
 
 Benhet (R. H. Alexandeb). An allegorical plate, same 
 design as that belonging to John Currer (q.v.), but of inferior 
 workmanship, and much more frequent occurrence. It was 
 in use about 1780. 4s., again 7s., again 6s. 
 
 Bennet (William). Landscape, a blasted oak, upon 
 which hangs an escutcheon. A cupid is entwining the shield 
 with festoons. In the foreground, rocks and shrubs. 
 Inscription : " Wm. Bennet." This plate is not dated, but 
 was engraved by W. Henshaw, about the year 1795. 4s. 6d. 
 
 Bentham (Wilham). Landscape. Engraved by 
 
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 W. Sherwin. In the background a lake and pavilion; in 
 the foreground a stump of a tree to -which is attached by 
 a riband the escutcheon ; on the riband the motto : " Virtus 
 invicta gloriosa." Inscription: "William Bentham, 
 Lincoln's Inn." No date, but about 1775. 5s. 6d. 
 
 Berens (H. & M.). Joint plate of " Chippendale " 
 design. The shield, bordered as usual with flowers and 
 shrubs, is surmounted by a crest. Below, in a frame, the 
 inscription, "H.&M, Berens." No date, but about 1755. 3s. 
 
 Berry (Maey). A fanciful design, consisting of a 
 strawberry plant with flowers and fruit. Above, the motto : 
 "Inter foha fructus" ; below, the name, "Mary Berry." 
 Engraved about 1800. 5s. 
 
 Bertie (The Honourable Charles), of Ufiington, in 
 the County of Lincoln. Armorial, early English, with 
 voluminous mantling. 5s. 
 
 Beetie (James). Armorial, crested. Motto: "Virtus 
 ariete fortior." Manthng, voluminous and intricate. 
 Inscription, on foliated scroll : " The Honourable James 
 Bertie Esqr., of Stanwell, in Com., Middx., second son to 
 James, late Earle of Abingdon, 1702." The Honourable 
 Robert Bertie of the Middle Temple, younger brother of 
 the last named, had also a book-plate inscribed with his 
 name, and dated 1702. 13s. 
 
 Bertie (Robert). See Bertie (James). 
 
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 Bessbokough (H. F.). Allegorical plate, engraved by 
 Barfcolozzi after Cipriam, representing an interior, Venus 
 seated on a chair of state, holding in the left hand a Laming 
 heart, and in the right, a dove. Two cupids bear aloft a 
 long scroll on which is the name: "H. F. Bessborough/' 
 Below is the inscription: "London, Pubd. Deer. 30, 
 1796, by F. Bartolozzi." This example seems to have been 
 used both as a visiting card and a book plate. £3 10s., again 
 £3 10s., again £2 (Nov. 11th). Another plate used by the 
 Countess of Bessborough, who was the second daughter of 
 John, Earl Spencer, the founder of the Althorp Library, 
 consists of the monogram, " H.F.B," displayed on an ermine 
 tippet, and surmounted by an Earl's Coronet. This plate 
 was also used by her husband, Frederick Ponsonby, third 
 earl of Bessborough. 
 
 BmcH (Thomas). Allegorical, Minerva (Britamiia?), 
 seated with an armorial shield, Cupid flying with the crest. 
 No date, but about 1786. 3s. 
 
 BiRNiE OF Beoomhill. This curious ex lihris consists of 
 an armorial shield, crested, and heavily mantelled in the 
 upper part. It rests upon two praying desks, one at either 
 side at which a minister of the Eark is kneehng. Above 
 the crest is the motto : " Sapere aude incipe," on a scroU. 
 This is a Scotch book plate, engraved by Burden about the 
 year 1715. 12s. 
 
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 Bishop (Rev. Chaeles). Armorial, Ribbon and Wreath 
 style, Georgian shield. Motto : " Bis qui cito." No date, 
 but about 1800. Is. 6d. 
 
 Blachly (Absalom). Armorial, crested, festoons around 
 the shield, two flowering branches spreading upward and 
 tied together at the base with a ribbon upon which is 
 the motto: "Utere Mundo." Inscription: "Absalom 
 Blachly," in script between two quiU pens. No date, but 
 engraved by Maverick, about the year 1790. An American 
 plate. 6s. 
 
 Bland (Joseph). Library interior with figures, printed 
 in red. 18s. 
 
 Bloomfield (Family of). Armorial, of "Chippendale" 
 design, crested. Below the shield is the inscription : " Pro 
 Aria et Focis " on a scroU, and underneath on a brsicket on 
 which rest four books, the name " Bloomfield." No date, 
 but engraved by James Trenchard about the year 1785. 
 An American plate. From 4s. to 6s. 
 
 Bloomfield (Robert). Armorial, crested. This plate 
 may be described as intentionally "comic,'' the heraldry 
 being obviously a mere travesty. On either side of the 
 shield, stand two ploughmen. The dexter half is 
 " quartered " with shoemaker's implements, and on the 
 sinister half is a shoemaker dancing and apparently drunk. 
 
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 On. a scroll below: "Friends in need and a fig for the 
 Heralds." Inscribed: "Eobert Bloomfield, 1813." 173. 
 
 Blount (Waiter). Armorial, " Cbippeadale " design 
 with motto, "Lux tua via mea," on a scroU above. En- 
 graved by Taylor, of Worcester, in 1757. 5s. 
 
 BoDDiNGTON (Gkacilla). A curious plate designed in the 
 form of a naval trophy, a ship, anchor and pennants being 
 conspicuous; resting against the ship is an easel with a 
 marine subject upon it; below, a palette. No date, but 
 about 1800. 4s. 
 
 BoLAS (Thomas). This plate is, according to Mr. Arthur 
 Vicars, Ulster King-of-Arms, copied from one engraved, 
 by Gravelot for Charles Bolingbroke about the year 1740. 
 It represents a library interior, a table in the foreground, 
 with escutcheon and scroU resting upon books. On one 
 book is the motto, " Miscet utUe dulci," and on the scroU, 
 " Virtus NobUitat." The name of the owner appears below, 
 in script. 8s., again 4s. 
 
 Boston. The University Club of Boston. Inscription, 
 on fanciful scroll, set on a dark background, open book and 
 ornaments above, dated, in Eoman letters, 1892. 2s. 
 
 Boteler (William). Landscape, view of Eastry Church, 
 with its square Norman tower, to right ; to the left a large 
 Georgian shield resting against a tree and almost com- 
 
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 pletely surrounded by vegetation. No name or date, but 
 engraved by Barlow about 1800. 4s. 
 
 BowDON (Heney). Armorial, crested, plain shield pointed 
 at the base. On a ribbon below, the motto : " Vauiis pst 
 honor." Name: "H. Bowdon," in script. No date, but 
 about 1780. 5s. 
 
 Beackstonb (James). Armorial, " Chippendale " design, 
 crest above. In an ornamented frame below, the inscrip- 
 tion : " James Brackstone, Citizen of London, 1751." 3s. 6d. 
 
 Beadburne (Elizabeth). Armorial, "Chippendale" 
 design, the lozenge surrounded by two single sprays of a 
 flowering plant, tied together below. Above, a ribbon. In- 
 scription below: "Ehzabeth BradbTime." No date, but 
 about 1760. 3s. 6d. 
 
 Beadshaw (Elleker), of Risby, co. York, early 
 " Jacobean " plate. Rare, £1 12s. 
 
 Bragg (Philippa). Name label, engraved in the year 
 1634. This is one of the oldest plates of this kind; but 
 see PiNDAE (Elizabeth). About 17s. 
 
 Beand (J.). Landscape, engraved on copper by Ralph 
 Beilby, the partner of Bewick. In the foreground, an oak, 
 against which a slab of marble bearing the inscription : " J. 
 Brand, A.B., F.S.A., Coll. Line. Oxon." In the back- 
 ground a ruin, vegetation around. In the distance the spire 
 
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 of St. Nicholas's Churcli, Newcastle. No date, but about 
 1780. 6s. 
 
 Bransby (James Hews). Landsca-pe. In the foreground 
 a sower scattering grain, and a little beyond, a team of 
 horses ploughing. In the distance a cottage surrounded by- 
 trees. This pleasing and well executed plate was engraved 
 by J. Scott about the year 1810. The inscription reads: 
 " James Hews Brsmaby, Breve et irreparabile tempus." 8s., 
 again 6s. 
 
 Bree (W. T.). Library interior, the shelves partly hidden 
 by a draped curtain ; on a shelf below, the " Holy Bible," 
 surmounted by three other books, and an inkstand and pen. 
 A scroll, inscribed, " Rev. W. T. Bree, M.A., AUesley," hangs 
 from the shelf. No date, but about 1825. 5s. 
 
 Beickdaie (John). Armorial, "Chippendale" design, 
 printed in blue. No date, but about 1750. 7s. 
 
 Brighton. Choat's Library and Reading Room, The 
 Brightelmstone Circulating Library, trade ticket, with view 
 of shop. No date, but about 1780. 6s. 
 
 Brodrick (St. John). Armorial, crested. Motto: "A 
 cuspide corona." Manthng voluminous and convoluted, 
 reaching to the base of the shield, the " ground " upon which 
 the shield rests, cross-hatched. Inscription : " St. John 
 Brodrick, of the Middle Temple, Esqr., 1703." 15s. 
 
 Beodripp (Hester). Armorial, "Jacobean" design, the 
 
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 frame worked to lattice and scale patterns. At each, side 
 are Comucopiae. Date, about 1735. 8s. 
 
 Bromley (William). Armorial, crested. Motto: 
 " VexiEo virtutis vinco." Mantling flowing, but stiffly en- 
 graved. Inscription : " William Bromley, of Baginton, in ye 
 County of Warwick, Esqr., 1703." This plate is unusually 
 small for the period. The measurement is 2J inches by 2 
 inches. 7s., again 6s. 
 
 Brooke (William). Armorial, early wreath style, the 
 escutcheon, set in a " Chippendale " frame. Inscription : 
 " WiUiam Brooke, A.M." No date, but about 1785. 3s. 6d. 
 
 Broughton (A.). A donation plate, landscape, the sea 
 with ships in the distance. In the foreground is a large urn 
 around which is twined a snake, on the right, vegetation and 
 a tall, gracefully-bent pabn. The escutcheon rests against 
 the urn, and both stand on a slab whereon is the name, 
 " A. Broughton, M.D." ; above are the words, " Bequest of 
 — " • below, the date, 1796. Engraved by Cook, after a 
 design by J. Taylor. 4s. 6d. 
 
 Brown (Jacob). A library interior within an oval frame ; 
 in the centre a couch on which a man is rechning, reading a 
 book; behind him, shelves of books and curtain. On the 
 carpet, 13 stars. Beneath is an inscription of four lines of 
 verse commencing, " Weigh well each thought, each sentence 
 freely scan." The name, " Jacob Brown," written by hand. 
 
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 No date, but engraved by P. E. Maverick about 1780. An 
 American plate. Scarce, 12s. 
 
 Browne (Petkr A.). A table upon which are a number 
 of books, one open, a wreath of laurel and a framed card 
 upon which is the name, " Peter A. Browne." Above, an 
 eye ; on the edge of the table, " Fiat Justitia." No date, 
 but engraved by James Akin, about the year 1815. 2s. 
 
 Beowniow (Alice). Arms in a lozenge, without crest or 
 motto, and inscribed, " Dame Alice Brownlow, Relict of Sir 
 John Brownlowe, late of Belton, in the County of Lincoln, 
 Baronet, and Daughter of Richard Sherard, Esq., of 
 Lobthorp, in the said county, 1698." £1 18s. 
 
 Brownlowe (Sir William). Armorial, crested. A large 
 plate, inscribed, " Sir WiUiam Brownlowe, of Belton, ia the 
 County of Lincoln, Bsironet, 1698." About 10s. 
 
 Bruce (Charles, Viscount). Armorial, crested and sup- 
 ported. Motto : " Fuimus." The inscription reads : " The 
 Right Honble. Charles Viscount Bruce, of AmpthiU (Son and 
 Heir- Apparent of Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury), and Baron 
 Bruce, of Whorleton, 1712." 4s. 
 
 Bruce (John). Landscape. Designed by Thomas 
 Bewick. No date, but about 1800. 5s. 
 
 Brydges (Augusta Anna). Armorial, of " Chippendale " 
 design, arms in a lozenge, the usual branches and flowers 
 
102 
 
 springing therefrom. Inscription: " Augusta Anna Brydges, 
 1766." 5s. 
 
 Buckingham (Owen). Armorial, crested, the background 
 of the plate shaded, a most unusual circumstance. The in- 
 scription reads : " Owen Buckingham, Reding, County of 
 Berks, Esqr., 1709." About 12s. 
 
 BuRGHLBY (Elizabeth, Lady). Armorial, two oval 
 shields with the motto : " Cor imum, via una." Inscribed, 
 " The Eight Honble. Ehzabeth, Lady Biurghley, wife of John, 
 Lord Burghley, and one of the daughters and co-heirs of Sir 
 John Brownlow, late of Belton, in the County of Lincoln, 
 Baronet, 1700." 14s., again lis. 
 
 Burnet (Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury). This well- 
 known divine has left a plate which, though not dated, may 
 be assigned to about the year 1700. It consists of a coat of 
 arms in which the Virgin and child are prominent. Impaled 
 are three green holly leaves; at the base a bugle. Sur- 
 mounting the shield, a mitre, crozier and key. Below, the 
 inscription : " Gilbert Burnet, Lord Bishop of Salisbury, 
 Chancellor of the most Noble Order of the Garter." This is 
 a scarce plate. £1, again 12s. (stained), again. 7s. 
 
 Burnet (John). Armorial, of " Chippendale " design, 
 shepherdess and cupids. Motto : " Virescit vulnere virtus." 
 Engraved by H. Dawkins, in 1754. An American plate. 8s. 
 
 Burroughs (Pr.(lNces). Armorial, the lozenge completely 
 
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 biiried in a finely-designed and voluminous mantle ; below, a 
 cherub. This is a large plate, measuring some 15 inches by 
 11 inches, and was engraved about the year 1750. Inscrip- 
 tion: " Mrs. Francis Burroughs.'' £1. 
 
 BTmROw (Edward). Landscape, engraved by Edward 
 Bramston. In the background, to the right, is a ship at 
 anchor, before a fort, to the left a larger ship with a seaport 
 in the distance. Below, a large coat-of-arms of later " Chip- 
 pendale " design and a bracket, the whole very much orna- 
 mented. This plate is not dated, but may be assigned to 
 about the year 1786. 7s. 6d. 
 
 BuEBOW (James). Armorial, "Jacobean" design, in- 
 scribed, " James Burrow, of the Inner Temple." No date, 
 but about 1730. 7s. 
 
 Burton (John). This plate, from its appearance, 
 and the circumstances attending its execution, may be 
 ascribed to about the year 1740. It was engraved by Pine, 
 after a design by Gravelot, as an ex libris for the learned 
 Dr. John Burton, D.D. The design discloses book-shelves 
 half draped by a curtain. In front, a plain armorial shield 
 supported by two cupids, one of whom holds an open book. 
 A similar design, but reversed, did duty ia later times as 
 the plate of " Wadham Wyndham, Esqr." 15s., again 5s. 
 
 Bury (Sir Thomas). Armorial, crested. Inscription: 
 
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 " The Honble Sr. Thomas Bury Knight, one of the Barons 
 of her Matie's. Court of Exchequer, 1703." 8s. 
 
 Bute (James, Eael of). Armorial, crest«d. The escut- 
 cheon smothered in voluminous and heavy mantUng. 
 Engraved by George Paterson about the year 1720. 
 Inscription : " James, Earlet of Bute." 10s. 
 
 BuTLEE (Maey). This plat« is dated 1703, and is of 
 " Jacobean " design. Armorial, crested. The manthng is 
 full and foliated. 15s., again 13s. 
 
 Butler (Richaed). Annorial, crested, scroll below, but 
 no motto, manthng not very fuU. Inscription : " Richard 
 Butler, of Lincohi's Inn, Esqr., 1703." 12s. 
 
 Byebley (Robert). Armorial, crested. Motto : " FoyaU 
 et LoyaU." Mantling, voluminous and intricate. Inscrip 
 tion, on fohated scroll : " Robert Byerley, of Gouldesbrough, 
 in the West Rideing of ye County of Yorke, Esqr., 1702." 
 14s. 
 
 Byed (William). Armorial, of "Jacobean" design, 
 mantling very profuse and blown upward. Motto, on a 
 scroll below : " Nulla pallescere culpa." Inscription : 
 " WiUiam Byrd, of Westover, in Virginia, Esqr." No date, 
 but about 1725. Possibly engraved in America, and if so, 
 one of the earliest American book-plates known. Very 
 rare. From SOs. to 40s. 
 
 Byron (Lord). Armorial, crested and supported. Motto : 
 
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 " Crede Biron " ; name below, " Byron." This plate which 
 is rare was engraved by Griffiths and Weigall. No date, 
 but about 1810. £1 2s., again £1 2s. 
 
 Bysshe (Sir Edwasd). Armorial, no crest, the shield 
 surrounded by a wreath of pahns tied by ribbons that flow 
 into the scroll. This plate is not dated, but was engraved 
 about the year 1655. 16s. 
 
 Cabell (George). Allegorical, an anchor, with a lambent 
 heart on the shank, resting upon the ground upon which grow 
 several trees. Above is an eye, and clouds, the whole design 
 within wreaths tied at the base by a ribbon. Motto : " Spes 
 mea in Deo." Inscription : " Doct-r Geo. Cabell, Richmond, 
 Virga." No date, but engraved by Brooks about the year 
 1800. 10s. 
 
 Caienes (Lady). Armorial, "Jacobean" design. The 
 shield is circular, and set in a frame of scaly pattern, the 
 whole resting on steps and supported by three cupids. Above 
 are two more cupids holding a ribbon on which is the in- 
 scription, " Lady EUzabeth Caimes." At the background, 
 masonry of classic design. This plate is not dated, but was 
 engraved by Louis du Guemier about the year 1710. 17s. 
 
 Callbnder (Miss). AUegoric, designed by Bartolozzi, and 
 engraved by Blyth about 1780. 12s. 
 
 Cambridge Colleges. See under individual names. 
 
 Cambridge UNivBEsmr. See George 1st. 
 
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 Campbell (Archibald). Armorial, crested and sup- 
 ported. Motto : " Ne obliviscaris." This plate, wliicli is met 
 witli ia two sizes, bears the inscription : " The Honourable 
 Archibald Campbell, Esqr., 1708. 10s. 
 
 Campbell (T.). Armorial, crested, of matured "Chip- 
 pendale" design, the frame bearing the dragon and being 
 smothered in flowers, leaves and sprays. On a scroll is the 
 motto : " Ne obliviscaris," and below, the inscription : " T. 
 Campbell, A.B., 1756." From its style it is probable that 
 the plate was engraved fifteen or twenty years later than the 
 date given. Eare. 19s. 
 
 Cannon (Ann). Name label inscribed " Ann Cannon, 
 1767." 2s. 6d. 
 
 Capell (Algeenon). Armorial, crested and supported. 
 Motto: "Fide et Fortitudine," the mantling with spaces 
 between the foliation. Inscription : " The Right Honble. 
 Algernon CapeU, Earl of Essex, Viscount Maldon, and 
 Baron CapeU, of Hadham, 1701." 12s. 
 
 Caedigan (Elizabeth, Countess of). Armorial, crested 
 and supported. The inscription reads : " The Right Honble. 
 Elizabeth, Countess of Cardigan, 1715." 6s. 
 
 Caeington (Feancis). Armorial, crested, "Jacobean" 
 design, the mantling descending a little way down the shield 
 which is bordered by scroU work of fine design. Motto, on a 
 ribbon below : " Regi semper Fidelis," and on a cloth the 
 
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 inscription: "Francis Caringfcon, Esq., of Wotton, War- 
 ■roickshire." Engraved by Skinner, of Bath, in 1738 (dated). 
 10s. 
 
 Caelylb (Thomas). A frame within which is a crest and 
 the motto : " Humilitate." This rests upon another frame of 
 oblong form in which appears the name " Thomas Carlyle." 
 No date, but engraved by H. P. Walker, in 1853. Carlyle 
 had no heraldic right to the crest referred to. 10s. 
 
 Caemichabll (William). Armorial, crested, manthng 
 full and voluminous, coming below the base of the shield. 
 Motto : " Toujours prest.'' Inscription : " The Honourable 
 Wm. Carmichaell, Esqr." No date, but about 1779. An 
 American plate. 4s. 6d. 
 
 Caer (Isabella). Armorial, "Chippendale" design, the 
 lozenge being surrounded as usual with flowers, leaves, and 
 sprays. Below is the inscription: "Isabella Carr." No 
 date, but about 1750. 5s. 
 
 Casroll (Charles). Armorial, crested, mantling full 
 and elaborate. No motto. Inscription : " Charles Carroll 
 of ye Inner Temple, Esqr., second son of Daiiieil Carroll of 
 IdtterloiUna, Esqr., in the King's County, in the Kingdom 
 of Ireland." No date, but about 1690. An American plate. 
 .£1 15s. 
 
 Carroll (Charles). Armorial, of " Chippendale " design, 
 no motto and inscription, simply: "Charles CarroU." 
 
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 Engraved about the year 1800. This Charles Carroll, who 
 died in 1832, was the last surviving subscriber to the 
 Declaration of Independence. An American plate. About 
 £2. 
 
 Caeeuthers (John). Armorial, mantling profuse and 
 heavy, inscription : " Jolm Carruthers of Holmains, Esq." 
 No date, but about 1700. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Caeter (Elizabeth). Pictorial, a large owl perched on 
 the stump of a tree occupies the centre, within an oval frame. 
 Outside the frame is a border of branches, leaves and rocks. 
 Inscription : " E. Carter, Deal, Kent." Motto above, on the 
 frame, "Ask it of God." No date, but about 1750. Mrs. 
 Carter is well-known as the Translator of Epictetus, and 
 friend of Dr. Johnson, and other celebrities of the day. 12s. 
 
 Caeyer (Richaed). Armorial, " Chippendale " design, 
 crest above on miniature shield, supported by a cupid, below, 
 an empty scroU for the motto. Inscription : " Richd. 
 Caryer." Not dated, but about 1755. 2s. 
 
 Caulfield (John and Euphemia Gordon). Armorial, 
 the joint property, as the inscription narrates, of " The Eevd. 
 John Caulfield, D.D., and Euphemia Gordon of Kenmure" 
 Crest above, motto and wreath decoration. No date, but 
 about 1780. 6s., again 4s. 
 
 Caulfield (Richaed). Landscape, a mass of ruins. On 
 a fallen column to the left is the inscription : " Richard 
 
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 Caulfield, L.L.D., Fellow Soc. Antiq., London. Corresp. 
 Mem. Soc. Antiq., Normandy, Cork," a little beyond two 
 soldiers with spears. No date, but engraved by A. Colthurst, 
 in 1820. 3s. 
 
 Cave (W. & M.). A joint armorial plate of large and 
 fine design. The shield, which is surmounted by the two 
 crests of the family (A Greyhound courant and a Stork, 
 ppr.), is within a slender frame of scroll work, and contains 
 no fewer than 72 quarterings. Above, on a scroU carried in 
 the mouth of the Greyhound, is the motto, " Gardez " ; 
 below, the inscription, "W. & M. Cave^-Browne-Cave," in 
 script. No date, but after 1810. 9s. 
 
 Oavekdish Family (The). Armorial, inscribed, " Cavendo 
 Tutus, 1698." The arms are " Sa, three bucks' heads 
 cabossed ar. crest, a serpent nowed ppr." Supporters, two 
 bucks ppr. The arms of the Cavendish family have been 
 subject to frequent changes. This plate is mentioned by 
 Warren on p. 69 of his " Guide to the Study of Book-Plates." 
 8s. 
 
 Cecil (James). The seventh Earl and first Marquis of 
 Sahsbttty was James Cecil, who died in 1823. Before being 
 created Marquis in 1789, he adopted the plate which is 
 found in many of the books at Hatfield House. The design 
 is armorial, crested and supported, the mantling shght, ajid 
 displayed over the coronet of an Earl. Motto : " Sero sed 
 
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 serio." Inscription : " Salisbury." No date, but not before 
 1780, nor after 1789. A very rare plate. From 25s. to. 30s. 
 
 Chambers (John). Armorial, crested, of "Chippendale" 
 design. Motto: "Vincit Veritas." Inscription: "John 
 Chambers, Esqr," in script. Not dated, but engraved by E. 
 GaUaudet about the year 1800. An American plate. 5s. 
 
 Chandler (GtAedinee). Armorial, crested, of "Chip- 
 pendale " design. Above, at one side of the orest is " No," 
 and at the other [ J. Empty scroll below, and inscription, 
 " Gardiner Chandler," in script. No date, but engraved by 
 Paul Revere, about the year 1765. An American plate. 
 From 30s. to 40s. 
 
 Chandler (John). Armorial, crested, "Chippendale" 
 design, at the base a large shell from which issues a stream of 
 water. No date, but engraved by N. Htird about the year 
 1760. An American plate. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Chaelett (Dr. A.). Book-Pile, with monogram and 
 motto. No date, but about 1699. This is one of the earhest 
 book-plates in this style. Very scarce. £1 18s., again lis. 
 
 Charlton (Charles). Landscape, view of Tynemouth 
 from the sea^side. Inscription : " Charles Charlton, M.D." 
 No date, but engraved by Thomas Bewick about 1805. 8g. 
 
 Chase (Samuel). Armorial, crested, of "Chippendale" 
 design. Motto : " Ne cede malis." Inscription : " SI. Chase." 
 No date, but engraved about the year 1800 by J. Boyd. 
 
Ill 
 
 Samuel Chase was one of the Signatories to the Declaration 
 of Independence. This American book-plate is very rare. 
 From 50s. to 60s. 
 
 Chouley (W. B.). Landscape. A dilapidated brick -wall 
 upon which is written, " W. B. Chorley, Liverpool." In the 
 background, a gothic ruin; above, foliage. No date, but 
 engraved by Bonner about the year 1810 in the style of 
 Bewick. 3s. 
 
 Christ's College, Cambridge. This scarce plate, which 
 bears the date 1701, is early "Jacobean" in character. A 
 copy sold recently for £1 4s., again £1. 
 
 Clayton (Sir Robert). Armorial, crested, no motto. 
 A legend reads : " Sr. Robert Clayton, of the City of London, 
 Knight, Alderman and Mayor thereof. Ao. 1679." It is 
 very questionable whether this date does not refer to the 
 period of Sir Robert's mayoralty, rather than to that of the 
 plate itself. £5 (an excessive price, as a good copy sold 
 shortly afterwards — at Puttick & Simpson's on the 6th 
 April, 1897— for £1 10s.). 
 
 Cleveland (Stephen). An English man-of-war in full 
 sail, the ensign flying from the stem. Inscription : " Stephen 
 Cleveland." No date, but engraved about 1780. An 
 American pla.te of great rarity. From 40s. to 50s. 
 
 Clinton (De Witt). Armorial, the shield surmounted by 
 five ostrich plumes issuing from a coronet, and surrounded 
 
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 witih garlands of flowers. Below, a motto on a scroll: 
 " Patria cara carior libertas." Inscription : " De Witt 
 Clinton," in script. No date, but engraved by P. E. Maverick 
 about the year 1795. An American plate. 15s. 
 
 Cock (Johanna). Armorial, lozenge within a frame of 
 plain cord twisted into widow's knots. Below, on a scroU 
 guarded by two cocks, is the inscription : " Johanna Cock.' 
 The whole within a plain border. No date, but about 1750. 
 7s. 
 
 CoGGAN (Charles Thomas). A fine "Chippendale" 
 design, surrounded by figures ; at the base a vignette of 
 reapers at work. No date, but about 1770.' 10s. 
 
 CoKAYNB (Thomas). Armorial, profuse mantling, shield, 
 with twelve quarterings. A rare plate. £1, again 5 s. 
 
 Coke (Cahy). Armorial, arms of the wife being impaled 
 with those of the husband. A highly ornamental plate, in- 
 scribed, " Cary Coke, wife of Edward Coke, of Norfolk, Esq., 
 1701." 12s. 
 
 Collet (John). Name label inscribed, " Johannes CoUet 
 filius Thomee Collet. Pater Thomse Gulielmi, ac Johannis, 
 omnium superstes, natus quarto junii 1633. Denasciturus 
 quando Deo Visum fuerit ; interim, hujus proprietarius John 
 Collet." Very rare. £1 2s., again 16s., again 17s. 
 
 Columbia College. Allegorical; in a circle is a female 
 seated on a throne with three cupids standing by, in the dis- 
 
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 tance the rising sun. Above, within the circlo, the iaverted 
 triangle of water, with IHVH (Jehovah) in Hebrew. Out of 
 her mouth issues a scroll bearing in Hebrew the word 
 " RAIEUA." Motto : " In lumine tuo videbimus lumen." 
 Outside the cdrde and within a second circle, is the inscription 
 " Columbia College Library, New York." Above, an urn 
 overflowing with flowers. The design is set against a dark 
 square background apparently of brick. Engraved by 
 Alexander Anderson about the year 1810. £1 5s. 
 
 Columbine (Francis), Colonel of Foot. Armorial, dated 
 1708. £1 Is., again 12s. 
 
 Combe (Catherine). Armorial, " Jacobean " design, the 
 lozenge standing on a bracket, underneath which is a China- 
 man's face. The inscription reads simply, " Catherine 
 Combe," in script. This is a plate of elegant design, the 
 ornamental scroU work surroimding the two female busts 
 which support the lozenge on either side, being extremely 
 graceful. 10s. 
 
 CoMBRiDGE (Margaret). See Thorpe (John). 
 
 Constable (William). Armorial, crested. Motto : " Post 
 tot naufragia portus." No date, but engraved about 1785. 
 An American plate. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Conway (Frederick William). Book-Pile design. Arms 
 in centre, with motto, " Libertas." Below, the inscription : 
 
 H 
 
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 "Frederick Wm. Conway." Not dated, but about 1800. 
 8s., again Ss. 
 
 CoNYERS (John). Armorial, crested, " Jacobean " design. 
 Inscription : " John Conyers, of Walthamstow, in Essex, 
 Esq." Engraved by Skimier, of Bath, 1737 (dated). 4s. 
 
 Cook (James). Armorial, "Azure, between two Polar 
 stars, or, a spbere on tbe plane of the meridian." Shield 
 draped with flags, below, four cannon, crest above. Inscrip- 
 tion : " Capt. Cook." This grant of arms was mad© in 1785, 
 after the death of Captain Cook, the circumnavigator, and 
 the plate was probably prepared for his son, James Cook, a 
 commander in the R.N. This is a most interesting ex lihris, 
 as the terrestrial globe shows Captain Cook's course marked 
 in red and maps his discoveries. A rare plate, engraved 
 probably before 1794, and never used. (For further details, 
 and an illustration, see Mr. Egerton Castle's English Book- 
 plates, page 115.) About 35s. 
 
 Cook (Joseph). Landscape plate, with view of the owner's 
 house. Below, signature in. Hthography : " Joseph Cook." 
 No date, but about 1825. Scarce. 6s. 
 
 CooKE (Sm George). Armorial, " Jacobean " design, but 
 without bracket. Manthng independent of lower design, the 
 inner part of the frame grounded with a design of scale work. 
 Inscription : " Sir George Cooke, of the Imier Temple, 
 
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 London, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, West^ 
 minster, 1727." 8s. 
 
 Cooke (John). Armorial, with crest, but no motto. In- 
 scription : " John Cooke, of the Inner Temple, London, Esq., 
 Chief e 'Prothonotary of the Court of Comon Please, West- 
 minster, 1701.'' 10s. 6d. 
 
 Cooper (Mtles). Armorial, crested, "Chippendale" 
 design, the shield resting upon what appears to be a meadow 
 with tufts of herbage. Inscription : " Myles Cooper, LL.D., 
 CoU. Regis Nov. Ebor. ia America. Prseses et Coll. Reginee 
 de Oxon Socius, &c.'' No date, but about 1770. An 
 American plate. 8s. 
 
 CoENWAiLis (Chaeles, Loed). Armorial, "Jacobean" 
 design ; arms on a decorative shield, supported by two stags, 
 the whole siirmounted by a coronet ; no crest. Motto : 
 " Virtus vincit invidiam." Inscription, on plain ground : 
 " The Book-plate of Charles, 5th Baron Comwalhs, of Eye, 
 Suffolk." Not dated, but engraved probably in 1730. 3s. 
 
 Corpus College, Cambridge. Armorial within a frame 
 with festoons • early " Jacobean " style. Inscription, in 
 script : " Collegium Corporis Christi et B. Virginis Maries in 
 Universitate Cantabrigiensi, 1701." £1. 
 
 Cotes (H.). Landscape, a man fishing. Inscription: 
 "Rev. H. Cotes, Vicar of Bedlington, 1802." Engraved by 
 Bewick, and subsequently used as a vignette in Vol. II. of his 
 
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 British Birds, published at Newcastle in 1804, and later. 
 10s. 
 
 CoTTiN (Henry Daniel). Armorial, crested, mantling 
 heavy and blown up. Shield supported by two boys who are 
 standing on musical instruments, &c. Name on scroll below 
 shield, "Henry Daniel Cottin." No date, but about 1690. 
 A rare plate. 17s., again 16s., again lis. 
 
 CouETENAY (William). Armorial, inscribed, "William 
 Cotirt«nay, of Treemer, in the County of C<>mwal, Esquire." 
 This is a woodcut of rather rude design, executed probably 
 about the year 1640. Below the shield occurs the direction, 
 " He beareth or, 3 Torteauxes." XI 5s. 
 
 CowPEE (WniiAM). Armorial, shield quite plain without 
 any decoration. No date, but engraved most probably by 
 Thomas Park about the year 1785. Eine and rare. 6s. 
 
 Ceanch (Richaed). Name label, the name and address : 
 " Richd. Cranch, Braintree," within an oval frame of laurel 
 and oak leaves. No date, but engraved by Wilham Bond in 
 1786. 5s. 
 
 Ceawford (William Stuaet Stirling). Armorial, 
 crested. There are two varieties of this plate, both armorial. 
 The first, a large plate, has two heknets above, with crests, 
 and the motto, on a scroll, " Gang Forward sine labe lucebit." 
 Below, the inscription, " Wilham Stuart Stirling Crawford." 
 The small plate has neither crest nor mantling, but the 
 
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 shield has "Chippendale" omamentB; below, two mono- 
 grams, "W.S." and "S.C." in a square frame. Motto 
 aaid name as before. Both plates are printed on a red ground 
 and are quite modem. The owner was the second husband of 
 the late Duchess of Montrose. 9s. (the two varieties). 
 
 Crawhall (Thomas). Landscape. In the foreground is a 
 rock ■with the carved inscription : " Thos. Crawhall, Allen- 
 heads, No — ." To the left, a distant view of fields. No date, 
 but about 1790. This plate is very much in the style of 
 Bewick, and engraved upon copper. 4s. 6d. 
 
 Ceewe (Nathaniel). Armorial, crested and supported ; 
 mantling light and graceful. Inscription : " Nathaniel 
 Crewe, Lord Bishop of Durham, and Baron Crewe, of Stene, 
 1703." The plate does not bear any motto. 9s. 
 
 Cboft (Richard Benyon). Armorial. Fine plate, with 
 nine quarterings. 2s. 
 
 CuNLiFFE (Sm Poster). An allegorical plate. Above, in 
 mid-air, is an escutcheon resting upon clouds and supported 
 by cherubs right and left. Crest on a medaUion above the 
 shield and the motto, " Fideliter.'' This plate was subse- 
 quently altered for Sir Robert H. Cunliffe, Bart. Engraved 
 by Bartolozzi, mogt probably from Cipriani's design, about 
 the year 1790. £1 6s., again 15s. 
 
 Cunliffe (Sir Robert). Pictorial, a library interior, on 
 a table a globe within a frame, an inkstand and pen, an open 
 
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 book and another book closed. On the right, a window, 
 shelves with books around. The arms occupy the centre of 
 the plate and the name is within a cartouche. No date, but 
 about 1750. 12s. 
 CuNLiPFE (Sir Kobeet H.). See Cunliffe (Sm Foster). 
 
 CuERER (John). An allegorical plate, representing a Sibyl 
 seated at the foot of a pyramid, with open book, at her feet a 
 caduceus and armorial shield, the whole within an oval 
 wreath of laurel. Inscription : " E. Libris Johis Currer de 
 Kildwick, Arm." This plate was afterwards used by R. H. 
 Alexander Bennet (q.v.). 17s. 
 
 Currer (Danson Richardson). Allegoric, the same plate 
 as that used by John Currer (g. i;.), with the inscription 
 altered to " Danson Richardson Currer, do Gledston, Arm." 
 No date, but about 1760. 8s. 
 
 CusHMAN (Charlotte). Armorial, the shield not in the 
 form of a lozenge as it ought to be, crest (there ought not to 
 be a crest). Motto : " Habeo' pro jus fasque.'' No date, but 
 engraved by Pulini about the year 1840. An American 
 plate. Scarce. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Damer (Anna). Allegoric. A female figure pointing to 
 the owner's name, which is engraved on masonry. The 
 escutcheon leaning against a monument and guarded by two 
 dogs, one on either side ; trees in the distance. Inscription : 
 
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 " Anna Darner/' and sometimes " Anna Seymour Darner." 
 Engraved in 1793 by Francis Legat. Rare. 18s., again lOs. 
 
 Dampieu (Thomas). Armorial, "Jcicobean" design, not 
 dated, but about 1725. 2s. 
 
 Dana (Edmund Trowbridge) — ^Dana (Richard Heney). 
 The plate designed for Francis Dana (v. q.) was used by botb, 
 these persons, the first of whom was an. eminent translator 
 and editor of works on international and public law (1818-69), 
 and the second a poet and essayist of considerable note. The 
 date 1569 appears at the left hand top corner of each plate, 
 but this probably o^nly represents that of the grant of arms. 
 8s., again 7s. 
 
 Dana (Francis). Armorial, crested, of "Chippendale" 
 design. Motto : " Cavendo tutus.'' No date, but engraved 
 byN.Hurd about the year 1770. A fine American plate. 18s. 
 
 Daniel (The Revd. W.). Emblematic plate, with female 
 figures, flowers, musical instruments, &c., dated 17 — , rare. 
 8s. 
 
 Daeley (Amelia). Pictorial, a stump of a tree, against 
 which rests a large shield ; above is the crest, and below the 
 motto, " Dare.'' The whole set in a landscape. Not dated, 
 but about 1810. 2s. 
 
 Dashwood (Sir James). Armorial, "Jacobean" design. 
 Inscription : " Sir James Dashwood, of Northbrook, in the 
 County of Oxford, Bart." No date, but about 1740. 3s. 6d. 
 
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 Davies (Rowland). A plate engraved about the year 
 1710, for the Revd. Rowland Davies, is referred to by Mr. 
 W. J. Hardy, as bearing the following inscription : " ex libris 
 Rowland Davies, L.L.B., Prebend of Kibiaglory, 1670; 
 Dean of Ross, 1679 ; Chaplain to the Forces of King WiUiam 
 in Ireland from 1688 to Sept. 1690; Dean of Cork, and 
 Rector of Carrigahne, 1710." From 10s. to 12s. 
 
 Davison (William). Armorial, "Chippendale" design. 
 Mantling fohated and profuse. Inscription : " Wm. Davison 
 Esqr., Blakiston." No date, but about 1 750. " Chippendale " 
 plates with Helmet and Mantling are very uncommon. 8s. 
 
 Dawes (Sir William). Armorial, crested, no motto. 
 Inscription: "Sir WiUiam Dawes, Baronet, 1704." 15s., 
 again 8 s. 
 
 De Blois (Lewis). Armorial, crested, of "Jacobean" 
 design, the mantling convoluted and finely designed, but 
 not reaching quite to the top of the shield ; below a cloth 
 upon which is engraved the name, " Lew's De Blois." No 
 motto or date, but engraved by N. Hurd, about the year 
 1748. A rare American plate. £1 4s. 
 
 Delafaye (Charles). Armorial, in the early " Chippen- 
 dale" style. The shield enclosed in the usual elaborate 
 frame, with shells and flowers, the latter, however, weakly 
 designed and not very prominent. Inscription: "Charles 
 
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 Delafaye, Esq., of Wickbury, Wilts, 1743." The plate was 
 engraved by J. Skinner of Bath. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Delaval (Francis Blake). Armorial, "Chippendale" 
 design, but more fanciful than the genuine style warrants. 
 There are two escutcheons, above which is a cornice. 
 Inscription : " Francis Blake Delaval, Esq." No date, but 
 about 1765. 4s. 
 
 Delaval (Sm John Husset, Bart.). Armorial plate, of 
 fine design, measuring 6J inch by 3|- inch. Not dated, but 
 about 1750. Rare. 7s., again 4s. 
 
 Denbigh (Eael of). Armorial, "Jacobean" frame, 
 crested and supported. Motto : " Honor virtutis prsemium." 
 The mantling is not very voluminous; the ground of the 
 shield ca"oss-hatched. Inscription : " The Right Honble. 
 Basil Fielding, Earl of Denbigh, 1703." 15s. 
 
 Derby (Earl of). See Stanley. 
 
 Dering (Sm Edward). Armorial, crested, the shield with 
 twelve quarterings, mantled in a massive and most imposing 
 manner. Inscription : " Dns Edvardus Dering miles et 
 Baronettus in aula Regia Privatis Cameris adjuratus 
 Locum-tenens in officio Conestabularioe Castri Donor, Vice- 
 Custoa Pro-CanceUarius, atq : Hypo-Thalafsiarcha Quinq, 
 Portuum, Etc., 1630." A representation of this plate is 
 given in Vol. 1, N.S., of the Miscellanea Genealogica et 
 
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 Heraldica, p. 285. There are two varieties, one showing a 
 less number of quarterings than the other. From 15s. to 20s. 
 
 Dering (Thomas). Armorial, " Chippendale " design ; no 
 motto, but dated 1749. This plate, which was engraved by 
 N. Hurd, is the eaxKest signed and dated American plate 
 known to exist. Only one copy has, so far, been discovered. 
 
 Devonshire (William, Duke of). Armorial, crested, and 
 supported. The mantling blown upward. Motto : " C'avendo 
 Tutus." Inscription : " The Most Noble WiUiajn, Duke of 
 Devonshire, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter." 
 Not dated, but about 1700. A large a<nd rare plate. 10s. 
 
 Dextee (Samuel). Name label, within an ornamental 
 border, the inscription, " Samuel Dexter's, MDCCLXXXV." 
 An American plate. 5s. 
 
 DiBDiN (Thomas Frognall). Armorial, crested, no 
 mantling ; above, on a scroll, are the initials, " T. F. D.," and 
 below, the motto, "Potuit quse plurima virtus." The 
 heraldry of this plate was evidently never certified by the 
 CoUege. Dibdin, being one of the most ardent Bibliophiles 
 who ever hved, has very appropriately quartered the printers' 
 marks of Caxton and Fiist and Schoeffer with other devices 
 more or less connected with his favourite pursuit. The crest 
 is an upright hand holding an open missal. From 8s. to 10s. 
 
 Dickens (Charles). This distinguished novelist possessed 
 two plates, the earliest of which represents a lion 
 
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 couchant, holding out in the gamb a cross patonce. The 
 second plate is a name label of the simplest characteir 
 inscribed, " From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill 
 Place, June, 1870." lis. (the first plate), again 3s. 6d. (twice). 
 
 Dickinson (CteAELEs). Armorial, crested, the shield 
 surrounded at top and both sides with garlands and festoons. 
 At the foot two palm branches. Inscription : " Charles 
 Dickinson, Esqr." No date, but about 1785. 3s. 
 
 DiDEER (Benjamin). Armorial, "Jacobean" style, with 
 emblematic design containing books. No date, but engraved 
 by George Bickham, Junr., about 1720. 9s. 
 
 DiNwiDDiE (Robert). Armorial, "Chippendale" design. 
 Motto : " Ubi Hbertas ibi patria." Inscription : " Rob't 
 Dinwiddie." An American plate. 6 s. 
 
 DoBYNS (William). Early armorial ; helmet above shield, 
 but no crest. Manthng heavy and convoluted. Inscription : 
 " WiUiam Dobyns, of Lincoln's Inn, Esqr." No date, but 
 about 1700. 7s. 
 
 DoEG (Alexander). A ship standing on the stocks. 
 Inscription : " Alexr. Doeg, shipbuilder.'' No date, but 
 about 1800. 10s. 
 
 Dolbeare (Benjamin). Name label of large size. 
 Inscription within a triple ornamental border, " Benjamin 
 Dolbeare, of Boston, in New England, Oxford, Printed at 
 the Clarendon Printing House; October 6, 1739." Within 
 
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 the border is an inscription also observed on the label of 
 Martha Baxtlett (q.v.), commencing, " The Noble Art and 
 Mystery of Printing," &c., &c. About 3s. 
 
 Drake (William). Armorial, "Jacobean" design. 
 Inscription : " William Drake, M.A." No date, but about 
 1720. 7s., again 2s. 
 
 Dkayton (William). Armorial, " Chippendale " design. 
 Motto : " Non nobis solum." In a bracket below is the name, 
 "Wm. Drayton, Middle Temple." An American plate, 
 engraved about the year 1755. 6s. 
 
 Dbummond (Thomas). Allegoric; interior of a library, 
 under a dome, curtain drawn over the upper part of the plate 
 and down the right-hand side, angel with torch in the right 
 hand, on the floor a table and terrestrial globe, musical 
 instruments, books, &c. Inscription, on plain ground : 
 " Doctor Thomas Drummond." This plate was engraved 
 about the year 1745 by Sir Robert Strange, after a design by 
 T. Wall. £1 4s. 
 
 DuANE (James). Armorial, of " Chippendale " design ; the 
 shield supported by a shepherdess on one side and a girl 
 singing to a guitar on the other. MottO' : " Nulli praeda." 
 No date, but engraved by Henry Dawkins, about the year 
 1774. 4s. 6d. 
 
 Dudley (Joseph). Armorial, old style, crested. The 
 mantling is very full, reaching completely to the base of the 
 
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 shield where there is a scroll with motto : " Nee gladio nee 
 arcu." Below on a scroU is the name, " Joseph Dudley, 1754," 
 in script. A rare American plate, probably engraved in 
 England many years before and altered as to the inscription 
 and date by N. Hurd. From 15s. to 20s. 
 
 DuER (WniiiAM). Crest, surrounded by a wreath made of 
 two branches tied at the base. Motto: "Esse quam 
 videri." Inscription: "Willm. Duer, Esq." No date, but 
 engraved by P. R. Maverick about the year 1780. An 
 American plate. 4s. 
 
 DuGDALE (The Family of). In 1729 a plate belonging to 
 some member of the Dugdale family was engraved by Sutton 
 NichoUs who has added his sxumame to the plate. It is of 
 armorial design, crested and mantled, and bears traces of 
 " Jacobean " influence. The motto is " Pestis patriae 
 pigrities." There is no inscription. From. 6s. to 8s. 
 
 DuiCK (John). An allegorical plate representing ApoUo 
 playing on a lyre to the Muses. Clouds below with Pegasus 
 flying from a rock. This plate is not dated, but was engraved 
 about the year 1750. 5s. 
 
 DuMABESQiXE (Phzlip). Armorial, " Chippendale " design. 
 No motto or date, but engraved by N. Hurd about tbe year 
 1760. An American plate. 7s. 6d. 
 
 DuMMBE (Jeremiah). Armorial, crested, showing traces 
 of "Jacobean" design, the ornamental scroll work sur- 
 
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 rounding the shield being displayed as mantling. Below, is 
 the inscription, "Jer Dummer, Angliis Americanus." No 
 motto or date, but engraved about 1710. 9s. 
 
 DuPRB (Sarah). Armorial, " Jacobean " design ; no date, 
 but about 1730. 3s. 
 
 DuEAMD (John). Armorial, crested, of "Chippendale" 
 design. Underneath the design is a landscape view of a 
 cornfield with reapers, &c., and below that, in a frame, the 
 name, " John Durand, Esq.," in script. No motto or date, 
 but engraved about 1780. A fine American plate. From 
 8s. to 10s. 
 
 Dyer (Charles). An urn encircled round the neck by a 
 wreath, on the right a weeping ash, on the left, a broken 
 tree. The escutcheon rests partly against the tree and partly 
 against the urn; the whole on a slab, on which is written, 
 "Chas. Dyer." No date, but about 1800. Mr. Egerton 
 Castle wittily suggests that " Mr. Dyer was, perhaps, devoid 
 enough of decency to think that his book-plate was 
 appropriate to his name." 7s., again 8s. 
 
 Eaele (A.) Armorial, " Jaxiobean " design, inscribed, " A. 
 Earle, of Heydon, Norfolk." No date, but about 1710. 6s. 
 
 Edkhsts (William). A pictorial plate, engraved by Howitt 
 and inscribed " Wm. Edkins, Painter, 37, Bridge St., Bristol." 
 No date, but about 1800. 4s. 
 
 Edwards (Jonathan). An armorial plate, bearing the 
 
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 inscription given below is found in many of the books in th© 
 library of Jesus College, Oxford. Jonathan Edwards, the 
 well-known Biblical controversialist, died in 1712, and left 
 the whole of his books to his college. Immediately after his 
 death, the authorities caused this plate to be designed and 
 aiExed in each of the books they had acquired from their late 
 principal : " CoU. Jesu. Oxon. legavit Jonathan Edwards, 
 S.T.P., Principalis, 1712." About 15s. 
 
 Edwaeds (Geoege), of Henlon, in Com. Bedford, Esq., 
 dated 1703. A scarce plate in the early English armorial 
 style. 18s. 
 
 Egerton (Randolph). Armorial, without date, but- 
 usually assigned to the year 1680. Below is the foUowiag 
 inscription : " Randolph Egerton, of Betley, in Stafordshire, 
 Esquire, Lieutenant of his Majestyes own Troop of Guard, 
 under the command of his Grace, James, Duke of 
 Monmouth." Scarce, about 20s. 
 
 Elam (Samuel). Armorial, landscape style, the shield 
 resting against a broken but flourishing oak; below is th& 
 name, " Samuel Elam, Rhode Island." No date, but en- 
 graved probably, about the year 1800. An American plate. 
 5s. 
 
 Elgae (Elizabeth). Name label, printed: "Elizabeth 
 Elgar, 1714." 3s. 6d. 
 
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 Elliston (Robert). Armorial, crested, of "Jacobean" 
 design, an eagle on either side. Motto: "Bono vince 
 malum," on a ribbon below. Tbe inscription, without frame, 
 as follows: "Robert Elliston, Gent., Comptrolr. of bis 
 Majesties Customs of New York in America." No date, 
 but about 1725. An American plate, of fine design.- 
 Another plate inscribed as before, but bearing the date 
 MDCCXXV, is known. It is somewhat similar, but the 
 eagles are wanting, and the plate is rather larger. This 
 plate also, is finely executed. No doubt both plates were 
 engraved in England. 16s. (nO' date). 
 
 Emmanuel College, Cambridge. A rare plate, signed 
 by Stephens, and dated, 1737. 19s. 
 
 Englepield (Sir Chaeles). Armorial, shield surmounted 
 by crest, represented by an eagle. No motto, but inscribed : 
 " Sir Charles Englefield, of Englefield, in the County of 
 Berks., Baronet, 1698." Very scarce, 18s. 
 
 Eeskine Family, The. Pictorial, with inscription : " The 
 Tower of AUoa, bmlt» prior to 1315." A rare plate, 
 illustrated in Grigg's second series. 10s. 
 
 Essex (Algernon Capell, Earl of). Armorial, dated, 
 1701. A rare plate, inscribed: "The Rt. Hon. Algernon 
 CapeU, Earl of Essex, Viscount Maldon, and Baron CapeU, 
 of Hadbam." 19s., again 16s. 
 
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 Ethelstone (Elizabeth). Name label, printed : 
 " Elizabeth Ethelstone, Her Book, 1740-1." 2s. 6d. 
 
 Eustace (John Skey). Armorial, the shield decorated 
 with a wreath and ribbon, from which hang two disks, upon 
 which are, respectively, a crest, and the letter E, in script. 
 On a sciroll below, is the motto : " Sans Dieu rien ; " and 
 beneath; "Igaotis errare locis, ignota videre, Plumiaa 
 gaudebat : studio minuente laborem," in two lines. Above 
 is the inscription : " Colonel John Skey Eustace, State of 
 New York." The whole surrounded by an oval wreath. In 
 some pla,tes belonging to Colonel Eustace, the motto reads : 
 " In hoc signo vinces." An American plate, engraved about 
 the year 1800. Scarce, 10s. 
 
 EwiNG (John). Armorial, crested, "Chippendale" 
 design of elaborate character, a rising sun looking through 
 a quadrant, a sheep, books and doves being introduced. On 
 a scroll, the motto: "Andaciter" and within the frame 
 below, the name, " Ewing." No date, but about 1760. An 
 American plate. Scarce, 8s. 6d. 
 
 Eyse (Egbert). Armorial, crested. Motto : " Sola 
 virtus invicta." Mantling graceful, the ground on which 
 the shield is set, cross-hatched. Inscription, in a bordered 
 napkin: "Robert Eyre, of Lincoln's Inn, Esqr., 1703." 7s. 
 
 Eairhglme (G.). Armorial, "Chippendale" design, 
 
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130 
 
 dated 1779. Inscription: "G. rairholme, of Greenhill." 
 2s. 6d. 
 
 Faemington Libeaky. An American allegorical plate, 
 of large size. Within a plain border we read : " This Book 
 belongs to the Monthly Library in Farmington," in script. 
 Then comes a row of books, to the left of which are wooden 
 figures, one of which represents Isis, symbolising universal 
 knowledge. To the right is wisdom leading a figure in Court 
 costume. Below are the " Laws," in script, and underneath 
 on a slab, four lines of verse, also in script. This plate is 
 designed in the most amateurish style. No date, but 
 engraved by Bull, in 1801. Scarce, 10s. 6d. 
 
 Farmington Village Libeaey. Interior of a room, lady 
 sitting at a table reading, press full of books opposite, also 
 a window showing view of a temple on a steep hill. Below, 
 are two lines of verse in small script. No date, but about 
 1801. An American plate. Scarce, 10s. 6d. 
 
 Fare (Samtjel). Landscape, the prominent features 
 being a raised tomb-stone, on which rests an urn; to the 
 left, a brick pyramid shattered at the apex. Against the 
 urn leans an escutcheon, vegetation around. Motto on a 
 scroll below; "Variam semper dant otia mentem." 
 Inscription: "Samuel Farr, M.D., 1769." 3s. 6d. 
 
 Fenton (Elizabeth). Name label, printed; "Elizabeth 
 Fenton, Sheffield, 1736." 3s. 
 
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 Finch (Lady Charlotte). Armorial, arms in a lozenge, 
 surrounded by a plain cord twisted into widow's knots. 
 Below, in script, the words: "The Eight Honble. The 
 Lady Charlotte Finch." No date, but engraved about 1770. 
 A scarce plate. About 8s. 
 
 FiNCHAM (Martha De). Armorial, the shield of curious 
 shell-pattern design, without ornament of any kind, no 
 crest. On a ribbon below is the motto : " Arbore latet 
 opaca." At the foot the name, " Martha De Fincham," in 
 script, surrounded by flourishes. Not dated, but about 
 1760. About 6s. 
 
 FioTT (John). Armorial, the escutcheon suspended in 
 mid air. Inscription : " John Fiott, B.A., St. John's College, 
 Cambridge, 1806." 2s. 
 
 Fitzgerald (Edward). An angel standing fuU face, 
 holding in both hands an escutcheon, inscription below, 
 " E. Fitz-Gerald," the whole within a frame. Without date, 
 but designed and engraved by Thackeray, in 1842. 8s. 6d. 
 
 Fitz-Gerald (William). Armorial, set in a " Jacobean " 
 frame ; above a mitre. Inscription : " William Fitz-Gerald, 
 Lord Bishop of Clonfert, 1698." This is one of the oldest 
 if not the oldest plates in the " Jacobean " style. £1 5s. 
 
 Fleming (Sm William). Armorial, crested, mantling 
 heavy and profuse, reaching to the base of the shield. 
 Inscription : " The Paternal Arms of Sir William Fleming, 
 
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 of Eydal, in the County of Westmoreland, Baronet." This 
 plate is dated 1716, and signed by the designer, Michiel 
 Vandergucht, a Flemish engraver, who studied under David 
 Loggan, and afterwards became the Master of George 
 Vertue, in England. Scarce, 10s. 
 
 Flesher (Elizabeth). 1653. Printed name label, 
 within elaborate border, inscribed, "Elizabeth Flesher, 
 Her Book." About 5s. 
 
 FoLKES (Elizabeth). Armorial, of "Jacobean" design, 
 scroU below, evidently intended for the reception of a motto, 
 but left empty. About 5s. 
 
 The owner of this plate married Sir Thomas Hammer, 
 the editor of Shakespeare's works 1744, and Speaker of the 
 House of Commons in 1714 ; but subsequently eloped with 
 the Hon. Thomas Hervey, second son of John, first Earl 
 of Bristol. She died in March 1741. 
 
 Foots (Benjamin Hatley). Armorial, early " Chip 
 pendale" design, crest above and below, the date 1743 and 
 motto, " Pedetentim." Inscription : " Benjamin Hatley 
 Foote." This is a weU-designed and fine plate. 3 s. 6d. 
 
 FoKBBS (Eli). Armorial, crested, " Chippendale " design 
 of an elaborate character. On one side of the crest, and at 
 the top of the plates is " No." ajad at the other [ J. Motto 
 on a scroll : " Omni fortunse paratus." No date^ but 
 
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 engraved by Fumass about the year 1800. An American 
 plate. About 3 s. 
 
 PoED (Charles). Early English armorial, crested, 
 mantling heavy and voluminous. Motto : " Noli irritare 
 leones." The name, "Charles Ford," appears on a scroll 
 below. No date, but about 1700. Eare. 7s. 
 
 FoETESCUE (John). Armorial, crested, mantling volu- 
 minous, reaching to the base of the shield. On a scroU 
 below, the motto, " Forte scutum salus ducum." Inscription : 
 " John Fortescue, of the Middle Temple, Esqr., 1703." 7s. 6d. 
 
 FoTHERGiLL (Anna). Name label, printed, "Anna 
 Fothergin, Leeds, 1737." 3s. 
 
 FouLKES (John), M.D., Christ Church, Oxen, signed by 
 Cole, and dated 1751. Rare. 13s. 
 
 Fox (Charles James). Armorial, crested. The 
 mantling is brought to the base of the shield, and is very 
 voluminous. Though this plate was used by the statesman 
 named and is inscribed, " The Honble. Charles James Fox," 
 is was reaUy engraved in 1702 for his half -uncle, Charles 
 Fox. Consequently, this plate is sometimes met with 
 inscribed, " Charles Fox^ of the Parish of St. Martin's-in-the- 
 Fields, Esq., 1702." The inscription excepted, both plates 
 are preirisely similar. From 8s. to 10s. (Charles James Fox). 
 
 Fox (Snt Stephen). Armorial, crested, no motto, 
 manthng voluminous, and much fohated, reaching to the 
 
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 base of the shield. Inscription : " Sr. Stephen Fox, of ye 
 Parish of St. Martin in the Fields Knight, 1703." 6s. 
 
 Fkanklin (John). Armorial, crested, of elaborate 
 " Jacobean design, on either side are Apollo and Artemis, 
 half lengths, as supporters. The bracket, also very 
 elaborate, is engraved with a hunting scene. Below, on a 
 scroU, " Exemplmn adest ipse homo," and at the foot the 
 name and address, " John Franklin, Boston, New England," 
 in ornamental letters and script. This extremely rare 
 American plate was engraved by J. Turner about 1740. 
 This John Franklin was the brother of the better-known 
 Benjamin Franklin. From 30s. to 40s. 
 
 Feaunces (Andrew G.). Armorial, crested, both dis- 
 played on a mantle of estate, looped and tasseUed. Motto : 
 " Procurata Industria," on a scroU. Inscription : " Andrew 
 G. Fraunces," in script. No date, but engraved by P. R. 
 Maverick, about the year 1790. An American plate. 8s. 
 
 Feedeeick (Sir Charles). Armorial, crested. A plate 
 of " Chippendale " design, the frame flanked on both sides 
 and at the foot with cannon, pikes, and other military 
 weapons. Sir Charles Frederick, was at one period of his 
 career, the Surveyor-General of Ordnance. Engraved by 
 W. H. Toms, in 1752. In two sizes. £1 16s. (largest size), 
 16s. (smaller size), again 10s. (ibid). 
 
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 Feewen (Thomas). Armorial, crested. Motix> : " Christo 
 duce vincam.'' Inscription as follows : " Thomas Frewen, 
 of Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex, Esqr., 1711." 
 4s. 
 
 Fkewen (Thomas). Armorial, "Jacobean" design, the 
 ground of the frame designed to a trellis pattern. Mantling 
 distinct from the other part of the design. No bracket. 
 Inscription : " Thomas Frewen, of BrickwaU, in the County 
 of Sussex, Esq., 17—." The date is about 1735. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Fryer (I. H.). Landscape. In the background a river 
 with water-mill ; in the foreground, a broken tree, fohage, 
 and slab upon which appears "I. H. Fryer, Lambert sc." 
 The plate is not dated, but was engraved about the year 
 1810. 4s. 
 
 FuHB (John Wzlliam). Armorial, crested, shield in the 
 
 "Jacobean" style, but with "Chippendale" ornaments. 
 
 Inscribed : " John William Fuhr," engraved by J. Skinner, 
 
 of Bath, in 1741 (dated). An interesting plate, showing 
 
 the transition of the " Jacobean " design. 7s. 
 
 Fust (Soe Feancis). Armorial, crested^ inscribed as 
 follows : " Sr. Francis Fust, of HiU Court, in the County of 
 Gloucester, Baronet. Created 21st August, 1662. The 14 
 year of King Charles 2d." As Sir Francis quarters the arms 
 of Tooker, of Bristol, into whose family he married in 1724, 
 this plate cannot have been engraved earlier than that year. 
 
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 £1 10s. (inclusion of a second variety inscribed " Sir Fraacis 
 Fust, Baronett"), again 12s. (the two varieties). 
 
 Gage (Sir Thomas). AUegoric, on a stone sits a female 
 figure, and against it leans an armorial shield. Engraved 
 by Bartolozzi, and dated "Lisbon, 1805." About 8s. 
 
 Gainsborough (Dorothy, Countess of). Armorial, 
 supported. Motto : " Tout bien ou Rein.'' The plate is 
 inscribed : " The Right Honble. Dorothy, Countess of 
 Gainsborough, 1707." Variations of this plate occur, one 
 being dated 1710, and another being undated. The Countess 
 also possessed a name label bearing the date 1710, so that 
 there are at least four distinct varieties of her plate. From 
 6s. to 10s. 
 
 Gardiner (John). Armorial, of "Chippendale" design. 
 Motto : " Pro patria mori." Inscription : " John Gardiner, 
 of the Inner Temple." No date, but engraved at Boston 
 after 1783. 4s. 
 
 Gaerett (Caroli). Arm. perlongae Amicitise Pignus, 
 Nati 4o Augusti, 1674, Denati 17o sepris, 1748, setatis 74, 
 monumental design, books above. 5s. 
 
 Garrick (David). The plate of this distinguished actor 
 consists of a "Chippendale" frame displayed lengthways, 
 bearing within it the name " David Garrick." Above is a 
 bust of Shakespeare ; below, the inscriptian, " La premiere 
 chose qu'on doit faire quand on a emprunte un Livre, c'est 
 
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 de la lire afin de pouvoir le rendre plutot. Menagiana, 
 Vol. IV." Engraved about 1755. £1 10s., again £1 2s., 
 again £1 2s, again 12s. (twice on Novr. llth). 
 
 Gascoigne (T.). Allegorical plate, representing tlie 
 interior of a library, roof supported by columns, statue of 
 Minerva in a niche, in the foreground a muse writing at a 
 table at the dictation of Apollo, and on the floor a caduceus 
 and armorial shield. Inscription: " T. Gascoigne, 
 Partington, in Yorkshire." Not dated, but about 1780. 5s. 
 
 Gason (W. p.). Allegorical. Minerva in a landscape; 
 before her, an altar bearing the arms of the family. Above 
 is a cherub flying, trumpeting and waving a scroU upon 
 which are the words, "W. P. Gason, Clare HaU, Camb." 
 This plate was engraved by W. Henshaw, about the year 
 1795. 3s. 6d. 
 
 George 1st. The 30,000 volumes which King George 1st 
 presented to the University of Cajnbridge and which 
 formerly belonged to Bishop Moore, should each contain a, 
 plate designed by John Pine. The arms of the University 
 axe on an oval shield. The dexter supporter represents 
 ApoUo holding out a wreath, the sinister, Minerva, sitting, 
 with shield and spear. Below, the King's profile on a coin, 
 and the inscription, " Munificentia Kegia, 1715." Tlie 
 design is, as a whole, wildly allegorical, and pompous. The 
 plate is met with in four sizes. £2 4s. (the large plate). 
 
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 M is. (large plate). £2 8s. (second size), £1 6s. (third size), 
 13s. (fourth size). 
 
 George III. (King). Allegorical plate, designed and 
 engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi. The Royal Arms are 
 borne in mid air by three flying cupids. A fourth cherub 
 to the right holding a crown. To the left, Fame blowing a 
 trumpet. This is a very large plate measuring 8J inches by 
 7 J inches. It was engraved about 1760, and may possibly 
 have been used as a book-plate. £1 8s. 
 
 Gbemain (Lady Elisabeth). Armorial plate, the whole 
 ground darkly cross-hatched. In the centre, a lozenge sur- 
 rounded by a rope gracefully twisted into a widow's knot. 
 On a scroU below, " Lady Elisabeth Ge^rmain." No date, 
 but engraved about 1720. 7s. 
 
 GiBBS (James). Portrait of James Gibbs in a medallion, 
 surrounded by scroU and shell work, in the " Jacobean ' 
 style. An oblong plate engraved by B(emard) B(aron), and 
 dated 1736. £1, again 16s. 
 
 Gibbs (John Walters). Armorial, crested, the shield in 
 a slender frame of " Jacobean " design ; below are " Chip- 
 pendale " festoons, and the motto on a ribbon, " Beware my 
 edge." Inscription : " John Walters Gibbs, Charleston, 
 So. Carolina." No date, but engraved by Abemethie about 
 the year 1750. An American plate. 6s. 
 
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 Gilpin (Henet D.). Landscape, an American plate of 
 fine design. On a huge block of stone is engraved the crest 
 and motto, " Dictis factisque simplex," the latter on a scroll. 
 The block rests against a ponderous broken column over 
 which towers a tall tree, to the left the turret of a castle, 
 vegetation and figures hunting a boar. Inscription : " Henry 
 D. Gilpin." No date, but engraved by C. G. Childs about 
 the year 1840. A variation of this plate exists. It is 
 almost exactly similar, but is not signed by the engraver. 10s. 
 
 GoELET (John). Armorial, crested, of " Jacobean " 
 design, the mantling carved to match the ornamentation of 
 the frame. An American book-plate, of fine and elaborate 
 design. Inscription : " John Goelet." No motto or date, 
 but engraved, probably by P. R. Maverick, about the year 
 1780. About 7s. 6d. 
 
 GooDroRD (Samuel). Armorial, "Jacobean" design, the 
 ground of the frame designed to a scale pattern, bracket 
 below, the inner part scaled. Inscription : " Saml. 
 Goodford, of ye Inner Temple, Esq., 1737." The hehnet 
 has no mantUng, a rather unusual circumstance. About 6s. 
 
 Goodwin (George). Upon a bracket, two pUes of books, 
 between which rests a cupid playing upon a lute, branches 
 and flowers around. Underneath, in a space left by the 
 ornamentation of the lower parts of the table is the name, 
 " George Goodwin," in script and in a circle, " No. — ." No 
 
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 date, but engraved, probably by Amos DooKttle, about the 
 year 1820. 3s. 
 
 GrOOLD (Geobgb). Book Pile design, arms in the centre, 
 motto below, "Deus mihi Proyidebit." Inscription: 
 "George Goold." Not dated, but about 1740. Engraved, 
 by Booker. 5s., again 3s. 6d. 
 
 GoEDON (Duchess of). Armorial, arms quartered on a 
 lozenge, Ducal Coronet above, supporters. Round the shield 
 is a plain cord twisted, and underneath a scroll upon which 
 is the motto, " Animo non astutia." Inscription : " The 
 Arms of Her Grace Henrietta Dutches of Gordon." No 
 date, but engraved about 1740. About 8s. 
 
 GoEE (Thomas). Allegorical plate, designed by Michael 
 Burghers, a Dutch engraver who settled in England on the 
 taking of Utrecht by Louis XlVth. Burghers had a rough 
 and coarse style, and his allegorical design representing a 
 couple of exceedingly ugly angels seated upon eagles is very 
 inferior. A bull's head couped at the neck, surmounts the 
 whole, while the shield discloses three bull's heads cabossed, 
 and a ribbon displays the motto : " Vi et virtute." Thomas 
 Gore was possessed of two other plates, an earlier one some- 
 what similar in style to that of Bysshe, and a later one of 
 excellent design by the well-known artist, WilKam 
 Faithome, the elder. This last-named plate, is a blend of 
 the early armorial style and the luxxurious manthng first 
 
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 observed to a certain extent in the Treshame plate of 1585, 
 and that of William Wilhner, of 1 6 1 3 . About £2 (Burgher's 
 plate). 
 
 Graeme (Elizabeth). Armorial, lozenge of "Chippen- 
 dale" design of fine execution. Inscription: "Elizabeth 
 Graeme." No motto or date, but engraved at Philadelphia, 
 about the year 1770. About 5s. 
 
 Grant (George Browne). Armorial, the escutcheon 
 suspended in mid air. Inscription: "George Browne 
 Grant." This plate was engraved by G. Burke, about the 
 year 1812. 2s. 
 
 Gray (Sm James). Armorial, crested. Motto : " Decus 
 et tutamen.'' Inscription : " Sr. James Gray, Baronet, 
 1707." 7s. 6d. 
 
 Gray's Inn Library. Armorial, the crest of the griffin, 
 in a bold " Chippendale " frame, which rests on a pedestal, 
 whereon is engraved, " Gray's Inn Library.'' The back- 
 ground consists entirely of shelves full of books. No date, 
 but engraved by John Pine, in 1750, probably after 
 Gravelot's design. 14s., again 5s. 
 
 Greene (Benjamin). Armorial, crested, of "Jacobean" 
 design. ScroU but no motto. Engraved at Charlestown, by 
 N. Hurd, in 1757 (dated). A variation of this plate occurs 
 without the date. 12s. (with the date). 
 
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 G-EEENE (John). Armorial, no crest, the shield sur- 
 roixnded by a wreath of palms upheld by ribbons. No date, 
 but about 1655. This plate is similar in design to that 
 ascribed to Sir Edward Bysshe, and was probably engraved 
 by the same artist. The value is about the same. 
 
 Greene (T. W.). Landscape, engraved by Pye, of 
 Birm(ingham). The escutcheon rests against the stiunp of 
 a tree, near which is a thistle. In the back-ground, a river, 
 and in the distance, spires and tower of Lichfield Cathedral. 
 No date, but about 1790. 6s., again 3s. 6d. 
 
 Greenleap (Daniel). Name within an oval, in script, 
 above a design of festoons. No date, but probably about 
 1800. An American plate. 4s. 
 
 Gregor (H. & P.), of Esses: St., London. An armorial 
 plate, ia the " Chippendale" style, no date, but about 1750. 
 Rare. 6s. 
 
 G-RBY (Anthony). Armorial, crested and supported. 
 Motto : " Foy est Tout." Manthng slightly cut. Inscription : 
 "The Eight Honble. Anthony, Earle of Kent, 1702." 
 About 8 s. 
 
 Griggs (A.). Pictorial, a large rock upon which are three 
 books fastening a scroll, below, a brook, vegetation around. 
 Inscription: "A. Griggs, Phikdelphia." No date, but 
 about 1800, or perhaps later. An American plate. 3s. 6d. 
 
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 Gkime (William B.). Armorial, the shield being 
 surrounded by festoons, among which is the inscription, 
 " Studiis et Hteris res secundse omantur adversje ad- 
 juvantur." This plate was engraved about the year 1780. 
 3s. 
 
 Geimston (Sm Samuel). Mr. W. J. Hardy, on p. 31, 
 of his well-known work, " Book-Plates," refers to a curious 
 wood-cut, used as a book-plate by the St. Alban's Grammar 
 School which, however, only figures in the volumes given 
 to the school by this Sir Samuel Grimston. It consists of 
 the Arms of the City of St. Alban, surrounded by scroll- 
 work, and on a scroll at the foot the motto : " Mediocria 
 Firma." Scarce. About 20s. 
 
 GiJiLroED (Baron). See North. 
 
 GuiNAUD (Henry). Armorial, crested, "Chippendale" 
 design, elaborated with a bow, qmver and other articles. 
 The arms and crest consist of a black scorpion. No date,, 
 but engraved probably in 1785. An American plate. 6s. 
 
 Gtjlston (Elize). Armorial, "Chippendale" design, 
 the frame shght, fohated and decorated with the 
 usual flowers and sprays. Arms in a lozenge. Inscription : 
 "Elize Gulston," in script. No date, but about 1760. 
 7s. 6d., again 3s. 
 
 Gulston (Joseph). Armorial, "Jacobean'' design, head 
 below, motto: "Crescit sub pondere virtus." The arms 
 
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 are those of Gulston, and the name of the owner, " Joseph 
 Gulston,'' is often found written in ink at the foot of the 
 plate. Dated, 1768. 4s., again 2s. 
 
 GwYN (Francis). Armorial, shield rounded and pointed 
 at base, crested, and heavily mantled. At the foot an 
 indented scroll on which : " Francis Gwyn, of Lansanor, 
 in the Comity of Glamorgan; and of Ford-Abby, in the 
 County of Devon, Esqr., 1698." Eare. £1, again £2 15s. 
 (inclusive of a smaller variety). 
 
 Hackam (Judith). Name label, printed, " Mrs. Judith 
 Hackam, Oxford, etc. September 23, 1731." About 5s. 
 
 Hacket (John). Portrait almost full face in an cval 
 frame, around which is the motto : " Et IsBtare inservi Deo ; " 
 below, on a white straight sUp, the inscription, " Ex Dono 
 Joannis Hacket Lichfieldens et Couentrjens Episcopi 1670." 
 Engraved by Faithorne. A very scarce plate. About £5. 
 
 Haistwell (E.), of the Middle Temple. "Jacobean" 
 design, dated 1718. 3s. 
 
 Haldane (John). Armorial, crested. Motto : " Suffer, 
 suffer." Inscription: "The Honble. John Haldane, of 
 Gleneagles, 1707." The manthng is simple and sparse, 
 reaching only to the base of the hehnet. 10s. 
 
 Hale (Robert). Armorial, crested, "Chippendale" 
 design. Inscription : " Robert Hale, Esq., of Beverly," the 
 
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 whole within an upright frame of plain lines. No date, but 
 engraved by N. Hurd about 1770. An American plate. 6s. 
 
 Hat.tfax (Chaeles, Lord), the Patron of Swift. 
 Armorial, size 3J inches by 2f inches. Dated 1702. 19s., 
 again 5 s. 
 
 Hailoran (Laurence Hynes). Armorial, the shield 
 profusely ornamented with wreaths and ribbons, crossed 
 palms behind. Inscription : " Laurence Hynes Hailoran." 
 No date, but about 1775. Engraved by Ezekiel. About 5s. 
 
 Hamilton (Charles). Armorial, "Jacobean" design. 
 Engraved by Simon Gribelin about the year 1725. Gribehn 
 was a French Engraver bom at Blois in 1661. He is best 
 known for his series of cartoons after Raffaelle now in the 
 South Kensington Museum. Rare, 14s., again 3s. 
 
 Hampton (Maegaeet). Name label, printed, " Margaret 
 Hampton, 1721." Erom 3s. to 5s. 
 
 Hanmer (Sir Thomas). Armorial, crested. Inscription : 
 " Sir Thomas Hanmer, of Hanmer, in Com Flint, Baronet, 
 1707." This plate is met with in two sizes. Sir Thomas is 
 well known as one of the most successful editors of Shakes- 
 peare's works (6 vols., 4to, 1743-4), and also as Speaker of 
 the House of Commons in 1714. £1 10s. (large size), the 
 same lis. (small size). 
 
 Haee (Sir Thomas). Armorial, crested, "Jacobean" 
 design, the ground of the frame latticed. A canephor (head 
 
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 only) replaces the scallop shell. No bracket. Inscribed: 
 " Sir Thomas Hare, Baronet, of Stow Hall, in Norfolk, 
 1734." 4s. 
 
 Harington (Gostlet). Armorial, crested. Inscribed : 
 " Gostlet Harington, of Marshfield, in the Coun. of Glocester, 
 Gent, 1706." There is no motto, the scroll which was 
 evidently cut for its reception being filled up with the date. 
 Mantling in the strawberry-leaf pattern. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Haeleian Collection, 1741. This plate was engraved 
 by George Vertue. Rare. lis. 
 
 Haeley (Egbert). Armorial and crested. Motto: 
 " Virtute et Fide." Not dated, but about 1795. The plate 
 is met with in two sizes. Inscription' : " Robert Harley, of 
 Brampton Castle, in the County of Hereford, Esqr." Robert 
 Harley, created first Eaxl of Oxford in 1711, was the 
 Statesman of the palmy days of Queen Anne, and founded 
 the collection of Books and Manuscripts yet called after his 
 namie. 16s. (the large plate). 
 
 Harrison (Richaed). Armorial, crested, shield set in a 
 " Chippendale " frame ; two of the quarterings tinctured, 
 and two blank. Below is a scroU upon which appears the 
 motto : " Nee te qu9ssiveris extra." Underneath is the 
 inscription : " Richard Harrison, Esqr." A large and bare 
 looking plate of American execution. A second plate is 
 attributed to Richard Harrison. It consists of crest only, 
 
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 with motto and inscription : " Richard Harrison." Engraved 
 by Rollinson, about 1790. About 6s. (each plate). 
 
 Haerison (W.). Armorial, books on each side of the 
 escutcheon, floral designs, &o., signed by R. M(ountaine), 
 Inscription : " W. Harrison, D.D., Fellow of C.C.C., Oxon." 
 No date, but about 1750. 5s. 6d. 
 
 Haerold (Mary, Countess of). Armorial, " Jacobean " 
 design, consisting of two oval shields accole; above is a 
 coronet supported by cupids, at the base of the shields a 
 Kerub. Below is the inscription and date, 1718. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Harvard College. A number of plates have been in 
 use by this college at various periods, and it is necessary to 
 give their distinguishing features as shortly as possible. 
 
 (1). Seal, surrounded by laurel branch, motto en scroll 
 above : " Detur digniori." On the double circles of the 
 seal : " Christo et ecclesia ; " and " SigiU : CoU : Harvard : 
 Cantab: Nov: Angl: 1650." No date, but engraved by 
 N. Hurd, about 1770. £3 5s. (2). Armorial, shield within a 
 double circle, on which are the same inscriptions as before, 
 the laurel branch replaced with fruit and flowers ; above are 
 a pile of three books and a sun. Below the design is a blank 
 cloth of elaborate design for the reception of the donor's 
 name. No date, but engraved by N. Hurd, about 1770. 
 (3). A similar plate to the last, but engraved by A. Bowen, 
 probably after Huird's death in 1777. (4). A plate very 
 
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 similar to No. 2. There is, however, no sun above the pile 
 of books. Engraved by Andrew FUner, about 1785. (5). 
 Similar plate to No. 2 ; but the word " Veritas " upon the 
 open books and no sim. The cloth below is simpler in 
 design, and the laurel is replaced by Gods and Goddesses. 
 (6). A plate inscribed : " Ex dono Thomse HoUis, Angli. 
 Hospit., Lincoln; Reg, et. Aut. S.S., Lond., Sodahs," 1650. 
 Very rare. £3 5s., again £1 19s. (Five different plates, 
 signed by N. Hurd, Bowen, Fihner, &c.), again £1 2s. (The 
 first plat© above mentioned on thin peper, with three 
 variations, and fifth plate above mentioned). 
 
 Haevaed College. PorceUian Library. Two distinct 
 plates as follows : (1). A large curtain looped and knotted 
 for donor's name, above are two piUajrs with Greek 
 inscriptions, between them an oval medallion showing two 
 hands clasped, and above this is a circular frame containing 
 a pig and the inscription : " PorceUian Library." The whole 
 surmounted by a pile of three books. Engraved, probably, 
 about 1800. 16s. (2). The cloth suspended from Amphors 
 instead of pillars, and the Greek inscription engraved 
 upon the books, upon which the Amphorje stand ; behind 
 the cloth, two pigs. Above is a circular frame with punch 
 bowl and motto : " Dum vivimus vivamus.'' Surmounting 
 the whole, a shield with arms and motto : " Fide et 
 Amicitia." Engraved by F. Mitchell, about 1805. 12s. 
 
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 Haevaed College. Porcellian Club. A circular frame, 
 with pig and name of club, supported by two stone pillars. 
 Above, the arms with motto: "Fide et Amicitia,'' books, 
 &c., scattered about. The Greek letters are on the base of 
 the pillars. Below is a cloth for name of donor. Dated 
 1803. From 10s. to 15s. 
 
 Hassell (Richaed), of Lincoln's Inne. Dated 1745. A 
 very rare plate. £1 5s. 
 
 Hawes (Peancis), Receiver-General of H.M. Customs, 
 oval armorial plate. Dated 1716. 9s., again 5s. 
 
 Hawkins (C^sae). Book PUe, escutcheon in the centre. 
 9s., again 5s. 
 
 Hawks (Geoege). Landscape, in the foreground a 
 Kestrel standing on a rock, upon which is engraved the 
 owner's name: " Geo^ Hawks." In the distance a tower 
 rising above the trees. Not dated, but engraved by Thomas 
 Bewick, about the year 1800. 6s. 
 
 Hats (Baeeack). Landscape, shield surmounted by a 
 Bee-hive, leaning against a withered oak, in the foreground, 
 the edge of a stream or lake. No motto or date, but 
 engraved by J. Hutt, about 1800. An American plate. 2s. 
 
 Hayward (Geoege). Armorial, shield within a wreath, 
 crossed and tied below with a ribbon, on which is the name. 
 The shield set in a trophy of flags, and warhke implements ; 
 
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 below a cloth, blank. No date, but about 1800. An 
 American plate. About 5s. 
 
 Head (Sm Fbancis). Armorial, crested. Motto: 
 "Reginse fidus, fidus et patrise." The inscription reads as 
 foUows : " Sr. Francis Head, Baronot, 1709." About 7s. 6d. 
 
 Henderson (W. M.). Pictorial plate, with arms, 
 engraved by Hunter. No date, but about 1800. 6s. 
 
 Henslow (John). Pictorial design, showing the huU of 
 a vessel, the rest of the ship obscured by a gigantic 
 escutcheon, crest, flags, and pennants. The vessel is on 
 stocks, evidently prepared for launching. No date, but 
 about 1785. Inscription on a sail or scroll: "John 
 Henslow." J. Henslow was the Surveyor of the Navy, and 
 was Knighted in 1794. Scarce, 12s. 
 
 Hebbebt (The Famjl'y of). An anonymous book-plate, 
 but one which seems to have belonged to some member of 
 the Herbert family, was engraved by J. Jiuie, in 1745. 
 The plate is designed somewhat in the " Cbippendalo " style, 
 the armorial shield being set in a landscape, in wiiich figure 
 a birch tree, a cypress tree, and a running brook. This 
 plate is described more fully in Warren's " Study of Book- 
 plates," p. 169. About 8s. 
 
 Hebbebt (James). Armorial, of early " Cbippendale " 
 design, crested. Inscription in a frame below : " James 
 
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 Herbert, Esqr., of Tythorpe, in the County of Oxford." No 
 date, but about 1740. 6s., again 3s. 6d. 
 
 Hebiot (Chaeles). Armorial, of what is called " Scotch 
 Chippendale " design, that is to say the floral embellishments 
 of the frame hang limp and wet, as if drenched with water. 
 There is no crest, but in place thereof, what appears to be 
 a floral comucopeia, and the motto : " Impendo," on a scroU. 
 To the right a slim bird of the heron species. Inscription : 
 "Chas. Heriot." No date, but about 1760. 9s. 
 
 Hbrvby (John). Armorial, crested and supported. 
 Motto : Je n'oublierai jam.nis.'' Inscription : " The Eight 
 Honble. John, Lord Hervey, created Baron of Ickworth, 
 in Com. SufE., March the 23d., 1702." The mantling on 
 this plate is simple. 8s. 6d. 
 
 Heevet (Maey). Armorial, a lozenge set in drapery, 
 surmounted by a coronet. Motto : " Je jamais n'oubheray." 
 Inscription: "Mary, Lady Hervey." No date, but about 
 1750. 3s. 
 
 Hett (Ann). A fanciful design, wreath and ribbon, 
 containing the motto : " Noble art and mystery," &c. ; and 
 the inscription: "Ann Hett, April 10, 1761." About 2s. 
 
 Hewer (William). Three tiers of books, each in colimin 
 surrounding a scroll, on which is a monogram in script; 
 at the base of the scroll, the date, 1699. Below, the 
 
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 inscription : " Wm. Hewer, of Clapham, in the County of 
 Surrey, Esqr., 1699." Very rare, from, 20s. to 25s. 
 
 Hewitt (Jake). A Pictorial plate, engraved by Bewick. 
 The design represents a river scene in the foreground with a 
 post-chaise in the distance. Inscription: "Jane Hewitt, 
 April 24th, 1800." 2s. 
 
 HiBBiNS (Lucius Henhy). Armorial, "Jacobean" 
 design, the ground of the frame designed to a lattice pattern. 
 Bracket below but completely detached from the frame. 
 Inscription : " Lucius Henry Hibbins, of Grays Inne, Esqe." 
 Engraved about 1735. 4s. 
 
 Hicks (Whitehead). Armorial, crested, of "Chippen- 
 dale " design, shield supported on one side by a cupid blowing 
 a flute, and on the other by a female and a cupid, the latter 
 with a large book. Motto, on a scroU above : "pro lege et 
 rege." On a frame below, the name : " Whitehead Hicks, 
 Esqr." No date, but engraved by H. Dawkins, about the 
 year 1760. An American plate. About 4s. 
 
 Hnx (Ann). A Landscape design, representing a woman 
 sitting before an expanse of drapery hung to a broken oak, 
 on the ground behind her a small crested shield. To the 
 right, a ship in full sail before a town ; to the left, a water- 
 mill with a windmill on the heights beyond. The name : 
 " Ann HiU," is engraved on the drapery, and the date, 1825, 
 
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 appears in small figures at the right hand bottom corner. 
 Engraved by Austin, in the style of Bewick. 3s. 
 
 Hill (Francis). A name label, inscaribed as follows: 
 "Francisci Hil et amicorum, Anno domini 16 — , Pretium." 
 The date 16 — , was left blank so that it could be filled in 
 in manuscript. This Francis Hill was Hving in 1668. About 
 7s. 6d. 
 
 Hill (Samuel). The name : " Saml. HiU," below which 
 are two books, one open, an inkstand, and two quills, the 
 whole within a wreath. No date, but engraved by the owner 
 himself, at Boston, about 1790. An American plate. 5s. 
 
 HiLLAEY (William). Armorial, crested, the mantling 
 heavy and descending almost to the base of the shield. 
 Inscription : " William Hillary, M.D." Engraved by J. 
 Skinner of Bath, in 1743. (Dated). 6s. 
 
 HiLLiAED (Family of). Armorial, crested, plain shield 
 pointed at base. Inscription in Greek on a scroll below : 
 " IIAEON HMISY IIANTOS," i-e , " The half is greater 
 than the whole," a proverb attributed to Hesiod. No date, 
 but about 1800. 2s. 6d. 
 
 HoAEE (Chaeles). Allegorical, probably engraved by 
 C. & A. Paas, of 53, Holbom. The subject represents a 
 tall bookcase, to the top of which, winged cherubs are 
 hoisting an escutcheon. No date, but about 1800. See 
 also Scrope (Joshua). 10s. 
 
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 HoAEK (Frances Ann). Allegorical, Bust on a pedestal, 
 female in classic drapery seated before it, lier left hand on 
 a book, curtain behind. Inscription : " Fras. Ann Hoare." 
 No date, but about 1786. -About 10s. 
 
 HoAEE (Henry). Armorial, Inscription : " Henry Hoare, 
 goldsmith in London." Dated 1704. 19s. This plate is 
 met with in two varieties which subsequently sold by auction 
 for as httle as 10s. (Fine specimens.) 
 
 Hoare (Julia Lucy). Plate consisting of crest, and 
 motto below. No date, but engraved about 1750. 3s. 6d. 
 
 Hoaeb (Richard). Allegoric. Bust on pedestal, female 
 in classic drapery seated before it, her left hand on a book, 
 curtain behind. On the pedestal are engraved the Arms of 
 Hoare. The wife of Richard Hoare (Frances Ann Hoare, 
 g.v.), had a plate of similar design. No date, but about 
 1786. About 10s. 
 
 HoAEE (Sophia Merrick). Allegorical, representing a 
 library interior. This plats was engraved by Bartolozzi, 
 about the year 1785. It is inscribed, " Sophia Merrick 
 Hoare.'' From 8s. to 10s. 
 
 Hoffman (PniLrp L.). Armorial, shield within a wreath 
 tied below by ribbon, underneath a landscape and writing 
 materials. Motto : " Carpe Diem." Inscription : " Philip 
 L. Hoffman, Esqr." No date, but engraved by P. R. 
 Maverick, about 1780. An American plate. 8s. 
 
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 HoLBECH (Ambrose). Armorial, crested, no motto. 
 Inscription : " Mr. Ambrose Holbecli, of MoUington, in the 
 County of Warwick, 1702." Scarce, lis. 
 
 HoLCOMBB (John). Armorial, the shield surrounded by 
 festoons of flowers, below on a ribbon, the motto. 
 Inscription: "John Holcombe, New Cross, 1799." 2s. 
 
 Holland (John). Minerva sitting and holding the Arms 
 of Holland, four cupids round her. Inscription : " Done 
 for the books of John HoUand, Herald-painter." Of this 
 there are two plates. In the second the lion is of smaller 
 size and there are eight fleurs de lys, instead of seven as 
 originally inserted. The plate, which is very rare, was 
 designed by Hogarth about the year 1720. This is one of 
 the two undoubted plates by William Hogarth {See Hardy's 
 "Book-Plates," 2nd. Ed., 1897, p., 79). £4 18s., again 
 ,£4, again £3 5 s. 
 
 HoLLES (Henrietta Cavendish). This very pretty plate, 
 designed for the Countess of Oxford by George Vertue, 
 discloses in the background rows of book-shelves divided 
 by an archway of Corinthian colmnns through which is seen 
 the open country. In the foreground is Minerva instructing 
 six Cupids. The frame which surrounds all the lower portion 
 of the design is in the " Jacobean " style. Above are 
 Mercury and a Cupid holding a plummet, and in the centre 
 the monogram of the Countess. At the foot of the plate is 
 
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 the inscription, " Henrietta Cavendish Holies, Oxford and 
 
 Mortimer. Given me by .'' The plate is not dated, 
 
 but was in use in 1734 as a specimen with that date filled 
 in by the Coimtess herself is extant. £2 10s. 
 
 Holmes (Olivee Wendell). A nautilus shell of very fine 
 design, below on a scroll, the motto: "Per ampliora ad 
 altiora," and the name, " Oliver Wendell Holmes," in script. 
 A modem American plate. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Holyoke (Edward Augustus). Armorial, "Chippen- 
 dale" design. Motto: "Duce natura sequor." Name as 
 above. No date, but engraved most probably by Hurd, 
 about the year 1748. An American plate. 4s. 6d. 
 
 HoMMBLiES (C.P.). Library interior, printed on blue 
 paper, and dated 1763. 8s. 
 
 Hopkins (William and Mart). Armorial, crested. The 
 shield is being carried by a running cupid and is surrounded 
 with branches and flowers. Below, on the grass, is the 
 inscription, " WiUm. & Mary Hopkins," and on a scroU at 
 the base of the shield the motto, " Quasi vinco victus." Not 
 dated, but about 1790. 5s. 
 
 HoPKiNSON (Francis). Armorial, an American plate, of 
 " Chippendale " design. Motto : " Semper Paratus." No 
 date, but engraved by H. Dawkins about the year 1760. 
 Hopkinson was one of the signatories of the Declaration of 
 Independence. Very rare. Froan 30s. to 40s. 
 
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 HoPKmsoN (Joseph). The same plate as that ascribed 
 to Francis Hopkinson (q.v.), with the necessary alteration 
 in the naane. Joseph Hopkinson who was a lawyer and 
 well-known man of letters, was born at Philadelphia in 
 1778, and died there in 1842. About 7s. 6d. 
 
 HosKiNS (Alexandee). Book Pile, with arms in centre, 
 dated 1743. Rare, 17s. 
 
 HowAED (Philip), of Norfolk. Armorial, "Jacobean" 
 design. No date, but about 1730. 2s. 
 
 Howes (John). Allegorical, in the style of Bartclozzi, 
 two female figures, cupid before a bust. Inscription on 
 scroll, " John Howes, No. 13, Fleet Street." No date, but 
 about 1800. Rare. lis. 
 
 HowiAND (Family of). Armorial. The shield is sur- 
 mounted by a hat, and above that a crest, the design being 
 flanked by buUrushes, rod, landing net, a creel, flask and 
 two large fish, presumably salmon. Above, on a scroU, is 
 the motto, " Piscator non soliun piscatur ; " below, on a 
 scroll, "ex libris Howland, A.D., 1804." A rare plate. 
 2s. 6d. 
 
 HuBBALD OF Stoke, Suerby. Armorial, a fine plate in 
 the "Chippendale" style, showing transition to the 
 "Landscape" and "Architectural" manner; mentioned in 
 Castle's " English Book-plates." Scarce. 9s. 
 
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 HuiSH (Johanna). A name label surrounded by six cuts 
 of Biblical scenes of a very primitive cbaracter. The label 
 bears no date, but judging from the style, it may be assigned 
 to about the year 1700, when wood engraving was in this 
 coutry at its very worst (see Howel's " Medulla Historise 
 Anglicanee," London, 8vo., 1712, for typical examples of 
 the art of this period). This is a scarce plate, worth some 
 8s. or 10s. 
 
 Humble's Circulating Libeaey. Pope's Head Side, 
 Newcastle, &c., wood-cut border, signed by Thomas Bewick. 
 No datCj but about 1790. 6s. 
 
 HuNLOKB (Henky). Armorial, crested. Inscription : 
 " Sr. Henry Hunloke, of Wingerworth, in Derbyshire, Bart. 
 In ye escocheon of pretence, is ye Armes of Katherine his 
 Lady, who was sole daughter and heyre of Francis Tyrwhit, 
 of Kettleby, in Lincolnshire, Esqe., ye last of ye eldest 
 branch of ye great and ancient family." This plat© is not 
 dated, but was engraved about the year 1685. About £2. 
 
 Huntingdon (Selina, Countess of). Armorial, 
 supported. No crest, but atove the shield a coronet. Motto 
 on a scroll below, " In Veritate Victoria." Inscription : 
 " Selina, Countess Dowager of Huntingdon." Not dated, 
 but about 1745. The design and execution of this plate are 
 very bad. 9s., again 6s. 
 
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 HusoN (John). Armorial, elaborate framework, on each 
 side a half-length, female, hehneted. Inscription: "John 
 Huson, Esq., Counsellor at Law." Date about 1745. A 
 specimen of the latest " Jacobean " style. 4s. 
 
 Hyndfoed (John, Eael of). Armorial, "Jacobean" 
 design, with supporters instead of the usual ornamental 
 frame. The mantUng is less prominent than usual. A 
 bracket below. Inscription : " John, Earl of Hyndford." 
 Engraved by B. Soott, about the year 1730. 6s. 6d. 
 
 Tanson (Sm Thomas Bankes). Armorial, escutcheon has 
 a single spray of flowers on either side. Inscription : " Sir 
 Thomas Bankes I'anson, Baronet, of Corfe Castle, Dorset, 
 1783." 3s. 6d. 
 Inchiquin (Eael of). Irish armorial plate. 4s. 
 Ingeesoll (Jaeed). Armorial, no crest, of elaborate 
 "Chippendale" design. Motto on a scroll below, " Fama 
 sed virtus non moriatur.'' Inscription: "Jared IngersoU, 
 Esqr., of New Haven, Connecticut." No date, but about 
 1775. An American plate. 5s. 
 
 Ingeaham (Edwaed D.). Armorial, "Chippendale" 
 design. Motto: "Magnanimus esto." Inscription: 
 "Edward D. Ingraham." No date, but engraved about 
 1820. An American plate. 2s. 
 
 Innee Temple Libeaey, signed Jas. Kirk, del et so. 
 Fine, 6s. 
 
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 IsHAM (Sir Thomas). An armorial plate, designed by 
 David Loggan in 1676. This plate, which, through a work 
 of art, is heraldically incorrect ; was superseded by another, 
 in which the shield contains as it ought to have done before, 
 the Baronet's " hand " surmounted by the casque of a 
 baronet instead of that of an esquire. On both plates the 
 mantling is very profuse. On a scroll above is the motto, 
 " Ostendo non ostento," and beneath, on another scroll, the 
 words, " On things transitory, resteth no glory." Rare, 
 from 17s. to^ 20s. 
 
 Jackson (Jonathan). Armorial, heartshaped shield, 
 draped with chains of roses, on a ribbon below, the motto, 
 " Bona quse honesta.'' No date, but one of the two plates 
 engraved by Nathaniel Hurd about the year 1770. 5s. 
 
 Jackson (William). Armorial, a plough, 13 stars and 
 the word " Independence " within a shield, which is sus- 
 pended by means of a floral chain fastened beneath the 
 crest. Motto on a scroU below, "Meliora non opto." No 
 date, but engraved about 1790, or perhaps a little before. 
 An American plate. 4s. 6d. 
 
 Jacob (HIeebeet). Armorial, in the "Jacobean" style, 
 carefully and delicately engraved from a good design. 
 Motto: " Otium cum hbris." Inscription: " Herbert Jacob, 
 Esqre., of St. Stephens in Kent." This plate was engraved 
 about 1740. 6s. 
 
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 Jameson (Ann). Landscape, in the foreground, a 
 classical draped female figure reading a large book which 
 is propped up against a wall, a palm branch serves as a 
 canopy, pyramids in the distance. Inscription: "Anna 
 Jameson." No date, but about 1825. Mrs. Jameson is 
 ■well-known as the author of " The lives of the Queens of 
 England," and many other books. 7s. 
 
 Jaevis (Samuel Faemee). Allegorical, shield and crest 
 reclining against a very dark backgroamd of books, above, 
 a calvary cross with crown and brilliance. Two mottoes on 
 scrolls, " Hora e sempre," and " Sola salus servire Deo." No 
 date, but about 1820. Inscription : " Samuel Parmer Jarvis, 
 D.D." An American plate. 2g. 6d. 
 
 Jaunc3ey (William). Armorial, crested, "Chippendale" 
 design, but irregular, the shield being surrounded by 
 compact vegetation, instead of the usual shell and floral 
 frame. Below, however, is a shell with blossoms. On either 
 side of the shield what appears to be a heron, open beaked. 
 Motto on a scroU below, " Quo vocat virtus." Inscription at 
 the foot, " Jauncey," to which is sometimes prefixed by 
 hand, " WilUam." No date, but about 1800. An American 
 plate. 5 s. 
 
 Jefithes (John). Armorial, plain shield and crest. 
 Inscription : " Dr. John Jeffries." No motto or date, but 
 engraved about the year 1785. An American plate. 4s. 6d. 
 
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 Jenkins (Robert). Armorial, crested, "Jacobean" 
 design, the shield latticed and enclosed by ornamental scroU- 
 worlc. At the foot a ship in fuU sail. Motto : " Non reverter 
 invitus.'' No date, but engraved by Nathaniel Hurd about 
 the year 1750. An American plate. From 5s. to 7s. 
 
 JoDEELL (Paul). Armorial, crested. A large plate 
 inscribed, " Paul Jodrell of Duffield, in ye County of Derby, 
 Esqr., Clerk of ye Honble. House of Commons." No date, 
 but about 1700. 12s. 
 
 Johnson (Samuel). Plate inscribed, " E. Libris Samuelis 
 Johnson, Trin. Coll., Cantab." Eare. 5s. 
 
 Johnston (Thomas). Armorial, crested, the shield within 
 a wreath formed by two flowering sprays tied at the foot 
 by a ribbon, on which is the motto, " Nunquam. non 
 paratus." Below, the inscription, " Thomas Johnston." No 
 date, but engraved by Maverick about the year 1800. An 
 American plate. About 5s. 
 
 Jones (Gabriel). Armorial, crested, "Chippendale" 
 design, but containing distinct traces of " Jacobean " 
 influence. Motto on a scroll below, "Pax Hospita ruris." 
 Inscription : " Gabriel Jones, Attomey-at-law, in Virginia." 
 No date, but about 1750, or perhaps a httle earlier. 7s. 
 
 Jones (George Lewis). A fanciful design, consisting of 
 an oak, and a palm branch crossed; hanging festoons of 
 
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 roses above. Inscription : " G. L. Bishop of Kilmore, 1774." 
 13s. 
 
 Jones (Eichaed). Armorial, crested, no motto. 
 Inscription: "Richard Jones, Esqr., 1707." Mantling 
 plain and sparse. 8s. 6d. 
 
 JoNTN (G.A.). Armorial, "Chippendale" design, sTir- 
 rounded by flags, military weapons, &c. Scarce. 9s. 
 
 JowuNG (Thomas). Name label, inscription: "E. lib., 
 Tho. Jowhng, A.M., Eect-. de Alcester," within an oak 
 wreath. Not dated, but about 1740. 6s. 
 
 Keith (Robeet). Armorial, "Jacobean" design. The 
 frame designed to a diaper pattern ; below a sat3n:'s head. 
 This plate which was engraved about the year 1740, is 
 inscribed, " Robert Keith of Craig, Esqr." 5s. 
 
 Kempe (John Taboe). Armorial, " Chippendale" design, 
 with the motto, "Labour to Rest." No date^ but about 
 1770. An American plate. About 6s. 
 
 Kendal (Duchess of). The lady for whom Hogarth (?) 
 designed this plate, was a German Countess named 
 Erengard Schuylemberg, who came to England soon after 
 the accession of George 1st, and became one of his mistresses. 
 In 1719, she was created Duchess of Kendal, and in or 
 about that year had her book-plate engraved and inscribed 
 at the foot, " Anns of the Dutchess of Kendal." A lozenge 
 is in the centre of a " Jacobean " frame, supported on either 
 
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 side by two large wild men, standing on a plain bracket, 
 eacli with a club in his hand ; below two cupids, above a 
 coronet. 4s. 6d. (a very low price). 
 
 Kennett (White). There is a Book-Pile belonging 
 to Bishop Kennett, executed most probably directly after 
 his translation to the see of Peterborough in 1718. 15s. 
 An earlier Armorial plate is, however, much scarcer. Prom 
 20s. to 25s. 
 
 Keneick (Scawbn), Rector of Hambledon, Bucks. 
 Book-Pile surrounding coat of arms. A rare plate. ISs., 
 again 6s. 
 
 Kent (Eael of). See Grey (Anthony). 
 
 Kent (Heney, Duke of). Armorial, "Jacobean" 
 design, supported. Motto : " Stat religione parentum." 
 Inscription : " Henry, Duke of Kent, 1713." This fine plate 
 is noticeable inasmuch as both crest and mantling are absent. 
 The shield rests on a bracket. 14s. 
 
 Kent (Jemima, Duchess of). This lady who was the 
 wife of the statesman Henry Grey, Duke of Kent, had two 
 "Jacobean" plates. In each are two shields accole in a 
 frame with inscription in an ornamental bracket at the base, 
 " Jemima, Dutchess of Kent." Then comes the date in 
 Roman figures, which is 1710 in the earher plate, and 
 1712 in the later. This second plate differs from the 
 first in some other particulars, notably in the addition of 
 
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 the Garter motto round the dexter shield. The frame is 
 also more elaborate. 15s. (later plate). 
 
 KiNiiOCH (Fbancis). Armorial, crested. Motto : " Altius 
 tendo." Inscription: "Francis Kinloch, Esqr." No date, 
 but about 1778. A rare American plate. About 15s. 
 
 Kip (Isaac L.). Armorial, the shield surrounded by a 
 wreath formed of two branches tied together at the foot. 
 Motto : " Victoria aut mors." Inpcription : "Isaac L. Kip," 
 on a scroU below. No date, but engraved by Maverick, 
 about 1800. An American plate. 4s. 
 
 KissAM (Benjamin). Armorial, crested, of "Chippen- 
 dale" design, at the base of the shield on the right a 
 shepherd playing on a pipe with a wooden lamb by his side, 
 on the left a fancifully attired shepherdess. Motto : 
 " Honestum. Prsetulit util." Name in a frame below. No 
 date, but engraved by Henry Dawkins about 1780. An 
 American plate. 5 s. 
 
 KNATCHBUiii (Thomas). Armorial, crested, manthng 
 in the draped cloth style, tied up at the top comers, 
 tassels below. No motto, but on a scroll, "Thomas 
 KnatchbuU, Esqr., third son of Sr. Thomas KnatchbuU, of 
 Mersham-hateh, in the County of Kent, Baronet; 1702." 
 12s. 
 
 Knight (Henrietta). Armorial, "Jacobean" design, 
 two shields accole, resting on a fish scale frame, the scallop 
 
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 shell above. Inscription on scroll below, " The Honourable 
 Henrietta Knight." This plate was engraved by Thomas 
 Worhdge, and is without date (but about 1740). 6s. 6d. 
 
 Lahy (James). Landscape, in the background a range of 
 mountains lightly engraved, in the fore a broken oak with 
 shield, crest, and scroU, on the last named being the words, 
 " Jajnes Lahy, Ovenden, Butcher Eow, set." No date, but 
 about 1795. This plate is usually found printed in red, 
 though specimens in black are not unknown. 5s. (in red). 
 
 Lambert (G-eoege). AUegoric, female figures right and 
 left of the armorial shield, crest above. This plate was 
 designed by William Hogarth, about the year 1725. His 
 great intimacy with George Lambert, the Landscape 
 Painter is weU known. The design of the plate is simple, 
 and the execution masterly. Very rare, only one copy being 
 known. 
 
 Lane (William). Landscape, a mass of ruins within a 
 frame, to the left an urn surmounted by a Lion, and having 
 the owner's armorial bearings engraved on its face. In the 
 centre is what appears to be a copy of the upper part of the 
 Monument. The owner's name is written on a large white 
 scroll, which hides most of the foreground of the plate. No 
 date, but about 1820. This plate was probably used also 
 as a visiting card. 2s. 6d. 
 
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 Laednee (Ltnfoed). Pictorial, the shield resting against 
 the stump of a tree, vegetation around. Motto : " Mediocria 
 finna.'' Inscaription. as ahove. No date, but about 1800. 
 An American plate. About 5s. 
 
 Laeeing (John). Armorial, crested, the shield within 
 two sprays wreathed upwards and tied with ribbon at the 
 base. No motto or scroll. Inscription : " John Larking, 
 Esqr." No date, but about 1800. Is. 6d. 
 
 Lawfoed (Heney Smith). Plaia armorial, crest, motto, 
 " In Deo Confido," on a scroll and name, " Henry Smith 
 Lawford." No date, but about 1800. 2s. 
 
 Leeds (Duke or). Label, crest within a garter, on which 
 is the motto : " Honi soit qui mal y pense," the whole on a 
 curtain, in the upper part of which is " Case, Shelf." No 
 date, but about 1820. Is. 
 
 Legge (Hbneage). Armorial, "Jacobean" design. The 
 frame designed to a lattice pattern, scallop shell above, 
 bracket below. Inscription: "The Honomrable Heneage 
 Legge, Esqr." Date, about 1745. 4s. 
 
 Leicestee (Philip, Eael of). Armorial, crested and 
 suppori^d. Motto : " Quo fata vocant." Inscription on a 
 fringed doth, as follows: "The Right Honble. Phihp 
 Sydney, Earle . of Leicester, Viscount Lisle, and Baron 
 Sydney of Penshurst, 1704." Manthng voluminous with 
 dark backgrotind. £1 3s. 
 
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 Lennox (Chaeles, Duke of Richmond). Armorial plate 
 with inscription in French. Rare. £1 4s. 
 
 Lenox (James). Armorial, crested, with the motto, 
 " Auctor pretiosa fadt." No date, but engraved probably 
 about 1840. See Stevens' "Recollections of Mr. James 
 LenoK, of New York." An American plate. 3s. 
 
 Lenthall (John). Armorial, ca-ested, a large and bold 
 plate, in a somewhat pecidiar style. The shield is set in a 
 wreath formed of two thick and bushy branches crossed and 
 tied together. The name, "John. LenthaU," appears on a 
 scroU. No date, but engraved by James Thackara about the 
 year 1800. An American plate. 4s. 6d. 
 
 Lincoln College, Oxtoed. Armorial, without crest or 
 motto. Shield within " Jacobean " frame, adorned with 
 festoons. Inscription: "Collegium Lincolniense, in Uni- 
 versitate Oxon., 1703." Rare, 17s. 
 
 Littleton (Thomas). Armorial, crested. Motto: 
 " Ung Dieu et ung Roi." Inscription : " Sr. Thomas 
 Littleton, Baronet, Treastu-er of Her Majesty's Navy, 1702." 
 12s. The crest of this branch of the Littleton family, now 
 apparently extinct was a moor's head in profile. The motto 
 is identical with that of the great author of " The Tenures." 
 
 LivEKPOOL Library. A hbrary interior, a book-case of 
 ten columns with books and cupboards, in the centre the 
 crest of the Town, and below, the words, " Liverpool 
 
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 Library.'' At tlie foot is a scroll containing the inscription, 
 " Allowed for reading days. Forfeiture d. per 
 
 day." No date, but about 1800. 8s. 
 
 Livingston (Edwaed). Armorial, the shield set in a 
 species of frame formed of a large tree stump and tall reeds, 
 above, among the leaves of the tree, the motto, " Spero 
 meliora," on a scroU, in the foreground a stream, on the 
 bank a hound baying, a squirrel on a branch overhead. 
 No date, but engraved by P. R. Maverick, about 1800. An 
 American plate. About 5 s. 
 
 Livingston (R. R.). Armorial, the shield resting against 
 a shattered column, above, a tall pahn tree, landscape in 
 the distance. At the foot of the shield is a gloibe, caduceus, 
 and other articles. Motto : " Spero meliora." Inscription : 
 " Rob't R. Livingston, Esqr., of Clermont." No date, but 
 about 1800. An American plate. About 4s. 6d. 
 
 LivT0s (Family of). Armorial, crested, shield oval and 
 quite plain but for slight scroU-work at top and bottom. 
 Motto : " Colendo crescent," on a scroll below. The name 
 "Livius" is engraved in script. No date, but about 1760. 
 This same plate is met with inscribed, " Livius, Chief Justice 
 of Quebec," and the motto : " Non flectere a vero." This 
 must have been engraved between May 31st, 1777, and 
 1786. Both American plates. 14s. (the first plate). 
 
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 Lloyd (John). Armorial, "Jacobean" design. Oval 
 shield resting on bracket, supported by two children, scallop 
 shell above and another below. On a suspended cloth the 
 inscription, " The Reverend John Lloyd, A.M., 1730." On 
 the edge of the bracket, " Animus si sequus, quod petis his 
 est." Tliis plate was engraved by George Bickham. Scarce, 
 14s. 
 
 Lloyd (Thomas). Aul. Clav. Socio. Commensalis, Nov. 
 16, 1715, Cambridge. Printed at the University Press. A 
 name label. 16s. 
 
 Locker (William). A naval subject, coat of arms on a 
 sail inflated by the wind. Inscription : " Captain William 
 Locker, Royal Navy." No date, but about 1800. 7s. 6d. 
 
 LocKHAET (George). Armorial, crested. Manthng 
 convoluted and full, encompassing three sides of the shield. 
 Motto : " COrda Serata fero." Inscription : " George 
 Lockhart of Camwath." No date, but about 1700 . A rare 
 plate. 12 s. 
 
 Lodge (Abraham). Armorial, crested, " Jacobean " 
 design. The name, " Abraham Lodge " engraved below, in 
 large capitals. No motto or date, but engraved about 1750, 
 or earher. An American plate. 9s. 
 
 LoMBB (Lady). Armorial, "Chippendale"' design, of an 
 elaborate character, the lozenge set in a frame, from which 
 spring branches and leaves, a shell above. In the foreground 
 
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 a stream with vegetation on tiie banks. Inscription on a 
 cloth below, "Lady Lombe." No date, but about 1750. 
 8s. 6d. 
 
 LoNGxniviLLE (Viscountess). Armorial plate, dated 
 1702. This lady married Sir Henry Yelverton, who, in the 
 year 1690, was created Viscount Longueville. The 
 inscription reads: "The Kt. Hon. Barbara, Viscountess 
 Longueville." 14s. 
 
 Lord (Wilham). An American name label, "WiUiam 
 Lord's, East Haddam. No. — ," printed in large capitals 
 within an ornamental border. This plate is executed in a 
 very primitive style and was probably engraved about the 
 year 1700, or before. Very rare, £1 5s. 
 
 Lev AT (Lord). Armorial, crested and supported, mantle 
 enclosing shield and supporters. Inscription : " The Right 
 Honourable Simon, Lord Fraser, of Lovat, Chief of the 
 Ancient Clan of the Erasers, Governor of Inverness,'' &c. 
 No date, but engraved about 1740, by a Scotch artist. 
 Simon, Lord Lovat was executed on Tower Hill on the 9 th 
 April, 1747. A very rare plate. From 40s. to 50s. 
 
 Lovelace (Ann). A printed name label, inscribed, " Ann 
 Lovelace, Octob. the 15, 1687." 16s. 
 
 LovETT (J.). Armorial, "Jacobean" design, inscribed, 
 " J. Lovett, Liscombe, Bucks." No date, but about 1710. 
 73., again 3s. 6d. 
 
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 LoYETT (Veeney). Allegorical. A laiirel- wreathed 
 figure reclLning on a cloud, wings outspread, regarding an 
 escutcheon. Engraved by W. Henshaw in stipple, and 
 printed off ia red. No date, but about 1800. Inscription : 
 " Vemey Lovett, Trin. CoU., Camb." 6s. 
 
 Low (CoENELius). Armorial, crested, "Chippendale" 
 design, shield supported at one side by a cupid blowing a 
 flute, and on the other by a female and a cupid, the latter 
 with a large book. Name : " Comehus Low," in a frame 
 below. Motto on a scroll above, "Ex Necessitate." No 
 date, but engraved by Henry Dawkins, about 1760. An 
 American plate. About 5s. 
 
 Lowe (John). Allegorical. The design represents a 
 cupid kneeling on the ground among a number of books. 
 By his side is a broken oak on which he is fastening the 
 escutcheon. On a ribbon, interwoven with the herbage, is 
 the motto, " Dulces ante omnia." Inscription : " Jno. Lowe, 
 of Ridley Hall." This plate was engraved about the year 
 1770. 6s., again 3s. 6d. 
 
 LuMiSDEN (Andrew). Interior, allegoric design. A 
 curtain with tassels hanging above two busts which stand 
 on a stone balcony ; below a cupid with a scroU in his hands, 
 books, terrestrial globe, compasses, and the Lumisden arms 
 on a " Chippendale " cartouche by his side. This plate was 
 
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 engraved by Sir Robert Strange, about the year 1745. 
 £1 10s., again 12s., again 18s., again 8s. 
 
 Lynch (Phtlip). Armorial, "Jacobean" frame, crested. 
 Motto : " De lupo.'' The mantHng blends with the fohation 
 of the frame which encloses the arms. Inscription: 
 " Philippiis Lynch, Medij Templi, Sodus, 1703." 10s. 6d. 
 
 Lyttleton (Sm Edwaed). Armorial, crested, showing 
 the tinctures. This plate was engraved by William Marshall 
 about the year 1630, and bears his name, a fact which 
 invests the specimen with the distinction of being the 
 earliest known Enghsh plate bearing the name of the artist. 
 Very rare, from £2 to £3. 
 
 Lytton (William Robinson). Armorial, "Jacobean" 
 design. Tbe frame designed to a scale pattern with a scallop 
 shell thereon, the bracket grounded with brick-work and 
 upon it a satyr's head ; right and left, two hons. This plat© 
 may be assigned to about the year 1740. 8s. 
 
 Macgregor (General). Armorial, crested, the shield 
 within two sprays wreathed upwards and tied with ribbon 
 at the base, over all, the mottoes, " Srioghail mo Dhream ; " 
 " Een do and spair not ; " below, on a scroU, the motto, 
 " Aeh Challich ; " and underneath, " Ard ChoUle." No 
 date, but about 1795. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Mc MuKTBiE (Henry). Two plates are assigned to Henry 
 Mc Murtriej Tha first, engraved by J. Smither or Smithers 
 
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 about the year 1775, discloses a Landscape within an oval 
 frame, two rows of five trees, one series on an island, the sun 
 rising. On a ribbon below, is the name. The second plate was 
 engraved by Francis Kearney about the year 1800. A 
 table with books upon it, an urn, besides which is a Cupid, 
 and a snake with a ribbon upon which is the motto, " Respice 
 finem." Both these are American plates. 9s. (the first 
 plate). 
 
 Maistee (Henky). Armorial, "Jacobean" design, 
 crested and most elaborately manteUed, the convolutions 
 almost smothering the shield, fish scale ground. Motto: 
 ■"Vix ea nostra voco." Inscription: "Henry Maister of 
 Kingston-upon-Hull, 1719." 8s. 6d. 
 
 Malone (Edmund). Book-pile with arms in centre. No 
 date, but about 1790. Scarce, lis. 
 
 Manchester Circulating Library. A Library interior 
 veiy similar to that used by the Manchester Subscription 
 Library {q.v.). No date, but about 1780. 5s., again 2s. 
 
 Manchester Subscription Library. A Library interior, 
 shelves of books around, arch in the background. A small 
 table stands on the floorj otherwise the interior is destitute 
 of figures. The plate is not dated, but was engraved about 
 1780. 5s. 
 
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 Mangnail (John). Landscape with arms, around the 
 border are, "Retirement," "Rural Qmet," "Friendship," 
 " Books," signed by Smith. No date, but about 1800. 4s. 
 
 Manigault (Peter). Armorial, no crest, fine and 
 elaborate " Chippendale " design of excellent workmanship. 
 Motto on a scaroU, " Prospicere qxiam xilcisci." Inscription : 
 " Pet«r Manigault, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, 
 South Carolina." No date, but engraved in London by 
 Yates, of the Royal Exchange, about 1755. An American 
 plate of considerable interest. The family name is 
 pronounced " man-e-go." 
 
 Manley (John). Annorial, " Chippendale " design, with 
 motto in Latin. Another variety is met with in the ribbon 
 and wreath style. Neither of these plates is dated, but the 
 former was engraved about 1770, and the latter some ten 
 years later. 8s., (the two varieties). 
 
 Mann (The Family). Landscape, in the distance a 
 Temple on a hill. In the foreground is a taU book-case, 
 and an eagle on a pUe of books, the whole within an oval 
 decorated border. Inscription: "Mann." No date, but 
 engraved about 1800. An American plate. 2s. 
 
 Mann (Timothy). Within an oval of fanciful design, the 
 words, " The property of Timothy Mann, Walpole, Oct — , 
 1810." Above are two inkpots and quills and a canopy of 
 fringe and tassels. An American plate. 3s. 6d. 
 
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 Manners (Rachel). Armorial, crested and supported. 
 Mantling finely cut. Motto: " Pour y parvenir." Inscribed, 
 " The Right Honble. Rachel Manners, Lady Roos, 1700." 
 12s. 
 
 Maekham (Thos.). Wreath and ribbon plate, signed 
 and dated, Harmer, Sculpt, 1780. 4s. 
 
 Maebiott (Family of). Armorial, crested, mantling 
 very full and voluminous reaching to the base of the shield. 
 No inscription, motto or date, but engraved by Faithorne 
 about the year 1660. This plate is met with in two sizes, 
 and can be recognised by the crest, representing a pug dog 
 standing on a bundle of strands. Very rare. From £3 
 to £4. 
 
 Maeshall (John), " Chief Justice of the United States," 
 armorial, "Chippendale" design. 10s. 
 
 Maesham (John). Armorial, not dated, but engraved in 
 the last days of King Charles 1st, and may for convenience 
 sake be assigned to the year 1649 or thereabouts. It is a 
 plate which ushers in a distinctly new style, ajid consists 
 of a shield enclosed within a circular wreath of bays. 
 Inscription : " John Marsham, of Whom's Place, near 
 Cuxton, in Kent." Very rare. From £3 to £4. 
 
 Maetin (Luther). Armorial, crested, " Chippendale " 
 design with motto ; " Initium sapientise est timor Dei," on a 
 scroll below. Underneath is a frame with two open books, 
 
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 one of them lettered, " Blax^'s Comms" (Blackstone's 
 Commentaries), and inscribed: "Luther Martin, A.M." 
 Eonghly engraved. No date, but about 1775. An 
 American plate. From 8s. to 10s. 
 
 Mason (Anna Mjlrgaeetta). Armorial, within a 
 " Jacobean " frame, no motto. Inscription : " Dame Anna 
 Margaretta Mason, Relict of Sir Richard Mason, Kt., Gierke 
 ComtroUer of the Green Cloath to King Charles, and King 
 James the Second, 1701." A finely engraved and very rare 
 plate. About £2. 
 
 Massachusetts Historical Societt. Label, on which 
 is printed within a border, " This book is the Property of 
 the Historical Society, EstabHshed in Boston, 1790." 8s. 
 
 Massingbeed (Maegaret) . Armorial, a lozenge sur- 
 rounded by fish scale ornaments carved in curves and 
 volutes. Inscription on a bracket below, the owner spelling 
 her christian name " Margret." This plat© is dated 1704. 
 lis. 
 
 Maurice (Maria Margaretta). Armorial, "Chippen- 
 dale " design, inscribed, " Mrs. Maria Margaretta Maurice." 
 No date, but about 1750. 3s. 
 
 Mendes (Esaac), London, dated 1746, and signed, Levi, 
 Sculp. Rare, 8s., again 5s. 
 
 Menezes (D. Isabel de). Allegorical plate, designed by 
 Bartolozzi, representing a ruined altar on a promontory, the 
 
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 sea and distant coast line visible. On the altar is a censer 
 and wreaths; and in the foreground a female figure with 
 mallet and chisel and a cupid pointing to a newly cut name, 
 " D. Isabel de Menezes." The plate is inEcribed. " F. Vieira 
 Portoensis invt. F. Bartolozzi, R.A., Engraver to his 
 Majesty. l^Statis 71, an. 1798." Probably used also as a 
 visiting card. Rare. From 30s. to 35s. 
 
 Meecator (Nicholas). This celebrated mathematician 
 and astronomer whose real name was Kauffman, came to 
 this country in 1660, and was soon after elected a fellow of 
 the Royal Society. A book-plate of his is extant and though 
 not dated, may be ascribed with tolerable certainty to about 
 the year 1675. It is an armorial plate bearing the 
 inscription, "Nicholas Mercator, a Descendant of the 
 Kauffmans of Prague, in Bohemia, Coadjutors with Luther 
 in the Reformation." Very rare. From 35s. to 40s. 
 
 Methuen (Snt Paul). Armorial, "Jacobean*' design, a 
 fanciful plate with the motto, " Virtus invidise scopus," 
 crested and supported. Mantling involved and ending in 
 tassels, latticed bracket below with scallop shell supported 
 by angels. Date about 1725. 4s. 6d. 
 
 MiDDLETGN (Pbtee). Armorial, crested, "Jacobean" 
 design, the mantling full and floriated, descending nearly 
 to the base of the shield below which on a scroU is the motto, 
 
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 " Fortis & Fidus." In an ornamental frame below, " Peter 
 Middleton, M.D." No date, but engraved by J. Lewis 
 abou 1750., 6s. 6d. 
 
 MiNOT (Family of). Armorial, crested, of a curious 
 design, compounded of the early English and "Jacobean" 
 styles. Mantling fuU and floriated. Below, on a ribbon is 
 the motto, "Ad astra per aspera," and underneath, the 
 name, "Minot," in script. No date, but probably the 
 property of George Richards Minot, the Judge and man of 
 letters, cir 1780. An American plate. From. 4s. to 5s. 
 
 MiTFORD (John). Allegoric, Neptune with his trident 
 seated in a shell drawn by a sea horse, in his right hand a 
 shell disclosing arms and crest, by his side a dolphin. No 
 date, but engraved by J. K. Sherwin in 1773. A sHght 
 variation occurs in the shading of the arms, so that there 
 are technically two plates. Another plate is ascribed to 
 John Mitford of New Town, Hampshire, and dated 1744. 
 8s. 
 
 Mitford (William). Allegorical, engraved by J. K. 
 Sherwin. A cherub bears an escutcheon among clouds. 
 Inscription : " Wm. Mitford of Pitt's Hill." No date, but 
 about 1780. There is another plate ascribed to WiUiam 
 Mitford (perhaps the same person), of GUbury, Hampshire, 
 and dated 1769. 9s. 
 
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 Moat (Horatio). Armorial, crested, the shield sur- 
 rounded by a wreath composed of two " branches " tied 
 together at the base. Motto: "Nil desperandum." In- 
 scription: "Horatio Shepheard Moat." No date, but 
 engraved by Rollinson about 1800. An American plate. 3s. 
 
 MoiSES (Edwaed). Plain armorial shield, musical 
 instruments, books, tools and writing materials lying around. 
 Inscription: "Edward Moises, A.M." No date, but 
 engraved by Thomas Bewick about 1795. 8s. 6d. 
 
 MoLONY (Feancis Josbph). Pictorial, arms among the 
 ruins of an old Irish abbey. No date, but about 1800. 
 Name below, in script. Rare, 10s. 
 
 Montagu (Charles). Armorial, crested and supported. 
 Inscribed : " The Right Honble. Charles, Lord Halifax, 
 1702." Montagu was a hfe-long friend of Sir Isaac Newton. 
 He died in 1715, and was buried in Henry Vllths Chapel, 
 Westminster Abbey, where there is a monument to his 
 memory. The above-named plate is met with in two sizes. 
 14s. (large size). 
 
 Montagu (George). Armorial, crested. Inscribed: 
 " George Montagu, Esqr., 1705." No motto. 9s. 
 
 MoRONG (Thomas). A cross, above which is a crown, 
 resplendent. A pile of books is deposited at the foot of the 
 cross, and among them hes a ribbon with the motto, " Sola 
 
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 salus servire Deo; " also inscription in Hebrew. No date, 
 but about 1810. An American plate. About 6s. 
 
 Morton (M.A.). Pictorial, a pallette and brushes, 
 allegorical sun with rays. Above is a cupid with, a basket 
 of flowea-s, floating in mid air. Inscription on the palette, 
 " M. A. Morton, Sheffield." No date, but about 1800. 3s. 
 
 MosTYN (Richard). Armorial, crest and inscription 
 above, latter on a scroll, " Auxihum meimi a domino.'' At 
 the foot, " Richard Mostyn of Penbedw, Denbighshire.'' As 
 Richard Mostyn graduated M.A. at Christ Church, Oxford, 
 in 1680, the plate may be ascribed to a sHghtly later date. 
 £1 2s. 
 
 MouNTAiNE (Robert). A circle, within which is the 
 monogram " R.M.," in " Chippendale " scroll-work. Sur- 
 rounding the circle is other scroU-work in the same style, a 
 small canopy surmounts the whole, while at the foot is an 
 angel's head and wings outspread. No date, but about 1745. 
 6s. 
 
 MuiLMAN (Peter). Landscape, a wooded parterre with 
 ruins in the background, on the lawn two cupids, one 
 supporting the escutcheon, and the other holding aloft the 
 crest and wreath. At the foot a border of shrubs. 
 Inscription: "Peter Muilman, King Street, London, and 
 Kirby HaU, Castle Hedingham, Essex." This plate was 
 engraved by Terry. No date, but about 1780. 4s. 
 
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 MuKPHT (John). Book-pile, arms as usual, in centre. 
 Motto: "Fortis et Hospitalis." Inscription: "John 
 Murphy, Bishop, Cork, 1815." 6s. 
 
 MmiEAT (John). Armorial, shield in double circles, 
 ■within which the motto in large capitak, " Mala mori quam 
 Foedari," the whole surrounded by an ornamented ajid 
 artistically shaped band. Below, another motto on a scroll, 
 " Juncta virtuti Fides." Inscription in small capitals, " The 
 Revd. John Murray." The quarterings on the shield are 
 all spurious, having apparently been manufactured by the 
 owner, and same remark applies to the crest. No date, but 
 engraved about the year 1775. An American plate. 5s. 
 
 MusGEAVE (Sir Cheistophee). Armorial, the shield, 
 crested and supported, rests on a small table or bracket, on 
 which is a scroU with the motto, " Sans changer." Below, on 
 a cloth, is the inscription, " Musgrave, of Eden-Hall." 
 Engraved by J. Skinner of Bath, in 1732. (dated). 9s. 
 
 Nash (Robert). Armorial, an early example of the) 
 " Chippendale " style. The shield is set in a framework of 
 shells, from which spring flowers. Inscription on a broad 
 scroU below, "Robertus Nash, LL.D., Diseces Norvic 
 CanceUarius." This plate was engraved about the year 
 1740. 12s. 
 
 Nash (T.), of Bevere, Worcester. Armorial, "Chippen- 
 dale" design. Not dated, but about 1750. 3s. 
 
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 Neild (James). Landscape, an ©scutclieon and laace 
 resting againsb a broken but flourishing tree, vegetatioji 
 around, in the distance, to the right, an angler landing a 
 fish., below on a scroll, "Dmn spiro spero." Inscription: 
 " Jas. Neild, Esqr.'' in script. No date, but about 1795. 
 3s. 6d. 
 
 Nevill (Catheeinb). Armorial, "Chippendale" design, 
 the lozenge being surroimded as usual in this species of 
 decoration with branches, flowers and sprays. On a 
 "Chippendale"' frame below, the name, "Cathe. Nevill." 
 No date, but about 1755. 6s. 
 
 Nevill (Dorothy). Engraved label, containing the 
 inscription, " Stolen from Lady Dorothy Nevill." Not 
 dated, but probably about 1800. From. 2s. to 4s. 
 
 New College, Oxford. Simple armorial. Motto: 
 " Manners makyth man ; " and voluminous mantling. 
 Inscription: "CoUegiimi Novum; Oxon., 1702." Scarce, 
 15s. 
 
 Newdigate (Sir Kichaed). Armorial, crested. No motto 
 or scroll. Inscription : " Sir Richard Newdigate, of Arbury, 
 
 in the County of Warwick, Baronet, 1709." The mantling 
 
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 on this plate is very finely cut and carried to the base of 
 the shield. Scarce, 14s. 
 
 Newell (Timothy). Name plate, outside the frame, a 
 collection of drums, swords, flags and other military 
 
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 properties. No date, but engraved by Isaiah Thomas, the 
 Journalist and author, about the year 1775. An American 
 plate. 7s. 6d. 
 
 New York Society Libhaby. Armorial, " Chippendale " 
 design. This is a " made up " plate. The shield is supported 
 by Mercury and Minerva; above, Apollo on clouds half 
 eclipsing the sun; below, houses and spires and the word 
 ABrivai, a chest with lighted candle and an open book. 
 Inscription: "New York Society Library." No date, but 
 engraved by Ehsha GaUaudet about 1790. 12s. Another 
 plate belonging to this Society was engraved by P. R. 
 Maverick about 1780. It represents the interior of a 
 Library, with Minerva presenting a book to an Indian ; in 
 the background are shelves with book, and the motto, 
 " EmoUit mores." Inscription as before. 13s. A third 
 plate also engraved by Maverick, but at a later date (1789), 
 is of allegorical design, Minerva is again represented as 
 offering a book to an Indian, but this time in the open 
 air; in the background, to the left, are book-shelves and 
 the motto, " Emollit mores ; " the whole in an oval frame 
 above two branches crossed, but not tied. 13s. 
 
 Nicholas (Edwaed). Armorial, crested. MantKng full, 
 a scroU left for the motto which, however, has not been 
 engraved. Inscription: "Edward Nicholas, Esqr., of 
 GiUingham, in the County of Dorset, 1703." 12s. 
 
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 Nicholson (G-ilbert), of Balrath, in. tlie County of Meath, 
 Esqr., dated 1669. This plate is described by Warren (p.65), 
 as follows : — Arms, Erm,, on a pale sa., three martlets arg., 
 Crest, a tiger, transpierced by a javelin. The mantUng 
 is very voluminous, curling upwards as well as downwards, 
 and the motto, ' Pro Republica,' is printed across the base 
 of the plate without any scroU, bracket or border to contain 
 it. There is a second copy of this plate identical in aU 
 but small details, but evidently from a distinct copper plate. 
 The date given is probably misleading. Very rare, 16s., 
 again 14s. 
 
 North (Ann). Armorial, the lozenge surrounded on 
 every side by heavy and elaborate manthng ; above, the head 
 and wings of a cherub crowned with a wreath of roses. Below 
 on a scroU is the inscription, " The Honble. Ann North." 
 Engraved by GribeHn, about the year 1710. 13s. 
 
 North (Francis, Baron Guilford). Armorial, crested 
 and supported. Mantling flowing, with insterstices. Motto : 
 "Animo et Fide." Inscription: "The Right Honble. 
 Francis North, Baron of Guilford, 1703." 16s. 
 
 North (William). Armorial, crested and supported, no 
 motto. Inscription: "The Right Honble. WiUiam, Lord 
 North of Carthbge; and Baron Grey of PoUeston, 1703." 
 Rare, 18s. This William North, was a prominent Jacobite, 
 
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 who was cammitfced to the Tower in 1722, for complicity in 
 Atterburys plot. 
 
 NoBTHAMPTON (Geoege, Eael of). Armorial, crested and 
 supported. Motto : " Ji ne cherche qiii img." Inscription : 
 " The Rieht Honble. George, Earl of Northampton, Baron 
 Compton, 1703." Rare, 12s. 
 
 NoKTHET (Sm Edwaed). Armorial, crested. Motto: 
 " Steady." Mantling convoluted and bold. Inscription ; 
 "Sr. Edw. Northey, Knight her Majestyes Attomey- 
 Generale, 1703." 12s. 
 
 Obee (Elizabeth). Name label, inscribed: "Elizabeth 
 Obee, Her Book," within a double border of fleurs-de-Lys. 
 This label is not dated, but may be assigned to about the 
 year 1740. From 6s. to 8s. 
 
 O'CoNNELL (Daniel). Simple armorial, crested. Motto 
 above, " Victor in arduis." Motto in Irish, below on scroU, 
 and name, " Daniel O'Connell." Not dated, but about 
 1830. 5s. 
 
 O'Connor (Charles). Armorial, "Chippendale" design, 
 crest above. Inscription : " Charles O'Connor, of Balana- 
 gare, in the County of Roscommon, Esq., 1753." About 5s. 
 
 O'GoBMAN (Family op). Armorial, "Chippendale" 
 design, with wreath and ribbon surroundings, Greek motto. 
 No date, but about 1780. A rare plate showing the 
 transition in styles. 2s. 6d. 
 
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 O'Key (Thomas Teetius). Armorial, carested, inscribed : 
 "Thomas Tertius O'Key, Medicinae Professor, 1697," &c., 
 &c. The inscription which is unusually verbose, enters into 
 Family relationships at considerable length. Very scarce. 
 18s. 
 
 OuvEE (Andeew). Armorial, crested, of fine and 
 symmetrical " Chippendale " design. On a scroU is the motto, 
 " Pax quseritur bello ; " and below, in script, the name 
 " Andrew Oliver." No date, but about 1760. An American 
 plate. 4s. 
 
 QLrvEE (William). Armorial, shield resting on a 
 platform, upon which are two figures, one on either side. 
 Crest above; the mantling above the shield comparatively 
 meagre. On a bordered scroU hanging from the platform, 
 is the motto, " AITEXOY KAI AIIEXOT," and on a cloth 
 the inscription, " Guil. Oliver, M.D., S.K.S." Engraved 
 by J. Skinner, of Bath, about the year 1740. 8s. 
 
 Oliver (William). Armorial, no crest, "Chippendale" 
 design of fine execution. On a ribbon below is the motto, 
 " Odi profanum ; " and on a scroU or cloth, " Gul Oliver, 
 ex 8ede Christi Alumn, Oxon.'' Engraved by J. Skinner of 
 Bath, in 1751, (dated). 7s. 6d. This William Oliver, was 
 the son of the person of the same name, last mentioned. 
 
 Ord (John). Armorial, crested, of "Chippendale" 
 design, the borders of the shield scaly and decorated with 
 
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 sprays and trailing creepers. The whole design appears to 
 be evolving from the trunk of a tree^ and there are clear 
 traces of Landscape. Inscription: "John Ord, Lincohi's 
 Inn, 1761." 5s. 6d. 
 
 Otis (Habeison Gbay). Crest above, flanked on either 
 side by festoons which, hanging down, form a frame in which 
 is the name, " Harrison Gray Otis." The owner who was 
 wen known as a statesman and orator, died in 1848. The 
 plate was probably engraved about 1830. It is of American 
 origin. 2s. 
 
 Oxford (Countess of). See Holles (HENEiE'prA 
 Cavendish). 
 
 Oxford Colleges. See under individual names. 
 
 Page (Francis). Armorial, crested, mantling heavy aad 
 volinninous, almost biurying the shield. No motto. 
 Inscription: "Francis Page of the Inner Temple, Esqr., 
 1703." This plate was engraved in England. One of the 
 earliest armorial book-plates used in America. Rare, 9s. 
 
 Paine (James). Architect, armorial, designed by S. Wale, 
 and engraved by Grignion. No date, but about 1730. 
 £1 3s. 
 
 Paine (Thomas and Anne). Name label, the joiat 
 property, as the inscription discloses, of " Mr. Thomas and 
 Mr. Anne Paine." 1737. 6s. 6d. 
 
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 Palmer (Elizabeth). Armorial, typical " Chippendale " 
 design, -with a dragon to the left. No crest, scroU, or motto. 
 Below is the inscription, "Elizabeth. Palmer." No date, 
 but about 1760. 5s. 
 
 Panton (Francis). Armorial, two ducks flying, in their 
 bills a ribbon by which the shield is suspended ; below the 
 mouth of a river, a boat ; trees and mountains in the distance. 
 Motto, on a scroU above, " Spero meliora." Inscription : 
 " Francis Panton, Junr." No date, but engraved by P. E. 
 Maverick, about 1790. An American plate. 8s. 
 
 Parker (James). Armorial, crested, the shield above two 
 branches crossed and tied. Motto : " Cave.'' Inscription : 
 " James Parker, Esqr." No date, but about 1830. A second 
 plate ascribed to this collector who was an official on one of 
 the first American railways, represents an engine at full 
 speed with covered passenger coach; in the foreground a 
 group of labourers; to the right a tree, and landscape 
 beyond, the whole within a carved " Chippendale " frame. 
 No date, but about 1840. An American plate. From 
 6s. to 8s. 
 
 Parker (Samuel). Pictorial, a Muse under a tree with 
 lyre and books, one of which, she hands to a man who is 
 kneeling as he receives it, in the distance a landscape. 
 Inscription : " Samuel Parker's No." No date, but about 
 1810. An American plate. 4s. 6d. 
 
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 Paeker (Thomas). Armorial, crested, no motto, the 
 scroll for its reception being left empty. Mantling simple ; 
 on a fringed cloth below, the following inscription, " Thomas 
 Parker, of the Inner Temple, Esqr., 1704." £1. 
 
 Payler (Thomas). Armorial, "Jacobean" design, the 
 frame worked to a scale pattern, the bracket scaled and 
 latticed. Inscribed: " Thomas Payler." Date about 1730. 
 6s. 
 
 Payntee (David). Armorial, crested, inscribed, "David 
 Paynter, of Dale Castle, Pembrokeshire, 1679." Notwith- 
 standing the date given on the plate, it is questionable 
 whether it was engraved before 1770. 5s. 
 
 Paynton (Dorothy), 1626. Printed name label, within 
 border, no' motto. Rare, 12s. 
 
 Peirce (Dorothy). Name label, containing the in- 
 scription, " Dorothy Pierce, of York, May 27, 1763." 8s. 
 
 Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. Armorial, early "Jaco- 
 bean " style, a frame with festoons. Inscription : " Collegium 
 sive Aula Marise de Valentia Communiter Nuncupata, 
 Pembroke HaU, in Acadeinia, Cantabrigiense, 1700." 16s. 
 
 Penington (Edward). A tank full of water, some rushing 
 out, over the tank bend two palms. Inscription : " Edward 
 Penington, Philadelphia," in small script. No date, but 
 probably about 1820. An American plate. About 5s. 
 
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 Penn (Edmund). On a shsii, a rnuaber of books, hour- 
 glass, &c. ; above a wreath, the name, " Edmd. Penn," on a 
 scroll hanging from the shelf. Not dated, but about 1810. 
 An American plate. About 5s. 
 
 Penn (Sophia). Armorial, lozenge designed in the 
 " Chippendale " style, surrounded as usual with flowers and 
 stems. Below is the owner's name, " Sophia Penn." This 
 plate was engraved by Robert Mountaine, who was working 
 about 1745. About 7s. 
 
 Penn (Thomas). Armorial, crested. Motto: "Dum 
 clavum teneam." Inscription : " Thomas Penn, of Stoke 
 Pogeis, in the County of Bucks, first proprietor of Pensil- 
 vania." Thomas Penn was the second son of Wilham Penn 
 (q.v.), and used the same plate altering the inscription to 
 suit the circumstaJiees. This alteration was probably made 
 shortly after 1718, at which date Thomas and his two 
 brothers succeeded to the province of Philadelphia on the 
 death of their father. £5, again £6 (including a variation 
 of the same plate, without inscription). 
 
 Penn (William). This well known Armorial plate, 
 bearing the motto, " Dum clavum teneam," is that of the 
 celebrated WiUiam Penn., the founder of Pennsylvania. The 
 arms are technically described as Ar. on a fess sa., 
 three plates. Crest — ^A demi-Uon ramp. ar. gorged with a 
 collar sa., charged with three plates. Inscription : " William 
 
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 Perm, Esqr., Proprietor of Pensylvania, 1703." The 
 mantling on this plate is very profuse. £2 2s. (April 6tli, 
 1897). 
 Pennington. See Penington. 
 
 Pepys (Samuel). This eminent diarist had at least three 
 plates, the first of which consists of a couple of crossed 
 anchors bearing the letters, " S.P.," the whole intertwined 
 with a rope in graceful design ; above, the motto, " Mens 
 cujusque is est Quisque." This is the plate to which Pepy's 
 referred when he wrote in his diary on the 21st of July, 
 1668. " Went to my plate maker's and there spent an hoar 
 about contriving my little plates for my books of the King's 
 four yards.'' 
 
 Pepys' second plate which was engraved sometime about 
 the year 1680, is much more elaborate and might 
 perhaps have been considered to indicate the high-water 
 mark of the owner's vanity but for the fact that a third 
 plate is more valuable as evidence in that respect. The 
 second plate is armorial, crested, and so profusely mantled 
 that the shield seems embedded in a mountain of extraneous 
 and waving scroUs. Underneath is the inscription, " Sam.uel 
 Pepys of Brampton, in Huntingdonshire, Esq., Secretary 
 of the Admiralty to his Maty. King Charles the Second; 
 Descended of ye ancient family of Pepys of Cottenham in 
 Cambridgeshire." This plate may be of French design, 
 
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 profuse mantling being very fashionable on the continent, 
 and especially in France, at this period. 
 
 The third plate to which reference has been made consists 
 of Pepys' portrait engraved by Robert White, one of the 
 pupils of Loggan, after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
 This plate, which is of two sizes was probably engraved 
 about the year 1688. It represents Samuel Pepys in a 
 flowing black wig, almost fuU face. Above is the usual 
 motto, " Mens cujusque is est Quisque,'' and below, the 
 following inscription : " Sam. Pepys, Car. et. lao. angl. regib. 
 a secretis admiraHse." The plate appears as a frontispiece 
 to Pepys' " Memoires relating to the State of the Royal 
 Navy," London, 1690, 8vo., though there is no doubt that 
 it was also used as a book-plate for it is found in his books 
 which he left to Magdalene College, Cambridge, and which 
 stUl remain in the old presses mentioned in the " Diary " 
 of the 24th August, 1666, as having been set up by one 
 Sympson to his employer's extraordinary satisfaction. The 
 book-plates of Samuel Pepys' are very rarely met with and 
 so far there is no record of any sale by auction having taken 
 place. The portrait would probably bring £5, and the 
 other plates almost as much. 
 
 Perceval (Hon. Spencer). Armorial, impaling the Arms 
 of Wilson. The Hon. Spencer Perceval was assassinated by 
 BeUingham in 1812. A rare plate, 14s. 
 
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 Percivale or Percival (John). Armorial, crested. 
 Inscription : " Sr. John Percivale, Baronet, of Burton, in 
 the Comity of Cork in Ireland, 1702." The owner of this 
 plate afterwards became Baron of Burton, and finally first 
 Earl of Egmont, and in due course designed two other 
 plates to commemorate his elevation to these grades in the 
 peerage. The former of these is dated 1715, and the latter 
 1736, and each is inscribed with his full title. 5s. (date 
 1736); 7s. 6d. (date 1715); 8s. (date 1715). 
 
 Petre (Robert, Lord). Early English Armorial, in- 
 scribed, " Robert, Lord Petre, Baron of Writtle. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Philipse (Fredeeik). Armorial, crested, '"Jacobean" 
 design, below is the usual scallop shell. Inscription, in large 
 and rude capitals, " Frederik Philipse, Esq." No date, but 
 about 1710. An American plate. Rare, 15s. 
 
 Phcenix Society. A large oblong, upright plate, divided 
 into two portions. In the upper, a landscape and the 
 inscription, " Phoenix Society." In the lower, an armorial 
 shield and iascription in Greek. No date, but about 1760. 
 An American plate. From 8s. to 10s. 
 
 PiERSON (Elizabeth). Name label, inscribed : " Eliz. 
 Pierson, London ; printed in the year 1764. God is love and 
 that's a mercy." 7s. 6d. 
 
 PiGOT (Cseswell). Armorial, with emblematic 
 surrounding. No date, but about 1760. 5s., again 5s. 
 
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 PiGOT (Henki). Armorial, Early English, mantling full 
 and profuse. No date, but about 1700. 2s. 6d. 
 
 PiGOTT (Chaelotte). Armorial, of "Jacobean'' design. 
 The Arms are quartered on a lozenge. Inscription: 
 " Charlotte Pigott at Whitton, Middlesex, 1737." 3s. 
 
 Pindar (Elizabeth), 1608. This is a printed name label, 
 said to be the earliest woman's plate known to have been 
 engraved in England. It is dated as above. The only- 
 impression known is in the Bagf ord collection of title pages, 
 &c., in the British Museum. 
 
 Pinfold (Chaeles, LL.D.), Governor of Barbados. 
 Armorial, " Chippendale " design. No date, but about 1740. 
 Rare, 9s. 
 
 PiNTABD (John). Pictorial, shield resting against a pahn, 
 anchor behind, on the shield, the motto, " Pais bien crains 
 rien.'' On a ribbon below is the further motto^ "Never 
 despair," and again "Depressa resurgo," which is upon a 
 scroll above. Inscription : " John Pintard, LL.D." No 
 date, but about 1800. An American plate. 6s. 
 
 PiTEEiLD (Chables). Armorial, with very long inscrip- 
 tion commencing, " Charles Pitfeild of Hoxton, in the 
 Parish of St. Leonards, Shoreditch, in Middlesex, Esqr., 
 descended of the ancient family of the Pitfeild's of Symsbury 
 in Dorsetshire, and is now married to Winifred, one of the 
 daughters and Coeheyrs of John Adderley, of Coton, in 
 
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 Stafordshire, Esqr.'' This plate is not dated, but was 
 engraved about the year 1680. Rare, £1 3s. 
 
 Pitt (William). Armorial, crested and supported, under 
 the shield the motto, " Benigno Ntmiine,'' on a scroll, and 
 below in an oblong plain frame the inscription, " Pitt, Earl 
 of Chatham." A large and scarce plate engraved about the 
 year 1768. Rare, 10s. 
 
 PooKLiNGTON (Joseph). Armorial, "Chippendale" 
 design, crest above on miniature shield, supported by a cupid, 
 below an empty scroU for the motto. Inscription : " Joseph 
 Pocklington, Newark, Nottinghamshire, 1761." This plate 
 is with the necessary variation in the Arms and inscription 
 precisely like that used by Richard Caryer {q.v.). 6s. 6d. 
 
 PoLEY (Heney). Armorial, crested. Motto: "Fortior 
 est qui se.'' Inscription : " Henry Poley, of Badley in Com., 
 Suffolk, Esqr., 1703." Raxe, 13s. 
 
 Pollen (George). A fanciful design of two crossed olive 
 branches, ribboned. Inscription : " Revd. George PoUen, 
 1787." 3s. 
 
 PoMFEET (Countess or). Armorial, supported, no crest, 
 but shield surmounted by a coronet. Below there is an 
 omam.6ntal bracket with a device composed of a mask and 
 flags in the centre. Mottoi; "Pob Dawne O. Dduw." 
 Inscription : " Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret, one 
 of the Ladies of ye Bed Chamber to her Majesty, 1733." 
 
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 This is an axtistically designed and fine plate of which, there 
 are several variations. One is a very large plate, lengthways, 
 with motto as before and inscription., " The Right Honble. 
 Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, Countess of Pomfret, Lady of 
 the Bed-chamber to Queen Caroline." This plate is not 
 dated, but must have been engraved before 1737. The third 
 plate is likewise armorial, and has two shields accole, 
 supported and surmounted by a coronet. In this case, both 
 motto and inscription are dififerent, the former reading: 
 "Hora sempre pob Dawne O Ddvw; " and the latter: 
 " The Right Honble. Henrietta, Countess of Pomfret, Lady 
 of the Bed Chamber to the Queen." AU three shields are 
 distinctly " Jacobean " in design. The Countess of Pomfret 
 was the granddaughter and heiress of Judge Jeffreys. £3 3s. 
 (the second plate above mentioned), £3 (the first plate' above 
 mentioned). 
 
 Pope (Beata), 1641. Printed name label within border, 
 inscribed : " La[dy] Beata Pope." Very rare. From 20s. 
 to 25s. 
 
 Potter (Family of). Armorial, crested, of peculiar form, 
 the floriated scroll work surrounding the shield being 
 designed as an uprooted shrub and interlaced with inde- 
 pendent branches, the whole bound at the base with a ribbon 
 on which is the motto, "Pax et Veritas." Inscription: 
 "Potter." No date, but about 1770. This plate is an 
 
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 interesting example of th.e transiticm period between the 
 "Chippendale" and "Eibbon and Wreath'' styles, the 
 former predominating. 9s. 
 
 Power (James). Armorial, crested, of elaborate 
 " Chippendale " design. On a scroU below is the motto, 
 " Im pavide ; " and below, " James Power of King William 
 County. Price, L.S.D." No date, but about 1770. An 
 American plate. About 6s. 
 
 PowNALL (Thomas). Armorial, the shield between tiers 
 of books, on each of which is a globe, a scroll falls from the 
 shield and upon it is the name, " Thomas PownaU." Two 
 mottoes above, "Videte et cavete ab avaritia, Luke 12, 
 XV ; " below, " The Wicked borroweth and payeth not 
 again." No date, but about 1780. An American plate. 
 About 6 s. 
 
 Peesbytebian College of England. Landscape, a clump 
 of burning trees on rising ground on the face of which is 
 the motto, " Nee Tamen Consumebatur." Inscription : 
 " Library of the Presbyterian College of England. The Gift 
 of ." Scarce, 4s. 6d. 
 
 Peescott (William). Crest (an owl); on a scroll above is 
 the motto, "Nil conscire sibi," below, in small capitals, 
 "WilHam Prescott." No date, but about 1800. An 
 American plate. 2s. 6d. 
 
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 Peescott (William: Hjckling). Armorial, the shield 
 quite plain. Motto: "Non conscire sibi." Inscriptiooi: 
 " William H. Prescott." No date, but about 1830. The 
 celebrated American Historian. 5s. 6d. 
 
 Priestley (Joseph). Landscape, a rock over which, 
 trickles a mountain spring, faUing into a basin below; 
 around are flags and vegetation. Inscription : " Joseph 
 Priestley." The plate is not dated, but was engraved by 
 Allen of Birmingham, about the yeaj: 1785. The owner, 
 Joseph Priestley, L L.D., was the author of a large number 
 of books of a Theological and Miscellaneous character. See 
 Yates (James). 
 
 Prince (Thomas). Name label. Inscription set in a 
 frame as follows : " Thomas Prince Liber, Anno Domini, 
 1704." Thomas Prince was one of the oldest American 
 book-collectors. His library, which was partly destroyed 
 in the War of Independence, is now at Boston. About lOs. 
 
 Peige (Matthew). Armorial, " Jacobean " design, below, 
 the inscription, "Matthew Prior, Esqr." This plate was 
 probably engraved about the year 1715. This Matthew 
 Prior, was the diplomatist Poet, who, in. occasional pieces 
 and familiar verse, has no rival in English. The plate is 
 consequently of great historical interest. £4 12 s. 
 
 Public Recced Office. See " Towbe of London." 
 
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 PtTEKiss (John). Book-Pile, with arms, a fine plate. 14s. 
 
 PuTLAND (John). Armorial, "Jacobean" design. The 
 frame designed to a lattice pattern, below a satyr's head. 
 Date, about 1725. 7s. 6d. 
 
 Putnam (Aaeon). Name label. Inscription: "The 
 Property of Aaron Putnam, Medford, 178—; " also "The 
 wicked borrow, but do not return again : See thou art not 
 of that Number." An American plate. From 48. to 6s. 
 
 Pym (William). Armorial, crested, of "Jacobean" 
 design. The mantling is heavy, and flows upward to make 
 room for a frame which appears on either side of the 
 escutcheon. No motto or date, but engraved about 1750. 
 Inscription: "WiUiam Pym, Esqr." 2s. 
 
 Queen's College, Cambeidge. Armorial, one of the 
 earliest " Jacobean " plates Imown to exist. The escutcheon 
 contains the coUege arms, and is set in a frame of a scale 
 pattern, ornamented with flowers, ribbons, &c. The plate 
 is dated 1700. £1 5s. 
 
 QuBsrcY (Josiah). Armorial, of a somewhat extraordinary 
 character. The plate looks as though it had been scraped 
 or very badly etched. On a scroU below is the motto, 
 " Discretio Moderatrix Virtutum," the owner's signature at 
 foot in facsimile. No date, but about 1770. This plate, 
 which was probably engraved in America, is found in two 
 sizes, the larger of which has no motto. 8s. (large plate). 
 
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 Randolph (John). Armorial, crested, "Jacobean" 
 design. Inscription : " John Randolph, Esqr., of the Middle 
 Temple, London." No motto or date, but engraved by 
 Skinner of Bath, about the year 1740. 7g. 
 
 Reed (Elijah F.). An oval frame, set in a dark back- 
 ground of books in a case, partly hidden by a looped curtain. 
 
 On the oval is the inscription, " Elijah F. Reed's No. 
 
 Price— — A.D." Motto, on a scroll below, " Noctxuma 
 versate manu versate diuma." No date, but engraved 
 about 1807. An American plate. 3s. 
 
 Reilly (John). Armorial, crested, early " Jacobean " 
 6tyle. Motto : " Eortitudine et prudentia." Not dated, but 
 engraved about 1700. Escutcheon displayed from a highly 
 decorated overmantel in the "Jacobean" style, in the 
 lower part of which hangs a scroU with " John Reilly, of the 
 Middle Temple, Esqr.'' in script. The manthng is con- 
 voluted and profuse, but encompasses the lower part of the 
 shield in a single spiral coliunn. Below the whole is printed, 
 " Clamabimt omnes te liber esse meimi." A very rare and 
 interesting plate. £1 12s. 
 
 Revere (Paul). Armorial, a Lion erect holding a large 
 Armorial shield. Motto: " Pugna pro patria..'' Inscription: 
 " Paul Revere," in script. Very boldly designed by Revere 
 himself, who was the subject of Longfellow's poem : " The 
 Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." Bom at Boston (U.S.A.), 
 
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 Jan. 1st, 1735, died there May 10th, 1818. An American 
 plate of great rarity, about £5. 
 
 Reynolds (Haottah). Name label, long oval frame with 
 inscription, " Hannah Reynolds," placed against a slab, on 
 which is an urn, festoons and wheat ears around. No date, 
 but about 1790. An American plate. 4s. 
 
 Ring (Elizabeth). A scroU of simple design, ornamented 
 with a leafy branch. Inscription: "Ehzth. Ring, Jun., 
 Bristol." This plate is not dated, but may be assigned to 
 about the year 1800. Is. 
 
 Rix (Joseph). Pictorial, a literary plate designed by the 
 owner's brother, signed and dated. Inscribed : " Joseph Rix, 
 E.L.S., &c., St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire." 7s. 
 
 RoBBEsrs (Thomas). An oval (sometimes oblong) frame of 
 precisely the same design as that used by EHjah F. Reed 
 {q.v.). The plate is, however, somewhat larger, motto the 
 same, but inscription altered to' suit the case. An American 
 plate. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Roberts (G. C. M.). A rude shelf on which are a number 
 of books, and a lighted candle. On the woodwork is engraved 
 in script, " George C. M. Roberts, M.D. ; " underneath 
 "No. ;" and below aU, "Baltimore 18 " 2s. 
 
 Robinson (Dorothea). Name label. Inscription: 
 " Dorothea Robinson, printed at the Theatre in Oxford, 
 Jidy 19, An. Dom. 1746." About 5s. 
 
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 Robinson (John). ArmoriaJ, "Jacobean" design, the 
 ground of the frame designed to a trellis pattern. Mantling 
 distinct from the other part of the design. Inscribed : " John 
 Robinson, M.D., 1742." 6s. 
 
 RocHDAiE Circulating Libhaey. A Library interior, 
 shelves of books around, table in the foreground. No date, 
 but about 1780. 7s. 6d. 
 
 RocHFOET (John). Armorial, crested. This plate is met 
 with in two designs. One is a plain armorial, crest above 
 and motto, " Probitas est optima pohtda," on a scroll below. 
 Name, "John Rochfort." The second is distinctly 
 " Jacobean," with elaborate mantling. Motto and name as 
 before. No date, but about 1760. 6s. (the two varieties). 
 
 RoDBAED (E. OE S.). This plate is sometimes inscribed 
 with the name of " E. Rodbardj" and at others with that of 
 " S. Rodbard." It is armorial, of " Chippendale " design, 
 the shield being laid upon an ornamental cloth looped up in 
 graceful folds. No date, but about 1750. 3s. (" E. Rodbard.") 
 
 RoDES (Mary). Name label, printed "Mary Rodes, 
 1729." From 6s. to 8s. 
 
 RoGEES (Samuel). Armorial, crested, the shield within 
 two single branches wreathed upwards, crossing at the base 
 but not tied. Inscription : " Sarauel Rogers." No date, 
 but about 1800. The book-plate of Samuel Rogers the Poet 
 (1763-1855). 3s. 
 
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 EoGEES (William). Armorial, with crest but no motto. 
 Inscriptioii : " William Rogers of DowdesweU, in. the County 
 of Gloucester, Esqer., 1700." A large plate of good design 
 and execution. 9s. 
 
 Rocs (Rachel Manners). Armorial, crested and 
 supported, with the motto "Pour y parvenir," and 
 inscription: "The Right Honble. Rachel Manners, Lady 
 Roos, 1700." This plate, which is very large in size, is similar 
 to one used by Lord Roos. lis. 
 
 RosEBEEY. The Honble. Mistris Primerose. 15s. (one 
 comer damaged). 
 
 Rothes (John, Eahl of). Armorial, crested and 
 supported. Motto : " Grip fast," on a plain scroU. Mantling 
 plain. Inscription : " The Right Honble. John, Earl of 
 Rothes, 1708." 8s. 
 
 Rowney (Thomas). Armorial, crested, mantling having 
 the appearance of leafy scroU-work, graceful and refined. 
 Inscription : " Tho. Rowney of the City of Oxford, Esqr., 
 1713." 7s. 6d. 
 
 RoxBTjEGHB (John, Eael of). Armorial, crested and 
 supported. Motto : " Pro Christo et Patria dulce periculum." 
 The arms of Ker and Weapont, quartered. Inscription: 
 " The Right Honble. John, Earl of Roxbiurghe, Lord Ker 
 Cesfoord, and Cavertown, 1703."' This is the tx lihris of 
 the fifth Earl and the first Duke of Roxburghe. 10s. 
 
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 EussELL (Thomas). Allegoric and Pictorial. The shield 
 is in the centre, above is the personification of Hope, with an 
 anchor, below, to the right, a figure of Industry, to the left, 
 a figure of Idleness. Below the shield is another contrast. 
 Thrift to the right, extravagance to the left, set in a 
 landscape. Scroll empty. Inscription : " Thomas RusseU." 
 No date, but engraved by Callender about the year 1780. 
 After the plate belonging to Joseph Barrell, of which it is 
 a slavish copy. In the BarreU plate, however, the scroll is 
 filled with the mottoes: "Not always so — Indure but 
 hope." An American plate. About 6s. 
 
 St. Alban's Geammae School. See Grimston (Sib 
 Samuel). 
 
 St. Clair of Herdmanston. Early characteristic Scotch 
 " Chippendale " plate. Hare and fine, 15s., again 7s. 
 
 St. John (Paulet). Armorial, "Jacobean" design, the 
 ground of the frame prominently latticed, bracket and frame 
 combined, the scallop shell below replaced by a canephor 
 (head only), a huntsman to the right and left. This plate 
 which is roughly engraved is not dated, but may be assigned 
 to about the year 1745. About 6s. 
 
 St. John's College, Cambridge, dated 1700. Eare, 
 ^1 Is. Another variety (an altered plate), dated 1792. 9s. 
 
 Samwell (T. S. W.). Pictorial, an open heath upon which 
 lie a number of books ; one open, showing coat of arms and 
 
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 crest on one page, and the inscription, " T. S. W. SamweU, 
 Esqr., Upton Hall, Northamptonshire" on another. This 
 plate bears no date, but was engraved about the year 
 1815. 2s. 
 
 Sancroft (William). Armorial, gift plate to Emanuel 
 College. Inscription: "Ex dono Reverendiss in Christo 
 Patris Will Saner. A.C. Coll. Emman., Cantab." On the 
 dexter quartering "Emmanuel." £1 18s. 
 
 Sargent (Epes). A scarce and valuable plate engraved 
 by Paul Revere about the year 1790 (?), No quotations 
 are available but it is said that as much as 75 dollars has 
 been paid in America for a good specimen. 
 
 Saegeant (Jacob). Armorial, of " Chippendale " design. 
 The crest is a square clock showing the time at 18 minutes 
 past eleven. Motto on a scroll below the shield, " Cito pede 
 prseterit setas." Inscription : " Jacob Sargeant,'' in script. 
 No date ,but about 1760. An American plate. 4s. 
 
 Savill (Maktha). Name label, inscribed, "Martha 
 SaviU, Cambridge, Printed June 25, 1767." Round this 
 inscription is a fanciful border and between that and the 
 outer and more prominent border a two-lined lengthy 
 inscription, which, at this period was rather common. It 
 commences, " The Noble Art and Mystery of Printing was 
 first invented and practised by John Faust in the City of 
 
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 Mentz, in High Germany, about the year of our Lord, 
 1451," &c., &c. .From 6s. to 8s. 
 
 Sayer (John). Armorial, crested. Mantling finely cut. 
 Inscription below on a scroU, " John Sayer of Hounslow, in 
 the County of Midd., Esqr., 1700." 14s. 
 
 ScHREiBEE (Lady Chaelotte). Armorial, oval shield 
 surrounded by a rope artistically twisted with widow's knots 
 and beads, the whole within a plain frame. At the foot is 
 the name, "Lady Charlotte Schreiber." No date, but 
 engraved probably about 1857. Another plate used by Lady 
 Charlotte before her first marriage in 1852 is extant. It is 
 a device with monograms and arms in compartments. 2s. 
 
 Scott (Maey Ln.T.TAS.) Armorial, " Chippendale " design, 
 crested and mantled, the lozenge supported on either side 
 by a mermaid with a glass in her hand. Inscription : " Misa 
 Maxy Lilhas Scott." Not dated, but about 1740. This 
 plate shows distinct traces of " Jacobean" influence, and 
 clearly belongs to the transition period. 6s. 
 
 Scott (William Bell). Poet and artist, pictorial plate 
 designed by himself. No date, but about 1865. 8s., again 6s. 
 
 Scott (Winfield). Plain armorial, with crest above 
 and motto on a scroll below, " Amore Patrise." Name in 
 script. No date, but engraved about 1830. An American 
 plate belonging to General Winfield Scott who died 
 in 1886. 2s. 
 
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 ScROOPE (Simon). Armorial, shield has no fewer than 
 28 quarterings, crested and supported, mantling does not 
 flow below the base of the helmet. Scroll below, slightly 
 foliated, with inscription, " Simon Scroope, of Danby Super 
 Yore, in Com. Ebor, Esq., 1698." This is a very fine plate, 
 and one of the largest of the English series, measuring some 
 9J ins. by 7| ins. From 35s. to 40s. 
 
 ScROPE (Joshua). Allegorical, engraved and probably 
 designed by C. A. Paas of 53, Holbom. The subject 
 represents a taU book-case to the top of which winged 
 cherubs are hoisting an escutcheon. No date, but about 
 1800. 13s. See also Hoare (Charles). 
 
 Secker (Mary). Name label inscribed: "Mrs. Mary 
 Seeker, 1711." 7s. 6d. 
 
 Selfridge (Thomas O.). Name label. Two corinthian 
 coliunns from the capitals of which is suspended a garland. 
 In the frame thus made is the inscription : " Thomas 
 O. Selfridge, Boston, 1799." An American plate. 5s. 
 
 Seton (William). Armorial, the shield encircled by 
 two branches, tied together at the foot. Motto : " Hazard 
 zit forward." No date, but engraved by P. R. Maverick, 
 about 1800. An American plate. 3s. 6d. 
 
 Shelburne (Henry, Lord). Armorial, crested and 
 supported. Motto : " Ut apes geometriam." The inscrip- 
 
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 tion reads, " The Eight Honble. Henry Lord Baron Shel- 
 burne, in ye Kingdom of Ireland, 1707." 10s. 
 
 Sheppaed (James). Landscape, engraved by Wells. Li 
 the distance, a town and rising ground ; in the foreground, a 
 pond and armorial shield, suspended on the trunk of an 
 oak. Not dated, but about 1785. 3s. 
 
 Sheewood (Thomas). Wood-cut, with arms, by Thomas 
 Bewick. No date, but about 1790. 4s. 
 
 SmppEN (Edward). Armorial, crested, "Jacobean" 
 design. No motto. Edward Shippen, LL.D., the American 
 jurist, was a descendant of the first Mayor of Philadelphia. 
 Not dated, but about 1760. An American plate. 8s. 
 
 Shorte (Martha). Two name labels, one lettered 
 "Martha Shorte, Sevenoaks, Kent, 1744," and the other 
 " Martha Shorte, Sevenoaks, Kent, 1788." The latter has a 
 highly decorated border. 4s. or 5s. (each). 
 
 Sidney College, Cambridge, dated 1701. Bare. £1. 
 
 SiMCOx (Martha). Name label, about 5 inches by 3 
 inches inscribed, " Martha Simcox, her book, Aug. 30, Anno 
 Dom., 1670," within straight oblong borders, surrounded 
 by scroU work. About £1. 
 
 Skby (S. L.). Armorial, a simple lozenge without any 
 
 addition or decoration. Inscription : " S. L. Skey, Spring 
 
 Grove," in script. This is one of the smallest book-plates 
 
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 known, the lozenge only measuring about ^ inch, in diameter. 
 No date, but about 1760. 10s. 6d. 
 
 Skipwith (Sm Fxilwae). Armorial, crested. Motto: 
 " Sans Dieu je ne puis." Inscription : " Sr. Fulwar Skipwith 
 of Newbold Hall, in the County of Warwick, Baronet, 
 1704." 12s. 
 
 Sligo (Maechioness of). Nam© label, engraved with the 
 words, " Louisa Catherine Sligo." No date, but about 
 1800. 2s. 
 
 Smieke (Maey). a landscape design in lithography. In 
 ths foreground a high rock with overhanging vegetation, in 
 the distance, to the right, a bridge. On the smooth surface 
 of the rock, " Mary Smirke." Not dated, but designed most 
 probably by Robert Smirke, R.A., about th« year 
 1820. 3s. 6d. 
 
 Smith (Elizabeth). Armorial, "Chippendale" design, 
 on one side of the lozenge a boy sitting on a bale, and on the 
 other a sheep reclining. Not dated, but about 1750. 
 Inscription below, " Elizabeth Smith." 5s. 
 
 Smith (Elizabeth). Name label, inscription, " EUzabeth 
 Smith," above a ruled horizontal linej the whole enclosed 
 withia a picture frame and surmounted by a crest. No date, 
 but about 1800. Is. 
 
 Smith (Haziel). Name label, with a circular border. 
 Inscription: "Haziel Smith, Carpenter, New York, Deaf 
 
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 and Dumb." No date but about 1820. An American 
 plate. 6s. 
 
 Smith (John A.). Pictorial, a huge rock upon -which is 
 carved the name, "John A. Smith," trees close to and in 
 the distance. No date, but about 1830. An American 
 plate. 2s. 
 
 Smith (Matthew). Armorial, crested. Of early " Chip- 
 pendale " design, the open sheU-work of the frame being 
 peculiarly pronounced. Motto: "CoUige dum Florent." 
 Inscription : " Matthew Smith, Esqr." Not dated, but about 
 1748. 5s. 
 
 Smith (Michael). Landscape, in the foreground a 
 blasted tree against which leans the escutcheon; caduceus, 
 globe, &c., scattered around. Inscription: " Michael Smith, 
 Esq." This plate was designed and engraved by W. Esdall, 
 about the year 1800. 2s. 
 
 Smith (Samuel). Pictorial, on a platform of ponderous 
 slabs, is a coat of arms and crest, a cupid on either side, the 
 one to the right blowing a trumpet. In the clouds is another 
 cupid bearing a scroU on which is the m.otto, " Omnes fremant 
 licet dicam quod sentio." Inscription : " Samuel Smith, 
 Esquire," in script. No date, but about 1775. The book- 
 plate of Samuel Smith, the American Historian. 8s'. 
 
 Smith (William). Armorial, the shield encircled by a 
 wreath tied at the base. Motto: : "Fidem servabo 
 
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 genusque." No date, but about 1815. Inscription: 
 "William Smith, LL.D." An American plate. 2s. 
 
 Smith (William P.). Armorial, crested, of " Jacobean " 
 design, the lining of the shield is in the fish-scale pattern, 
 the usual shell below. Motto, on a scroll, " Deus nobis hseo 
 otia fecit." Name, " William P. Smith, A.M.," in script. 
 No date, but an American plate, engraved by Thomas 
 Johnston, about the year 1730, or perhaps a Httle later. 
 About 3s. 
 
 Society foe Propagating the Gospel. An oval double 
 frame, within which is " Sigilltun Societatis de promovendo 
 evangelio in partibus trans marinis." Within the oval is a 
 ship fully rigged, a gigantic missionary preaching from the 
 stem, small natives on cliffs, sun in mid heaven, scroll with 
 the motto, " Transiens adjuvanos." Below and outside the 
 oval is a scroll with the inscription, " The Gift of the Society 
 for propagating the Gospell in Foreign parts, 1704." The 
 whole set in an oblong frame. An American plate, of bad 
 design, but considerable rarity. About £1 Is. 
 
 Somerset (Charles). Armorial, crested. Motto: 
 " Mutare vel timere spemo." Inscription : " The Right 
 Honble. Lord Charles Somerset, second son to ye late 
 Marquess of Worcester, 1703." The owner of this plate was 
 the grandson of the celebrated Edward Somerset, Marquess 
 of Worcester, inventor of the steam engine. Rare, about 15s. 
 
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 Somerset (Heneietta). Armorial, a lozenge stirrounded 
 by fish.-scale ornaments terminating in curves and volutes; 
 below on a bracket, the insoripfcion, "The Right Honble. 
 Lady Henrietta Somerset, 1712." About 10s. This plate 
 bears a very dose resemblance to that of Dame Anna 
 Margaretta Mason (q.v.). 
 
 Southampton (Ann, Duchess of). Armorial, crested and 
 supported, the design being precisely the same as that used 
 by the Duke, but with the inscription altered to, " The 
 Most Noble Ann, Duchess of Southampton, 1704." Prom. 
 lOs. to 12s. 
 
 SouTHESK (James, Eael of). Armorial, crested and 
 supported. Motto : " Dread God." This plate which is 
 found in several sizes is inscribed, " The Right Honble. 
 James, Earl of Southesque, Lord Camegy of Kinnaird and 
 Leuchars, 1710." 8s. 
 
 SouTHEY (Robert). Landscape, a rock densely overgrown 
 with shrubs, against it in the foreground an escutcheon and 
 casque with crest and the motto on a ribbon, "In labore 
 quies." At the right a stream of water flows from the rock 
 into a lake. No date, but engraved by Thomas Bewick, 
 about 1805. Rare, 12s. 
 
 Southwell (Robert Henry). Armorial, the shield 
 surrounded by a trophy of flags and weapons. Inscription : 
 
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 "The Hcmble. Eobert Henry Southwell, Lieut. 1st Eegi- 
 ment of Horse, 1767." About 8s. 
 
 Spooner (Joshua). Armorial, crested, "Jacobean" 
 design, below is a scroll with the inscription, "FoUow 
 Reason." Name in script. No date, but engraved by N. 
 Hurd, about the year 1750. An American plate. 6s. 
 
 Spotiswood (John). Armorial, no date, but about 1750. 
 Inscription: "John Spotiswood of that Ilk." This plate 
 was engraved by Calender. About 5s 
 
 Sprigs (Richard). Name label, " Eichard Sprigg, Jun.," 
 within an oval of scroU work. No date, but engraved hy 
 T. Sparrow, about 1775. An American device from a wood 
 block. 4s., agaia 3s. 
 
 Stamford (H.). Landscape. In the foreground an 
 ancient altar with an urn, dead tree and rock. In the 
 distance a woodland scene, and above, branches of trees. 
 The inscription on the altar is partly obscured by fohage, 
 but reads: "H. Stamford & Libe, 179." The date of the 
 plate, which is from copper, is probably 1790. About 4s. 
 
 Stanley (Sir Edward). Armorial, "Jacobean" design, 
 the Arms of Stanley impaling Hesketh. 6f inches by 5^ 
 inches. No date, but before 1736, when the Earldom of 
 Derby devolved upon Sir Edward Stanley. 13s. 
 
 Stanley (James, Earl op Derby). Armorial, crested 
 and supported. Motto: "Sans Changer." Inscription: 
 
215 
 
 " The Right Honble. James, Earl of Derby, Lord of Man 
 and ye Isles, 1702." This fine plate measures some 8 J inches 
 by 6J inches, though there seems to be another, precisely 
 similar but of smaller size. The arms are those of Stanley 
 only. Rare, £1 2s. 
 
 Stapylton (Mabtin), of Myton, in the County of York, 
 Armorial plate, 6J inches by 5 inches, dated 1817. Rare, 
 18s., again 15s., again 9s. 
 
 Steaene (John). Episcopal cartouche, surrounded by a 
 band in which are the words, " ex libris Joh. Stearne, S.T.P., 
 Epi. Clogherensis, 1717." The square of the plate completed 
 with scroll-work. Stearne was successively Bishop of 
 Dromore ajid of Cloger, and the author of several treatises, 
 notably " A Sermon on the Prayer of Moses." About 10s. 
 
 Steene (Laueence). Allegorical. A bust of Martial (?) 
 on a slab ; on either side a closed book, below, on the margin 
 of the slab, "Laurence Sterne." One book contains the 
 inscription, " Alas, poor Yorick ; " and the other, " Tristram. 
 Shandy." Above the design is an oval of pahn leaves. Not 
 dated, but about 1765. 15s., again 12s. 
 
 Stevens (Heney). Armorial, motto, "Freedom and 
 Unity ; " beneath are eight lines of verse commencing, " In 
 Paradise, the tree." Inscription : " Henry Stevens, Bamet, 
 Vt." The plate of Henry Stevens the eminent Bookseller 
 and Bibliographer. No date, but about 1850. An American 
 
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 plate. Another label reads, "The Property of Henry' 
 Stevens, Barnet, I'SO — ." From 4s. to 6s. 
 
 Stevens (Samuel). Armorial, "Chippendale" design, 
 with figures on each side. No date, but about 1770. There 
 are at least three varieties of this plate lis. (the three 
 varieties). 
 
 Stewakt (Anthony). Armorial, crested, elaborate 
 "Chippendale" design; below, on a scroll is, "Anthony 
 Stewart, Annapolis, Maryland." No date, but about 1775. 
 An American plate, of fine appearance. 7s. 
 
 Stith (William). Armorial, crested, " Jacobean " design. 
 Motto in Greek below. No date, but engraved probably 
 about the year 1747, when the owner published his " History 
 of Virginia." An American plate. 6s. 
 
 Stone (William L.). Pictorial, an eagle rising with a 
 serpent, in one talon a scroU, on which is engraved, 
 " Demagogues may frown and Factions rage — Traitors may 
 
 Sigh and Tyrants weep, but Freemen wiU rejoice for " 
 
 Motto : " Justice, Truth." No date, but about 1830. An 
 American plate. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Stourbridge Libraby. Pictorial plate, dated 1790, three 
 varieties in black, blue and sepia, 6s. (the three varieties). 
 
 Strafford (Thomas, Earl of). Armorial, without crest 
 or mantling, supported. Motto : " En Dieu et tout." This 
 plate, which measures 6J inches by 4| inches, bears the 
 
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 following verbose inscription, "His excellency the Right 
 Honourable Thomas, Earl of Strafford, Viscount Wentworth 
 of Wentworth, Woodhouse, and of Stainborough, Baron of 
 Raby, Newmarch and Oversley ; Her Majesty's Ambassador 
 extraordinary, and Plenipotentiary to the States General 
 of ye United Provinces, and also at the Congress of Utrecht, 
 Colonel of Her Majesty's own Royal Regiment of Dragoons ; 
 Lieutenanl^General of all Her Forces; First Lord of the 
 Admiralty of Great Britain and Ireland ; one of ye Lords 
 of Her Majesty's most Honoiurable Privy Council; and 
 Knight of the most Noble Order of ye Garter, 1712." 
 From 20s. to 25s. 
 
 Streatfeild (Maktha). Armorial, in the "Jacobean" 
 style, the lozenge is poised on a shell and surrounded at a 
 considerable distance by a sheH-Kke frame. Inscription: 
 Martha Streatfeild," in script below. Engraved by Thomas 
 Worlidge, about the year 1 730. 5s. 
 
 Sullivan (John). Armorial, shield enclosed by two 
 branches formed into a wreath and tied below. Motto: 
 " Modestia Victorix." No date, but engraved by Callender, 
 about the year 1780. An American plate. 4s. 
 
 SuBTEES (Robert). A fanciful design of crossed olive 
 branches and ribbon for motto. Inscription: "Robt. 
 Surtees, Mainsforth." Engraved by Neele about the year 
 1810. The principal feature of this plate is its very unusual 
 
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 darkly-hatched background. The owner was the well-known 
 HisixMrian of Durham. 6s. 
 
 SwAFPHAM LiBRAEY. Shield in the "Jacobean" style, 
 impaled showing crossed keys and swords. Inscription: 
 " Swaffham Library. T. Dalton, F. Eayner, Churchwardens, 
 1737." 3s. 6d. 
 
 Swan (James). Armorial, on the right a beehive, and on 
 the left the sea. The shield is supported by a Scotchman in 
 costume, and an Indian holding a plant. Motto : " Dum 
 spiro spero." No date, but engraved by CaUender, about 
 the year 1780. An American plate. 4s. 
 
 SwEETMAN (Heney). Armorial, in the early "Chippen- 
 dale " style. The shield is enclosed in an elaborate frame 
 in which the shell design is noticeable, flowers springing 
 from various parts of the frame. On a ribbon the words, 
 " Spera in Deo ; " and below, " Henry Sweetman, Esq." 
 The probable date of the plate is about 1745. 7s., again 5s. 
 
 SwETT (J. B.). A very curious plate. Above, on a 
 platform is a corpse with two figures bending over it, and a 
 third at the foot. Underneath is the name, " J. B. Swett," 
 in large ornamental letters ; below, a serpent twined round 
 a pole, a retort, two flowering plants in pots and sundry 
 ornaments. No date, but about 1785. An American 
 plate. 6s. 
 
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 SwiNDEN (Philip Van). Pictorial, signed by Darling. No 
 date, but about 1800. 4s. 6d. 
 
 Sydenham (Sir Philip). There aj:e several plates 
 belonging to Sir PhUip Sydenham. Plate No. 1 is armorial, 
 having for arms three rams, motto : " Medio tutissimus." 
 MantKng voluminous and foUated. Inscription : " Sir Philip 
 Sydenham, Bart., of Brympton in Somerset, and M.A., of 
 the University of Cambridge, JEta suse 23, 1699." Plate 
 No. 2, arms as before on a scroU surrounded by piles of books 
 arranged in tiers. Inscription as before on base of the 
 scroU. £1 7s., again £1 Is. (Three varieties, one by 
 Gribelin), again £1 Is. (plate No. 2). 
 
 Stmmons (John). Landscape, in the rear a lawn flanlted 
 by stinnps of trees and foliage. In the centre foreground a 
 stunted beech against which rests an escutcheon, to the right 
 a tall plant in a pot, to the left a hoUyhock. Inscription : 
 " Johannes Symmons, Ann., F. Sansom, del. et sculp." No 
 date, but about 1790. 5s. 6d. 
 
 Tadcastee. Pabochiai, Library. Landscape. Figure of 
 St. John in the Island of Patmos, the angel dehvering to 
 Mm a book. Inscription : " Parochial Library of Tadcaster, 
 Accipe librum et devora ilium.. Rev. X, 9." No date, but 
 about 1715. This plate was engraved by Simon Gribelin for 
 use by Parochial Libraries generally, the inscription space 
 being left blank. From 5s. to 6s. 
 
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 Talbot (Colonel). This plate is mentioned by Sir A. W. 
 Franks, and assigned by Tiitti to one John Talbot of 
 Thometon, who died in 1659. Like aU other plates of the 
 period, it is armorial in design. It quarters the arms of 
 Bellairs, Ferrers and Arderne, and was probably engraved 
 about the year 1630. It is a fine example of artistic skill, 
 from copper. From. 25s. to 30s. 
 
 Talbot (Maey). Armorial, convoluted shield, surmounted 
 by a Baron's coronet and set in a frame, supported. Below, 
 is the motto on a scroll, " Humani nihil ahenum," and the 
 inscription, "Mary Talbot." This lady was the wife of 
 Baron Talbot of Hensal, Steward of the Household to 
 George III. Not dated, but about 1755. After 1761, when 
 the Baron was created an Earl, the " Countess Mary Talbot," 
 had a second plate designed in a " Chippendale " style. 12s. 
 (the first plate). 
 
 Taneego, in the County of Sligo. Landscape, to the 
 right a Greek Temple on a promontory, to the left pyramids 
 in the desert ; above, the sun and a portion of the Zodiacal 
 belt. Below, a large coat of arms of " Chippendale " design, 
 and a bracket on which are placed a variety of scholastic 
 necessaries, to the left, Minerva pointing upwards to a scroll 
 on which is the motto, " Minerva Duce." Inscription : 
 " Tanrego, in the County of Shgo, 1786." Engraved by J. 
 Taylor. This is evidently a school plate. From 8s. to 10s. 
 
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 Tayloe (Benjamin Ogle). Same plate as that attributed 
 to John Tayloe (q.v.), with the name altered to "Benjn. 
 Ogle Tayloe." This plate is later in date. 2s. 
 
 .Tayloe (John). Armorial, a very large shield rests 
 against a pillax, in the background shelves of books, a curtain 
 draped hangs down from above. A festoon encircles the 
 shield, books on the floor in the foreground. Name : " John 
 Tayloe of Mount Airy, Virginia,'' in script. No date, but 
 about 1800. An American plate. 2s. 6d. 
 
 Tatlob (Philip). Landscape. In the foreground two 
 trees, one at the right, and the other at the left and a scroll 
 connecting them, upon which is the motto, " Scientia beati 
 sumus." In the distance a plain, to the right and left a 
 windmill and a cottage respectively. No date, but about 
 1790. About 33. 
 
 Tazewell (John). Armorial, " Chippendale " design. 
 ' Below is the motto, "Ne Quid nimis." Name, "John 
 Tazewell, Virginia." No date, but about 1760. An 
 American plate. About 43. 
 
 Tennyson (Alitied Lord). Plain armorial, two crests 
 above. No name, motto or date, but engraved before ths 
 year 1884, when the peerage was created. 7s., again 8s. 
 
 Terrell (William). Armorial, the escutcheon suspended 
 in mid air. Inscription : " William Terrell." Engraved by 
 Cook, about the year 1815. Is. 
 
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 Thistlethwayte (Catheeine). Armorial, curious " CMp- 
 pendale" shield, surmounted by a Cliiiiese building, the 
 whole design being in the Chinese style of decoration. No 
 crest, motto or scroll. Inscription : " Cath. Thistlethwayte." 
 No date, but about 1765. 5s. 6d. 
 
 Thomas (Isaiah). Armorial, crested, " Jacobean " design. 
 Motto, on a scroll, "Nee elatus nee dejectus." Name ia 
 script below. No date, but not earlier than about 1770. 
 This is an example of a very late " Jacobean '' plate of 
 American design and execution. 3s. 
 
 Thomond (Heney, Eael of). Armorial, crested and 
 supported, motto : " Vigueur de dessus." Inscription : " The 
 Right Honble. Henry, Earl of Thomond, Lord O'Brien, 
 Baron of I Brickan, 1703." 12s. 
 
 Thompson (William). Armorial, crested. No motto', the 
 scroll below being left empty. The manthng from, the hehnet 
 is plaia and rough. Inscription : " William Thom.pson, of 
 Humbleton, in Yorkshire, Esq., 1708." 6s. 
 
 Thorpe (John). A very large plate (18:| iaches by 11^ 
 inches), inscribed, " Mrs. Margaret Combridge, of Penshurst, 
 in the Coamty of Kent, Her Book. Presented to her by Mr. 
 John Thorpe, Student in Physick of University College ia 
 Oxford, Anno., 1701," is referred to by Miss Noma 
 Labouchere on p. 13, of her 'Ladies' Book-Plates." She 
 describes it as possessing handsomely engraved early EngUsh 
 
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 foliated mantling, falling from a squire's helmet and ter- 
 minating at each lower end in an ecclesiastical tassel. The 
 shield in the centre had been left blank and the arms 
 sketched in by hand — a cross moline between four swans. 
 This plate evidently belonged to John Thorpe, a Physician 
 and antiquary, who died in 1745, and is apparently unique. 
 
 TiLLOTSON (Thohas). Armorial, the shield encircled by 
 a wreath tied with ribbon below. Motto : " Virtus est natale 
 meum." No date, but engraved by P. R. Maverick about 
 the year 1800. An American plate. 4s. 
 
 TisDALL (Kathbedo! Maeia). Armorial, the shield 
 resting against a broken Corinthian column on the base of 
 which is the name, "Kath. Maria Tisdall." This plate is 
 not dated, but may have been engraved about 1820. 2s. 
 
 ToLLET (Geokge). Armorial, "Jacobean" design, no 
 date, but about 1720, a scarce plate of fine execution. 10s., 
 again 3 s. 6d. 
 
 ToMMHsrs (Jean). An allegorical plate, same subject and 
 design as that belonging to. Sir Foster Cunliffe {q.v.), but 
 engraved by J. Pord, after a design by Cipriani. No date, 
 but about 1795. 6s. 6d. 
 
 TowEE OF London. Pictorial, view of the White Tower, 
 with its four turrets ; in the foregro'und, masonry. Below, 
 on a "Chippendale" scroll, the inscription, Ex Libris 
 
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 Tabidarii Publici in Turre Londinensi." Engraved by J. 
 Mynde, about tbe year 1770, for the Public Record 
 office. 12s. 
 
 TowNELEY (John). An Armorial plate inscribed: "Ex 
 Libris Bibliothecse Domesticae Johannis Towneley de 
 Towneley." No date, but about 1750. 2s. 
 
 Towneley (Richaed). Armorial, crested, mantling full 
 and flowing, and reaching to the base of the shield. Motto : 
 "Tenez le vray." Inscription: "Ex Libris Bibliothecse 
 Domesticae Richardi Towneley de Towneley in Agro, Lan- 
 castrensi Armigeri, Anno ^tatis 73, Domini, 1702." One 
 of the earliest plates on which the expressiooj " Ex Libris " 
 appears. It was, however, common on the continent at 
 this period. 10s., again 7s. 
 
 TowNLEY (Chaeles). AUegorical, a section of a corinthian 
 column on masonry on the face of which is engraved, " Mr. 
 Townley, Park St., Westr." A tree to the left, two classic 
 busts, two broken columns and a slab with Greek inscription 
 rest on the ground, on the masonry a bust of Ceres. This 
 plate was engraved by Skelton about the year 1790. 58. 
 
 Trenchaed (Edward). Pictorial, in the background an 
 anchor, flags, cannon balls, &c., in the distance to the left, 
 a small ship. In an oval frame, the name, "Lieut. E. 
 Trenchard., U.S. Navy," in script. No date, but about 1815. 
 An American plate. 3s. 6d. 
 
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 Tresham (Sir Thomas). Armorial, with 25 quarterings, 
 crested, the mantling fairly full in the upper part and con- 
 voluted, reaching downward to the base of the shield in a 
 single curl on either side, each tipped with a tassel. Above, 
 on a scroll is the inscription, " Fecit mibi magna qui potens 
 est. 1585, Jim. 29." Below, on a scroll, the name, " Sr. 
 Tho. Tresame, Knight." One of the three laiown Enghsh 
 book-plates (including that of Cardinal Wolsey), of the 16th 
 century. Unique. 
 
 Trinder (Jane). Name label, printed : " Jane Trinder, 
 1713." 9s. 
 
 Trinity Hall Cambridge. Armorial, early " Jacobean " 
 style, inscription on indented bracket, "-Collegium sive Atila 
 S., St. Trinitatds in Academia Cantabrigiensi, 1700." £1 5s. 
 
 Trollope (Anthony). Armorial, crested, no mantling, 
 motto or date, but engraved about the year 1858. Below, 
 is the name, " Anthony Trollope," in script. 2s. 
 
 Troy (John Thomas). Book-Pile design, arms in the 
 centre, dog with globe among the books above. Motto: 
 " Laudat tentat vincit." Inscription : " John Thomas Troy, 
 Dublin." Not dated, but about 1745. (?) The owner was 
 Bishop of DubHn. 4s. 
 
 Tdite (Elinoea). Armorial, "Chippendale" design, 
 though with traces of " Jacobean " influence. On a scroU, 
 
 the word : " Alleluia," thrice repeated, and below in a frame 
 
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 the inscription, "Miss Elinora Tuite," in script. No date, 
 but the design points to about the year 1740, or a little 
 later, is. 6d. 
 
 TuLLiDEPH (David). Armorial, "Jacobean" design, 
 engraved and signed by F. Gardner, no date, but about 
 1725. Kare, 8s. 
 
 TuBNOTjR (Sm Edwaed). Armorial, crested. No motto, 
 the scroU being left empty. On a fringed cloth the following 
 inscription : " Sr. Edward Tumour of Hollingbury, in the 
 County of Essex, Knight, 1705." The mantling is designed 
 in the model of a strawberry leaf, and very elaborate. 10s. 
 
 TwEMLOW (William). Armorial, crested, inscribed: 
 "William. Twemlow of Hatherton, Cheshire, Esquire, 1686." 
 This plate, though dated as above was really engraved about 
 the year 1840. About 2s. 
 
 Tyees (James). Mr. Egerton Castle, assigns an anon- 
 ymous plate to an owner of this name. It consists of an 
 urn, in the centre of which is a spade shield with a coat of 
 arms, a crest above. The um is decorated with wreaths of 
 laurel, one on either side below the mouth; from each of 
 these wreaths hangs a black cloth. No inscription, name or 
 date, but about 1800. About 4s. 
 
 Tyube (Andeew). Armorial, crested, of "Jacobean" 
 design, below, a canephoros head instead of the usual Shell, 
 bracket below. No motto or date, but engraved by 
 
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 Nathaniel Hurd, about the year 1750. An American 
 plate. 5s. 
 
 Vansittabt (Robert). Armorial, shield borne aloft by 
 four cupids ; on a banner the words " Robert Vansittart, of 
 London, Merchant.'' Motto : " Fata -viam invenient." Not 
 dated, but about 1745. 10s.„ 
 
 Vaeick (Richaed). Armorial, of " Chippendale " design, 
 crest supplanted by an open book. To the right of the shield 
 is an American flag with 13 stars, bayonets, projecting 
 mouth of a camion and cupid; to the left, seated female 
 figure with cap of hberty on a spear. No motto, name, 
 " Richard Varick, Esq,'' in a frame below. No date, but 
 engraved by A. Billings, about 1774. An American 
 plate. 5s. 
 
 VassaUj (John). Armorial, of "Chippendale" design, a 
 ship for crest, large shell at the base of the shield. Name : 
 " John VassaU, Esqr.," in script. No date, but engraved, 
 probably by Nathaniel Hurd, about 1770. An American 
 plate. 6s. 
 
 Vaughan (Samuel). Armorial, crested, "Chippendale" 
 design. The shield which is set in a very graceful frame, 
 rests against a balustrade. Motto : " Christi servitus vera 
 hbertas." Name : " Samuel Vaughan, Esqr.," in script. No 
 date, but about 1770. An American plate. 5s. 6d. 
 
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 Verb (James). Annorial, crested, "Chippendale" 
 design, frame symmetrical, and alike in design on both its 
 sides (very unusual). No motto or scroll. Inscription: 
 "James Vere, Junr., 1760." 10s. 
 
 Virginia Council Chamber. Armorial, crested, of 
 "Jacobean" design, on either side of the shield a man in 
 armour with lance, the whole resting on a platform. Motto, 
 on a scroU below, " En dat Virginia quartam." Inscription : 
 "Virginia Council Chamber." No datej but about 1750. 
 An American plate. About 10s. 
 
 Wake (Edward). Annorial, " Jacobean " design. The 
 frame designed to a brick pattern, right and left a boy and 
 a girl holding a festoon, below a scallop shell. Date about 
 1735. 4s. 
 
 Wakefield (Gilbert). A Landscape without heraldry. 
 The scene discloses a stag drinking from a rivulet which 
 flows thro' a wood. Motto in Greek, " Truth and Freedom." 
 No date, but engraved about the year 1780. This is one of 
 the oldest, if not the oldest, landscape book-plate extant. 7s. 
 
 Wahingford (M. C). Ladies' plate, armorial, lozenge 
 surmounted by a coronet, below the inscription: "M. C. 
 WaJlingford." The design of this plate is early " Chippen- 
 dale." Not dated, but about 1745. 6s. 
 
 Walpolb (Horace). This celebrated man of letters and 
 
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 collector used three book-plates. The first was designed for 
 him about the year 1750. It is armorial and crested. The 
 manthng from the helmet is voluminous and stiffly dis- 
 played. Motto above, "Fari quse senitiat." On a cloth 
 tied at each comer and attached to the shield by strings is 
 the name, "Mr. Horatio Walpole." The second plate was 
 prepared in 1791, when Walpole succeeded to the Earldom 
 of Orford. It assumes the form of a seal with the inscription, 
 " SigUlvun Horatii Comitis de Orford " round the exergue. 
 Within are the arms, the whole being encircled by a design 
 of loops. The third plate was engraved by Thomas Bewick 
 about the year 1793. It consists of a view of Walpole's 
 House at Strawberry Hill. Ascending from the right is a 
 border consisting of a withered tree with festoons of briars 
 and foliage, from which hangs the escutcheon, the motto on 
 a scroU twisted am.ong the branches. To the left, a shrub 
 and a clump of trees. This design though usually from a 
 wood block was also engraved upon copper and several 
 varieties are known. £3 3s. (second and third plates, viz. 
 the small seal and the view of Strawberry Hill), 15s. (first 
 and third plates). 
 
 Walters (Henry). Armorial crested. This plate is in 
 the early "Chippendale" style, the shield being set in a 
 fanciful scroU-work pattern with frilling of open shell work 
 and ornamented with flowers. Below on a scroll the motto, 
 
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 " Sit Dux Sapientia." Inscription : " Henry Walters, Esq.," 
 in script. Engraved by J. Skinner, of Bath, in 1747. 7s. 
 
 Walton (John). Armorial, escutcheon draped with 
 festoons hanging from an ornament poised on the top below 
 two slight sprays wreathed upwards and tied with ribbon 
 at the base. No crest, scroU or motto. Inscription : " John 
 Walton, Bedington." This plate was engraved about the 
 year 1800. 2s. 
 
 Waed (John). Armorial, four quarterings, no crest or 
 motto, though a scroll has been left for the latter. Manthng 
 fuU and foHated. Inscription : " John Ward of Capesthome, 
 Com Cestr., and of the Inner Temple, Esqr., 1704." 8s. 
 
 Waeeen (John C). Pictorial, the shield resting against 
 a rock underneath a tree, on the ground a serpent twined 
 around a pole. Inscription : " John C. Warren." No date, 
 but about 1820. An American plate. Is. 6d. 
 
 Waeeen (William). A plain frame on which is engraved 
 "W. Warren, Theatre." Above are a number of miscell- 
 aneous articles comprising a book, mirror, antlers and oak 
 leaves, at the base of the shield a pewter pot. No date, but 
 about 1810. William Warren, the actor, was bom at Bath, 
 in 1767, and made his first appearajice at Baltimore in 1796 
 as Young Nerval. An American plate. About 7s. 
 
 Washington (Bushrod). Armorial, crested, of "Chip- 
 pendale " design. Motto, on a scroU, " Exitus acta probat." 
 
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 Name, "Bushrod Washington," in script. No date, but 
 probably eiigra.ved by Henry Dawkins, about 1785. An 
 American plata Bushrod Washington was the favourite 
 nephew of the President. 14s. 
 
 Washington (George). Armorial, crested, of " Chippen- 
 dale " design. Motto on a scroU below the shield, " Exitus 
 acta Probat." Name, " George Washington," in script. 
 This is a very scarce American plate which has been repro- 
 duced. No date, but about 1775. 2s. (the forgery on oflBcial 
 plate paper). Value of the original plate, probably £10 
 or £12. 
 
 Watson (Robert). Armorial, "Chippendale" design. 
 Inscription on a frame below, " Robertus Watson, Medicinse 
 et art Chirurg; Professor apud Malton in Com. Eborac." 
 No date, but about 1760. 3s. 
 
 Watts (Elizabeth). Name label, inscribed, " Elizabeth 
 Watts, Her Book, May 2, 1698." 13s. 
 
 Way (Gkegohy Louis). Pictorial, a stream, beside which 
 sits a knight in armour, on his shield a coat of arms. A night 
 scene, darkly engraved, with the moon. 6s. 
 
 Webster (Daniel). Armorial, crested. Motto : " Vera 
 pro gratis." Name : " Dan Webster," in facsimile script. 
 The whole within a plain frame cut to an angle at the top 
 comers. No date, but about 1820. An American plate. 
 16s., again 14s. 
 
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 Wegg (Samuel). Book-pile, with arms in centre. No 
 date, but about 1780. Scarce, lis. 
 
 Wbntwobth (Sm John). Armorial, crested. A large 
 plate inscribed, " Sr. John Wentworth of North ElmeshaU, 
 in the West Rideing of Yorkshire, Baronet." Not dated, 
 but about 1700. 14s. 
 
 Wentwoeth (Juliana). Armorial, crested. The 
 manthng full and characteristic of the period. Motto : " En 
 Dieu est tout." Inscription: "Mrs. Juliana Wentworth, 
 Daughter to Thomas Horde, Esq., of Coat, in Oxfordshire, 
 1707." This plate is met with dated 1709. In all other 
 respects it remains the same. IDs. 6d'. 
 
 Wentworth (Thomas, Babl of). (1) Armorial, crested 
 and supported, inscribed, " The Right Honourable Thomas 
 Wentworth, Baron of Raby, and CoUnel of his Maiesties 
 own RoyaU Regmt. of Dragoons, 1698." Motto : " En Dieu 
 est tout." Although the shield has supporters the mantling 
 is voluminous and illustrates in a remarkable manner one 
 of the prevailing fashions of the time. (2) Armorial, crested 
 and supported, inscribed, " His Excellency The Rt. Honble. 
 Tho. Wentworth, Lord Raby, Peer of England, Collo. of 
 her Matys. Royal Regt. of Dragoons, Lieut. -General of aU 
 her Matys. Forces and her Matys. Embassador Extrary. to 
 ye King of Prussia, 1705." The second of the Wentworth 
 
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 book-plates. The third is noticed imder the title, " Strafford 
 (Thomas, Earl of)." £1 16s. (the first plate named). 
 
 Westby (Nicholas). Armorial, the escutcheon sus- 
 pended in mid air. Inscription: "Nicholas Westby, 
 1811." 2s. 
 
 Wetheesfield Social Library. Three piles of books 
 resting on a table, above a winged hour-glass and a draped 
 cloth. Below, the motto, "Waste not a moment." 
 Inscription on a frame below, " Social Library, Stepney 
 Society, Wethersfield." No date, but engraved by DooHttle, 
 about 1780. An American plate. 4s. 6d. 
 
 Wetmoee (William). Armorial, crested, wreath trained 
 upward, consisting of two branches crossed at the base of 
 the shield. Motto : " Tentanda via est," on a scroll. Name, 
 " WiQiam. Wetmore," in script. No date, but engraved by 
 Paul Revere, about 1790. This is an Americaoa plate, 
 sometimes found without the owner's name. These are 
 proofs and scarce. £2 10s. (proof). 
 
 Weymouth (Thomas, Lord). Armorial, crested and 
 supported. Motto: " J'ai bonne cause." Inscription: "The 
 Right Honble. Thomas Lord Viscoimt Weymouth, Baron 
 Thynne of Warminster, 1704." About 10s. 
 
 Wharton (William). Armorial, executed about the year 
 1680. Below is an inscription to the effect that the owner 
 
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 was "fourth son to the Eight Honourable Philip, Lord 
 Wharton of Wharton, in Westmoreland, by Ann, Daughter 
 to Win Garr, ol Femihast, in Scotlajid, Esqr., one of tbe 
 Groome of the Bedchamber to King James." From 25s. 
 to 30s. 
 
 WiLBEEPORCE (William). A crest within a fram.e of early 
 "Chippendale" design. Undemea,th the name, "WiUiam 
 Wilberforce,'' in script. This plate belonged to WiUiam 
 Wilberforce, the philanthropist, and was used by him about 
 the year 1785, though it was probably engraved for his 
 grandfather of the sam.e name many years before. 8s. 
 
 Wilkes (John). This well-known Pohtician is credited 
 with three plates. The first was engraved about 1755. 
 and consists of an armorial plate of " Chippendale " design, 
 below, on a scroll, is the motto, " Arcui meo non confido." 
 Inscription: "John Wilkes, Esqr." The second plate is 
 armorial as before, but the escutcheon is unframed, though 
 profusely decorated with an artistic border of leaves and 
 branches. On the bracket supporting the escutcheon is the 
 name, " John Wilkes," in script. In this instance the motto 
 as above bisects the crest. Designed and engraved by Darly 
 about the year 1770. The third plate has the name, " John 
 Wilkes, F.E..S." The escutcheon is unframed, but flanked 
 by a palm branch on each side, the two being tied together 
 at the base. £1 5s. (the first plate). 
 
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 WnxiAMS (John). There is an Armorial inscribed, " Rev. 
 John Williams," a,nd dated 1679. This John Williams was 
 the first minister of Deerfield, Mass, and his plate was, in 
 all probability, of American execution. If so it is one of 
 the earliest known, perhaps the earliest. Very rare, from 
 30s. to 40s. See BtED (William). 
 
 Williams (John). Armorial, plain shield charged with 
 a Lion rampant, above, crest and hanging wreath, below, 
 on two scrolls, " Plorif eris ut apes in saltibus ; " and " Omnia 
 Ubant omnia no«." Name, "John WiUiams," in script. 
 There is a variation of this plate. The shield is charged as 
 before but being earher in date the wreath is absent ajid its 
 place supplied by " Jacobean " scroll-work. Mottoes as 
 before on two scroUs. Name, "John Williams," in small 
 capitals. John Williams was born in 1762, and died in 
 1840. These are both American plates. 6s. (the second 
 plate). 
 
 Willis (The Family of). Armorial, "Chippendale" 
 design. No crest or motto. The inscription reads simply : 
 "Wilhs," the obvious intent being to add in writing the 
 Christian name of the member of the family who might use 
 the particular impression from the plate. No date, but 
 about 1760. About 3s. 
 
 WiLLMEE (William). Armorial, crested, the mantling 
 very full and voluminous reaching to the base of the shield. 
 
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 Inscription : " Ex dono Willielmi Willmer de Sywell in com 
 Norfchamtonise, Armigeri quondam pencdonarii in ista Domo 
 viz. in Anno Domini 1599, sed dedifc in Ano. Dni., 1613." 
 The " iste Domus " referred to was " Sydney Sussex Colledge," 
 Cambridge. 7s. {See "Miscellanea Genealogica et 
 Heraldica," N.S. Vol IV., p. 239.) 
 
 Wilson (J.). A design representing a rock covered with 
 skulls marked with. Phrenological directions, Vegetation 
 springs from among them. Inscription : " J. Wilson, 
 Professor of Phrenology." This plate is not dated, but was 
 engraved about the year 1820. About 5s. 
 
 Wiltshire (John). Armorial, "Chippendale" design, 
 the shield resting upon a column against which lean 
 Shakespeare and Pope; above, a medallion portrait of 
 Augustus, the whole on a bracket, upon which are strewn 
 music books, instruments and other articles. On a ribbon 
 held by a Cupid is the owner's name. This plate is dated 
 1740, and was engraved by Skinner of Bath after a design 
 by Ross. About 7s. 6d. 
 
 WiNCHELSBA (Chaeles, Eael of). Armorial, crested and 
 supported. Motto : " Adversis major, par secundis." The 
 mantling from the hehnet is short. Dated 1704. 15s., 
 again 7s. 
 
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 WiNCHESTEB COLLEGE. Armorial, plate of later design. 
 Rare, 18s. There are several varieties, which seem to range 
 in price upwards from about 5s. 
 
 Windham (Thomas), of Tale in Devonshire, Esq., "one of 
 the Grooms of his Majesties Bedchamber .... Hneally 
 descended of the ancient family of the Windham's of Crown 
 Thorp, Norfolk." 8s. 
 
 WiNFOED (Sir Thomas Cookes). Armorial plate, dated 
 1702, and inscribed " Sir Tho. Cookes Winford of Glas- 
 hampton, in ye County of Worcester, Baronet." Rare, 16s. 
 
 WiNNiNGTON (Feancis). Armorial, crested, shield in a 
 frajxie resting on a bracket, the former ha.viiig the scale 
 pattern and the latter a groimd of trelKs work. Motto: 
 " Grata su . . . me manu." Inscribed, " Francis Winningfcon, 
 of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., 1732." This is a typical " Jacobean " 
 plate, still further particularized by the scaUop sheU. in the 
 centre of the bracket. 12s. 
 
 WiTHEES (Edwaed). Armorial, "Chippendale" design, 
 no date, but about 1745. 2s. 
 
 WooDWAED (Chaelbs). A book opened, on one page of 
 which is written, " Narrative — promising to take charge of 
 me during my visit and to send me home at the appointed 
 time. Finis.'' This plate is not dated, but may be assigned 
 to about the year 1820. 28. 
 
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 WooDYEAEE (Geeenhill), of Shom, Co. Kent. Rare, 
 £1 2s., again 13s. 
 
 WoTTON (Anne). Name label, printed at the Cambridge 
 University Press. Inscription : " Anne Wotton, Her Book, 
 August 11, 1710." About 8s. 
 
 Weight (Sir James). Armorial, crested, "Chippendale" 
 design ; below the inscription, " Sir Ja. Wright, Bart." Not 
 dated, but about 1780. Wright was the last loyal governor 
 of Georgia. He died in 1786. 16s., again £1 18s. 
 
 Wyndham (Wadham). Allegoric, copied from the plate 
 of Dr. John Burton, which was engraved about the year 
 1735, by J. Pine, after Gravelot's design. At the back are 
 book-shelves pariiy hidden by a curtain; in the front, 
 armorial shield supported by two cupids, resting on scroll 
 of distinctly " Jacobean " design. On this scroll the name, 
 "Wadham Wyndham, Esqr.'' This plate illustrates in a 
 very marked degree, the evolution of the Allegoric style 
 from the " Jacobean." 12s. 
 
 Wynne (Cheistophee). Armorial, " wreath and ribbon " 
 style, engraved by Mordecai, above, on a scroU is the motto, 
 " Non inferiora sequntur." A circular plate. No date, but 
 about 1785. Is. 6d. 
 
 Wynne (John). Armorial, " Jacobean " design, the fram.e 
 worked to a scale pattern, no bracket. Inscription : " John 
 
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 Wynne, A.M., Eector of Caerydruidion." Date, about 1740. 
 About 5s. 
 
 Yale College. There are a number of plates which were 
 engraved at one time or another for this College. One of 
 the best known was designed by William Taylor, and 
 engraved by Doolittle about the year 1775. Above is a 
 circular frame supported by two females ; within a number 
 of persons walking bare-headed. Mottoes: "E parvis 
 oriuntur magna," and " Omnes in uno concordia," the latter 
 on the frame. In the centre of the design, " The Property 
 of the Brothers in Unity, Yale College; " and four 
 lines of verse commencing, " Friendship and Science thus 
 combine." About 35s. 
 
 A second plate, also of allegorical design was engraved 
 by Jocelyn after Tisdale, at a somewhat later date. Demos- 
 thenes is represented standing on the sea-shore haranguing 
 the waves, above is Minerva and a nimiber of Brothers in 
 Unity. The inscription consists of four lines of Latin verse 
 commencing, " Hermes eloquio potens recludit Fontes, ecce 
 suos." This is a finely designed and engraved ex libris. 
 
 A fifth plate represents Minerva, armed, standing ; by her 
 of a desk (from which rise two Ionic columns) a man is 
 seated with open book, shelves beyond. In the distance is 
 an arched doorway with a crowd of students preparing to 
 enter. The floor is tiled in large squares, to the right a 
 
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 globe. Oa the face of the desk, "Moral Library, Yale 
 College. Above the arch, " Moral Society," at the extremae 
 summit of the plate, "Virtus et Scientia ad litilLtatem 
 dirigoat." 
 
 A fourth plate is allegorical. It represents a scholar being 
 taken by the hand by Minerva, who points to the Temple 
 of Wisdom upon a high rock to the right, up which is a 
 winding path. Time is seated to the left, by his side a globe. 
 Above are three flying cupids holding an open scroll, upon 
 which is engraved, "Linonia, Sept. 12th, 1753, Quiescit in 
 perfecto." The whole within a plain frame resting on which 
 is a shield and motto, " Amicitia concordia Soli noscimus." 
 
 A fifth plate represents Minerva, armed, standing ; by her 
 side a feanale with a burning glass focussing the rays of the 
 sun on a white scroU, upon which in small letters is the word 
 "Yale," books around. Partly on a ciurtain, which hangs 
 
 down, " Presented to the Linonian Library by ." No 
 
 date, but engraved by Gideon Pairman about the year 1800, 
 or perhaps a Httle later. 
 
 A sixth plate represents Minerva, unarmed, seated on a 
 platform instructing two cupids, one of which has a globe 
 and compasses. A flying cupid alights on the balustrade 
 bearing a scroll upon which is AAH9EIA. In the back 
 ground is a lofty pyramid and roofs of adjacent houses, 
 above, " Brothers in Unity; " below, " Presented by ." 
 
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 No date, but engraved by Pelton about 1830. All fche above 
 plates, esoept the last named are scarce. 
 
 Yates (Edmund). The plate of this well-known author, 
 recently deceased, is generally sold with others in a parcel. 
 It is worth, about la. 
 
 Yates (James). Landscape, the same plate as that used 
 by Dr. Joseph Priestley (q.v.). 2s. Yates was the editor of 
 Priestley's Collected Works. 
 
 FINIS.