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What nature never form'd, nor madman thought, ' Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire,' — And right before him lay a dusty pile Of ancient ledgers, books of evidence. Torn parish registers, probates and testaments. From whence, with cunning art and sly contrivance, He fairly culled divers Pedigrees (Which make, full oft, the son beget the father. And give to maiden ladies fruitful issues) ; And next, by dint of transmutation strange, Did coin his musty vellum into gold. — Anon comes in a gaudy city youth, Whose father, for oppression and vile cunning, Lie.i roaring now in limbo-lake the while; And after some few words of mystic import. Of Douglas, Mowbray, Steuart, Haivilton, Most gravely uttered by the smoke-dried sage, He takes in lieu of gold the vellum roll, With arms emblazon'd and Lord Lyon's signet. And struts away a well born gentleman. Observing this, I to myself did say. An' if a man did need a coat of arms. Here lives a caitiff that would sell him one." ' From an amusing article by Mr. F. J. Thairlwall which appeared in the Ex Libris Journal, I take the following e.xtracts as to some mistakes in Heraldry on book-plates : "Every collector of book-plates who is also at all versed in the practice of Heraldry must have been struck by the very large pro- portion of heraldic book-plates the heraldry of which is in some respect incorrect. I do not mean that the arms represented do not strictly belong to the owner of the book- plate, but that the book-plate is incorrect as an heraldic composition, in the blazoning or marshalling of the arms displayed in it — sometimes to the point of absurdity — or that those arms do not appertain to anyone of the name of the owner of the book- plate, but to someone of a totally different name. " Some element of ignorance or careless- ness enters into almost all heraldic mistakes, but we will deal first with a few cases of errors arising entirely from these causes. "A very common one is the placing of a wreath under a crest which issues from a crest coronet, or is borne on a cliapcau. Another is the placing of a knight's full- faced, open helmet over an esquire's arms, or an esquire's profile helmet over a knight or baronet's achievement. A third is the placing of metal on metal, or colour on colour, in a shield of arms. " Of errors evidently arising from attempts to draw a coat-of-arms from the written description without sufficient knowledge of Heraldry, I have several examples, one of which I will describe as a type. It is in the book-plate of a gentleman named Pearson, and dates from the end of last, or beginning of this century. The arms of Pearson are ' Per fess embattled azure and gules, three suns in splendour, or,' but in the book-plate in question they are blazoned as 'Argent, a fess per fess embattled az. and gu., between three suns in splendour, or.' The engraver has evidently muddled ' a fess' and ' per fess' together, and has not known that he should not place ' metal on metal,' and so has spoilt what would otherwise have been a pretty book-plate ; and the mistake might have been so easily corrected by continuing the lines representing azure to the top of the shield, and those representing gules to the bottom, that it is clear the owner of the book-plate was unaware of the error, or he would surely have had it set right." I have the incorrect plate of John Pearson to which Mr. Thairlwall alludes (the motto is '■'Sol et scutum Deus"), and also several others of the Pearson family in which the tinctures are correctly engraved. "The last instance I will mention," says Mr. Thairlwall, " is that of Dr. Geo. Lewis c i8 DATED BOOK-PLATES. Jones, Bishop of Kilmore and afterwards of Kildare, whose two book-plates are given among Mr. Griggs's ' Second Series of Armorial Book-plates.' These plates have the arms of the Sees of Kilmore and Kildare respectively impaling a very remark- able coat, as the bishop's family arms. As engraved, it should be thus described : ^Argent, a cross sable behvcen four Cornish choughs proper ; on a dexter side of I he first, three boars' heads couped in pale' But as a side is a most unusual bearing in English Heraldn,-, it is probably meant to represent the bishop's family arms impaling those of his wife, one or the other being squeezed into a mere narrow slice only half as broad as the other. Neither coat, however, is the arms of any family of Jones ; and such an impalement of his wife's arms in the same shield with those of himself and his see is entirely wrong, and is a mistake in marshal- ling which a little knowledge of heraldic usage would have saved the bishop from falling into. That he had no idea that there was anj-thing wrong about it is shown by the fact of his having had two book- plates engraved, with an interval of sixteen years between them (according to the dates they bear), each containing these identical errors." Orckrs, of Knighthood. —The ancient custom of placing the insignia and mottoes of the various Orders of Knight- hood upon book-plates is a useful and commendable one. Such marks assist ma- terially in the identification of nameless plates, and are often of great assistance in settling, approximately, their dates. It is therefore extremely necessary to be ac- quainted with the insignia and mottoes of the principal orders of chivalry. On British plates the orders most fre- quently met with are the Garter, the Thistle, St. Patrick, the Bath, the Star of India, St. Michael and St. George. In " English Heraldry," by Charles Boutell, or almost any other rudimentary treatise on Heraldry, the histories, regulations, and badges of these orders of chivalry may be found fully described. The premier order is that of the Garter, instituted about 1350. Its motto is " ffoni soil qui mal y pense" ("Dishonour to him who thinks evil of it "), which is frequently to be found on book-plates on a garter en- circling the arms. The patron of this order is St. George for " England." Initials, K.G. The Most Noble and Most Ancient Order of the Thistle, of Scotland. The badge represents the patron of Scotland, St. An- drew, holding a cross saltire. The motto is "Nemo me impune lacessit" ("No man with impunity shall provoke me"). Most fre- quently to be found on the book-plates of the Scotch nobility. Initials, K.T. The Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick of Ireland was instituted by George III., in 1783. The badge is a shamrock, on the saltire of St. Patrick, with a band surrounding it, on which is the motto, " Quis separabit" ("Who will sever"), and the date of the Order, mdcclxxxiii. This order may most frequently be found on book-plates of Irish origin. Initials, K.P. The decoration of the Victoria Cross, conferred for conspicuous bravery, is not an order of knighthood, but its holders are distinguished by the letters V.C. after their names. It is only conferred upon members of the National Navy and Army. The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, which was founded in 1 81 8, consists of three classes. The TINCTURES IN HERALDRY. 19 members are principally gentlemen dis- tinguished by their services in, or connected with, the British Colonies. The motto of the order is " Auspi'cittm melioris aevi" ("An omen of better times "). The initials used are G.C.M.G., K.C.M.G., and C.M.G. The Most Honourable Order of the Bath consists of three classes, and its motto is " Tria jtincla in uno" ("Three united in one.") The initials are G.C.B., K.C.B., and C.B. The Knights and Commanders of the Bath are more numerous than those of any other British order, as it embraces the Nobility, Naval and Military officers, as well as distinguished members of the Diplomatic and Civil Services. The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, founded in 186 1, is also divided into three classes, the initials being G.C.S.I., K.S.I., and C.S.I. The motto is " Heaven's Light our Guide." On French book-plates engraved before the Revolution the collars and badges of the Orders of Saint Michael, of the Saint Esprit, and of St. Louis, are frequently met with. The motto of the Order of St. Louis was " Bellicae Virtulis pracmiuni." These orders no longer exist. In 1802, Napoleon, then First Consul, instituted the famous Order of the Legion of Honour, which has existed ever since, and is practically the only order of knighthood now existing in France. Its motto is " Homieur ei Patrie." The " Toison d'Or," or Golden Fleece, was originally a French Order, having been formed by Philip, Duke of Burgundy, in 1429, but it now belongs both to Austria and Spain, in conformity with a Treaty made in 1725. Its badge, the pendant lamb, is to be met with on many foreign book-plates. Motto, " Prelium non vile laborum." The Order of Isabella of Spain may occasionally be met with on foreign book- plates, lia motto IS. " Plus ultra." The Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword was founded in 1459. Its motto is " Valor Lealdade e Mcrito" For more complete details on this topic the collector should consult " A Handbook of the Orders of Chivalry," by Charles Norton Elvin, m.a. London : Dean & Son. Tinctures in Heraldry.— On coins, seals, engravings, or wherever else the actual metals, colours, and furs cannot be shown in their natural appearance, they are now indicated by a certain recognised ar- rangement of dots and lines. The very earliest woodcuts of armorial achievements show that the engraver sought to signify by the shading, that certain parts were of metal, and that certain other parts were of divers colours, lighter or darker, but it was not till about 1600 that any defi- nite system was expounded whereby in the engraving of arms each metal and colour should be indicated by a certain conven- tional arrangement of dots and lines. The system, although useful and exceedingly simple in itself, was not generally adopted for more than thirty 3'ears, when the works on Heraldry by Silvester Petra Sancta, and I\Iarc de Vulson, Sieur de la Colombi^re, noised it abroad in Flanders, France, and Italy, whence it gradually spread into all civilised countries where the beautiful science of Heraldry was in use. It appears to have been late in reaching Great Britain, as the first known English example of the indication of tinctures by this arrangement is in the engravings of the seals affixed to the death warrant of Charles I., and Bysshe in 1654 distinctly described the system, 20 DATED BOOK-PLATES. aided by an explanatory plate showing the lines exactly as now employed. In "An Analysis of Honor and Armory," by Matthew Carter, published in 1660, the engravings are shaded without any approach to a S}'«tem, with the exception of sable, which is generally represented black. But in " An Essay to a more correct Blazon," by John Gibbon, published in i68z, not only are the tinctures correctly engraved and described, but the author adds that this distinction was devised by the Reverend Father S. de Petra Sancta ; a statement since frequently copied, but the accuracy of which I shall venture to question. When once English engravers adopted the system, they endeavoured to carry out the idea clearly and boldly, so that there is seldom any uncertainty as to what they mean to indicate ; whereas many of the Continental engravers either show the lines for the tinctures incorrectly, or cut them in such a confused and indistinct manner, and so irregularly, that it is often not only im- possible to distinguish what colour is meant to be shown, but whether the engraver really intended to depict any heraldic tinc- tures at all, or was only aiming at certain simple effects of light and shade common to all engravings, heraldic and other. In nearly every modern work on Heraldry, all the credit for the invention of the system is assigned to a Jesuit priest, one Father Silvestra Petra Sancta, but after a careful e.Kamination of the various authorities, I have come to the conclusion that neither he, nor his contemporary, Marc de Vulson, was the inventor of the system. Both of them, by their writings, helped to spread the knowledge of it amongst lovers of Heraldry, and so led the way to its universal adoption. But that the system was known and practised much earlier, is shown by the fact that in 1600 an armorial chart of the Duchy of Brabant was published at Lou- vain, with the following title : — " Briefue Description du tr^s ancien, noble, et riche Duch6 de Brabant, qui maintient encores le tiltre tres illustre du memoirable Duch6 de Lothier ou Lotrycke," etc. At the end is the engraver's name, A. Rinelt ; and this legend: " Excudebat Jo. Baptista Langrius cum gratia et privikgio. Lovanij anno 1600. Signavit J. de Busschere." In all the shields of this chart the tinc- tures are indicated by dots and lines, in exact accordance with the system since universally adopted. Not only this, but an oval figure, immediately below the title, divided into six compartments, serves to explain the sj'stem. Beneath it is this note : " Les marques representees en cette ovale demonstrent la distinction des metails et couleurs des armoiries." This is a clear anticipation of Marc de Vulson and of Petra Sancta, but it does not prove that even J. Baptist Langrius was the first to use the system. Now most of the writers who ascribe the invention to Petra Sancta make the still more extraordinary error when they state that he first described the system in his work, entitled " Tesserae Gentilitiae," printed. in Rome in 1638, thus depriving him of at least four years of such priority as he might fairly lay claim to, as he had in 1634 published his work, " De Sym- bolis Heroicis," in Antwerp, in which he had described and illustrated the system. As the topic is of much heraldic interest I will briefly describe these several works. First we have the chart of Brabant, by J. Baptist Langrius, published in Louvain in 1600, which must have been known to the famous proprietors of the Plantin press at \ TINCTURES IN HERALDRY. 21 Antwerp, who in 1634 printed " De Symholis Heroicis" for Father Silvester Petra Sancta (British Museum, press mark 1327. b. 11). This work has a number of beautifully exe- cuted engravings, but only a few which can be considered purely heraldic. However, on p. 314 a small shield is shown on which the two metals, and gules, azure, vert, and sable are well shown, with the following note : " Pars punctim incisa, colorem aureum seu croceum ; pars scalpro intacta, colorem ar- genteum, seu album ; pars quae exaratur lineolis erectis, rubeum ; pars quae finditur lineolis transversis, cyaneum ; pars quae lineolis obliquis seu pronis asperatur, prasi- num ; & quae mutuis lineolis, quasi clathris inumbratur, atrum seu nigrum repraesentat." Here, then, he shows and describes all the metals and colours, except purple, four years before his better known and more ambitious work, entitled, " Tesserae Gentili- liae, a Silvestro Petra Sancta, Romano Socie- tatis Jesu, Ex legibus Fecialium descriptae. Romae, mdcxxxvih," etc. There are two copies of this in the Library of the British Museum (Press marks — 9904 m. 10. and 9915 i. i.). It is a handsome folio volume of 678 pages, exclusive of a copious index. On the greater part of its pages there are five (occasionally even six) separately engraved plates of coats-of-arms, all carefully blazoned, so that, at a rough computation, over 3,500 different shields had to be engraved.- Added to these there are numerous illus- trations of helmets and exterior ornaments, all elaborately engraved, so that it is clear such a work must have occupied some years in its preparation for the press. On pages 59 and 60, seven large shields are shown properly tinctured, in dots and lines, or, argent, gules, azure, sable, vert, and purpure, which he thus clearly describes, after pointing out how advisable it is that a certain, definite, and universal system should be adopted : — " Sunt ver6 metalla, or, argent ; colores autem, gueulles, azur, sin- ople, sable, pourpre. Sic enim exprimunt Gain aurum, argentum, puniceumque, cseru- leum, viridem, nigrum, & violaceum color- em . . . Schemata id manifestum reddent : etenim quod punctim incidetur, id aureum erit ; argenteum, quod fuerit expers omnis sculpture : puniceum, quod ccesim & ductis ab summo ad imum lineolis exarabitur: cyaneum, quod delineabitur ex transverso : prasinum. ver6, quod obliqu^ ab supero angulo dextro secabitur : violaceum, quod obliqu^ pariter scindetur, sed ab supero angulo lajvo : nigrum, quod cancellatim & in modum, seu crucularum, seu plagularum intercidetur." No furs are shown in this part of the work, but they are engraved and described in Cap. LH., '■^ De Hermionico Vellere" p. 282. Petra Sancta does not appear to claim credit for the invention of the system; on the contrary, he mentions his indebtedness to John Guillim for some suggestions as to the tinctures, and he describes the process, now entirely disused, of employing different names to express the metals and colours according to the rank in life of the owner of the arms, whether Prince, Noble, or commoner, to which reference will be made later on. This work beingavowedly written on Heral- dry, published in Rome, under the patronage of the College of Jesuits, no doubt attracted more attention than the author's earlier book, and so has come to be generally regarded as that in which the system was described and advocated. We now come to the so-called French 22 DATED BOOK-PLATES. inventor, Marc de Vulson, Sieur de la Colombiere. It has been asserted that this person was a Scotchman named IMark Wil- son ; be this as it ma}-, it is certain that in 1644 he published a work entitled, "La Science Heroique, Traitant de la Noblesse, etc., par Marc de Vulson, Sieur de la Colombiere, Chevalier de I'Ordre de S. Michel, et Gentil- homme ordinaire de la Maison du Ro}-. A Paris, 1644. Folio." (Press mark, British Museum Library, 9915 d.) In this there are man}- illustrations of shields, all clearly tinctured in the usual manner ; both in printing and engraving this work is vastly superior to the "Tesserae Genlilitiae." It is in fact a far more artistic work in conception and design, whilst in finish its general appearance is such as to give the idea of a much more modern work than the rough, though clear, engravings of Petra Sancta. Herein Marc de Vulson asserts that he invented the system, and that Petra Sancta had borrowed the idea from him: "Afin que le Lecteur se satisfasse entierement, je luy presente les deux me- taux, les cinq couleurs, et les deux pennes (furs) graves en la page suivante, et luy fais voir I'invention de laquelle je me suis servy au premier livre de blazon, que je fis im- primer pour connoistre les metaux et les couleurs par la taille douce, laquelle a est6 imitde et pratiqu6e par le docte Petra Sancta, au livre intitule ' Tesserae Genlilitiae ' qu' il a compose en Latin, et fait imprimer 4 Rome." — "La Science Heroique" chap, iv., p. 30. Marc de Vulson then proceeds to describe the tinctures in a very clear and succinct manner, placing opposite the description a beautiful engraving of a cavalier of the period holding a scroll, on which are nine small shields representing the two metals, five colours, and two furs. Marc de Vulson herein refers to a former book on Heraldry he had published in 1639, in which the system had also been explained {" Recueil de plusieurs pieces el figures d'Ar- moiries," par Marc de Vulson, etc., 1639), of which work there is unfortunately no copy in the Library of the British Museum. As these elaborately illustrated works must have occupied some years in prepara- tion, the actual date of publication cannot be taken as a conclusive proof of the priority in invention. Father Petra Sancta did not claim the invention himself, nor does it appear that he ever denied the claim of Marc de Vulson, to whom, or to some earlier authority, the credit belongs of having initi- ated and systematised a plan remarkably simple in itself, but, like many simple plans, of great utility. It seems probable that the Frenchman (or Scotchman), Marc de Vulson, had seen the " Brief description of the Duchy of Brabant," and admired the system, that he and the Jesuit priest were in communication on the topic of Heraldr}', in which they were both so deeply interested, that both agreed to advocate the system, to which the final seal was given when it appeared in the classical work of Silvester Petra Sancta, written in the language that then com- manded the attention of all the literati of Europe, and published in Rome. I have stated these fects at some length because no other modem writers appear to have done so, each being content with copying from an earlier authority the state- ment that the system was invented and first described by Father Silvester Petra Sancta, in "Tesserae Genlilitiae," published in 1638. I deny that he either invented it, or first described it, and further assert that whatever TINCTURES IN HERALDRY. 23 credit is due to him should be founded on his earlier work, '' De Symbolis Heroids" published in Antwerp, four years earlier than the "Tesserae Gentilitiae." It was formerly the fashion to use a different phrase to denote each metal, or colour, according to the rank of the bearer of the arms, whether royal, noble, or gentle. Here is a blazon of the Royal arms of England printed as recently as 1820 : — "Quarterly. First and fourth; Mars, three lions passant, guardant, sol, for England. — Second quar- ter; Sol, a lion rampant within a double tressurc, flowered and counterjiowered withjleurs-de-lis. Mars. — Third quarter; jiipiter, a harp, sol, stringed lima. The paternal coat of His Majesty in an escutcheon of pretence, Mars, two lions passant guardant, sol. For Brunswick, impaled with Lunenberg, which is, Sol, seinee of hearts proper, a lion rampant, yupiter. Having ancient Saxony ente, or grafted in base, Mars, a horse courant luna. And in an inescutcheon, Mars, the diadem of Charlemagne; the whole with- in a garter containing its motto, Honi soit qui nial y pense. The supporters are, on the dexter side, a lion rampant guardant ; at the foot of which is the rose. On the sinister side, a unicorn rampant with the thistle, answering to the rose. Over the arms is the helmet, grated, and full-faced ; and above that, the crest, a lion passant, guardant crowned, on a royal diadem." Such a system of nomenclature must in itself have been almost sufficient to deter all but those professionally interested from bestowing any attention on the science of Heraldry. Still it is necessary to be acquainted with these terms, as they are constantly met with. The rule was that the tinctures for royalty were e.xpressed by the names of the prin- cipal planets, for nobility by the precious stones, and for the gentry by those Norman- French terms which are now universally adopted for all ranks, thus : — Gentility. Nobility. Royalty. Yellow. Or. Topaz. Sol. White. Argent. Pearl. Luna. Black. Sable. Diamond. Saturn. Red. Gules. Ruby. Mars. Blue. Azure. Sapphire. Jupiter. Green. Vert. Emerald. Venus. Purple. Purpure. Amethyst. Mercury. - Orange. Tenny. Jacinth. Dragon's head. Blood colour, , Sanguine. , Sardonix. Dragon's tail. In engraving shown by black dots on a white ground. Left plain. Horizontal and perpendicular lines crossing each other. Perpendicular lines from top to bottom. Horizontal lines from side to side. Diagonal lines from heraldic right to left. Diagonal lines from heraldic left to right. These last two now seldom occur. As Matthew Carter observed in his "Ana- lysis of Honor and Armory" (1660), "But this is onely a fantastick humor of our Nation, and for my part I shall avoid it as ridiculous, being no where in the world used but here ; and not here by any judicious Herald. That I insert it, it is to leave it to those humors that will make use of it." In treating of tinctures Mark Antony Lower observes (in his interesting " Curio- sities of Heraldry"): — " By these terms were the arms of gentle- men described ; but for the arms of nobility they were not suflficienlly lofty. These were blazoned by the precious stones, as topaz for yellow, ruby for red, &c. For the arms of princes it was necessary to go a step higher, namely, to the heavenly bodies, Sol, Luna, Mars, &c. Sir John Feme enumerates several other sets of terms, in all thirteen, which he classifies thus: i. Planets; 2, Pre- cious stones; 3,Vertues; 4, Celestial signs ; 24 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 5, ^Months; 6, Days of the week; 7, Ages of !Man ; 8, Flowers; g, Elements ; 10, Sesons of the veer; 1 1, Complexions; 12, Numbers; 13, Mettailes. What would those who 'are disgusted with the 'jargon' of our science sa\- to such blazon as the following ? — He beareth Sunday, a lion rampant Tuesday. He beareth Faith, a wolf salient Loyalty. He beareth Marigold, a bear passant, Blue Lily, muzzled While Rose. He beareth Infancy, three grasshoppers Virility. He beareth Melancholy, three asses' heads Fleg- inatique. " So recently as the last century the planets and gems were used in royal and noble armorv, but of late good taste has limited blazon to the first-mentioned and most simple set of terms in all cases." It may be noted that in French Heraldry the same terms are used as in English Heraldry, except for green, which is simple instead of vert. In describing coats-of-arms the initials of the metals and tinctures only need be given, as 0., a., s., g., az., v., p., with ppr. for proper and er. for ermine, and in some Peerages where many coats-of-arms are engraved to a ver)' small scale these initials serve to indi- cate the tinctures which could not be clearly shown by the usual S3-stem of dots and lines. GERMAN EX LIBRIS. THE earliest known examples of Ex Libris are German, and the custom of using them originated no doubt in that country, where costly bindings, with arms emblazoned on the covers, as used in France and Italy, were seldom indulged in. Earliest in the field in the art of printing, and prolific in book-making, the Germans never attached verj' particular importance to elegant and sumptuously inlaid bindings. Valuing their books for their intrinsic, rather than extrinsic merits, they covered them with good stout w-ooden boards and strong metal clasps, and soon discovered that a rough woodcut of a coat-of-arms, or a printed label, was as useful a mode of pro- claiming the ownership of a volume as the showy, but costly, svstem of heraldic em- blazoning in gold, silver, and colours, adopted by their richer and more artistic neighbours. Hence it is not so very uncommon to find German Ex Libris dated in the early years of the sixteenth centurj% whereas the earliest known French plate is of a much later date. In fact, no French Ex Libris of undoubted authenticity has been discovered with an earlier date than 1574, a memorable date for collectors, as being that which is also found on the earliest known English plate, the fine armorial of Sir Nicholas Bacon, a facsimile of which will be found in ^Ir. Griggs's valu- able collection of " Examples of Armorial Book- Plates," 1884. Herr Wamecke says : " The oldest printed book-plate actually connected with a book ICLOR-ENT^A'PECT e 26 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1575, and 1579, as well as a Portrait Ex Libris dated 1582. These, with some other fine specimens of Early German work, were reprinted in 1893 and published by Stargardt, of Berlin, and H. Grevel & Co., of King Street, Covent Garden, London. The latter firm has also published several selections of modern German book-plates, such as "Symbolical Book-plates," designed and drawn by Clemens Kissel, of Mayence ; "Heraldic Book-plates," invented and drawn by Professor A. M. Hildebrandt ; "A Score of Book-plates," designed and drawn by G. Otto, with a Preface by Frederick War- necke; and "The Book-plates of the Meck- lenburgh Dynasty," collected and edited by Charles Teske, which contains reproductions of the works of the famous Lucas Cranach. It is probable that Cranach also produced the large woodcut for the books of the wife of Dr. Christopher Scheurl. Of course in this connection it is hardly necessary to mention the well-known work of Herr F. Warnecke, " Die Deutschen Bucherzeichen " (Ex Libris), Berlin, 1890, that being recognised as the most authori- tative and complete work which has yet appeared on the subject of German book- plates ; although the Journal published by the Berlin Ex Libris Society also contains, from time to time, excellent reproductions of the fine works of their early engravers in this branch of art. Identification.— In dealing with un- signed book-plates without inscriptions, it is sometimes rather puzzling to decide the country to which they belong, for even if they possess mottoes, these may be, and probably will be, in Latin, thus affording no clue to the nationality. There are, however, several features in which the majority of German armorial book-plates differ from those of England and France, and the pre- sence of one or other of these peculiarities enables a connoisseur to recognise a plate of German origin. Heraldry, as we now understand the science, certainly originated in Germany, and has probably been less affected there by the lapse of time than in any other country. Old monuments, still to be seen in the churches of central Germany, have precisely the same characteristics that we find on the German book-plates of four centuries ago, and of to-day. What are these characteristics ? In some important particulars the mode of marshalling arms adopted by German heralds differs from that in use in England, but unless the collector has an intimate acquaintance with the science of Heraldry, he will neither recognise, nor understand these distinctions. It will be better, there- fore, to confine these remarks to such variations as can be readily recognised on an engraving by anyone unable to devote sufficient time to acquiring a knowledge of foreign Heraldry. German armorial plates have generally a heavy massive appearance, owing to the luxuriant folds of rich mantling which sur- round -the shields. The shields are of irregular shapes, foliated, curletl, and bent about in all kinds of fantastic cartouches. As a rule the arms are so complicated, and are drawn with so much detail, as to give a crowded appearance, very different from the clear sharp outlines, and the regu- larity of the tincture lines, shown by English engravers on their book-plates, even two hundred and fifty years ago. Some early writers on German Heraldry mention two GERMAN EX LIBRIS. 27 tinctures unknown in English Heraldry, namely, cisen and natural, or as we should term them, fer (iron) and proper. Iron they were to show by diagonal lines crossing each other from the sinister chief to the dexter base, and vice versa, in the same manner that sanguine was formerly shown in English Heraldry. Natural (or proper) was shown by covering the field with a series of parallel zig-zag lines, somewhat resembling a number of small flashes of lightning. I have not met with this tincture on any book-plate. On German book-plates if a coronet sur- mounts the shield it will probably be a very large one, but more usually the shield is surmounted by a helmet or helmets. Often, indeed, as many as eight or ten helmets will appear, each one bearing its distinctive crest. Occasionally a number of small hel- mets arise from the points of a coronet. It is in these crests that the greatest assistance will be found in deciding whether a plate claims German origin. As a rule they are exaggerated in size, quite dwarfing the helmet, and often accompanied by enor- mous waving plumes. From each side of the crest a huge curved ornament springs, somewhat resembling the uplifted trunk of an elephant. In Warren's " Guide to the Study of Book-plates" these are termed Chalumcaux (cornets), and are mentioned as constantly occurring in German crest heraldry. One French authority, in describing the origin of the term blason, remarks: "Quand on avait paru deux fois aux tournois, il n'6tait plus necessaire de faire preuve de noblesse, puisqu'elle avait €\.€ suffisamment reconnue et blasonnee, c'est-cl-dire annoncde k son de trompe. Alors les chevaliers portaient en cimier deux trompes que quel- ques auteurs ont prises mal k propos pour des proboscides ou trompes d'616phant, et qui sont I'origine de toutes celles qu'on voit orner les timbres allemands." Menestrier, in his " Sience de la No- blesse " (Paris, 1 691), is still more explicit: "On leur demandoit s'ils etoient gentils- hommes de nom et d'armes, ils en donoient les preuves, et apres avoir fait deux fois ces preuves de cete sorte, ils portoient en cimier deux cornets, ou deux cornes, pour dire que leur Noblesse avait ki€ cornes, blasonde, et verifi6e deux fois, ce qui les exemptoit de faire de nouvelles preuves." The above passage (in the old ortho- graphy) describes how that a knight, having twice taken part in tournaments, and had his achievements and deeds of arms pro- claimed by sound of trumpet, was allowed to carry two cornets, or horns, to show that his nobility had been proclaimed, blazoned, and verified. Whatever may have been the origin of these ornaments it is somewhat singular 28 DATED BOOK-PLATES. that they should now scarcely ever be found in the Heraldry of any other country but Germany. The plate of Wolckenstain, dated 1594, sho\s's these horns, from which are spring- ing peacock's feathers. thril^ophorus Saroi VVoJcKhenJIntl, In many early plates the helmets shown are also of distinctly German configuration, globular in shape, with fluted ornamentation, and large projecting visors. On some of the old German Ex Libris what we call the " quarterings " are not marshalled together on one shield, but are placed around the central design in a num- ber of separate escutcheons, each duly named beneath. The Hon. J. L. Warren mentions several such plates (p. 196) — Werdenstein 1592, Geizkofler 1603, Kress 1 61 9, and a still finer nameless armorial plate, signed "Heinrich Ullrich fe.," which has twenty such escutcheons besides the central one of the Imhoflf family, to which the Ex Libris belonged. Motto : " Virlute 7ion sanguine." Many of the Early German woodcut Ex Libris are coloured by hand ; these are all probably anterior to 1600. In a plate dated 1565 the owner himself thus alludes to the custom : — " Majoruin sunt hocc insignia darn mcorum Quae dcpicta sno rite colore vides." or, as Warren translates Knoringen's lines: — " These are the famed insignia of my sires, Which in their proper tinctures thou may'st see." If the collector will bear these leading features in mind, and carefully examine a few dozen known German plates, selected almost at random, he will soon be able to decide at a glance, and with tolerable cer- tainty, whether a plate was engraved in Germany or not. Of course the Germany of to-day is made up of a number of states, formerly inde- pendent, and widely differing in religious and political systems, so that there are to be found in German plates many differences and modifications in the style of decora- tions, etc., but in the main some of the characteristics of German Heraldry herein enumerated may be traced in all. A few of the foregoing notes on German book-plates were printed in the Ex Libris journal for December, 1893, avowedly for the guidance of British amateurs, and young collectors, not acquainted with the intricacies of German Heraldry. They were certainly not intended for the instruction of Germans, whose knowledge of their own system of Heraldr}- cannot be equalled by any British student. However, the Editor of the Berlin Zeit- schrift fur Biicherzeichiu did me the honour to have most of the article translated and to GERMAN EX LIBRIS. 29 publish it in the April, 1894, issue of his journal. The translator, Herr Seyler, advises all who wish to understand Heraldry to study the German literature on the subject, for, as he truly remarks, German Heraldr)' is the foundation of all Heraldry, and explains many points which are doubtful in the French and British branches of the science. But he appears to forget that few students of the present day are able to devote suffi- cient time to the study of this abstruse and complicated subject. Herr Seyler does not agree with the ex- planation given by Menestrier as to the origin of the horns, or cornets, worn on the German crests. He asserts that they arose frorn the fashion of hunters wearing the antlers or horns of animals as trophies from the chase, and to show their prowess in the hunting field. This may be so, but it is no explanation why this particular form of ornament should be so distinctively German in character, not being found on the crests of other European countries whose natives were quite as mighty hunters as the Germans. However, the origin of these horns is not material here; all that is important is that their presence assists one to identify a book- plate as having been the work of a German engraver, or as having belonged to a German owner. IfMIIIIIIINIIIIIIIlllliMIIINIIIIIlllll I [Illlllllllll Illllllllllllllimill— WAIv'-DRE FELIDIEN ESCUrER srElTR ^ETES AVAVX SEIONtUR DE lAVT,RC^'i HI5TORIOGRAPHE DV ROY. FRENCH EX LIBRIS. History- IN April, 1872, M. Maurice Tourneux first drew attention to the subject of French book-plates in an article which appeared in " L' Amateur d'Autographes." This was de- scriptive of the famous collection of M. Aglaus Bouvenne. who is himself the de- signer of some of the most interesting and artistic of modern French book-plates. Next followed the well-known work of Mr. A. Poulet-Malassis, " Les Ex-Libris Fran- 9ais," the preface to which is dated January 20th, 1874; a second edition was issued in the following year by P. Rouquette, Paris, 1875. Then, after a long interval, appeared " Les Ex-Libris et les Marques de Pos- session du Livre," by Henri Bouchot. Paris : Edouard Rouveyre, 1891. Beyond these, and a few pamphlets de- scriptive of local collections, such as the "Petite Revue d'Ex-Libris Alsaciens," by Auguste Stoeber, 1881, and some articles by Octave Uzanne in " Le Livre Moderne," comparatively little had been written on the topic, until in 1892, Messrs. George Bell & Sons published " French Book-plates," by Walter Hamilton, which speedily went out of print. Mr. A. Poulet-Malassis opens his work with the statement : " Pas un des diction- naires de la langue fran9aise n'a admis le terme Ex-libris, compost de deux mots latins qui signifient des livres . . . faisant partic des livres. II est pourtant consacr6 par r usage et se dit de toute marque de propri6t6 appliquee k I'exterieur ou k I'inte- FRENCH EX LIBRIS. 31 rieur d'un volume." Were he living now he could no longer complain of the absence of the term Ex Libri's from the dictionaries, as M. Pierre Larousse has inserted the follow- ing definition in Vol. VII. of " Le Grand Dictionnairc Universel du XIX. siecle " (Paris, 4to, 1866-1877):— "Ex-LiBRis, mots latins qui signifient litt^ralement des livres, d'entre des livres, faisant partie des livres, avec le nom du propri^taire. Ces mots s'inscrivent ordi- nairement en tete de chaque volume d'une biblioth^que avec la signature du propri6- taire. On connait ce trait d'ignorance d'un financier, homme d'ordre avant tout, qui avait ordonn6 i son chapelier de coller soigneusement au fond de son chapeau ' Ex-Libris Vaudore.' " But what is still more singular than the omission until recently of Ex Libris from their dictionaries, is that no word, or words, in their own beautiful language has yet been set apart by our neighbours to define these interesting marks of book possession. On Early French Ex Libris the phrases of possession are found in Latin, as indeed is the case with the earliest book-plates of all nations. The oldest known French book-plate is simply a typographical label, that of Alboise of Autun, dated 1574; it has the expression Ex-bibliotheca, but it was not until about 1700 that this and similar phrases came into general use, when they were gradually adopted in nearly the following order : Ex bibliotheca; Ex libris; Ex catalogobibliotheca; Exmusaeo; Insigne librorum ; Bibliotheqiie de ; Du cabinet de ; Je suis a AI. ; y'appar- liens a . It will be observed that Latin gradually gave way to the French language, and in modern plates French expressions are generally employed. "Je suis 4 Jean Tommins" (1750); " J'appartiens k Lucien Werner"; " Ce livre est du Monastere de la visitation de Sainte Marie de Clermont" (1830), or "Ce livre fait partie de la Biblio- theque de M. le Comte de Fortia d'Urban, demeurant k Paris, Chaussde d'Antin, rue de Rochefoucault," are clear and positive state- ments of fact. Other collectors are less explicit, simply inserting: " Bibliotheque de Pastoret," " Bibliotheque de Rosny," " De la Bibliotheque de M. de Chevalier Dam- poigne," " Du Cabinet de Messire Barthelemy Gabriel Rolland." Unfortunately the first French Ex Libris, though dated, is nothing more than a plain label printed with movable type, and bearing the inscription : " Ex bibliotheca Caroli Albosii E. Eduensis. Ex labore quies. •S74-" Now, with the exception of the dated auto- graphs of owners of books, with which we are not here dealing, this Ex Libris of the book collector of Autun is the earliest dated example of af French mark of possession which has yet been found affixed in the interior of a book in any French library. M. Georges d'Albenas asserts, in " Les Portraits de Rabelais" (i88o)-, that a certain Professor C. Cavalier possesses an Aldino Plafo in which is an Ex Libris of Fran9ois Rabelais. Could this assertion be verified, the plate would be one of the most precious literary relics in the world, not only as a personal souvenir of Rabelais, but as the very earliest known French Ex Libris. As Rabelais died in 1553 his book-plate would necessarily be at least twenty years earlier than that of Alboise of Autun, dated 1574. But it is incredible that such a treasure could exist without having long since been fully identified and described. On page 32 of his "Ex-Libris," M. Henri DATED BOOK-PLATES. Bouchot gives a reproduction of the plate of Alexandre Bouchart, Sieur de Blosseville, a folio Ex Libris engraved by Leonard Gaultier, and dated i6u. This engraving is valuable on account of its rarity, its early date, and the simplicity and purity of its heraldr}-. It was also especially interesting as showing the similarity in the styles of what we call the Early English armorial plates and French plates of the same period. The resemblance is in the shape of the shields, and in the rich heavy masses of the curled and waving mantling. But as M. Bouchot's illustration is only a quarter the size of the original, and is not clearly printed, it gives but a faint idea of the work. This is the next French plate to that of Charles d'Al- boise d'Autun in order of date as actually printed or engraved on the Ex Libris itself, and is of unquestionable authenticity. !\I. Poulet-Walassis mentioned another plate of the year i6i i, but the Hon. Leices- ter Warren casts a strong doubt on the date, and as M. Poulet-Malassis is dead, and the plate is not accessible, the question cannot now be easily solved. The plate is that of Melchior de la Vallec, Canon, etc., of St. George at Nancy, said to bear the date i6i i in the centre of the pedestal. There is a long interval before we come to another dalal plate, when in 1650 we find an individual who possessed two, both dated and both armorial. On one the owner is styled "Andre Felibien, Escuier Sieur des Avaux Seigneur de Javercy & Historiographe du Rov," on the other the inscription reads simply "Andre Felibien. Historiographe du Roy." In these plates again do we find the same resemblance to the Early English style. It will thus be seen that the proportion of book-plates which can be positively assigned to a date prior to 1650 is small. Omitting those which were produced in the provinces on the German frontier, or under the in- fluence of foreign artists, it will be found that all the plates produced within the geographical limits of the France of that period were essentially heraldic in character, composed of emblazoned shields, with hel- mets, crests, mantling, and supporters, often surrounded by wreaths of laurel or palm branches, and frequently resting on hand- some mosaic platforms, decorated with the principal charges of the shield. And so generally was the science of Heraldry under- stood in those davs that on only about one half of the plates was it deemed neces- sary to add the owner's name to the shield displaying his arms. But from this time forward the plates became more ornate and fanciful, allegory came into fashion, and the simplicity of the design was lost in a mass of meaningless and meretricious ornamentation ; whilst the purity of the old heraldry gave way to huge coronets, absurd sprawling and grotesque supporters, and to assumptions of arms by many who had no right to bear them. Henceforward styles and periods in French Ex Libris are not nearly so well defined, nor ' so easily recognised, as they are in English plates by the simple terms Jacobean, Chippendale, etc. French military plates are often decorated with flags, cannons, and other warlike tro- phies, but book-piles and library interiors are somewhat uncommon, as are also early plates containing the portraits of their owners. One of the earliest portrait plates is that of Amy Lamy, with the motto " Usque ad aras," probably engraved by some pupil of Thomas de Leu, the date of which is doubtful. FRENCH EX LIBRIS. 33 Another, of greater interest, is that of the famous critic, the Abbe Desfontaines (1685 -1 745), a fine engraving by Schmit, after Tocqu6, representing Petr. Fr. Guyot Desfontaines presb. Rothomag., with the following lines : " Diiin te Phcebus amat scribaitcm, Mavius odit, Et lepidis salibus mocrct hicpta cohors." Which a French admirer translates thus: " Chcri du dicu dcs arts, craint ct ha'i dcs sols, L'Igiiorance en courroux friniit de ses bans mots." On modern Ex Libris portraits occasion- ally occur, as on that of M. Manet, with the punning phrase, " Rlanet et Manebit," and that of a well-known English co!lector and scholar, Mr. H. S. Ashbee, designed by Paul Avril, a French artist. Another represents M. Georges Vicaire, in the costume of a chef, preparing a salmi of books for the banquet of some literary gourmands. The English collector will not find it easy to add much to his store in Paris, unless he is prepared to pay prices quite out of pro- portion to those usually charged for plates in England. It is almost a waste of time to ask for Ex Libris in any of the ordinary second-hand book shops ; the books are all fairly well gleaned before reaching there, by individuals who collect the Ex Libris for certain dealers who make a speciality of them. These deal- ers are not very numerous, they are all well known to the French collectors, and they have standing orders to reserve all their finest specimens for these regular customers. Consequently the stray passer-by, or the unfortunate foreigner, has little chance of picking up any but common or uninteresting book-plates. In provincial towns there is, of course, less demand for plates, but a second-hand book shop in a Frencli provincial town is usually a depressing place, and the books they have for sale seldom contain plates more interesting than a school or college prize-label. A few notes on Frenoh Heraldry. Although the fundamental rules of Heraldry in France are somewhat similar to those in use in England, yet in many important details the two systems differ materially. To show, first of all, the close family resemblance in nomenclature, an amusing copy of verses may be given from an old work entitled : "La Sience de la Noblesse ou la Nouvelle Metode du Blason," par le P. C. F. Menestrier. A Paris, chez Etiene Michallet, premier Imprimeur du Roi, rue S. Jaque, i ITmage S. Paul, 1691. ABREGE DU Blason en vers. " Le Blason compose de diferens emaux, N'a que 4 couleurs, 2 panes, 2 metaux. Et les marques d'honeur qui suivent la naissance, Distinguent la Noblesse, et font sa recompense. Or, argent, sable, azur, gueules, sinople, vair, Hermine, au naturel et la couleur de chair, Chef, pal, bande, sautoir, face, barre, bordure. Chevron, pairle, orle, et croix de diverse figure. Et plusieurs autres corps nous peignent la valeur, Sans metal sur metal, ni couleur sur couleur. Suports, cimier, bourlet, cri de guerre, devise, Colliers, manteaux, honeurs, et marques de I'Eglise, Sont de I'art du Blason les pompeux ornemens, Dont les corps sont tires de tous les Elemens, Les astres, les rochets, fruits, fleurs, arbres et plantes, Et tous les animaux de formes differentes, Servent a distinguer, les fiefs et les maisons, Et des Communautes composent les Blasons. De leurs termes precis enoncez les figures, Selon qu'elles auront de diverses postures. Le Blason plein echoit en partage a I'aine, Tout autre doit briser comme il est ordonne'." The deux panes in the second line refers to furs {pannes in modern heraldry). This book is illustrate'd, and in it the tinctures are correctly represented by the conven- tional lines and dots, and the remark is 34 DATED BOOK-PLATES. made "Autrefois on marquoit les Emaux par des lettres," but the author does not allude to the invention of the modern system. The introduction states that the author, the Reverend Father Claude Fran9ois Menes- trier, was born in Lyons in 1631, and had been for many years a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). As to the origin of Heraldn,- in France Menestrier observes : — " L'Art Heraldique a comenc6 en France au terns de Louis le Jeune, qui regla les fonxions, et les offices des Herauts pour le sacre de Filipe Auguste, et fit semer de fleur de lis tous les ornemens qui servirent k cette ceremonie. On trouve avant lui des fleur de lis sur les Septres, sur les Couronnes, et sur d'autres ornemens Roiaux : mais on n'en voit pas en des Ecussons. II est le premier qui en ait fait son contreseel." — "La Sience de la Noblesse." Paris, 1 69 1 . As most of the principal heraldic devices used on English arms were adopted when Norman French was our courtly language, and are described in that tongue, it does not require much study to enable anyone who can decipher an English coat-of-arms to do the same with an ordinary French shield, or even to understand the written description of one. Yet coming to more advanced heraldry, dealing with such questions as descents, marriages, arms of assumption, of suc- cession, of concession, and the proper marshalling of arms, the difficulties increase, and many apparent contradictions appear. Until the downfall of Louis XVI., the aristocracy of France was not only the most ancient and the proudest in Europe, but, speaking generally, possessed higher here- ditary' privileges and greater power than the nobility of any other nation in the civilised world. But little by little a rich middle class sprang up which misappropriated coats-of-arms, coronets, and supporters, and shortly before the outbreak of the Revolu- tion heraldry in France was in a most confused and chaotic condition. Prior to 1650, comparatively few French book-plates are known, but they are all, or nearly all, heraldic, and their age can gener- ally be approximately decided by their style. The French shields of this period are almost invariably square in form, slightly curved at the bottom. As a rule, on early plates the supporters hold the shield upright on a base which rises on each side, or occasionally on a mosaic platform, on the squares of which are emblazoned the princi- pal charges of the shield. This latter decoration, although exceedingly rich in appearance, seems to have fallen rapidly into disuse after 1650. At first the metals and colours were irregularly emblazoned, next they were indicated by the initials of their names, and finally (after 1638) they are shown on the present system, although it must be understood that on early plates the correctness of the tinctures cannot invariably be relied on. French engravers often introduced shading in such a manner as to make it difficult to discriminate between heraldic and non- heraldic lines in their work. Prior to 1638, it was not unusual to "trick" the arms, by placing on them the initials of their metals or colours, as " o." for or, " ar." for argent, " g." ior guetiles, etc.; whereas soon after that date it became the custom to employ dots and lines to indicate colours, metals, and furs in heraldic engravings, in the simple but effective man- ner which is still employed. From 1700 to 1789 the rapid multiplica- tion of books and libraries naturally led to FRENCH EX LIBRIS. 35 a corresponding increase in the use of Ex Libris. These remain, for the greater part, heraldic in design, in fact, more preten- tiously heraldic than ever. Helmet, wreath, and mantling disappear, whilst the shield and coronet no longer face one boldly and squarely, but appear in fantastic perspective; the supporters assume attitudes never before contemplated in heraldry— under the shield, over the shield, or playing at hide-and-seek behind the shield. Cupids, angels, cherubim, and mythological deities lend their aid, and a background of clouds, with or without rainbows, completes the curious fashion in vogue about 1750, which lasted, with some modifications, down to the time of the Revolution. As time creeps slowly forward Dated Plates become more fashionable, and the owners' names are more generally inserted. Indeed the vanity characteristic of the French nation begfins to show itself in the lengthy inscriptions, the high-sounding offices, and territorial titles, assumed by the owners of these elaborate armorial book- plates. That much of this heraldry was faulty and unauthorised is shown by the number of royal edicts issued to restrict the assumption of arms. By an ordinance of King Henry H., dated at Amboise, March 26, 1555, it was forbidden to assume the name, or the arms, of any family other than one's own, without having first obtained letters patent, and a fine of one thousand livres was to be paid by any person usurping the arms and insignia of nobility. These regulations were renewed and made even more stringent in subsequent reigns, notably by Charles IX., by Henry III., by Henry IV. in 1600, by Louis XIII. and Louis XIV. at various dates; whilst in 1696 there was a general visitation, when a ta.x of twenty livres was levied for the registration of every coat-of-arms. But all these regulations were to very little purpose, and towards the close of the eighteenth century the confusion in heraldry became extreme, especially in the matter of coronets and supporters, which, as the book- plates of the period show, were assumed in a reckless manner by many who had no right to carry them. Then came the great upheaval of society, and during the first period of the Revolution, when even to be suspected of nobility was a crime, haste was made to erase, or omit, all the signs of noble descent which had hitherto been so eagerly sought after, and in their places to insert caps of liberty and patriotic mottoes, such as "Liberie, Egalite, Frakntile," or "La Liberie ou la Mori." Naturally the revolutionary period was not productive of much in the way of books or book-plates. Society was too excited to devote its time to such frivolities, and le rasoir national was more busy than the printing press or the graver's tool. As soon, however, as Napoleon attained power, he set vigorously to work to restore something like order in all branches of the public services, which had been reduced to chaos during the troubles. One of the topics to which he early directed his atten- tion, and his brilliant talent for organization, was Heraldry. Although he readily discarded republican simplicity and equality, he dared not entirely revert to the ancien regime, nor indeed could he have done so had he desired. Of the old nobility many had perished on the scaffold, or on the battle-fields, others had fled to foreign countnes, and their castles and estates had been confiscated by the State. 36 DATED BOOK-PLATES. The court of the First Empire was com- posed for the most part of the soldiers, statesmen, and men of letters who had assisted to place Napoleon on the throne, upon whom he, in return, conferred titles as brilliant as any that had been held under the old Bourbon kings. Coats-of-arms were granted, and Louis • David, Napoleon's favourite artist, was called upon to design a new style of head-dress to denote the ranks which had, in former days, been indicated by various forms of coronets and helmets, as in English Heral- dry. The blazonry under the Empire, being of military origin, was conceived in the true spirit of military uniformity, each grade being distinctively marked. The result of blending these three distinct systems — the old style, that of the revo- lutionary period, and the Napoleonic — is somewhat confusing. A few families adhere to the old style, some to the Napoleonic, and the student of French Heraldry must make himself acquainted with all. About 1700, helmets, wreaths, and mant- ling began to go out of use on E.k Libris, and were replaced by coronets, which at first indicated with some certainty the rank of the owner. But after a time individuals assumed coronets to which they were not entitled, whilst members of the lower ranks of nobility promoted themselves, without ceremony, to the higher grades. As, however, in early unnamed Ex Libris the coronets have a certain small value in assisting in their identification, a brief de- scription of the distinctive features of the principal coronets may be useful to collec- tors. The royal crown of France was a circle, surrounded by eight Jlturs-de-Iis, of which only three and two halves are visible in engravings ; these were surmounted by the arches of a diadem, on the summit of which was a double Jlcur-de-lis. The Dauphin of France carried the same number oi flairs-dc-lis, but the arches over them were formed of dolphins. The eldest son of the King of France took his title from the old province of Dauphin6, in the south-east of France, and was usually spoken of as Le Dauphin. The first Dauphin was created in 1 349, and the last was Louis Antoine, son of King Charles X., who assumed the title on his father's accession to the throne of France on September 16, 1824. He died on June 3, 1844, when in all probability this ancient title became ex- tinct for ever. The Dauphin bore quarterly France and Dauphin^. The other princes of the blood ro3'al carried a coronet sur- mounted by the same number oi fleurs-de-lis, three and two halves without any diadem. Dukes carried a golden crown having eight ornamented strawberry leaves {flairoiis) of which, in engravings, only three leaves and two halves are visible. Marquis. — Four strawberr}' leaves, be- tween each of which is a trefoil formed of pearls. One and two half leaves are visible, separated by two trefoils. Count. — A coronet surmounted by six- teen large pearls, held upon projecting points. Only nine pearls are shown in engravings. Viscount. — Four large pearls (three only showing), with smaller pearls between. Baron. — A golden crown surrounded by strings of pearls. This form of coronet is also met with occasionally in English Heraldry. The rank of Marshal of France was indicated by two batons in saltire behind the shield. These batons were azure, semee FRENCH EX LIBRIS. 37 of fleurs-de-lis, or. Before the Revolution Marshals of France were numerous, and this badge is frequently met with on book- plates. Officers of artillery usually decorated their plates with cannons and cannon-balls below the arms ; cavalry officers placed trophies of flags behind their shields ; ad- mirals carried an anchor in pale behind their shields. The Chancellor of France bore two maces in saltire behind his shield. Chevaliers' bannerets. — They carried a ring of gold ornamented with pearls. Wreath.- — A roll of ribbons of the tinc- tures of the shield was placed over the helmet simply as an ornament, and not as an indication of the rank of the bearer. In Ex Libris printed before the Revolu- tion it is not unusual to find the collars and insignia of the several orders of French knighthood, the principal of which were the Order of Saint Denis, instituted in 1267; of Saint Michel, instituted in 1469; of the Saint Esprit (Holy Ghost), instituted in 1578; of Notre Dame du Mont Carmel, instituted in 1607 ; and of Saint Louis, instituted in 1693. The Chevaliers of Saint Michel wore a collar from which was pen- dant a medal, representing the archangel overthrowing the dragon ; the collar of the Saint Esprit was formed of alternate fleurs- de-lis and the letter H interlaced, from which depended either a dove or a cross, according to the rank of the bearer. The Knights of the Royal and Military- Order of Saint Louis carried a star with eight points, on which was the motto of the order, " Bellicae virlitiis praemiiim." Although the Order of the Toison d'Or (Golden Fleece) was founded by a French prince, Philippe, Duke of Burgundy, in 1429, it passed into the hands of the House of Austria, and thence again into the pos- session of the Kings of Spain, who became the sovereigns of the order. Owing to the close family relations e.xisting between the royal houses of France and Spain, the Order of the Golden Fleece was conferred upon many of the French nobles (by permission of their king), and the collar, with the well- known badge of the pendant lamb, is to be found on many French achievements. The motto of the order is " Prelium tion vile lahoruvir Of these orders the most important were the Saint Michel, the Saint Esprit, and the Saint Louis, which were specially distin- guished as "les Ordres du Roi" (the Orders of the King, he being their Chief and Grand Master). Chevaliers of the Order of the Saint Esprit were always first admitted into the Order of Saint Michel, so that the collars of these two orders are generally found together. The Order of Saint Louis having been founded by Louis XIV. exclu- sively for the reward of military and naval services, is occasionally met with apart from the two other orders of the king. Most of the above orders ceased to exist owing to the Revolution. That of the Saint Esprit was revived at the Restoration, but was finally extinguished in 1830; whilst that of Saint Louis, a distinctly Bourbon decora- tion, is probably still kept alive by the few remaining adherents of that family. In 1802 Napoleon, then First Consul, instituted the famous Order of the Legion of Honour, for the reward of merit either in the army, navy, or in civil life. The order was confirmed by Louis XVIII. in 1 815, and its rules and constitution were modified in i8i5 and in 1851. Practically this is now the only order of knighthood existing in France. M. Ambroise Thomas, 38 DATED BOOK-PLATES. on whom the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour was recently bestowed, is one of six civilians who at present hold that order. Meissonier is the only artist who has ever held this distinction. The number of Grand Crosses is limited to eighty, but for a long time past the number actually holding the decoration has varied between forty and fifty. When the Legion of Honour was created in 1802 by General Bonaparte the holders of the Grand Cordon (now Grand Cross) were entitled to draw ^800 a year ; at the Restoration this amount was reduced by one-half. Nowadays the members of the Legion of Honour receive the following annuities: Knights ;^io. Officers £io. Com- manders £\o, Grand Officers ;^8o, and Grand Crosses £l^o. Decorations conferred on civilians do not carry with them any pension. To assist in identifying ecclesiastical Ex Libris it must here be mentioned that these book-plates carry the head-dresses peculiar to the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, which are thus distinguished : — Cardinal. — A red hat having a wide, flat brim, with a cord on each side, from which hang five rows of red tassels. Archbishop. — A hat similar in shape to that of a cardinal, but green in colour, with a cord on each side, from which hang four rows of green tassels. Bishop. — Should carry the same hat as an archbishop, with only three rows of green tassels, but on Ex Libris they usually place four rows. Abbe and Protonotaire. — A black hat, with a cord on each side, from which hang two rows of black tassels. Sir Walter Scott says that at the period of the outbreak of the Revolution there were about 80,000 families enjoying all the rights, privileges, and immunities of nobility, and that the order was divided into different classes, which looked upon each other with mutual jealousy and contempt. A decree was proposed on June 20, 1790, by Lameth, that the titles of duke, count, marquis, viscount, baron, and chevalier should be suppressed. This was carried by a large majority in the French Assembly, and all armorial bearings were abolished. When all around was in a state of turmoil and revolution armorial book-plates became dangerous to their owners. Many were torn out and destroyed, others were altered and adapted to the feelings of the time by changing high-sounding titles into the simple style of a French citizen. The Ex Libris of the Citizen Boyveau- Laffecteur may be cited as an example. Before the Revolution he used an allegorical plate on which was shown a young calf drinking at a fountain (Boyveau) ; on his shield he carried a stork, as an emblem of prudence and wisdom, and the whole was surmounted by the handsome coronet of a count. Now Monsieur Boyveau-Laffecteur was a doctor of medicine, but whether he was a count, or entitled to carry the coronet of one, is more than doubtful. When the doctor found that coronets, and the heads that wore them, were going strangely out of fashion, he effaced the obnoxious emblem of nobility, placing in its stead an enormous and aggressively prominent cap of liberty. But a far more interesting souvenir of the Reign of Terror is the second book-plate of the Viscount de Bourbon-Busset. The first, which is signed Fme. Jourdan sculp., 1788, shows his armorial bearings surmounted by his coronet, whilst beneath are enumerated his titles and offices. Over this plate is generally found pasted a much simpler de- sign, showing how that the grand noble of FRENCH EX LIBRIS. 39 1788 under the Monarchy had, in 1793, become plain Bourbon -Busset, a French citizen. Another altered plate is rather less striking in its political inconsistency: " De la Biblio- th^que de Nic. Franc. Jos. Richard, avocat en Parlement, President i St. Diez." Simple and inoffensive as was this label, the owner thought it safer during the Revolution to cover it with another, thus: " De la Biblio- th^que de Nicolas Francois-Joseph Richard, Citoyen de St. Die." Napoleon was created Emperor of the French in May, 1804, but his short and troubled reign left little lasting mark upon the heraldr}- of France. It is true he intro- duced some system, and a few innovations, but at the Restoration his innovations were rescinded, and with the Bourbons in power it need hardly be said that no kind of useful system could long exist. For the heraldry of the First Empire a student cannot do better than consult the fine folios entitled "Armorial G(!n^ral de I'Empire Franfais. Contenant les Amies de sa Majesty I'Empereur et Roi, des Princes de sa famille, des Grands Dignitaires, Princes, Dues, Comtes, Barons, Chevaliers, et celles des Villes de i^re 2"^ et 3™^ Classe, avec les planches des Ornemens exterieurs, des Signes int^rieurs et I'explication des Couleurs et des Figures du Blason, pour faciliter I'Etude de cette Science. Pr6sent6 k sa Majesty I'Empereur et Roi par Henry Simon, Graveur du Cabinet de sa Majeste I'Empereur et Roi, et du Conseil du Sceau des Titres. Chez I'Auteur, Palais Royal, No. 29 k Paris, mdcccxii." Napoleon decreed that order should exist in heraldr}', as in every other branch of the State. His favourite artist, David, was called in to assist in devising new decora- tions, head-dresses, etc. The head-dress, invented by David to replace coronets, is called in French Heraldry " une toque'' Although this is no longer used it must be described, as it often occurs on book-plates of the period. It resembled a flat Tam-o'- Shanter cap slightly elevated in front. Princes carried a toque of black velvet, with a band of vair around the brim ; in front a golden clasp supported seven ostrich feathers. Dukes wore the same, simply replacing the band vair by a band ermine, carrying the same number of feathers. Counts carried a toque of black velvet, with a band ermines. An aigrette, gold and silver, supported five feathers. Barons wore the toque with a band counter vair. A silver aigrette supported three feathers. Chevaliers carried a black velvet toque with a green band. A silver aigrette with one upright feather. These were further subdivided and dis- tinguished, so as to show whether the rank was military, naval, civil, or ecclesiastical. From the downfall of Napoleon, and the restoration of the Monarchy, until about 1850, art, as shown in Ex Libris, appears to have slumbered ; scarcely anything can be found but a dreary repetition of heraldic plates, without character and without style. As Poulet-Malassis observes, they appear to have been turned out to pattern indis- criminately by the Parisian engravers. The pattern most in request was a kind of strap, or sword-belt, which surrounded the shield or monogram of the owner. Frenchmen seem now to attach little im- portance to heraldry, and few literary men place arms on their book-plates. In fact, as M, Henri Bouchot observes, " Le blason 40 DATED BOOK-PLATES. k fait son temps, il ne se .rencontre plus giiere que dans les travaux des h^raldistes et d^tonne un peu en ce moment." Their plates are frequently emblematical of their studies, their hobbies, or of their principal works, such as those of Victor Hugo, Gambetta, Manet, Theophile Gautier, Octave Uzanne, Henri Andr(5, Eugene Rim- mel, Charles IVIonselet. In short, modern French book-plates are free and graceful in design — allegoric, pictorial, allusive, humo- rous, anything, or everything that is not heraldic, or in which, if there be anything of an armorial nature, it is made subservient to the general design, and as little con- spicuous as possible. As a simple guide to French heraldic terms may be mentioned: " Traite Complet de la Science du Blason," par Jouffroy D'Eschavannes. Edouard Rouveyre, rue des Saints Peres, Paris, 1880. This contains an excellent " Dictionnaire des Termes de Blason." For the tinctures the French use the same terms as ourselves, but for green they employ sinople, as vert, properly pronounced, is not easily to be distinguished from the fur vair. This is a sensible distinction, as is also their expression, contrc furmine, to describe what English heralds call ermines, in contra-distinction to ermine, a difference so little marked in our case as easily to pass unnoticed and give rise to errors. . Identification of French plates. A collector will probably find it more difficult to identify and classify the Ex Libris of France than those of any other country. The number of anonymous plates of com- paratively early date is so large, the coronets of nobility are so irregular and so frequently misappropriated, and the Revolution created such a general confusion in family history and in heraldry, that the identification of anonymous French Ex Libris is embarrass- ing in most instances, impossible in some. In the rare cases where the book-plate remains fixed in the book to which it origin- ally belonged, some little assistance may be derived as to its date and possible ownership, and at least one point may be settled with tolerable certainty, namely, that the illus- tration has really been intended for, and has served as, an Ex Libris; whereas, when once extracted from its book, many an early armorial Ex Libris may easily be mistaken for a woodcut used on a dedication, or for an illustration extracted from some old treatise on Heraldry. In attempting to identify nameless and undated French plates the first point to be noticed is, whether the tinctures are clearly defined in the usual manner; if they are, the plate will not be earlier than about 1640, when the present system began to be gener- ally adopted. But the absence of tincture lines, or their irregularity, or even incorrect- ness, must on no account be relied upon as conclusive proof of greater antiquity than 1640. The system was but slowly adopted, and "is even now not always properly carried out by foreign engravers . The heraldic plate, thus emblazoned, with more or less embellishment, allegorical and pictorial, flourished for just 150 years. In 1789 almost all the old symbols of nobility and titles of honour in France ceased abruptly ; crowns and coronets were thought little of at that date, whilst a little later on they were thought so much of as to greatly imperil the lives of those w-ho bore them. Indeed, the revolutionary period affected book-plates very severely from 1789 until the end of 1804, when Napoleon, FRENCH EX LIBRIS. 41 having attained the dignity of Emperor, revived heraldry in a modified form, and placed it under certain clearly defined regu- lations. But the new nobility of the Empire cared little for heraldic insignia, and still less for books or book-plates ; consequently for the next ten years the crop is small and com- paratively uninteresting. As a rule the plates of the Empire are easily identified ; if heraldic, by the simplicity and regularity of the design, and by the peculiarly charac- teristic cap, or toque (already described), designed by David, which was used on most of them in place of crest or coronet. The non-heraldic plates of this period are also very plain, often indeed being merely printed labels, as in the case, for instance, of that of Marechal Suchet. On the Restoration all the Napoleonic badges and devices were swept away, and no satisfactory regulations were devised to replace them. Some of the old nobility returned to France and resumed their ancient titles and armorial bearings, but the general public refused to treat them seriously, and herhldic book-plates have been on the wane ever since. The task of identifying unknown E.k Libris of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, those which bear a simple coat -of- arms without name of owner, -or of artist or engraver, requires some patience, and a knowledge of at least the rudiments of heraldry. The collector will soon learn to distinguish early French woodcuts from German, one marked difference being that nearly all German work was cut in relief, whilst French artists worked in the hollow, thus producing an engraving which feels rough where the ink lies. The crests on German plates are also unlike those used in France ; and another very distinctive feature being the two large proboscis, or pipe-like horns, rising from the sides of the helmet, the Chalumeaux, or cornets, of such con- stant occurrence in German crest heraldr}-, but rarely, if ever, found on a purely French Ex Libris. They are to be seen, it is true, on some Alsatian plates, but the Ex Libris of this border province have frequently more of the German than of the French in their style and composition. Should the plate carry the name of the artist or engraver, the date may be arrived at approximately by a reference to the list of artists given in Hamilton's " French Book-plates," p. 159. Or, assuming that the plate has neither the name of the owner nor that of the artist, it may carry a motto, in which case several works may be consulted for information. One of the most modern is " Le Dictionnaire des Devises," by Alphonse Chassant, which contains an enormous number of war cries, mottoes, and devices, adopted by distin- guished families, not only in France, but in other nations. For readiness of reference these are arranged in alphabetical order, according to the first word of the sentence. Another useful reference book is " His- toric Devices, Badges, and War Cries," by Mrs. Bury Palliser (London : Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1870). This contains not only war cries and mottoes, but illus- trations of some hundreds of family badges and devices, which are of great assistance in deciding the ownership of anonymous plates. Finally, assuming a French plate to have no other distinctive mark than a shield with heraldic bearings, the first work to consult should be the heraldic dictionary of the engraver Paillot, "La vraye et parfaite 42 DATED BOOK-PLATES. science des armoiries ou I'indice armorial de feu maistre Louvan Geliot, advocat," par Pierre Paillot ; Paris, 1660. In this M. Paillot has arranged in alphabetical order all the terms used in heraldr}', with cross references to those in whose arms the various charges occur. Although this work dates from the seven- teenth century it may often be consulted with advantage for much more modern arms, as in many of the old families the principal charges have not altered ver}- materially. There is a similar heraldic table, but on a limited scale, in the "Armorial du Biblio- phile," by Joannis Guigard. This work contains illustrations of many hundreds of French coats -of- arms, copied from the bindings of books, all of which are fully described. There is also an index to the principal charges borne on the shields of most of the great book collectors of France, information which is fully as useful to the collector of Ex Libris as to the collector of ancient bindings. It is impossible to over-rate the import- ance of these authorities in the identification of nameless plates. There are many other heraldic works, but they are not so well adapted for the reference of collectors who probably know little of French Heraldry. Before leaving the topic of French Ex Libris mention must be made of a curious and humorous little publication entitled £x Libris Imaginaires et Supposes de Personnages Celebres, published in Paris by L. Joly, 19 Quai St. Michel. These are not book-plates, but they are ver)- comical representations of what might have been the book-plates of such men as Ernest Renan, Henri Murger, and De INIusset. In 1893 a society was formed in Paris entitled " La Soci^te Frangaise des Collec- tionneurs d'Ex-Libris." Dr. L. Bouland was elected President, and M. Henry Andr6, of 3 Faubourg St. Jacques, Paris, Secretary. This society publishes an illustrated journal, entitled Les Archives de la Sociele des Colltc- iionneiirs d^ Ex-Libris. C-SonttJ^t^ STYLES OF ENGLISH BOOK-PLATES. THE leading styles of design for our English Book-plates are clearly de- fined, and easily remembered. The names originally affixed to them by the Hon. J. Leicester Warren in his "Guide to the Study of Book-plates" (1880) are now generally adopted, and although they may not, in every case, be theoretically per- fect, there is only one term amongst them which can give rise to any misconception, namely the " Jacobean." This style of design no doubt began to supersede the Early English during the short reign of James H., so that in its origin the term " Jacobean " might ver\' fitly be applied to it, but as it continued the fashion, with certain modifications, for nearly fifty years, or well into the Georgian period, it must not be taken as indicating that any particular plate was engraved at such a period, but only that it was of Jacobean design. For it must be borne in mind that although the periods when cer- tain fashions in book-plates originated can be readily fi.xed, no actual date can be given when they went out of use. As a matter of fact there has scarcely been a good design of any period since 1574 which has not been copied, or imitated, even within quite recent times. JMr. Castle, in his "English Book-plates," proposed a somewhat pedantic system of nomenclature, which is not at all likely to be generally adopted. It is founded rather more on historical dates than on any distinc- tive feature in the designs for book-plates, such as Tudoresque, Carolian, Restoration, and Georgian. These terms refer to im- portant epochs in our history, but convey little information as to the varying styles on book-plates between 1574 and say 1750, as compared with the simple, descriptive, and now generally adopted terms Early English, Jacobean, Chippendale, Wreath and Ribbon, etc., first proposed by Mr. Warren. But it is when Mr. Castle proceeds to sub-divide and elaborate the styles into Early Georgian, Middle Georgian, Transition, Early and Later Rococo, etc., that the hopelessness of any general adoption of such a complicated system becomes apparent. In a chapter entitled " Modern Armorial," Mr. Castle speaks somewhat slightingly of the ordinary heraldic book-plate : — " However interesting it may sometimes prove to the genealogist, it is a perfect nuisance to the E.x-Librist, who looks for more in a book-plate than merely correct blazoning. Unfortunately its name is legion. It floods Ex Libris albums and drawers ; it clogs the wheels of classification ; the col- lector has often to issue a warning that it will not be acceptable in exchange for artistic specimens." Now, with all deference to Mr. Castle, I maintain that it is the first duty of a book-plate to be armorial if it can. The book-plate arose in heraldry pur et simple; all the earlier and better specimens are ar- morial, and almost the only possible motive for collecting them must be to obtain their assistance in the studies of Heraldry and Genealogy, or in tracing county and family history, or for the biographical details they 44 DATED BOOK-PLATES. often carry in their inscriptions as to their former owners. An album filled only with landscape or pictorial plates might indeed be of some aesthetic interest, but would be of no more practical value than a scrap-book of cut- tings from the Graphic pasted down for the amusement of the youngsters in the nursery. Mr. Castle proceeds : " I propose, for want of better imagination, to christen this style 'Modern Die-sinker.' This may sound frivo- lous, but it is tolerably descrip- tive. Modern Die-sinker plates can only be classi- fied when they display a whole escutcheon, by reference to the shapes of the latter." And Mr. Castle refers the reader to a tabu- lated list of the various forms of shields in use, which he has founded upon the well-known work of Mr. J. Paul Rylands. Where then is the advantage to be derived from the adoption of the term "Modern Die-sinker," as compared with the gener- ally adopted and clearly understood terms, "Modern Armorial," and "Plain Armorial.?" As a final reason against Mr. Castle's proposal it may be urged that the term itself is incorrect ; the work of a die-sinker is known to be perfectly distinct from that of copper-plate or steel engraving for book- plates. Edirly English or Early Armorial. This is the style of book-plate which lasted from the first known example in England in 1574 down to the origin of the so-called Jacobean style about 1700, and practically overlapped it, for examples are found much later. Thus what is called the Early English style continued in use for about a hundred and thirty years, but it underwent con- siderable changes and modifications during that pe- riod. In the earliest forms (and they are also the sim- plest) the plates show a plain shield, surmount- ed by a helmet, wreath, and crest, the mantlet being c omparatively slender, deeply cut, and waving in symmetrical curves around the upper part of the shield, seldom coming lower than half-way down the shield. Sometimes the name and titles, or motto, are inscribed on a scroll below the shield ; very often the inscription is engraved alone without any scroll or framework. A glance at the facsimiles in Mr. Griggs's collection will show the distinctive features of this style, at once grand in its heraldry, whilst clear and distinct in all its details. Plates STYLES OF ENGLISH BOOK-PLATES. 45 in this style, or indeed in any other, became rather scarce after about 1640 until the restoration of Charles II., when a more elaborate and imposing style of decoration became the fashion, copied, no doubt, from the French. Any comparison made between French and English plates of this period will show the influence of French art on our engravers, who adopted the heavy, massive mantlings in formal curves flowing around the shield, and indeed often falling considerably below it. An exaggerated specimen of this decoration is the well-known armorial plate of Samuel Pepys. Of this style Mr. Castle humorously remarks : — "The mantling has now assumed a form and a behaviour which evoke, not, as of old, ideas of lambrequins hacked and torn in hot battle, but rather a vision of the contemporary towering, tumbling, curly Versailles peruke. In fact, I have been tempted to suggest the expression Periwig style as appropriate. It can be safely as- serted that the typical triple rolls of dentic- ulated mantling, encompassing a shield in the same manner as the periwig of the period encompassed the face of a man of rank, is distinctly French in its origin, and it is rather curious to remark how the ' Restoration ' mantlings continued to flow in foaming cascades round the escutcheon of book-plates, so long as the ' monstrous periwig' remained in fashion as a masculine head-dress." This Restoration style (to adopt Mr. Castle's term) remained in fashion until the death of Queen Anne, its general features remaining the same, having the plain, square- sided shield generally resting on a scroll on which the motto appears ; the helmet sur- mounted by wreath and crest, and where the arms are not accompanied by supporters. the elaborated, curled, and shaded mantlings are ample, and surround three sides of the shield, occasionally even showing around and below the base of the shield. Then, however, the mantling underwent another modification : it receded from the base, be- came less massive and sombre in appearance at the sides of the shield, and terminated in tassels. As a late instance see the plate of Newsham Peers, dated 1720, in Griggs's Second Series, Part II. Another important and very distinctive feature in these plates of the later Jacobean or Restoration period is that the heraldic tinctures are invariably shown by dots and lines (on the principles now universally adopted), which was unknown, or certainly not practised, in England before 1640. This system was in use as early as 1 600 in Belgium ; in Italy it was described and popularised by Silvester Petra Sancta in 1634; and in France in 1639 by Marc de Vulson, Sieur de la Colombiere, who dis- tinctly asserted that he had invented the process. Of this there is no proof, but it is abundantly evident that Petra Sancta was not, as is generally asserted, the inventor. (See chapter on Heraldry and Tinctures.) But a few years before 1700 certain other modifications began to show themselves indicative of the coming change to the style christened Jacobean by Mr. Warren, which was in full favour about 1725, and held the leading position in book-plates until about 1745. Jacobean.— "This," says Mr. Warren, "is a formal and, no doubt, conventional style of decoration. It is more remarkable perhaps for its solidity than its gracefulness. Yet few will deny that these book-plates have a very distinct character of their own, 46 DATED BOOK-PLATES. and if not actually lovely, they are seldom in bad taste." As already mentioned, the decoration known as Jacobean did not spring at once into being as a perfectly new fashion in book-plates, but arose gradually upon, and out of, the plates of the Restoration period, and lasted well into the middle of the eighteenth century ; whilst during the pre- valence of this, and all succeeding styles, the series of purely heraldic, or plain armor- ial, plat(-s continued unbroken. A nucleus of heraldry was preserved as the centre around which all the varied forms of decora- tion developed themselves in turn — mant- ling, festoons, wreath and ribbon, angels and cherubs, Chippendale framework or other. Many specimens of the Jacobean style in its various periods e.xist ; it is readily recog- nisable, and taking Mr. Warren's excellent description of it as a guide no collector need be in doubt as to its main features. Mr. Warren observes that on book-plates of the first years of Queen Anne we find the escutcheon is set in no kind of frame, and does not rest upon a bracket. The little extraneous ornamentation which the coat-of-arms receives, is derived from ex- panding and convoluting the mantling from the helmet into leaf- work more or less elaborate. But in the beginning of the eighteenth century occur the dated Ex Libris of certain colleges, who placed above their escutcheon neither helmet nor crest, and who, con- sequently, had no mantling wherewith to decorate the bare flanks of the shield. To supply this void in decoration a distinct frame was placed round the escutcheon, and this framework was ornamented with ribbons, palm-branches, or festoons. The prominent or high relief portions of this frame were not set close to the edges of the escutcheon, but between it and them an interval of flat patterned surface nearly always intervened, in which, as upon a wall, the actual shield was imbedded. This we shall call ths lining of the armorial frame, and we shall find this lining is usually imbricated into a pattern of fish scales, one upon another, or diapered into lattice work. Occasionally simple horizontal lines replace the cross-barred pattern ; and on the latest and roughest specimens in Jacobean style the lining simulates the pointing of bricks in a wall. This scale-covered, or latticed, or masoned interval of lining, is the charac- teristic of the style we call Jacobean, which on English book-plates preceded the better known Chippendale fashion of decoration. Now the earlier book-plates of the Anne period have merely the Jacobean frame ; but another step in the external decoration was to add a bracket, distinct from the frame, upon which the shield in its frame was supposed to rest. This bracket natur- ally imitated the decorative art and surface arrangement of the shield frame. An escallop shell in the centre of the bracket is the normal and perpetually re- curring ornament of the Jacobean escut- cheon frame. The usual arrangement is that the shell is placed in the centre of the frame above; while in the centre of the bracket below, as a kind of pendant to the escallop shell, appears the head of a girl, a satyr, or a demon. On the top ledges of the frame are often placed, as ornaments, eagles, baskets of fruit, apples, festoons; whilst right and left, or on the side ledges of the escutcheon, are lions, chenibs, busts of fairies with butterfly wings, angels with trumpets, etc. STYLES OF ENGLISH BOOK-PLATES. 47 Recurring to the escallop shell, we shall see that it was afterwards transmitted on to the Chippendale frame ; but it became a shelly border on these book-plates rather than one distinct shell. Such, concludes Mr. Warren, is the Jacobean Ex Libris, and such its ornamentation. As compared with the carved wood-work preserved in churches of the time of Charles the Second, or with- the mouldings on monuments of the same period, we cannot fail to observe a practical identity of decoration ; another point of resemblance being that on many plates of this period figures, as of the god Terminus — the upper half of a man on a carved pedestal — appear on each side of the Jacobean framework, generally standing on the bracket. A very good example of this decoration is to be found on the plate of Willm Strode, dated 1730. The Jacobean style may be said to have arisen about 1700, was most prevalent on book-plates between about 1725 and 1735, when the Chippendale decoration was fast coming into fashion. C/)//jpe/7G'a/e.— In 1 754 Thomas Chip- pendale published a folio volume entitled, " Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director, being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of Household Furniture, in the most fashionable taste, with 160 plates of elegant designed Furniture," and the term Chippendale has been adopted as descriptive of a style of decoration on book-plates resembling the ornate uphols- tery which originated in France and was brought into fashion in England by Chip- pendale many years before he published this book. This style gradually superseded the Jaco- bean ornamentation, and a very large number of English plates were designed under its influence. Mr. Warren observes that as a style we may consider it as origmal and thoroughly national, and perhaps, so far as book-plates only are concerned, it may be so. Yet as regards the Chippendale style of decoration there can be no doubt that it was French in inception, and Chippendale himself calls it " the new French style." On this point Mr. Castle dwells at some length, and con- tends that Rococo would be a more correct name for the style than Chippendale. Chip- pendale may not be technically exact, but it is English, and certainly conveys to an average Englishman far more idea of the ornamentation spoken of than such words as Rocaille or Rococo. Besides the word is con- secrated by long use, and in its abbreviated form Chip, it is as commonly used and as well understood amongst collectors as is Jac. or Festoon. The leading feature of a Chippendale plate is a frilling or border of open shell- work, set up close to the outer margin of the escutcheon, and, with breaks, more or less enclosing it. It is, in fact, a border imitating the curves and grooves, or corru- gations, on the margin of a scallop shell. Outside this succeed various furniture-like limbs and flourishes, resembling the orna- ments on Chippendale furniture. The design is completed externally by a profusion of free flowers ; that is to say, flowers in natural sprays and branches, and not arranged in heavy conventional festoons as on the Jaco- bean book-plates. Speaking generally, the Chippendale is freer, less stiff, and more rounded than the Jacobean. In the Jacobean plates, the two sides of the design are nearly always sym- metrical, but very seldom in a plate of the Chippendale style. 48 DATED BOOK-PLATES. On a Jacobean Ex Libris the shield is always of a regular figure, whilst on a Chippendale it is often broken into by the incurving of the shell-work, or of the border; the shield itself is sometimes oblique, often pear-shaped, seldom of a correct geometrical outline. To sum up shortly, the Chippendale plate is ornamented with shell-work, upholstery, and free flowers. Mr. Warren seems to dwell with especial delight on this fashion, and those who are fortunate enough to possess his work should intently study his chapter on the Chippendale Style, a master- piece of word-painting : for nowhere else will they find such invaluable information conveyed in language which is at once so descriptive, so clear, and so elegant. I venture to quote his concluding remarks : — " One is compelled to break up the Chippendale into three epochs. The early Chippendale, before the full characteristics of the mode were developed : such are the plates by Mountaine and Skinner. The middle or pure Chippendale, which com- prises the ruck of examples in ever}' collec- tion. The late or deteriorated Chippendale, which will be presently treated of. " One of the earliest dated Ex Libris, which can claim the name of Chippendale, is that of East Apthorp, A.M., Cambridge, dated 1741. Indeed this is almost a transi- tional plate, for though the shell pattern and free flowers stamp it as Chippendale, yet the indications of a horizontally hatched Jacobean lining to the frame are also present. " Charles O'Connor of Belanagare, dated 1753, though not well engraved, is decidedly middle Chippendale. "■John Ord, Lincoln's Inn, dated 1761, gives about the limit of the pure Chippen- dale plate, for signs of decadence are here observable. "The essence of the grace of a Chip- pendale plate was its freedom and artistic moderation. Consequently when the fashion had become diffused it began to be vul- garised in the hands of weak designers, who essayed to pile the flowers upon the frame beyond all measure ; and who en- deavoured by a crowded decoration to mask the real weakness and poverty of their powers of design. In this, the decadence of Chippendalism, other adjuncts of orna- ment were sought ; the combinations of the shell-work and simple flowers being retained, but regarded as inadequate. Then took place a kind of reactionary movement, as it were, to one portion of Jacobean ornament. Cherubs, fiery dragons, books, balustrades, trees, sheep, fruit baskets, n3Tnphs in kilted petticoats, began to appear among the springing flowers upon the ledges of the framework. Such plates, exhibiting the decadence of the Chip- pendale style, range from about 1765 to 1780. " The Chippendale book-plate broke up the stiff formalities and heavy angular limbs of the 'Jacobean frame, and replaced them with grace and freedom. It gave us flowers as they grow, for festoons of stony leaves, and embossed blossoms which never could have grown. The fault of the Chippendale style was this, that, graceful as it was, it had not enough backbone, and in weak hands soon degenerated into mere prettiness." In plates belonging to Scotland, York- shire, and the northern provinces generally a peculiar variety of Chippendale ornamenta- tion was in vogue about 1760-70 ; markings like the scales of a fish are characteristic of this style. STYLES OF ENGLISH BOOK-PLATES. 49 A llegorical Book-plates. —"Degm- tibus non (st disputanduin' ma}' not be a ver)' novel adage, but it is certainly a very true one as relating to the designs of book-plates, and to write impartially on all is difficult to one who has a strong preference for any particular style. Allegorical designs are not perhaps to be considered as generally popu- lar ; although the artists who design them, and the 'i&w very mystical and sentimental people who adopt them, appear to find much delight in dwelling on their subtle charms. A book-plate which requires a column of explanation is apt to bore the uninitiated, and sometimes one feels tempted to ask the artist to explain his explanation, as when dealing say with the cosmos, etc., on the mystical designs on certain modern book-plates such as those of Gleeson White, Aubrey Beardsley, or the late ^Ir. Warring- ton Hogg. Mr. Castle goes so far as to say that allegoric book-plates are as a rule rather ridiculous, and perhaps that is one reason why they have never really been very popular in England, the national taste being in favour of the practical and direct in art, rather than towards the mystical and sentimental. As Mr. Warren observes: "The allegoric book-plate, as we know it in England, seems rather an occasional fashion indulged in by the fanciful or the dilettante in art than a continuous national style. Historic- ally considered, it may have been evolved from such examples of the Jacobean Ex Libris as present to us their frames most heavily adorned with angels, term figures, or satyrs' heads. Indeed the Jacobean mode was continually cropping out into mythological ornamentation. Still, whether we take the allegoric plates of the period of Hogarth, Pine, and George Vertue, or con- sider the later group of mythological engravers, such as Bartolozzi, and his scholar Sherwin, Henshaw, and the like, it must be conceded that in England during the eighteenth century allegoric book-plates were never a numerous class. In France, however, during the same period, such Ex Libris were profusely abundant." The Jacobean method of decoration seemed to fade into the allegoric by degrees which are almost imperceptible, and Mr. Warren mentions the following as amongst the principal of the early examples of the allegoric : Sir Robert Cunliflfe, by Barto- lozzi; the Munificentia Regia, I7i5,by John Pine, and the J. Burton, d.d., by the same engraver ; the plate " done for the books of John Holland " and the Dutchess (j/f) of Kendal's plate, both by William Hogarth ; and lastly the charming Ex Libris, engraved by Bartolozzi in 1796 for Henrietta Frances, Countess of Bessborough, which has so often been reproduced. When the collector has fairly studied and compared these examples of the Early Alle- gorical style he will indeed have gained a fair idea of the curious fashion of representing things as they are not; the fashion of a period when Art and Literature were at a very low- ebb in England: the Hanoverian kings and their German courtiers and mistresses neither cared for one nor the other, " boedry and bainding" being alike unintelligible to their material minds. The Stuarts were, at least, an intellectual race who fostered and en- couraged native art, literature, and science; of not one of the Georges could the same be said, and no period in English history is so dreary, so arid, so monotonous, as that which commenced with the accession of George I. in 17 14, and lasted till the death of William IV. in 1837. G 50 DATED BOOK-PLATES. Of modem plates in the allegorical style there is no scarcity : the works of Walter Crane, Gordon Browne, J. D. Batten, Alan Wright, T. Erat Harrison, and other contem- porary artists teem with allegory. Let us take two typical examples, the plates of Mr. Gleeson White and of Mr. John M. Watkins, and we shall see how much meaning an artist can e.^press in symbols which cover but a few square inches of paper. Mr. Charles Ricketts thus e.Kplains his design for the plate of Mr. Gleeson White : "The tree of Creation (Igdrasil) springs from a swirl of water and flame which breaks into little gems ; the flame, continuing, flows through the trunk of the tree, which branches on each side into composite boughs suggesting the different plant kingdoms. This central flame envelopes the figure of man, placed in the midst of the tree in the act of awakening. The fruit on the extreme end of each bough represent in embryo the fish and water fowl, the reptile and creeping insects, the larger animals, and finally the creatures with wings. The rainbow shoot- ing through the entire composition signifies the atmosphere ; the two figures under one cloak in the lower part of the design re- present night and day, i.e., the planets." This is dated i8go, and after reading the explanation, the comparatively simple plate of Mr. John Maurice Watkins (1893) comes as a relief. It is of Eastern appearance, and consists of a central figure surrounded by symbols, and having on one side the words " Peace to all Beings;" on the other, "Of all things proceeding from cause, the cause is the Tathagata." This plate was designed, says its courteous owner, for a collection of books relating to Buddhism. "The central figure is the Buddha preaching, copied from the Amravati Tope. The phrases are those constantly used by all good Buddhists. The encircling serpent, the caduceus, the seven-headed serpent, and the lotus, are all Buddhist symbols, which have a variety of meanings accordingly as they are applied to the cosmos, and to man. Perhaps there is hardly a symbol on the plate on which a learned native Buddhist could not write a small volume, if he would." If the early allegorical plates were exotics, surely these modern examples, with all their Eastern symbolism, are still less British in conception and design. A taste for them perhaps may be acquired ; it certainly is not always of spontaneous growth. Wreath and Ribbon^ Festoon. This elegant semi-classic style of book-plate came into use just at the period of decadence in the Chippendale. The Wreath and Ribbon as a style pos- sessed grace and beauty, yet it was without sufficient variety to enable it to maintain a very prolonged hold upon public taste, and as a settled fashion in book-plates it can only be said to have lasted twenty years, from about 1770 to 1790. Wreath and Ribbon plates are almost invariably armorial, the shield being spade- shaped, and surrounded by wreaths or sprays of palm, laurel, mistletoe, or other flowers and leaves flowing free and unconfined around the shield, but loosely bound to- gether at the base by ribbons arranged in graceful bows, loops, or knots. The style resembled the decorations suggested by Tho- mas Sheraton in his work, "The Cabinet- maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book," and it has been proposed to adopt the name Sheraton for Wreath and Ribbon plates, a proposition which is open to the objection STYLES OF ENGLISH BOOK-PLATES. 51 that it would apply almost equally well to what are called " Festoon " plates, which should most certainh- be kept as distinct as possible from Wreath and Ribbon. It is true that some plates partake of the features of both styles. See, for example, the plate of the Bishop of Kilmore, 1774, or that of John Walton, reproduced in Mr. Castle's book, second edition, p. no. In Wreath and Ribbon plates the sprays or branches spring from the base, where the ribbon usually clasps them, whereas the festoons are placed above the shield, and appear to be supported in their place by wall pins, or rings, from which they hang in graceful curves. The Urn — Following the Festoon style, with its spade shield, came the Urn pattern — a monumental looking and dismal device — which seems to have been evolved by artists of the beginning of this centur\' partly from the shape of the shield then in use, and partly as a sad tribute to the absence of all taste on the part of the British public. Urns, and weeping willows, and forlorn females in scanty classical costumes may be looked for on plates dating about 1800- 1820, and are about as uninteresting as an}thing can well be. Landscape.— ^h. Warren instances the plate of Gilbert Wakefield, engraved about 1780, as one of the earliest purely landscape book-plates, free from any heraldic device, and initiating a style thoroughly and nation- ally our own. " We have traced," he remarks, " the suc- cession and order in which the distinct decorative fashions arose, and have shown that, with very few exceptions, heraldry was always present in combination with them. It combined well with the Jacobean or Chippendale fashions, but poorly with alle- gory, and with landscape worst of all. How great is Thomas Bewick when unweighted by the cumbrous heraldry of his patron for the time being ! — how charming are his episodes of woodland and gliding stream ! And even in the presence of Bewick, Wake- field's drinking stag, Priestley's fountain spring, and Bransby's sowing scene are worthy to be commemorated. Moral teach- ing, doubtless, was intended in all three, and this quiet allegory of nature was here an endemic growth ; while the Mercuries and Minerv'as, the sprawling angels and cheek-puffed Fames represented merely a spurious courtly sentimentalism, that might be typified by Chesterfield masquerading in the mantle and vine leaves of Theocritus." No names are more intimately associated with the vignette landscape than those of the brothers Bewick. Very charming indeed are their Ex Libris vignettes, fortunately also very numerous, but seldom signed. They give views of Newcastle and its vicinity, the tower of St. Nicholas Church being a very favourite landmark, also Jarrow Church, Tyne-side scenes, the ruins of the old priory at T3-nemouth, with rocks, brooks, and fishing scenes, frequently spoiled by the presence of some intruding and incongruous coat-of-arms where it was least wanted and least expected. The "Thomas Bell" plate, 1797, is said to be the earliest dated Bewick ; it is but a poor little specimen, though characteristic, and is common enough to collectors. Of the numerous plates by the Bewicks it is impossible here to speak at length ; Mr. Hardy has an interesting chapter on them, but the ardent collector of Bewick must 0-^ Dated book-plates. turn to the pages of the Rev. Thomas Hugo for details and examples of their really charming works. One reason why the Bewick designs are so successful for book-plates is that their ability was most conspicuous in small com- positions, whilst artists accustomed to work on a larger scale seem cramped when con- fined to a few square inches. A Bewick book-plate is, of course, never earlier than about 1790. Some of the principal British engravers of landscape book-plates were Ed. Bramston, J. Taylor, Terry, and W. Sherwin ; then follow Henshaw and Wells ; Pye and Allen, both of Birmingham ; Ovenden and F. San- som, the brothers Bewick, R. Beilby, and J. Bailey. After the Bewicks come W. Esdall, Bonner, Lambert, S. Howitt, and J. Scott. The bulk of the plates done by these men date from 1780 to iSio. The Ex Libris for the Library of the Public Record Office, then in the Tower of London, was engraved by J. ]\Iynde, and Mr. Hardy dates it about 1770, which is indeed early for such a book- plate, giving, as it does, a faithful repre- sentation of the Tower as it then appeared. Seal Book-plates.— There are many plates which, in their general style and composition, greatly resemble the heavy seals in use during the Middle Ages ; a resemblance which becomes the more appar- ent when we find the seal dependent from a cord, as in the case of the handsome plate drawn by Mr. C. W. Sherborn for the late James Robinson Blanche, dramatist, poet, and Rouge Croix Poursuivant of Anns. Both the Vesica and the circular seal outline are admirably adapted for book-plate composition. Essentially heraldic in form, they admit of the introduction of a certain amount of extraneous ornamentation around the shield and helmet, whilst the borders afford room for the inscription and date ; all of which can be designed in an archaic form such as is suitable for the display of the achievement of any noble family, even one which could trace back its origin to the period of the Norman invasion. As a particularly brilliant specimen of this class may be named the plate of George Douglas, Duke of Argyll, designed in 1893 by Mr. Geo. W. Eve, and reproduced in the second edition of Mr. Castle's book. Some other beautiful forms are the plates of Mr. J. E. Cussans, by Robinson ; of Mr. Robert Day and of Edmund Yates, by J. Vinycomb; and the large seal of antique appearance used for the Eton College Library. Indeed designers who work in this style have one great advantage : they can at all times refer to splendid examples of purely heraldic seals which were certainly engraved some hundreds of years before the invention of printing ; they have but to modify some details, change the inscription, and a new seal plate is the result. Yet some care should be exercised, even in this form of adaptation, lest the artist fall into the same error as one who boldly appropriated Sher- born's design for J. R. Planche, even to the fanciful curl of the cord below the seal, which forms the initials J.R.P. ; such initials being by no means applicable to the new owner, betrayed the piracy. Some of the most pleasing of modern book-plates are of the seal pattern, and Mr. Harry Soane has been particularly successful as a designer and engraver in this class of work. 1 REPUBLIrj ^ STYLES OF ENGLISH BOOK-PLATES. 53 The Rebus in Book-Plates, Cant- ing Arms, and Moci( Heraldry.— The Rebus is nearly as ancient as Heraldry itself, and is indeed almost a part of it, for this quaint mode of expressing a word by the picture of an object, whose name bears a resemblance to the name of the person in question, was the origin of many of the principal bearings to be found on the earliest achievements of arms. Occasionally they are allusive to the office of the bearer, as in the well-known three cups in the Butler arms, but more frequently refer directly to the name, as an Eye and a tun (or barrel), to represent the name of Eytoti; a Bolt and a tun, Bolton ; an Ash and a bee, Ashbee ; a Jack (fish) and a sun, Jackson ; a Finch and a ham, Fincham ; and the Hawk, as on the pretty little vignette done by Thomas Bew- ick, for George Hawks. These are examples, culled from actual book-plates, which call for no further re- marks ; the explanations of the enigmas are sufficiently obvious, and after a first acquaint- ance has been made with them it must be confessed they possess little of permanent interest. On French plates canting arms abound, or as they term them armes parlantes ; thus the cock is found in the arms of persons bearing such names as Coquereau, Coque- bert, or Lecog. Louis Vacher, in 1768, bore a cow on his shield, and had two others as supporters ; the family of Houblon had a hop-bind ; Champfleury, a flowery field (a champ fletiry) ; whilst Paul Cordier has a charming little vignette representing a rope -maker [cordier) at work in his rope-walk, and numerous other instances might be given, for indeed French fancy has long had a tendency this way. Even the learned Rabelais wrote thus of his countr}-men, in " Gargantua," 350 years ago : " En pareilles tenebres sont compris ces glorieux de court, transporteurs de noms, lesquelzs voulans en leurs devises signifier espoir, font pourtraire une sphere ; des pennes d'oiseau pour peines ; de I'ancholie, pour m(51ancolie ; la lune bicorne pour vivre en croissant ; un banc rompu, pour banque roupte ; un lit sans ciel, pour un licencie qui sont homonymies tant ineptes, tant fades, tant rustiques et barbares, que Ton devroit attacher une queue de renard au collet i un chascun d'iceux qui en vou- droient dor^navant user en France, apres la restitution des bonnes lettres." — " Gargan- tua," Book I., chap. ix. But Rabelais himself never imagined a more wildly far-fetched device than that in- vented by Premontval,the authorof "L'Esprit de Fontenelle." Instead of placing his name upon the title-page of this book he says : "J'ai fait mettre k la place de mon nom, une vignette qui n'est autre chose que mon cachet, un pre, une moniagne et une vallee, le tout surmonte d'un soleil qui dissipe les nuages, avec cette devise : — Illuminat el foecundat." Ce brave Premontval ! To make so much cr}- about so little wool. But indeed, if W. Lenoir chooses to bear the head of a negro on his book-plate, or i\L Robillard to place two billiard cues in saltire on his shield, or M. Milsand to imitate a bank-note having on it the figures 1000 and 100 {mille cenl), we may smile once at the quaint con- ceit, but the things, we know, arc neither rich nor rare, — and I need not finish the quotation. As to mock heraldry no better example can be named than the imposing looking book-plate of the poor starveling cobbler 54 DATED BOOK-PLATES. and poet, Robert Bloomficld, dated 1813. He died in 1823, and his chief poem, "The Farmer's Boy," is now pretty generally forgotten, but so long as there are book- plate collectors the name of Robert Bloom- field will live, because his plate is one of the most eagerly sought after and one of the scarcest. It has been reproduced in the Ex Libris Journal, and in Mr. Hardy's book. In "French Book-plates" will be found a somewhat similar instance of heral- dry imitated (p. 143) in the book-plate of Monsr. Eugene Rimmel, of the Strand, London, author of a " History of Perfumes." It shows a distilling apparatus and a foun- tain of perfume surmounted by a coronet of rosebuds, and has a very heraldic appearance. So also has the plate of Thomas Frogpall Dibdin, the well-known bibliographer, which Mr. Castle reproduces in his " English Book-plates," with a blazon of the arms, if such they can be called. A taste for Egyptian hieroglyphics has lately developed, and they are to be found on the plates of such well-known men as Mr. Walter Herries Pollock and of Mr. H. Rider Haggard, both from designs by the Rev. W. J. Loftie, who also uses one himself, which is thus interpreted: "The hawk, copied from one of the walls in the Temple of Philae, holds the symbol of life and death (the crux ansata) towards five hieroglyphics, which signify VV. J. L." Still more recent is a somewhat similar cartouche adopted by Mr. H. S. Ashbee during a visit to Egypt. That these symbols convey no meaning whatever to the uninitiated, and are therefore practically useless as book-owner plates, appears to be a point to which the pos- sessors themselves attach little or no importance. Portrait Book- plates.— Although. these are the least numerous they are gener- ally considered by far the most characteristic and original of all Ex Libris, presenting as they do, the owner of the book in his habit as he lived, and occasionally in the midst of the books he loved so well. Naturally the earliest portrait book-plates are German ; there are the Bilibald Pirck- heimer, by A. Durer, dated 1524; that of Johannes Vennitzer, Cutler of Nuremberg, who died in 1629. Mr. Warren thus de- scribes this remarkably interesting work of art : "The minuteness of this old Ex Libris is most naive and characteristic. John Ven- nitzer, knife smith or cutler, informs us on his library label, dated 1618, that he was born in the good city of Nuremberg, at 22 minutes past 5 in the afternoon, on the 14th day of May, 1565. No doubt the worthy swordsmith conscientiously believed that the condition of his whole life depended upon that particular moment at which he entered the world. He seems to have combined book-collecting with cutlery, and speaks with very complacent modesty of his library in these verses : — " 'Die Bibl'wthcc von mir g(e) stifft, Irn Lorenzcr Pfcirshoff auffg(e) richt, 1st nicht zu ruhiit dess Nahmcns mciii, Sordcrn sur Elirc Gottes alien ; Bcschehrt aiis trieb dess HeijUgn Gcist, Alls Welehcm alles gates fleiist.' Which may thus be rendered, preserving the jolting metre of the original : — " 'The book-collection, which I've made, In Laurence Priest-house safely laid, Is not for glory of my own. But made to honour God alone ; Bestowed, as the Holy Spirit leads, From whom all earthly good proceeds.' " He opens with a horoscope, and ends with an epitaph ! And all upon an Ex STYLES OF ENGLISH BOOK-PLATES. 55 Libris. The reader will agree, that it would be difficult to find a more curious example in the whole range of book-plate lore." This plate was reproduced in the Ex Libris Journal, Vol. IIL, Part 6. The A.V.H. woodcut, dated 1596, which is here reproduced, is a portrait plate of great interest, both on account of its age, its extreme scarcity, and the lines which accompany it, which may be thus rendered : " That shield there distinguishes my ancestors in long array ; May the blood left to their present representatives be fertile, brave, pious ! But this picture gives an image liable to Death : Grant, O God ! that I may have, in a sound body, a sound mind." I know of only three copies of this Ex Libris ; I have one, ]Mr. Franks has another, and the dealer from whom they were obtained has the third. The woodcut in the possession of J\Ir. Franks differs slightly from the one here reproduced ; the whole design is surrounded by a plain black line border, and the verse over the arms and portrait reads as follows : — " Iste meos oriiat clypcus longo ordinc patrcs ; Sit genus his reliqinim firtih, forte pium. Haec ast mortalem dcpingit imago figuram. Mens sit iit in sano corpore sana precor." Such slight alterations in the typographical portions of the design were, of course, easily made. Now these plates were removed (but not by me) from the Works of Philip Melancthon, 4 vols, folio, Witebergae, 1580, bound in stamped pigskin with metal clasps. One volume had no book-plate. Mr. Franks was good enough to take some trouble about this plate, and he was inclined to believe, from the arms, that it might have belonged to one A. Von Hecht. He added : " I shall now be disposed to place some other double plates {i.e., arms and portrait) amongst my book - plates. Even Pirckheimer seems to have been in the habit of putting his portrait, by A. Durer, at the end of his volumes. This was the converse of Sam Pepys, who put his portraits at the beginning and his S. P. and anchors at the end of his volumes." A dated portrait plate signed by Jehan Stridbeck is that of M. Joh. Baptista Renz. Augustan A.c. 1697. ^tatis 39. Minist 1 1 . This was reproduced in the £x Libris Journal, Vol. IIL, and shows a massive looking gentleman, in clerical costume, grasping his prayer book. Beneath the por- trait is a coat-of-arms, and on a tablet the following inscription can be with difficulty deciphered : — " Gener Anton Reisere : Th D. Patr. Frider D. Matr. An Justina Lucae i Stetten filia nat in Patria prim ad Minorit, dein ad S. Anna Diacon, postea ad S. Jacobi nunc ad S. Ulrici Pastor Evangel." There is a large, scarce, and very curious German library interior plate of one J. C. V. Moehsen, by J. F. Gericke, 1757. It has a portrait of Moehsen, and in one corner part of a bookcase is burning, dated Sept. 1 , 1753; over the door is 1756. Mr. Vicars conjectures that these dates may allude to the fire in the library in 1753, the rebuilding in 1756, and 1757 to the engraving of the plate by Gericke. Joannis Bernardi Nack, of Frankfort-on- the-Maine, 1759, had two plates, one of which Mr. Warren reproduces ; he adds that it may be open to question as a portrait book-plate. Yet the costume and the atti- tude of the central figure have all the appearance of individuality and self- assertion. The plate reproduced by Mr. Warren is signed " De St Hilaire del et sc 1759;" the other plate, which is more distinct and better engraved, is signed DATED BOOK-PLATES. " Wicker sc," without am' date (Wicker dated another plate in 1779). But the curious feature is that these plates have been found printed back to back on the same piece of paper, as though Herr Bernardi Nack was dissatisfied with his first plate, so had another engraved, but being of a frugal mind used up his first labels by printing on the backs of them. One good turn deserves another. The "Ex Libris Martini Reinhardti" represents a cos)' library interior with a gentleman at work at his writing table. This may have been intended for a portrait of the owner, whose motto was " Deficit et Sufficit" but this is pure conjecture, so leaving Germany let us turn to portrait plates in France. First we have that of Francisci Perrault, 1764, reproduced in the Ex Libris Journal, Vol. III., Part 5, and by Mr. Hardy, p. 158, and that of Edouard Manet, reproduced by Poulet-Malassis. In more recent days we find that Mons. A. Saff"roy, of Paris, employs an Ex Libris com- posed of two small photographs of himself, one taken in the year 1874, and the other in 1885 — a simple arrangement which is too realistic to appeal strongly to the lover of the artistic and fanciful in book-plates. Mr. Arthur Vicars mentions the " Ex Libris Lode" as a French portrait plate, probably engraved about 1830. A short time ago I received a letter from a German collector which I venture to insert here, in his own words : — "J'ai un Ex Libris historique que vous ne connaissez pas a ce qu'il parait parceque vous n'en parlez pas dans vos Ex-Libris Fran^ais. C'est un Ciceronis Opera Omnia, 1 61 7. La reliure est en veau couleur bois. Le dos et les deux plats sont estampill(5 en or avec le chiffre H. flanqui^ du fleur de lis. Comprenez bien, Monsieur, ce chiffre et les fleurs de lis sont S(5m6s sur le dos et les deux plats, et comme Ex Libris il y a le portrait de Henri de Bourbon, signe 'Henry de Bourbon Prince de Conde Premier Prince du Sang Premier Pair de France.' Ce por- trait la n'est pas colle dedans, il est dans la grandeur de la page et reli6 avec. Ca prouve incontestablement que ce portrait est un Ex Libris, et que ce livre li etait propriete de Henri de Bourbon." My friend says this plate is signed by the engraver, but the name is not distinct. As a portrait book-plate of the Prince de Cond6 it would, no doubt, be valuable and interest- ing, but the evidence on which he relies to prove that it was engraved and used for that purpose is scarcely sufficient. As a Flemish example may be mentioned the curious library interior and portrait plate of Louis Bosch, Pretre de TOratoire et cure de Tamise. This Louis Bosch was a priest of Tamise, a village about ten miles from Antwerp ; he had a good library, of which the catalogue was published in Louvain, in 1765. The plate is signed " L. Fruytiers f." The motto is " /// lali nunujiiam lassat venalio sylva." (" A hunt in such a forest wearies never"). This plate is reproduced by Mr. Warren, see pp. 117. 178. In the Ex Libris Journal, Vol. III., p. 78, there is a reproduction of the supposed book-plate of Antonio Magliabechi, which gives a portrait of the ugly, eccentric old Florentine librarian, who died in 1714. The evidence as to its use as a book-plate, by Magliabechi himself, is somewhat scanty. Mr. J. Paul Rylands in his " Notes on Book- plates " (p. 12) discusses the question at greater length than is possible here. Mr. Hardy mentions another Italian por- J^ de i^spurr/c. STYLES OF ENGLISH BOOK-PLATBS. 57 trait plate, that of Filippo Linarti, dated lybo, of which, however, I have never seen an example. Of British portrait plates the following are certainly the most interesting, namely, the two of Samuel Pepys engraved by Robert White, after a painting by Kneller ; that of John Hacket, Bishop of Lichfield, by W. Faithorne, reproduced by Mr. Hardy; and the hand-painted Ex Libris of Thomas Barritt, the saddler antiquary of Manchester, dated 1794. See Mr. Rylands' " Notes on Book-plates," p. 12. There are many modern examples : Mr. William John Thorns, the founder of Notes and Queries, which was simply copied from a photograph representing the owner in his study, to which he would add, for his par- ticular friends, the following quatrain : — " If you would fain know more Of him whose photo here is. He coined the word ' Folk-lore,' And started Notes and Queries." Mr. Thorns died in August, 1885, and the gentleman who now edits that "learned, chatty, and useful" little journal, No/es and Queries, Mr. Joseph Knight, has also a portrait book-plate, drawn for liim by the late Mr. William Bell Scott. Mr. Arthur Vicars also mentions a modern nameless plate, done by the late William Bell Scott, as having on it the portrait of its owner, Mr. H. B. Forman. Then there is the portrait plate of Mr. Henry B. Wheatley, o.v., of the Society of Arts, editor of the best and most complete version of the Diary of our old friend Samuel Pepys. This plate is by J. P. Emslie, dated 1 889, and represents the in- terior of his library at 12 Caroline Street, Bedford Square (once the residence of John Kemble), which has since been pulled down. Mr. Henry Stacy Marks has designed a number of Ex Libris, on some of which are figures which may have been intended for portraits of the owners, but those only who enjoy the privilege of their personal ac- quaintance can judge whether this was so. Mr. Egerton Castle gives a reproduction of the portrait plate of Mr. Walter Herries Pollock, M.A., which he styles symbolical, as being a portrait "in character" as a fencer and a poet. This is a photo-etching from a pen drawing by Mrs. Castle. Then there are the portrait plates of Mr. Thomas Jeston White ; of Mr. W. E. Goul- den, of Canterbury, by Hume Nisbet, 1891 ; of Mr. J. Ransome Corder, by Mr. Alan Wright ; of Mr. H. S. Ashbee, f.s.a., mem- ber of Council of the Ex Libris Society ; and of Mr. John Leighton, f.s.a., by him- self. Mr. W. H. K. Wright, the Secretary of the Ex Libris Society, had a portrait plate engraved for himself in 1892. It represents him in his room at the Public Library, Plymouth. Mr. J. Paul Rylands mentions the photo- graph book-plate of the late Mr. Joynson, of Long View, Liscard, Cheshire, which he says is armorial and has no inscription, but he does not say if it has the portrait of the late Mr. Joynson on it. The modern United States plate of Mr. James Phinney Baxter, Portland, Maine, has a portrait of the owner in a corner of his library, with the motto : " Who learns and learns but does not what he knows, is one who plows and plows but never sows." Unfortunately nearly all the modern por- trait plates are reproduced from photographs by what is called " process " work ; very few are actually engraved from portraits as were those of Samuel Pepys and Bishop Hacket, 58 DATED BOOK-PLATES. the two finest English portrait book-plates. The Ex Libris Zeitschrift, Berlin, for July, 1892, contained an article on Portrait Book- plates ; it enumerated twenty-one German examples, six English, and the doubtful book-plate of Magliabechi. All the English have already been described ; the German portrait plates mentioned are : — James von Holtz, not dated .. (15 — ) Joh Cuspinianus .. about 1520 Dr. Georg Hobsinger .. 1539 Franz Pfeil .. .. 1564 Dr. S. Kercher .. .. 156- Ulrich Herzog zu Mecklenburg 1586 Dr. J. Oswald .. .. 1600 Peter Vok Fiirst Ursine . . i6og Joh. Vennitzer .. .. 1618 J. B. Renz, Augsburg .. 1697 G. C. Oe .. 1741 Dr. J. C. W. Mohsen .. 1757 J. B. Nack .. . . 1759 Friedr. Roth-Scholtz .. 17— D.J. G. Krynitz .. .. 1769 F. von Hosson (two) .. 17 — Sigism, Graf von Spreti .. 17 — F. Warnecke .. .. 1878 Theresa Grafin Hahn . . 1890 L. Clericus .. .. 18 — In the Ex Libris Zeitschrift for October, 1893, there is a reproduction of the very fine portrait plate of Herr Karl L. Becker, dated 1893, himself a well-known artist in book-plates. The armorial and portrait plates of Dr. Hieronymus Wolf were reproduced in the Ex Libris Zeitschrift, of Berlin, April, 1894. These are not dated, but have the autograph " Hiero: Wolfii " and the date May 1 1 , MDLXXllll., antl the portrait of Dr. Wolf represents a gentleman with a very decided squint, in the costume of the later part of the sixteenth century. BOOKISH BOOK-PLATES. The Book-Pile. The Library Interior. Literary Book-plates. Mr. Arthur Vicars, Ulster King of Arms, has made a special study of what I may term the three bookish styles of book-plates, and collectors should certainly obtain his valuable illustrated lists on this branch of Ex Libris, published by Mr. W. F. Westcott, Frankfort Press, Plymouth. Book-pile.— This kind of book-plate is peculiarly English, there being only one German, one Italian, and three French ex- amples known ; all of them clearly copied from English originals. The term Book-pile is not a very happy one, but it is sanctioned by usage and gene- rally accepted by collectors, so that it would be useless to endeavour to change it now. It may be briefly described as a square pile of books built up generally in -three tiers, and resting either on other larger volumes disposed horizontally, or on a square archi- tectural plinth, more or less ornamented. Another row of books and papers runs along the top, though how supported is not shown. In the" central space, thus surrounded by books, is either a hanging scroll bearing the owner's name, or, more frequently, a shield bearing his coat-of-arms. The variations are few and unimportant, consequently there is a monotony about this style of book-plate which must be charac- terised indeed as formal, and conventional in the highest degree. The oldest known dated example is that of Sir William St. Quintin, Bart., 1641, but this is probably ante-dated fifty or sixty years, 16^1: being merely the date of the creation of the baronetcy ; and the next STYLES OF ENGLISH BOOK-PLATES. 59 dated specimens, Wm. Hewer and Sr Philip Sydenham, being both dated 1699. Indeed it is highly probable that the latter were both engraved before the St. Quintin plate. Of book-pile plates Mr. Arthur Vicars enumerates about 130, and illustrates the following examples : Henry Coape, of Duf- field ; Stafford Briscoe ; Wm Hewer, of Clapham, 1699; Andrew Perrott ; Hew Scott, A.M. ; and the Rev-d J. Withers, m.a., 1748. Library Interiors.— Mt. vicars is enthusiastic about this species of book- plate. " Of all book-plates," he observes, " perhaps none are so attractive or display such interesting features as what are known as ' Library Interiors,' presenting as they generally do charming pictures of cosy nooks and corners, and often exhibiting an extraordinar)' amount of detail. Besides, what more appropriate subject could be chosen for a book-plate than an interior view of a library .''" In this list Mr. Vicars enumerates all Ex Libris exhibiting interior views of librar- ies, or a portion of a room in which books and book-cases appear ; such plates are both ancient and modern, foreign as well as English. He cites many . distinguished artists and engravers who have produced works in this style towards proving their artistic merit, which his well-chosen re- productions fully corroborate. The follow- ing are some of the plates he illustrates : D. D. d'Archambault ; J. L. Blessig; Louis Bosch ; Rev. W. T. Bree ; Thomas Bolas ; de Danckelman ; C. S. Jordan ; C. Van Hulthem, and Martin Reinhardt. Literary Book-plates.— under this somewhat vague heading a large number of the most incongruous designs are included. The Literary book-plate indeed ranges from one single book to the elaborate and artistic- ally grouped mass of books with appropriate surroundings, which can be made particu- larly effective in the hands of a capable artist. Mr. Vicars admits that he found some difficulties in the classification, and as to determining what to include, and what to exclude. Briefly, the definition is held to include all plates not strictly interiors, or that do not convey the idea of a room, furnished study, or cubical space, but in which books form the prominent features of the design, or are apparent to a considerable degree. Book-plates which are more properly landscape plates with only a few books, in the style of the Esdall plate, are not in- cluded under this heading, nor are Chippen- dale plates in which only one or two volumes appear at the base of the shield frame, and cannot be said to form a prominent feature of the design. Book-plates containing large single books, and such plates as those of Aylesford, Burton, Gray's Inn Library, J. Bernardi Nack, which show disordered piles of books, or fantastically draped bookcases, may be admitted. It might at first sight appear that some of the latter should be included in the Library Interiors, but on examination it will be found that they repre- sent no idea of the interior of a library strictly so called, and no part of the actual architecture of a room is represented in them. Library Interiors to a certain extent speak for themselves, and give but little trouble in identification and classification ; it is other- wise with Literary book-plates, since their designs are so widely different, and include so many incongruous features. Mr. Vicars remarks that " the modern 6o DATED BOOK-PLATES. French specimens come nearer to the reali- sation of what a plate of this class should be than those of any other country, the delicacy and refinement of many French modern Literary Ex Libris being unsur- passed. This may be accounted for by the fact that the best examples of this style of plate are essentially French in their concep- tion and composition." A glance at the typical examples illus- trated by Mr. Vicars will be of more service to the collector in conveying a true idea of what can be properly termed a Literary book-plate than any verbal descriptions. They include the Earl of Aylesford; P. Geo. Crauford, Esq. ; J. Burton; Rev. John Fade; Capt. Edw. Fiott ; Jo. Freudenbergerii ; M. de Joubert ; J. B. Nack ; Viscount Lewis- ham; Thos. Motley; Josh. Scrope ; Francis Nichols ; Thomas Sharp ; and a few others. i^ft-^^^y^^ AMERICAN BOOK-PLATES. THE taste for collecting book-plates has lately made rapid strides in the United States, as is evidenced by the con- tinually increasing number of members of the Ex Libris Society who join from the other side of the Atlantic. Mr. Charles Dexter Allen is not only an energetic Cor- responding Secretar)', but he is also an authority on the book-plates of his native country, and we are promised a history of that branch of the topic from his pen. He will no doubt treat it au fond, but in the meantime a short account of some of the principal facts about American book-plates must be inserted here. The first point to be noted by the collec- tor is that early plates, bearing American names and addresses upon them, were not necessarily designed or engraved in America, the earliest known dated plate of American workmanship being that done by N. Hurd for Thomas Bering in 1749. Book-plates with American addresses and dated early in the eighteenth century cer- tainly exist, but they were doubtless engraved in England. The rich families of the South- ern States sent their sons to the colleges of the mother country to complete their education, and they often had book-plates engraved for themselves whilst over here. Or the owners of libraries in Virginia wrote over to London engravers to order armorial plates to be sent out to them ; instances of this custom have frequently been met with. Not all the Southern plates, however, were imported ; a few in Maryland and Vir- ginia are signed by native engravers, whilst in Pennsylvania there were also a few. Some of these plates bear no signatures, but can be easily recognised as of American workmanship, being inferior in design and execution to those produced in England, and, as might be expected, not so correct in the heraldic details as those engraved by men whose whole attention was devoted to that particular branch of art. Some obscure engravers, for instance, had the opportunity of producing but two or three book-plates, and in many cases plates are found having little woodcuts, or small copper plates used in conjunction with ordinary type. After the War of Independence, and that of 1 81 2, military trophies came into favour, piles of cannon balls, small cannon, muskets, flags, drums, trumpets, etc., being grouped about the shield. Patriotic mottoes and sentiments have always been used, in some cases in addition to the old family motto, in other cases superseding it. Occasionally an owner has invented heraldry for himself, either because he was destitute of a properly authenticated coat-of-arms ; or, from the love of fun and humour native to the soil, he chose to ridicule the old-world notions as to the pride of birth and long descent. Even on modern American plates it is by no means uncommon to meet with " bogus " heraldry which would shock Guillim could he but see it, although, no doubt, the owners who compose these arrangements compla- cently fancy they are carrying out the true spirit of Heraldry, whilst they really violate many of its fundamental rules. The earliest date known on a plate con- nected with America is the plain armorial of William Penn, Proprietor of Pensylvania, 62 AMERICAN BOOK-PLATES. dated 1702, but it is improbable that this was engraved in America. After ids death the inscription on the plate was altered for his son to "Thomas Penn of Stoke Pogeis, in the County of Bucks, First Proprietor of Pensilvania." The word "first" here is probably intended to be read as " head " or " chief proprietor." Collectors should be on their guard as to purchasing copies of the first-named book- plate, as forgeries of it are known to exist. Another notable early plate is that of " Robert Elliston gent, ComptroU of His Majestie's Customs of New York in America. MDCCXXV." This is a fine plate in the Jacobean style; it was no doubt executed in England and sent out to the Colony. Mr. Franks mentions it iij his list. This was reproduced in The Art Amateur, New York, February, 1894. The book- label inscribed "Thomae Prince Liber, Anno Domini, 1704," may be taken as genuinely American, but it consists sim- ply of a rough woodcut border around the name. Part of the Prince library is now in the Boston Public Library. Not until the middle of the eighteenth century do we meet with any number of plates of actual American execution, and then the names of Paul Revere, Nathaniel Hurd, the Mavericks, Henry Dawkins, John- son, Callender, Anderson, Doolittle, Trench- ard, Turner, and other American engravers occur pretty frequently, as the fashion of usmg book-plates gradually spread amongst the educated classes in the States. Of the New England engravers the most renowned in history is Paul Revere — he who made the famous ride into Boston to warn the residents of the approach of the British troops. By trade he was an engraver of silver-ware, but he did not hesitate to use his skill in the production of cartoons and book-plates. Unfortunately he only pro- duced a few of the latter, and they are scarce. All the plates by him are heraldic in form, and true to the rules of the science. Only five signed examples of his work in this line are known to collectors. One of the most prolific and, at the same time, one of the best of the early engravers of American plates, was Nathaniel Hurd, of Boston, and about forty examples of his work are known. Not always strictly accurate in heraldic details, and having mannerisms which showed in almost every plate, he yet succeeded in producing the most finished appearance and the nearest approach to the models of English style, as illustrated in his books on heraldic subjects. Nearly all his patrons were Massachusetts people, and the majority of these from Bos- ton and its near vicinity ; but among ;t them were the Wentworths and Atkinsons, of New Hampshire, the Livingstons, of New York, and the Marchants, of Rhode Island. The plate which he engraved and signed for Thomas Bering, of Massachusetts, is dated 1749 ; this is the first American plate by an American engraver which is both signed and dated, and is remarkable as the work of a youngster barely twenty years old. Mr. Warren mentions the following plates by N. Hurd, namely, Henry Pace; Benjamin Greene, a Jacobean plate dated 1757 ; and Danforth, a Chippendale plate of about 1 760. But perhaps the best known example of his work is the plate he engraved for Harvard College (sf by 3^ inches), which is signed " N. Hurd Sc. Boston." This plate exists in several "states," but only the first is signed. It bears the college arms, encircled by a band, on which is the inscription " Sigill. Coll. Harvard. Cantab. Nov. Angl. 1650" AMERICAN BOOK-PLATES. 63 (the date of the foundation). Nathaniel Hurd was bom in Boston in 1729, and died in 1777. In New York State, the Mavericks, father and son, were the leading makers of book- plates. Some very interesting plates by them are known to collectors, many of which are of old and well-known American families ; the Livingston family had many book-plates, whilst the Clinton, Cutting, Goelet, Hoffman and several other families of the olden time whose descendants are now using their arms, had plates engraved by the Mavericks. George Washington had a book-plate, an armorial Chippendale, with the singularly appropriate motto " Exiltis acta probal" (" The result justifies the deed.") The arms of Washington gave rise to the flag of the United States, the famous Stars and Stripes. The plate bears a strong resemblance to one engraved in England by Bickham for a certain Richard Washington. There is a forged plate of George Wash- ington which, however, was not engraved for its value as a book-plate, but to sell a number of books which it was alleged formerly belonged to George Washington himself, and had been captured in Virginia. That part of the fraud was exposed, but no doubt the forged book-plates are occasionally palmed off on the unwary collor-for. Mr. Lichtenstein's note as to the differences of the real from the sham engraving is there- fore valuable : — " Original examples," he says, " are noticeable for their sharp black impressions on dampened plate paper of a buff colour mellowed by age. Those' of the imitation are printed from a plate which has the appearance of having seen considerable wear ; besides being printed on a dry paper of thin quality, and a bluish colour, by its modern appearance it is easily recognised, the engraving of the name being poorly done." George Washington's successor, John Adams, who was elected President m 1797, had also a book-plate on which were some national emblems, and the American eagle with outspread wings over-shadowed the whole design. Coming down to a more recent date we see the beginning of a national taste show- ing itself in American plates ; the artists are shaking off the trammels of the old-world styles, and striking out in new directions in search of the beautiful and the true. Take as an instance the charming little plate of that "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," Oliver Wendell Holmes, a scroll on which is written " Per ampliora ad alliora" and a nautilus: — " The ship of pearl, the venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer winds its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare." Or the equally charming little plate of their banker poet, Edmund Clarence Stedman — a Pan playing on his pipes to a couple of nymphs, with the motto, " Le Caur an ?nt'lier." There are now many artists in the United States devoting their skill to this class of design, and their names will be met with on numbers of beautiful plates which have been produced during the past ten years. Suffice it now to mention Mr. Edwin Davis French, of New York (whose fine floral work is at times reminiscent of our own master en- graver, Charles W. Sherborn) ; Mr. W. F. Hopson, of New Haven, Connecticut ; Mr. G. R. Halm, D. McN. Stauffer, and J. P. Simonds. More detailed notice of these, and other modern American artists, will be given when treating of the book-plates of the nineteenth century. HINTS ON SELECTING A BOOK-PLATE. AS everyone in these daj's ought to possess books, so also ought every book -lover to possess a book-plate, not necessarily but preferably armorial. If one is certain of the right to bear arms then let them be boldly displayed on the book-plate, for arms are too honourable to be relegated to a mere corner of the plate, or to some little shield of such ignoble dimensions that the charges and tinctures cannot be deciphered. Let there be as much extraneous ornamentation as the owner desires, or the artist can design, but if there be any heraldic insignia they should stand forth boldly in the light of day. An authority on Heraldry has recently issued a warning note against the too pre- valent practice of issuing arms : — " It is, perhaps, not generally known that the use of arms, even for a very long period, does not, in England, create any prescriptive right, and cannot confer any authority on the arms used, unless they have been borne with the sanction of the Crown, which can only be obtained through the Officers of the College of Arms. In other words, in order to bear arms with authority, the wearer must be in a position to show — (i) That he has obtained a grant of arms from the College of Arms ; or (2) That his direct male ancestor formerly obtained such a grant, or was entitled to bear arms by virtue of the limita- tions of a grant ; or (3) That his direct male ancestor had arms allowed to him at one of the Heralds' Visitations, although the grant then made is not in existence at the present day." Ladies may remember that their arms should be placed in a lozenge, or on an oval framework, but never on a shield, nor should they use helmet, crest, wreath, or motto, these being warlike emblems unsuited to their gentle natures. Indeed, before a lady orders an armorial book-plate, she should be well advised by some impartial friend as to the absolute correctness of its heraldic details, for more errors in blazon are to be found on the book-plates of ladies than on any other kind ; perhaps that is one reason why some collectors attach so much impor- tance to obtaining ladies' plates. That the design, in other respects than its armorial character, should possess some allu- sion to its owner's profession, tastes, hobbies, or favourite pastime, is a generally accepted proposition, and hundreds of modern plates point to the love of sports which have in themselves but little affinity to books. A portrait plate may appear to savour somewhat of vanity, yet to open a borrowed book and see within it the face of the right- ful owner is calculated to touch the con- science of a book borrower, if, indeed, anything can. Certainly in after years por- trait plates become of the greatest interest, witness those of Samuel Pepys and William J. Thorns, of Notes and Queries. Having fixed upon a suitable design the question of how to reproduce it has to be solved, and this is mainly a matter of money. A handsome book-plate is a thing of beauty that is a joy for ever, whilst one that is inappropriate, faulty in design, or poor in execution is an eyesore, and the source of constant irritation. As a really well designed and engraved book-plate may last one for a life-time it is false economy to study too closely its initial cost. Engraved copper plates are rather expen- sive both in themselves and in the printing from them, but they are generally the most HINTS ON SELECTING A BOOK-PLATE. 65 effective ; although in cases where the design is very bold and clear a skilful engraver may produce a woodcut which in its simple gran- deur may be quite as artistic in its way as a copper -plate engraving. Collectors who possess examples of the works of Mr. Harry Soane will be able to judge of the beauty of a woodcut Ex Libris when produced by a master in his art. As to the various "process" reproductions economy may suggest their employment, but seldom indeed are the results satisfactory ; more frequently all the spirit of a design appears to evaporate, and leave only a flat, insipid suggestion of the artist's work. As an instance I may mention a charming design made by Mr. C. W. Sherborn for the Library of the Chartered Accountants, in 1893, which was originally drawn with the idea that it would be afterwards engraved, when its figures, and rich waving masses of mantling, would have stood out in bold relief. It was " processed," and the beauty of the design was entirely lost. It is not uncommon for collectors of books to have a special book-plate prepared for each of the topics on which they collect; thus Colonel F. Grant had some six or eight different designs. These were labelled " First Editions," " Johnsoniana," "The Heroes of the Dunciad," "From Curll's Chaste Press," etc. The late Mr. Charles Morse also had a number of very fanciful designs, printed in brilliant red, black, and yellow, with mottoes in praise of books. I think Mr. John Leighton designed some of these. Probably few collectors possess a com- plete set of the beautiful plates of Mr. Robert Day, f.s.A., of Cork, nor of those of Mr. Gleeson White, or Mr. John Cotton F.R.I.B.A., of Birmingham. As both Mr. White and Mr. Cotton designed many of their own plates they possess additional personal interest. Mr. Charles John Shop- pee, President of the Surveyors' Institution, has also some eight or ten varieties of book-plates. Plates in different sizes to suit the various forms of books are frequently used — those, for instance, of such well-known collectors as the Rev. Mr. Carson and Mr. George Clulow, whilst the quaint plate "In Memory of R. McNeil," shows the Prince of Dark- ness carving his epitaph, in four sizes. Mr. Thomas Moring, of High Holborn, London, has issued some notes on the pro- duction and use of book-plates for the information of his customers. As he has himself produced many modern armorial book-plates he speaks with all the authority of an expert, and I therefore venture to quote the following paragraphs from his circular : — " Book-plates, or Ex Libris as they are sometimes called to distinguish them from book illustrations, are usually engraved either upon copper or wood, according to the treatment of the design, which may consist either of bold lines and masses of colour, when it lends itself to wood-block engraving ; or of delicate lines and tones, when the copper-plate is the best medium for reproduction. " The use of copper-plates has the disadvantage that the finer lines of the engraving so soon show signs of wear, and after a certain time the whole engraving becomes faint and imperfect. This diffi- culty has hitherto been overcome by the laborious and expensive method of engraving upon steel instead of copper plates, and this alternative is sometimes resorted to even now ; but it is found that by electro-depositing a coating of steel upon the engraved surface of a copper-plate, the chief advantage of steel, namely, its durability, is ob- tained, and at the same time the engraver enjoys the use of the softer metal. It is recommended, therefore, that when five hundred or more impres- sions are likely to be required, the plate should be thus treated. " Instead of using a wood block for printing, it is usual to take an 'electrotype' for that purpose. The original engraving is thus preserved, and fresh electros can be taken when required. I 66 DATED BOOK-PLATES. "Although it no doubt saves trouble and patience, it is better not to have the labels gummed, because gummed paper is very hard and makes a bad medium for printing. In copper-plate printing, in order to bring up all details perfectly, it is often necessary to damp the paper slightly, and this of course is impossible when the paper is gummed, for labels cannot be gummed after they are cut or printed. The use of paste is very cleanly, and sticks the paper more evenly than gum ; and, if a number of books are labelled at one time, the trouble is scarcely greater than when the labels are adhesive and have to be wetted." EARLY MENTION OF BOOK-PLATES. AS already explained in the chapter on German book-plates these marks of ownership appear to have been adopted by literary men and book collectors in Germany quite a century earlier than in any other country. A very old French or English dated woodcut might, of course, yet be found, but it is exceedingly improbable. Before dealing with the early book-plates of our own nation it may be as well to recapitulate, as briefly as possible, a few of the most important dates connected with the earliest known Ex Libris of Germany. In that country, as in others, many of the earliest examples appear to have been gift-plates, intended to distinguish books presented by individuals to certain libraries. A rough woodcut said to have been used as a book-plate by one Hans Knabensperg, alias Igler, and representing a hedgehog (igd) with a flower in its mouth, has been assigned to about 1450. Some thirty years later occurs the gift-plate of Hildebrand Brandenburg of Biberach to the monastery of Buxheim, on which is an angel bearing a shield of arms. Albert Durer is believed to have designed at least twenty book-plates, one of which (that of Bilibald Pirckheimer, circa 1503) appears as a frontispiece to Lord de Tabley's " Guide." Another, inscribed "Liber Hier- onymi Ebner," is the first dated book-plate on record; the year is 1516. A third, designed for Dr. Hector Pomer, last prior of St. Lawrence, Nuremberg, and engraved on wood by one R. A. in 1525, is given in the introductory chapter of "English Book-Plates." This is the earliest signed book-plate known. A large woodcut by Lucas Cranach, in- tended ^nd employed as a book-plate, represents the daughter of Baron Tucher of Simmelsdorff', who was the wife of Dr. Christopher Scheurl, upholding the crested escutcheons of both families. A still larger cut, by Durer, is of somewhat similar arrange- ment, but more elaborate. The female figure in this plate appears to be merely typical. Another cut, ascribed to Cranach the younger, and not engraved earlier than 1545, represents the jurist and his two sons kneel- ing before a crucifix, at the foot of which lie certain arms belonging to the family. This cut has been badly coloured. These EARLY MENTION OF BOOK-PLATES. 67 three unusuall}' interesting plates are repro- duced in Dr. Howard's Miscellanea Genea- logica et Heraldica, Vol. II., Second Series. Not one of them bears an artist's name or mark. M. Henri Hymans, of the Cabinet d'Es- tampes de la Biblioth(^que Royale, in Brussel s, showed me a small copper-plate engraved book-plate, about 2| inches diameter, signed P.P.W., an engraver of whom nothing is known. Although not dated its age can be pretty accurately fi.xed, as it was found on a MS. which was completed in 147 1, and bears the arms of Walter de Blisia, Chanoine d'Aix la Chapelle. Mr. H. Hymans, relying upon various other considerations, has ar- rived at the conclusion that the plate was certainly engraved before 147 1, and is the earliest engraved book-plate with which he is acquainted. I am unable to support Mr. Hymans' theor\-, but give it a place here. Any connoisseur visiting Brussels may be sure of a courteous reception at the Biblio- th^que Royale, where this little literary curiosity can be inspected. We have seen that M. Poulet-Malassis gives 1574 as the year of the first dated French E.x Libris ; M. Stoeber claims for Alsace a more ancient Ex Libris, which is not dated, but from its history must have been engraved before 1 5 6 1 . It belonged to Conrad Wolfhardt, who pedantically trans- lated his family name into Lycosthenes. He was born at Rouffach in 15 18, studied at Heidelberg, became a professor at Bale, where he died on the isth March, 1561. His book-plate appears to have been en- graved on some soft metal, either lead or pewter; there is no attempt to show the tinctures on the shield, which is surmounted by a death's head and hoar-glass. The design is surrounded bv Latin mottoes, and beneath is the inscription " Symbolum Con- radi Lycosthenis Rubeaquensis." In June, 1881, M. Auguste Stoeber pub- lished a pamphlet entitled " Petite Revue d'Ex- Libris Alsaciens, par Auguste Stoeber, avec un fac-simile de I'Ex- Libris de C. Wolfhardt, dit Lycosthenes, de Rouffach." Mulhouse, Veuve Bader et Cie, 1881. M. Stoeber died a few years later, and his little pamphlet is now exceedingly scarce. Sweden, we are told, boasts of a plate dated as early as 1575, Switzerland of one in 1607, and Italy of one dated 1623. The first English book-plate appeared in the reign of Henry VIII. Within the cover of a folio volume of " Concilia," which came to the British Museum in 1757, with the remains of the old librar}' of the Kings of England from the time of Henry VII., is a large plate, apparently a wood-cut, which is probably unique, and seems to be the earliest English specimen. It displays the arms of Cardinal Wolsey, in gold and col- ours, supported by two griffins. These carr}' pillars, which are amongst the recognized insignia of a Cardinal. This plate, with its curious architectural border, is very well reproduced, in metals and colours, in the second series of Mr. Griggs's " Examples." Its date must be between 15 15 and 1530. The only known English book-plates of the reign of Queen Elizabeth are two ; that of Sir Nicholas Bacon, dated 1574, and intended to mark books which he gave to the University of Cambridge ; and the Tresame book-plate, dated 1585. The for- mer of these shows the arms of Bacon quartering Quaplode, engraved on wood, and coloured by hand. Only two copies of this plate are known to exist, one of which is in the University Library, Cambridge. A reproduction of this most interesting Ex 68 DATED BOOK-PLATES. Libris is the first of the " Eighty - three Examples of Armorial Book-plates," pub- lished by Mr. W. Griggs in 1884, now one D^.'Baccn eauci atirattii ^ ma^m fgi^l' r-y1ngliac Cujfoi lionim huncbi- iJtolhecae Cng.dicauit, of the rarest and most coveted works on Book-plates. As for the " Sr. Tho Tre- same, Knight," which displays twenty- five quarterings, it appears to have been en- graved on copper, and has been reproduced several times. The earliest known dated Scotch book- plate is the label of Mr. Thomas Nicholson, of Aberdeen, dated 1610, which is very scarce. A handsome book-plate with the arms of William Willmer, Esq., records his gift of books to Sidney-Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1613. Two of the finest and rarest of all English book-plates are those of Sir Edward Bering, Knight and Baronet, dated 1630. T+iey are of large dimensions, and similar in outline. One exhibits the Bering arms, twelve quarters, with helm, crest, mantle, a motto in Saxon characters, and two badges. There are no tincture lines in this example. The other plate answers nearly to the same description, but shows twenty quarters, with tincture lines. The latter plate, if not an alteration of the for- mer, was certainly engraved from the same drawing. The existence of tincture lines in the second plate would cast doubt upon the accuracy of the date, were it not for the fact that the lines do not agree with the system of Petra Sancta, but appear to belong to the unsettled period before that system was accepted by armorists in general. The anonymous Lyttleton book-plate (as- cribed to Edward Lyttleton, Lord Keeper, 1 641), was engraved by William Marshall. It is the earliest English book-plate with an engraver's name, and one of the earliest showing the tinctures by the conventional lines as now received. "It is curious," says Lord Be Tabley, " but I think perfectly certain, that the fashion of having book-plates in private libraries was singularly late in reaching England ; and many of the earliest speci- mens which we have, show to my mind a foreign influence, and are very likely the work of foreign engravers. An ancestor of my own, a certain Sir Peter Leicester, a most exact and laborious antiquary and a thorough bookworm, lived in the time of the Civil Wars and on till past the Restoration. I have all his library and all his MSS. He was the man of all others quite certain to have 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 place in his library. I think 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. The EARLY MENTION OF BOOK-PLATES. 69 custom seems to have come in first for the purpose of recording book legacies to col- leges and such institutions." After the Restoration book-plates occur more frequently, but they were not numerous until very near the close of the centur)', and contemporary allusions to them are compa- ratively rare. Perhaps the earliest, and one of the most interesting of these references is to be ■ found in the Diary of Samuel Pepys, where, under date July 21st, 1668, is the following memorandum ; — " Went to my plate-maker's, and there spent an hour about contriving my little plates for my books of the King's four Yards." This no doubt refers to the small plate with the two anchors in saltire, motto " Jl/erts cujusque is est quis- que," which is reproduced in Mr. Castle's book, and not to either of the portrait plates, which are larger. The next mention is to be found in the letter of an uneducated man, whose foreign birth may, however, partly account for his peculiar orthography. David Loggan, an engraver of German birth, writing to Sir Thomas Isham in 1676, thus refers to book-plates : — " Sir, I send you hier a Print of your Cote of Arms. I have printed 200, wich I will send with the plate by the next return, and bege the favor of your keind excepttans of it as a small Niew Yaers Gift, or a aknowledgment in part for all your favors. If anything in it be amies, I shall be glade to mend it. I have taken the Heralds painter's defection in it ; it is very much used amongst persons of Quality to past ther Cotes of Armes befor ther bookes instade of wreithing ther Names." Unfortunately the " heralds painter " mis- led Loggan, whose plate, although very artistic, erred in two important details. He omitted the mark of baronetcy, the bloody hand of Ulster, and he placed the helmet in profile with the vizor closed, as for an esquire, instead of full faced with the vizor raised as for a baronet. Evidently Sir Thomas Isham drew Loggan's attention to these errors, for shortly afterwards he wrote again : — " I ame sorry that the Cote is wronge ; I have taken the herald's derection in it, but the Foole did give it wrong. The altering of the plate will be very trublesome, and therfor you will be presented with a newe one, wich shall be don without fait, and that very sudenly. And if you plase, Sir, to give thies plate and the prints to your Brothers, it will serve for them." Mr. Hardy gives a reproduction of the first, or incorrect plate, and mentions that the present baronet. Sir Charles Isham, showed him a copy of the corrected design sent by Loggan, doing duty as a book-plate in a volume in which it had evidently been placed at the time it was received by Sir Thomas Isham in 1676. Nicholas Carevv, afterwards Sir Nicholas Carew, baronet, thus records in his accounts, on the 19th February, 1707, a payment for his book-plate, which is dated in that j-ear; " For Coat of Arms impressing £1 is. 6d. ; and a few months later is an entrj- " For 300 armes. 7s. 6d." About 1746 Sir Robert Strange engraved an interesting book-plate for his brother-in- law Andrew Lumisden; this is signed "R. Strange, sculpt." Lumisden, in a letter dated June 1748, refers to it as the mark of my books. In 1743 Joseph Barber, a bookseller at Newcastle, published a large folio print of the equestrian statue of King James II. which then stood in that town, accompanied with two large plates of the arms of the subscribers to the print of the statue ; each coat of arms being ij by ij inch in size, very neatly engraved. A year or two later the publisher advertised Sie individual arms in the following terms : — 70 DATED BOOK-PLATES. " This h to give notice " To the Gentlemen and Ladies, whose arms are engraved on the plates of the Equestrian Statue of King 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 copperplate, and proposes to deliver to each Gentleman whose Arms are inserted, the plate of his Arms and loo prints on a fine paper at the price of 2s. bil. The Design of this proposal is an 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. " To have a Plate engraved will cost los. 6d. N.B. — At Mr. Parker's Cockpit on the 15th inst., will be fought a Welsh Main, for a pretty piece of work worthy the observation of the curious." Had the term "book-plate" been com- monly known in Barber's time he surely would have used it instead of the e.xpression in this advertisement. In Horace Walpole's " Catalogue of En- gravers," the edition of 1771, he speaks of George Vertue having engraved " a plate to put in Lady O.xford's books." Probably the earliest instance of the use in print of the actual term "book-plate" occurs in 1791, when John Ireland published the first two volumes of his " Hogarth Illustrated." In this he says that the works of Callot were probably Hogarth's first models, and "shop bills and book plates his first perform- ances." Again, in 1798, Ireland refers to the "book plate" for George Lambart the herald painter, which Hogarth had executed. This plate is reproduced in Mr. Hardy's interesting work on book-plates, and as that gentleman truly remarks, the term formerly used, "plates of arms," is inappropriate and too narrow in its scope, as some of the most valuable and the most beautiful book- plates have nothing armorial about them. The earliest known collector of book- plates was John Bagford, the typographical antiquary, who died in 171 6. Some rare examples are amongst his MSS., in the British Museum. In 1893 the Miscellanea Genealogica el Hcraldica published the following letter re- lating to Irish book-plates : — " A collection of Irish book-plates, made about 1750, was discovered by me among the MSS. of the late Sir Bernard Burke, which are now m my pos- session. This is, I believe, the earliest collection of Irish book-plates in existence. " H. Farnham Burke, Somerset. " Heralds' College, London, E.G. " April 28, 1893." Messrs. Mitchell & Hughes, of London, announced that the plates in this collection were to be fac-similed and issued in book form, but hitherto this excellent idea has not been carried out. To refer again to the early literature on the topic, it may be mentioned that the first printed descriptive notice of book-plates in English occurs in a singular book entitled " Mems., Maxims, and Memoirs," written by William Wadd, Esq., f.l.s., Surgeon Ex- traordinary to the King, and published in London by Callow & Wilson in 1827. The paragraph on book-plates occurs on p. 146: " Among the whimsicalities in which the learned have indulged their fancy, might be noticed the extraordinary devices for Frontispieces with which even grave subjects have been illustrated, and the ornamental decorations affixed to books. " In the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons there are many volumes formerly the property of the celebrated Douglas, having his arms embellished with various kinds of surgical instruments, which was by no means an uncommon practice, as in the Library of the College of Physicians there are many examples of Volumes, where the former pos- sessor has not only blazoned his own arms, but borrowed the arms of the College, and superadded supporters in the persons of certain medical deities EARLY MENTION OF BOOK-PLATES. 71 as Apollo, Mercurj", jEsculapius, and his daughter Hygeia. " Many other specimens might be enumerated, from the stamp denoting Royal property, to the ' Ejus Liber ' of the school-boy. " Guy Patin wrote on the front of his books ' Guy Patini et amicorum.' "Another Doctor, not so liberal, makes his say ' Sum Martini.' " Dr. Gerhard, of Jena, not only informed the world to whom his books belonged, but gave some excellent advice : — D. O. S. Bibliothecae Gerhardinae Pars Sum Cave Ne Macules Ne Laceres Ultra Mensem ne e dicta Bibliotheca Apud te retineas Furari Noli.* I belong to the Gerhardian Library ; take care not to blot or tear me, and do not keep me out of the Library more than a month, above all do not offer to steal me." But the first attempt to deal seriously with the topic was a paper on " Book-plates " written by the Rev. Mr Daniel Parsons, and printed in 1837 in "The Third Annual Report of the Oxford University Archajolo- gical and Heraldic Society," published by J. Vincent, Oxford. Mr. Warren (now Lord de Tabley) refers in his " Guide " (published in 1880), in eulogistic terms to this article, and adds, "at a later date, in 1851, Mr. Parsons announced his intention of writing a history of book-plates. This unfortunately he never lived to publish, but Mr. Parsons deserves a grateful commemoration as the first Eng- lish writer on the subject of ex libris." As a curious addendum to that note may be inserted the opening lines of an article which appeared in the Anliquarian Magazine and Bibliographer in January, 1883 : — " It is an unusual event in a person's life to see his epitaph. I had that gratification on opening 'A Guide to the Study of Book- plates, by the Hon. J. Leicester Warren, M.A.' In the preface to this admirable work I found myself mentioned, as not having survived, with a kindly remembrance which might have come from the pen of an old friend. I was able to inform him of the only mistake which I could discover in his book." Mr. Parsons (who explains that having left the Church of England he had relin- quished the title of a clergyman) then proceeds, in the course of two long and able articles, to discourse learnedly of the styles, details, and inscriptions on a number of early plates, and this chapter on the early mention of book-plates may be fitly con- cluded in the words with which he brings his essay to a close : "I quit with regret the endless details of a pursuit which is now perceived to be a study, and is recognised as having a distinguished place in the history of Art. The fact that it necessarily includes Genealogy and Heraldry gives to it another value." ARBITRARY DATES, AND DOUBTFUL PLATES. UNDER this heading I propose to deal with a few book-plates which do not appear to have been engraved at the dates shown upon them. Some of these dates are obviously incorrect, and for want of explanation appear absurd ; others can only be detected by a comparison of the styles, or by tracing the pedigrees of the families. Frequently the date upon a plate alludes to the creation of a title, the accession to family honours, or the acquisition of certain estates. Then there are plates in which the dates and addresses, and sometimes the Christian names have been altered ; of this a notable instance is Sir John Brownlowe, 1698. Sir John did not succeed his father Sir William till 1700, but he adopted his father's book- plate, altering the Christian name and modifying the arms, but leaving the title and old date. Another curious instance is in the plates of Lord and Lady Roos, 1700. These are from the same plate, which was originally engraved for Lady Roos, and the inscription has been altered to Lord Roos. There are also some early heraldic engra- vings which are often passed off as book- plates, and these are sometimes dated. Another class of book-plates of which the dates must be received with caution are those recording gifts to libraries. Such plates as the Sir N. Bacon, 1574, the William Willmer, 161 3, and the Dowager Countess of Bath, 1671, which record individual gifts, were probably engraved about the dates mentioned, but this may not have been the case with many of the library and college printed labels. Librarians may have had these labels printed long after the dates upon them, as records of donations. For instance, the Pembroke College label of Andrews, Bishop of Winchester, 1589, has the same framework as that of Dr. Thurlin, of St. John's, dated 171+. Then there are figures or dates on certain Ex Libris which appear to have no meaning at all, such as "+24 El Moro"; about several of these I have no explanations to offer, and shall be glad to receive solutions from my readers. A few plates are older than their inscrip- tions lead one to suppose. Thus, the armorial ex libris of The Honble Charles James Fox, who was born in 1749 and died in 1806, was engraved for his half-uncle, " Charles Fox of the Parish of St Martin's-in-the-Fields, Esq 1702," and the inscription has been altered. Another example of about the same date, in which the inscription has evidently been partially altered, is the large plate of " Mar- tin Stapylton Esq of Myton in the County of York A.D. 1 8 17," which has a helmet full faced, denoting that the original owner was a knight or baronet: this was probably en- graved about 1 7 10-17 1 5 for Sir Br)'an Stapvlton the second baronet, who died in the year 1727. See Rylands' "Notes on Book-plates," p. 6. Occasionally an approximate idea of the date of an Ex Libris, or, at any rate, of the impression from the plate, may be formed when the water-mark on the paper bears a, SiMOX SCRpOPE,OFDANBY SUPErYoREJN CoMXBCaRXSQ.lg>8. quarters as his Complete Atcliie-vTiieiit, Ly ri^t of Descent iirom Heirs y / c^ Gen eraL^diefe fever al Coats ox Arnxs, ^iz,. Bucii'i. '7' ■k ., -^-. -^, ^ -^ „ „ nmitillarlcfjSuejtcr. tp^WdkriZlh^arLaf^ , ^ .... ^£&Z-^hrJ0!arTra{^er£pri.S2,.Qfrr/rfiaCfn^/jirfMihU:i/jBarm.2^^ T il \ ''S.^tZ^hu}XiC-^ikrUii-J.ldj:u/iucafIrelznI.z^^nM!^,o^ I, -IcfC/uim ARBITRARY DATES, AND DOUBTFUL PLATES. 73 date. But this evidence must be received with caution, and not relied upon unless supported by other details, as it is well known that there are men who collect fly- leaves and blank pages from old books, on which are printed fac-similes of rare play bills, and impressions from the plates of Ex Libris whose owners have long since been gathered to their fathers. Caveat emptor. 4.24. — "Fll Moro." Armorial plate, signed Dreka. 1066. — "Manne." Armorial plate; motto, " Je sill's content." 1283. — " Sigillum Dmi. Simonis de Dray- tona." An armorial seal ; no motto. Plate of Henry Philip Ernest Drayton. Modern. 1287-13 1 3. — Nameless plate. (Lloyd.) See £^x Libris Journal, Vol. III., p. 79. 1315. — "TheTower of Alloa built prior to 1 3 1 5 ." A view of the desolate looking build- ing, reproduced in Griggs's second series, plate 54. No motto. D. Lizars, sculpt. (Alloa Park is the scat of the Erskine family, Earls of Mar.) I 342. — "Francis." Plain armorial, no other inscription. 1390. — "John Homfrey berys sable im- palyd of Ermyn." A coloured plate showing a Knight, armed cap-d-pie, on a charger whose housings are paly sable and ermine. 1436. — A Nameless plate. Two small shields on one larger shield, suspended from a tree, '^loitoes, " Je pense plus," " Unione fortior" ' Reproduced in Griggs's Second Series, plate 97. Arms of Erskine, Earl of Mar, one of the oldest noble families of Scotland. 15 13. — " Date of the Battle of Spurs." 1515. — " Gentilitia Familiae Leoninac." Armorial plate; crest, a demi-lion. No motto. 1559. — " Biblioth^que du Consistoirc de I'Eglise Fran^aise du Refuge d Berlin." Armorial allegorical plate ; motto, " Post tenebras lux." 1563. — "T.H.D. confirmed 1563." Crest, A dexter arm holding a battle-a.ve, surrounded by a garter bearing the motto, " Strike Dakyns ! The Devil's in the Hempe." The crest and motto of Dakyns, an old Derby- shire family. According to the legend, an enemy of the king had taken refuge in a pile of hemp ; Dakyns having discovered the fugitive was commanded to strike him with his battle-axe, which he did and killed him on the spot. 1565. — H. C.Burnett. Highgate School. " Schol. Lib. Gram. Rogeri Cholmeley, Mil." Armorial ; no motto. Probably the date of the foundation of the Grammar School. +h by 3^ ins. 1573. — John Norris. Armorial plate ; no motto. 1584.—" Talbot of Gonvile's Hall in Wy- mondham Co Norfolk." An armorial plate with twelve quarterings. No crest or motto. 4 by 3 ins. 1584. — Ober KampfiT d'Abrum, 1584. A modern armorial plate designed and en- graved by E. O. (Mr. E. OberkampfF, of Alais.) 1590. — Richard James Spiers, O.xford. Armorial plate, 3J by 2^ ins. Motto, " Dum Spiro Spero." Probably engraved about i860. 1613. — Owen's Grammar School. Found- ed 1 61 3. Pictorial. 1 615. — Sir Oswald Walter Brierly. Marine painter to Her Majesty. Armorial pictorial, 3 by 2 ins. motto, " Vouloir c est pouvoir." A modern design by Mr. John Lcighton. 1624. — John P. Woodbury. The armorial plate of the President of the Odd Volumes of Boston, U.S..\. 1624 is the date his 74 DATED BOOK-PLATES. ancestor settled in America. No motto. 3 J by 2 J ins. 1628. — Strangford. A crest; motto, " Virtus incendit vires." 2| by 2^ ins. Creation of Viscount Strangford in the Peerage of Ire- land 1628. Title now e.xtinct. 1630. — Mooney, of Moone, Co Kildare. Armorial ; motto, " Virltis sola nohili/al." 1641. — Sir William St Quintin Bart. This is the earliest dated book-pile plate, but Mr. Vicars remarks of it that the date given is that of the creation of the baronetcy, and the plate probably belongs to a much later period. It may have belonged to Sir William St. Quintin (the great grandson of the first Baronet) who died in 1723. 1650. — "Sigill: Coll: Harvard. Cantab Nov. Angl." The armorial plate of Harvard Col- lege, Cambridge, New England, U.S.A., engraved and signed by N. Hurd, of Boston, about 1755. Various later copies exist not signed. Motto " Chris/o ct Ecclesiae." 5I by 3t ins. 1662. — Sir Francis Fust of Hill Court, in the County of Gloucester. The celebrated Fust book-plate, though dated 1662 (the year of the creation of the baronetcy), cannot be earlier than 1728, when Sir Francis succeeded to the title. There are in fact four plates, two small and two large ones (6f by 3^ ins.) the latter containing forty quarters, each with a name above it, in two divisions, labelled respec- tively " Manages in the male line," and "Mariages in the female line." Sir Francis died in 1769, and the title expired ten years later. I recently purchased a small volume en- titled "A Companion for the Penitent and Persecuted : consisting of Directions and Devotions for Persons troubled in Mind, and those who suffer for Righteousness, etc. By John Kettlewcll, late Vicar of Coles- Hill in Warwickshire. London, Printed for R. K. and are to be sold by Sam. Keble at the Turks Head in Fleet Street 1696." On the fly-leaf, in a contemporary hand, is written " Nics Tooker His Book 171 1." Now this Nicholas Tooker was a merchant of Bristol whose daughter, Fanny, on Sept. 28, 1724, became the wife of Francis Fust, who succeeded to the baronetcy in 1728. On one of the smaller undated plates " Sr Francis Fust Baronett" bears the arms of Fust (six quarters) impaling Tooker, whilst on the larger plate the Tooker arms appear on one of the quarterings. Fortu- nately both these plates were fixed in this small volume, one at each end of it, and it may re-assure opponents of book-plate col- lecting to learn that I do not intend to remove these two from their interesting surroundings. A full description of the Fust plates will be found in the Ex Libris Journal, Vol. IL, p. 65, but it may be mentioned that the allusions therein contained to a kinsmanship between Fust, the printer of Mayence, and the Fust family of Hill Court, are more fanciful than real. On this particular point a letter from a descendant of the family, Mr. Henry Jenner, will be found in the Ex Libris Journal, Vol. II., p. 108. It will suffice to say here that 1662 was the date of the creation of the first baronet (Sir Edward Fust), to which title Sir Francis Fust, of Hill Court, succeeded in 1728. i66g. — Gilbert Nicholson of Balrath in the County of INIeath Esqr- An armorial plate ; motto, " Pro Rcpublica." Reproduced (in a reduced size) in Mr. Castle's book. Of this plate Mr. Franks remarks : " It has the date at which the Balrath property was acquired, and is identical in design, and no ARBITRARY DATES, AND DOUBTFUL PLATES. 75 doubt by the same engraver, and executed at the same time as Thomas Carter, 1722." 1679. — Sr- Robert Clayton of the City of London Knight Alderman & Mayor thereof Ano. 1679. Early English Armorial, 3^ by 3 inches ; no motto. I do not see much reason to doubt the date upon this plate, but I will quote Mr. Warren's opinion : " Here the date of Sir Robert's office is recorded as the main fact in his life, but the plate was probably not engraved till some years after. Sir Robert was the wealthiest city merchant of his time, and only second to the earlier Gresham in civic importance. He had a magnificent house in the Old Jewry, and a wonderful villa at Marden in Surrey. There is an amazingly pompous tomb of Sir Robert and his wife at the Church of St. Mary at Bletchingly, where Sir Robert lies under a lofty canopy in his robes as Lord Mayor." The plate of Sir Robert e.xists in two " states," the variation being that in one example the crest springs from a wreath, whilst in the other the crest rises out of a mural crown ; the crest in each case being the same, namely, a leopard's jambe erect, argent, grasping a pellet. 1679. — David Paynter of Dale Castle, Pembrokeshire. A Chippendale plate, in the Chetham Library, which Mr. J. Paul Rylands considers was probably engraved almost a century later than the date it bears. See his " Notes on Book-plates," p. 6. 1680. — Nicolas des Champs-Gerault. An armorial plate with supporters. Motto, " En bon espoir." 1686. — William Twemlowe of Hatherton in Cheshire Esq. Early Armorial ; motto, " Teneo. Temere Majores." Mr. J. Paul Rylands observes that the Mr. William Twemlow, who appears to have had this plate engraved, died in 1843. 1697. — Thomas Tertius Okey. This is a very peculiar armorial engraving, and authorities are divided in opinion as to its genuine character as a book-plate. The only example I have ever seen, or heard of, was found in an odd volume (Vol. H.) of " The Athenian Oracle : Being an entire collection of all the Valuable Questions and Answers in the old Athenian Afercuries. By a member of the Athenian Society. London, Printed for Andrew Bell, at the Cross Keys and Bible, in Cornhil, near Stocks Market,* 1703." On the back of the title-page was written in an old flourishing hand, "Thomas Tertius Okey, Medicinae Professor, Febr 1 2th 1 70^." The plate is armorial. The shield is en- veloped in a large draped mantle gathered up in a bunch at each side. Below the shield on a scroll is the motto, " Okey arbore Jove vulneratus sed non vielus" ; just beneath this motto is another large scroll on which are the names " Thomas Tertius Okey, Medicinae Professor," with the following legend : — " Great Grandson to William Okey (usually cal'd Okely) of Church Norton betwixt Gloucester & Tewxbury Gentelman Grandson to Thomas Primus Okey of Church Norton the Devizes and Taunton Professor of Theology Eldest son to Thomas Se- cundus Okey of the Devizes and London Professor of Physick, and Father to Thomas Quartus Okey of London Gentelman : The above mentioned Thomas Tertius Okey Professor of Physick now Liveth in London near the Bodys of his Deceased Relations." Round the four edges of the plate ran the statement : — " A true Physician understands Physically the Divine Science of healeing [s/V] in all its parts which are Physick Chyrurgery Anatomy Chymistry Materia Medica Pharmacy and the Mathematicks to which the practice of Divinity ought to be added." * The London Mansion House now occupies the site of the old Stocks Market. 76 DATED BOOK-PLATES. In each corner of the plate is a separate crest, and in the bottom left-hand corner the date, 1697. 171 1. — Thos. Legg, Born Nov. 19, 171 1. This is an armorial plate, signed R. M. (Mountaine), and was probably engraved about 1750, at which period Mountaine pro- duced most of his book-plates. 1762. — Sr- William Robinson, Baronett of Newby, in the County of York. Originally engraved for his grandfather in 1702; the " o " was turned into a " 6." 1 766. — Donaldson, Williamshaw. Ayrshire. Plain Armorial ; motto, " Aui Pax aut Bel- Itim," 3f by z^ inches. Probably engraved about 1820-30. 1768. — John Homfray. Armorial; motto, " L' Homme vrai aime son pays." Much more modern work than 1768. 1783. — This date, and the motto " Quis separabit," belong to the order of St Patrick, and are found principally on the book-plates of Irish noblemen (see the Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Farnham, Viscount Wolse- ley, etc.). The date is that of the creation of the order, but book-plate dealers will occasionally try to pass it off as the date of the book-plate on which it occurs. 1795. — Fr. Dickins. Armig. Early Eng- lish armorial, 3-^ by zi ins. No motto. Probably an old plate altered; judging by the style it may have been first engraved before 1740. Further information on Arbilraiy Dates may be found in the works of Mr Warren, Mr. Franks, Mr. J. Paul Rylands and Mr. Hardy, whilst I may also mention an ex cellent article by Mr. William Bolton, entitled " Anachronisms in Book-Plates," which appeared in the Ex Libris Journal, Vol. II. (p. 17). It is scarcely necessary to say that this information should be carefully noted by all who wish to be able to detect errors in the apparently early dates on Ex Libris, which are often dangerous pitfalls for the ignorant or unwary collector. DATED BOOK-PLATES. THERE are three names which arc held in especial honour by lovers of heraldry and collectors of book-plates ; it is scarcely necessary to say that I allude to Lord de Tabley, Sir A. WoUaston Franks, K.C.B., F.R.S., and the Reverend Thomas W. Carson, m.a., of Dublin. As I am probably under greater obligations to these gentlemen than any other collector, it is not only my duty, but it is also a very great pleasure to acknowledge my indebtedness to them at the commencement of this chapter. I am vain enough to believe that this compilation will be of some service to collectors of book- plates, but it could scarcely have been produced had not Lord de Tabley's "Guide," and Sir A. W. Franks's " List of English Dated Book-plates" (down to 1800), been available for reference. Whilst to the Reverend Mr. Carson I tender my sincere thanks for the great assistance he has rendered me in elucidating many doubtful points, and more especially for the loan of the cream of his superb collection of dated plates, which he kindly sent over to me from Dublin. When, in 1880, Lord de Tabley published his " Guide to the Study of Book-plates," he was the Hon. J. Leicester Warren, and as that invaluable work is generally referred to by collectors as "Warren's Guide," I have taken the liberty to adopt that brief title in my numerous allusions to it. Most of these pages were in type before the President of the Society of Antiquaries of London was created a K.C.B., and to pre- serve uniformity I am compelled to continue to style him Mr. Franks throughout this first portion of my work. This is but the smallest instalment of my Dated Book-plates ; materials for the lists down to the present day have also been collected, and will shortly be issued. This has been the labour of some years, and I have to express my gratitude for much valu- able assistance and information afforded to me by other collectors. Although it has not been possible for me to compare every book-plate with the entry made concerning it, yet in the majority of cases I have been able to examine them for that purpose, owing to the courtesy of the following ladies and gentlemen who placed their collections at my disposal. I must first mention Miss Emma Cham- berlayne, whose set of Early English Dated plates is known to be almost unique for completeness and " state " ; then I wish especially to thank Miss Edith Anne Greene (herself a clever artist in the craft of de- signing book-plates), and Mrs. Jackson, of Wimbledon. I have spent many pleasant hours examining the well-filled albums belonging to the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby, and noting the valuable information he was so willing and so well able to impart. My friend Mr. James Roberts Brown, V.P. of the Ex Libris Society, has also afforded me much assistance, as well as the following collectors :— Messrs. H. S. Ashbee, f.s.a. ; Dr. L. Bouland, President of the Socidt^ Fran9aisc des Collcctionncurs d'Ex Libris ; Robert Day, f.s.a., of Cork ; H. W. Fincham ; John Heanley ; R. Levine, of Norwich ; 78 DATED BOOK-PLATES. Julian Marshall ; James Orr ; B. Quaritch ; R. Garraway Rice, f.s.a. ; Charles W. Sher- born, R.P.E. ; John M. Watkins ; and Mr. W. H. K. Wright, the founder, and energetic Secretary of our Ex Libris Society, which has done so much to spread the taste for book-plates during the past four years, and led the way for the formation of kindred Societies in Germany and France. Many collectors in the United States have also furnished me with information and examples of dated plates in their possession. Natural- ly these are principally modern productions. Mr. Douthwaite kindly allowed me to in- spect a number of interesting dated gift book-labels in ancient volumes belonging to the Gray's Inn Library. These are all entered in my lists. It is such courtesy as this, and the kindly assistance one meets with from brother col- lectors, that make the pastime of hunting for book-plates so enjoyable, and enable us to bear with equanimity the sneers of those who neither understand our aims, nor the modes by which we achieve them. I have also examined a small collection of book-plates preserved in the Print Room of the British Museum, and another, con- sisting of about five hundred examples, in the librar}' of the Science and Art Depart- ment, South Kensington Museum. In Antwerp Monsieur Vervlict (of the Ex Libris Society) kindly allowed me to inspect his interesting collection of plates, consisting principally of fine specimens of the works of Flemish pclits maitrcs. But in the public library of that city, the Stads- biUioiheek, in the Plaine Conscience, facing the Church of St. Charles, no attention has hitherto been paid to book-plates. Even those that are fixed in the fine early printed books are not known, and have not hitherto been considered worthy of attention. I was still more disappointed to find that in the famous Mus6e Plantin in Antwerp nothing was known of any Ex Libris having been printed by or for the Plantins, or their successors, although their printers' marks are known by every lover of books. I spent the best part of a day turning over the ancient and dusty volumes in the library there in company with the librarian, but the search was almost fniitless. The books were principally examples of the early print- ing done at the Plantin press, or by other early Antwerp printers ; or works relating to the history of the city of Antwerp. No attempt has yet been made by the Conser- vateur. Monsieur Max Roose, to examine these volumes for book-plates, and no book- plate is used in the library, most of the books having their bindings stamped in gold with one of the numerous Plantin press marks. In Brussels I examined some collections formed at the Bibliotheque Royale, where I received every courtesy from Monsieur Petit, the Conservateur, and from Monsieur Henri Hymans. The Conservateur, Mons. Petit, had only recently commenced the formation of a collection of Ex Libris, but he had already gathered together some hundreds of interesting examples. These have not been removed from the books actually in the library, except when the volumes have needed repairs and re -binding. There is no book- plate for the library itself, nor indeed has the taste for collecting book-plates, as yet, made many converts in Belgium. In this respect the modern Belgians are behind their neighbours, the French and Germans, although there can be no doubt that their ancestors used book-plates very frequently, and that some of the most re- nowned engravers of the Low Countries DATED BOOK-PLATES. 79 were employed in their production. In most cases the inscriptions on them are in the Flemish lan":iiao;e. One of the first lessons that the novice in the art of book-plate collecting learns is that a dated example, especially if it bear a date prior to iSoo, is more highly prized than a non-dated plate of equal beauty and interest in all other respects. The following are some of the reasons why dated plates have exceptional interest, and consequently command exceptional prices. Take the plain little "Jac." plate of " Jacob Astley, Armigr of Melton Con- stable," and the lovely " Chip." of " Sr Jacob Astley Bart of Melton Constable in Norfolk," and consider how much more interesting artistically and genealogically they would have been, had both been dated. We know the family is ancient, that the baronetcy was created in 1660 and is now merged in the title of Baron Hastings ; but we do not know, and the plates do not assist us in learning, for want of dates, what relation the above Jacob Astley was to this Sir Jacob Astley, Bart, who was probably the third Baronet who succeeded to the title in 1739, and died in January, 1760. Of two plates, one with a date and one without, but alike in every other respect, several instances are known, and clearly the dated plate is here the more valuable of the two. Dated plates are of all kinds the most instructive for a young beginner in collect- ing. He meets with a beautiful plate signed "J. Skinner. Bath 1743." The style and the artist's name fix themselves on his memory ; perhaps, a few days later, he may find a plate signed "Skinner" without a date, or from which the date has been removed, but he knows now about what period it .was produced. The bulk of Skinner's plates bearing dates between 1737 and 1750, a collector soon finds it interesting to obtain every example of this artist's work that he can, and thus acquires a knowledge of the style in vogue in Skinner's period. The same remark applies equally, of course, to the work of other artists, until we come down to motlern plates, when styles are so confused, and so various, that unless a plate is dated, or signed, its age cannot be easily fixed within limits of less than twenty or thirty years. The eminently characteris- tic works of Mr. Marks, or Mr. Sherborn, can no doubt be immediately recognised and dated approximately, but here the occasion seldom arises, for, like true masters in the art of book-plate designing, they have generally signed and dated their works. Of course it is well known that the dates on book-plates cannot invariably be relied upon as proofs of the actual date of the production of the engraving, but the excep- tions are comparatively rare, and of the many thousands of dated plates I have examined I should say that not more than one per cent, have false dates, and even these, in nearly every case, prove of interest, as fixing the period of the acquisition of some pro- perty, or a title, or a change of name, or a record of some other event in the history of a family. It is therefore by no means a safe conclu- sion to arrive at, that an ante-dated plate is necessarily a fraud. An owner has generally good and sufficient reasons for what he has put upon his plate, and to discover what these motives were is one of the chief ele- ments of sport for a painstaking collector. 8o DATED BOOK-PLATES. It is in the large field of nobility plates . that dates are particularly useful ; one meets with a beautifully simple shield, per pale argent and gules, with the name " Earl Waldegrave," but no date. It is therefore all but impossible to say with certainty to which Earl Waldegrave it belonged, from the first to the ninth ; the present owner of the title bearing the same shield being the ninth Earl Waldegrave, President of the National Rifle Association, who, how- ever, does not use a book-plate. A date would have settled the question, as it has done in several of the plates belong- ing to the Dukes of Bedford, where, the arms being alike, the date only will guide one as to whether the second, or the seventh, duke owned the plate. But it is when dealing with a long series of book-plates, all belonging to members of one family, that the historical and bio- graphical value of dated plates is most apparent. Let me refer to the fourteen varieties of the plates of Sir Philip Sydenham lately exhibited at Burlington House by the Pre- sident of the Society of Antiquaries, only a few of which are generally known, or have been reproduced. Then there are the numerous plates of the Towneley family, commencing with that of Richard Towne- ley, dated 1702, and nearly all beautiful examples. Many of the noble families of Great Britain and Ireland can show these records of their ancient offices and titles, which are of use both to the genealogist and the herald. Thus we have the long series of book-plates illustrating the history and alli- ances of the Cullum and Gery Cullum families, reproduced in Dr. Howard's Mis- cellanea Qenealogica ei Heraldica, Yet as specially illustrating the utility of book-plates from their historical and bio- graphical aspects I cannot do better than describe a volume I recently examined in the library of one of the members of the Ex Libris Society : — " Memoirs of the Family of Grace," by Sheflield Grace, Esq., f.S.a. London, 1823. Privately printed, with numerous illustra- tions, and a genealogical chart showing the descent of the Grace family from an Italian baron named Othoere, who died in England in 1 016. The family was connected with the Carews, of Ireland; the Le Gras, barons of Courtsdown and lords of Grace's country in the county of Kilkenny ; the Butlers, etc. There is a long and elaborate pedigree, and one of the descendants was the author of this work, and a member of Lincoln's Inn. Among the illustrations are impressions from a number of the book-plates of the Grace family, and its connections, some of which occur in my list of dated book-plates. I will give them in the order in which they occur in the book. The copy I saw had evidently been the author's private pro- perty, for it had his small book-plate on the back of the title-page: " 1813. E. Libris Sheffieldi Grace Armig Sup. Ord. Com. Aul B. Maria. Oxon." Three crests, with mot- toes, of the Grace, Butler, and Sheflield families; above all, on a ribbon, "En Grace affier " Sheffield Grace, Esqr- f.s.a." A large armorial plate, 35 quarterings, three crests. " E71 grace affie" over the shield, " Concor- dant no??une facta " below it. This plate follows the Dedication to the Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos. 1799. — Gracefield. An armorial book- plate, two shields, five crests ; only one motto, "Pax et copia." The names of the DATED BOOK-PLATES. 8i quarterings are given below the shields. "James Wandesford Butler, XIX Earl of Ormonde and Ossor)-. K.P." Motto, " Comme je Irouve." No date. " Edward Butler, Viscount Galmoy." No date or motto. Armorial plate, supporters and crest. " John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham and Normanb)'." Armorial plate, crest and supporters. No date. Motto, " Comitcr sed Fortikr." "Sir Richard Gamon Bart, M.P. for Win- chester. 1796." Plain Armorial. Motto, " Virlus in arduis." Gamon and Grace quarterly, impaling Murray, Duke of Athol. "James, Duke of Chandos. fjjj." Ar- morial, with supporters. Motto, " Main/u'ti le droits Brydges, Duke of Chandos, im- paling Gamon and Grace quarterly. "Richard Grace Esq. M.P. 1790." Ar- morial, with supporters and three crests. Motto, over shield, "En Grace affie"; motto, below shield, "Concordant nomine facta." "George Evans Lord Carbery, 1715." Armorial, with supporters, ^loiio," Libertas." "Sir William Grace Bart." Armorial, with supporters and two crests. Motto, over shield, "En Grace affie"; motto, below shield, " Concordant 7ioniine facta." I am not ignoring the utility of style in fixing a period ; of course a knowledge of the varying styles is of immense importance, but they only fix periods within large mar- gins, and never an actual 3'ear. Besides, artists of one period will often reproduce the style of another, and I know of several very good modern "Jacs." and "Chips." and " W. & R." (Wreath and Ribbon). Take the plate of Dermot, Earl of Mayo, designed in severe Early English style; but for the date, 1888, upon it, the plate might easily pass for that of one of his lordship's ancestors. Here surely no deception was intended, for this beautiful plate was designed by Geral- dine. Countess of Mayo, herself the daughter of one of the most learned and enthusiastic book-plate collectors. Another little bit of imitation antique is the plate of her lady- ship, a pretty scroll of Sheraton design, inscribed " Geraldine Mayo, 1887." Sometimes an owner will even be good enough to specify an exact month and day ; as, for instance, the plain label inscribed " Basilius Prise, Liber ejus, Novemb. 12. 1663," or the more imposing plate of John, Lord Hervey, who tells us that he was " created Baron of Ickworth in Com. Suff. March the 23rd 1702," and appropriately enough his motto runs, " fe n' oublieray jamais"; neither, therefore, can we forget the interesting piece of family history which this plate records. Mr. John Fenwick, of Newcastle - upon - Tyne, Attorney - at - Law, considered himself of so much importance that on his plate he informed the world at large that he was born at Hexham, 14th April, 1787, and married at Alnwick, 9th June, 1 8 14. The family of Fenwick is of some importance in the North of England, so perhaps this is a little piece of pardon- able vanity. Or, to give an example of still greater minuteness of detail,, let me refer to the well-known plate of John Vennitzer, dated 1 6 1 8, which not only tells us that this worthy cutler was born in Nuremberg at 22 minutes past s in the afternoon of May 14, 1565, but also gives us his portrait, and we know from other evidence added on the plate that he died in 1629 ; so that on this plate we have a succinct biography of a man of some note who lived three centuries ago. Nowhere are dates more useful than on these foreign Ex Libris ; the engravers' 82 DATED BOOK-PLATES. names upon most of them are unknown to the majority of British collectors, whilst the styles are by no means so marked and dis- tinctive as in British plates. A glance at a French heraldic plate is enough to decide whether it had been designed before or since the Revolution^ but to arrive at a more exact date requires some considerable knowledge of French heraldry and art, and still more difficult is it in dealing with German works to assign even an approximate date. Many Ex Libris have been engraved by comparatively unknown men of whom no records exist, biographical dictionaries know them not, and but for the dates given on the book-plates we could not even learn when they lived. This is more particularly the case with plates engraved for the stationers in provincial towns, often it is true of little merit or originality, but interesting on the score of ownership, or for local reasons, as relating to county history, etc. I could multiply instances, but I think the few I have already named will prove that dates are valuable as guides to fixing the periods when certain styles came in fashion ; as proving when certain engravers lived and produced book-plates ; as indicating to which member of the long roll of a titled family the plate belonged ; to show when a certain gentleman held ' some honourable post at Court, or in the service of his country, or when the simple " Reverend " became "My Lord Bishop" ; when a libran,' or an institution was founded, when a presentation of books was made, or when a certain book club existed. Some gentlemen have had several plates engraved for their use — each recording some special point, or adopted for some particular purpose. To speak of each of these by its date saves time and trouble, and hereafter these dates will be valuable to the coming collector. In 1887 a small book was printed, for private distribution, entitled " Notes on Book-plates. By Augustus W. Franks, F.R.s.,v.p.s.A. No. I. English Dated Book- plates, 1574- 1800." Unfortunately this precious little volume remains " Number One," and a copy of it is now exceedingly difficult to obtain. In it JMr. Franks enu- merated nearly one thousand British dated plates (including varieties, altered plates, and printed labels), from the year 1574 down to, and including, 1800. He adopted one uniform plan of printing the names in English, whether they ap- peared on the plates themselves in English or Latin ; in some few cases he indicated the sizes of the plates, and named the artist or engraver, but he gave no further details. Since that list appeared many more dated plates have been discovered, and this com- pilation is an attempt towards a complete catalogue of Dated Ex Libris — British, Continental, and American — accompanied by such details as may enable a collector to learn all that is known of the histor}- of any particularly interesting examples. To avoid unnecessary cross references I have put a note against any British plate, dated between 1574 and 1801, which is not mentioned in Mr. Franks's List. In some cases such a note may be taken as evidence of the scarcity of the plate, but in others it may be found either that the date is doubt- ful, or that it was engraved on a plate more recently than it purported to be. Some of these, which I have styled " Arbitrary Dates," were purposely omitted by Mr. Franks ; I have included them, and to set collectors on their guard have drawn atten- DATED BOOK-PLATES. 83 tion, where I could, to their inaccuracy. In a few instances I have been unable to obtain full descriptions of the plates men- tioned ; collectors are requested to be kind enough to send me the required details, which shall be inserted in an appendix. It is not to be expected that a Catalogue such as this can be absolutely complete, yet it may be safely asserted that any British dated plate which has escaped mention must be rare indeed, and the lucky pos- sessor of it may pride himself on his treasure. An unfortunate fashion exists of engraving names and mottoes on book-plates in such a manner as to be almost illegible, thereby defeating their own ends, which are to pro- claim to the world in general, and to collec- tors in particular, who and what their owners were. This reprehensible practice has caused a few errors in names and mottoes to creep in, for which neither I, nor the printers, can be justly held responsible. Occasionally clerical errors occur on the book-plates themselves ; these are printed exactly as they stand with the usual mark {sic) against them. It was my original intention to have re- printed all the inscriptions in full exactly as they appeared upon the plates, and in most cases I have done so. This led to a con- stant repetition of such expressions as "Ex Libris," "The Right Honourable," "The Most Noble," etc. ; some of these have therefore been omitted, and inscriptions have occasionally been abbreviated ; in ever}' case the abbreviation has been indi- cated. When the dimensions of a plate are given they should be the height and width of the plate mark, but frequently these marks were not distinct, or had been cut off. On modern "process" book-plates no plate marks exist, so that the size can only be taken from the design itself. Consequently the sizes have only been given when they have been very clearly defined, or when it was necessary to distinguish between several plates belonging to the same owner. I decided to include dated book labels because, in the first place, they are un- doubtedly genuine book-plates, and also because many of them, although type- printed, have ornamental woodcut borders. To have included some and not others would have led to confusion and uncer- tainty. It may be assumed that where a plate is described simply as a " Printed label " it possesses no artistic merit, so that unless it bears some interesting name a collector need not greatly regret its absence from his albums ; on the other hand, en- graved, or pictorial, labels are often well worth attention. Where the owner's name does not appear on a plate it is styled " Nameless," although many of them have been identified by the arms or inscriptions they bear. I consider it misleading to call such plates a/wnj'mous, because they often bear the signatures of the artists and engravers who produced them, and being signed pictures cannot with strict accuracy be styled anonymous. In describing the styles of the plates I have followed the general rules laid down by the Hon. J. Leicester Warren in his " Guide." The terms he therein suggested are now generally understood and adopted, and are sufficiently clear and intelligible for all practical purposes. Plates which have any heraldic device upon them are styled "Arm." (Armorial); then follow, in abbreviated forms, their other characteristics, such as Early English, 84 DATED BOOK-PLATES. Jacobean, Chippendale, W. & R. (Wreath and Ribbon), Festoon, Portrait, Book-pile, Library Literior, Literary, Allegorical, Pun- ning, Pictorial, Landscape, Seal, Crest, Engraved Label, Printed Label. In some few cases where I have not had access to the plates themselves, I have had to rely on information sent me by collectors, and in judging styles an element of uncer- tainty comes in, so that even the most ex- perienced are occasionally at a loss to know under which category to class a certain plate. One style of plate shaded off into another style so gradually that, like colours on a prism, the actual point of change is almost imperceptible. If then an " Early English " plate should accidentally be termed a "Jaco- bean," or vice versa, I claim indulgence for the slip, the more confidently as the error most probably will not be of my own com- mitting. All the principal foreign plates prior to 1700 have been included in this list, but the enormous number of foreign dated plates, and especially German, since 1700, render completeness absolutely unattainable by any British collector. I believe I have notes of all the most interesting examples, but the collector who w-ishes to make a study of this branch of the subject, must be prepared to spend both time and money in the pursuit of it, and should be a good Unguist and well versed in heraldry to boot. Quite recently Messrs. H. Grevel & Co., London, have published a small brochure, entitled "Rare Book- Plates of the Fif- teenth and Sixteenth Centuries," edited by Frederick Warnecke. I have inserted the daled examples of these at the end of my list of seventeenth century plates partly be- cause of their exceptional interest, and partly because as the brochure can be obtained in London and at a moderate figure it is a good opportunity for a young collector to become acquainted with the works of some of the finest German artists in Book-plates, Albert Diirer, Beham, Virgil Solis and others. But for German book-plates generally, and dated examples especially, I must again refer to Herr F. Warnecke's colossal work on the topic. In the lists frequent references are made to the following works, the titles being necessarily somewhat abbreviated. A Guide to the Study of Book-Plates (Ex-Libris) by the Hon. J. Leicester Warren, m.a. London: John Pearson, 1880. (Illustrated.) Les Ex-Libris Fran^ais, dcpuis leur origine jttsqu'a ?tos Jours. Par A. Poulet- Malassis. Paris: P. Rouquette, 1875. (Illustrated.) Two editions. Petite Revue d' Ex- Libris Alsaciens. Par AuGUSTE Stoeber. Mulhouse, Bader et Cie, 1 88 1. (One fac-simile.) A small pamphlet, now very scarce. Eighty-three Examples of Armorial Book- plates. From various collections. Pri- vately printed ; sixty copies only. W. Griggs, Hanover Street, Peckham, London, 1 884. (Fac-similes and notes.) Naw very scarce. Notes on Book-plates (Ex Libris). By J. Paul Rylands, f.s.a. Printed for private circulation, 1889. (Illustrated.) Only a few copies printed, now very scarce. Notes on Book-plates. By Augustus W. Franks, f.r.s., v.p.s.a. No. L, Eng- lish Dated Book-plates, 1574- 1800. Printed for private distribution, 1887. Les Ex-Lxbris et les Marques de Possession du Livre. Par Henri Bouchot. Paris: E. Rouveyre, 1891. (Illustrated.) A Bibliography of Book-plates (Ex Libris). By H. W. FiNCH.\M and James Roberts Brown. Printed for private distribu- tion. Plymouth : W. F. Westcott, 1892. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 85 Book-plates Engraved by Cork Artists. By Robert Day, f.s.a. (Illustrated.) Ply- mouth : W. F. Westcott, i8g2. Les Ex-Libris Oratorie?is. Par le Pere Ingold. (Illustrated.) Paris: Librairie Charles Poussielgue, 1892. Examples 0/ Armorial Book- Plates. Second Series. London : W. Griggs & Sons, Ltd., Hanover Street, Peckham, 1892. (In twelve parts, containing about 150 fac-similes of scarce book-plates.) English Book-Plates. An illustrated Hand- book for students of E.\-Libris, by Egerton Castle, m.a., f.s.a. London : George Bell & Sons, 1892. A Second and Enlarged Edition was published in 1893, with additional illus- trations. French Book-Plaies. A Handbook for Ex- Libris Collectors, by Walter Hamil- ton. London : George Bell & Sons, 1892. (Illustrated.) Book-Plates. By W. J. Hardy, f.s.a. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1893. (Illustrated.) Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Edit- ed by Joseph Jackson Howard, ll.d., f.s.a. London : Mitchell & Hughes. (Formerly published monthly, but now published quarterly. Illustrated.) The Journal of the Ex Libris Society. Edited by W. H. K. Wright. Monthly. London : A. & C. Black, Soho Square. (Illustrated.) In progress. Following the plates of 1699 will be found an enumeration of the dated plates which have been reproduced in Ex-Libris Zeitschrift, organ of the Ex Libris Society of Berlin, up to January, 1 894.. This maga- zine commenced in October, 1891, that is to say, since Herr F. Warnecke's " Die Deutschen Biicherzeichen" (which was pub- lished in 1890), and is issued quarterly. I have marked entries from it Ex L. Z. On May 31st of this year was opened an Heraldic Exhibition at Burlington House under the auspices of the Society of Anti- quaries, and the President exhibited a number of valuable Early English book- plates. A catalogue was printed for the Fellows, but not for general circulation ; it merely contained a list of the exhibits, without any descriptive detail. Half dates such as 16 — , 17 — , 18 — , are inserted at the commencement of their re- spective centuries, and three-quarter dates, such as 16!-, 172-, 1 83- are inserted at the commencement of their decades, unless the remaining years have been apparently filled in by the rightful owners, when the plates are inserted under the exact year, the added date in MS. being put within brackets, thus 17(60). In a few exceptional instances plates have been mentioned on which the entire date has been written in. These have only been inserted when the date could be reHed on from internal evidence, or when the plate, or its owner, was of exceptional interest. Such dates are given between brackets. 1688. BOOK-PLATES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. COLLECTORS of British book-plates will ever look upon those of the eighteenth century as offering the greatest interest, heraldic, artistic, literary, and per- sonal, indeed in every respect but that of mere antiquity. Plates of the sixteenth century are far too scarce to be accessible to the average collector, whilst those of the seventeenth century, though more numerous are somewhat indeterminate in character, and until we approach the close of the seventeenth centur}- possess little of a national character either in stvle of design, or in the wording of their inscriptions. But then — suddenly, and almost without any apparent reason — book-plates not only become fashionable, but in their art and their phraseology distinctly and characteris- tically British. To illustrate this it is only necessary to refer to the useful little list of English dated book-plates privately printed by Sir. A. W. Franks, in 1887. Herein he mentions only two dated plates in 168-)., and these are merely printed labels, then no entries occur till 1692, when he names one only (another printed label) ; one each in 1693, 1694, then none till 1697 when he names again one only, that of Edward Chilton. But this is followed by 1698 with its sixteen plates, mostly fine armorial specimens, 1699 with eight, 1700 with fifteen, 1701 with seven- teen, whilst 1702, 1703, and 1704 show still higher numbers, and henceforward to the close of the centur}- not a year passes with- out several dated plates being enumerated. As it was with the dated so also with the undated plates, they appear to have increased in almost equal proportions. In summing up his list of plates of the Queen Anne period the Hon. Leicester Warren observes, " We view ever}' dated Ex Libris as, to some extent, a definite historical record ; nor is it uninteresting to have some idea of what libraries existed in Britain in the days of Pope, of Swift, of Marlborough." And here it may be as well to remark that I am far from desirous of attaching too great importance to the mere dates upon DATED BOOK-PLATES OF Ex Libris, which cannot at all times be implicitly relied on ; it is true that in the majority of cases they fix the actual year, but there are other signs which enable a connoisseur to fix the period of a plate, and that pretty closely. What are these indications? The style of the design, the nature and finish of the engraving, the name of the artist or engraver, the names, titles, or offices of the owner, the armorial bearings, the insignia of orders, the crests, the mottoes, even the paper itself on which the plate is printed, these are points all capable of interpretation by those who ■will devote sufficient attention to the study of the subject, and indeed occasionally furnish evidence contradictory of the date actually engraved on the plate. It need hardly be added that the student must have at least a rudimentary knowledge of heraldry, and should be possessed of a fairly good collection of books of reference on the genealogy of the older families, the origin of peerages, baronetcies, and knight- hoods, and lists of the principal titles now extinct. If we take the first element named in the interpretation of periods, plates of the eighteenth century are particularly rich and interesting in their styles, for nearly every form of design, of any beauty or importance, took its rise, or can be found well repre- sented, in the plates produced between 1700 and 1800. Starting with what I have called in my lists the Early English, which might also have been termed the Queen Anne, we trace the rise of the Jacobean, and its progress until it gradually merged into and was super- seded by the Chippendale, and the Allegoric. Later in the century we find the Urn style, the Wreath and Ribbon, the Festoon, the oval beaded style of Neele, whose work is dated towards the close of the century, the landscapes of Bewick, and finally the ex- quisite work of Bartolozzi and Cipriani. In British portrait plates the century is not so rich as one might have expected, one of the best examples being that of James Gibbs (dated 1736), the architect of the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, and other ecclesiastical and collegiate buildings. Of this plate a reproduction is given, but un- fortunately it is a faint engraving which does not come out at all well in a facsimile. Foreign portrait plates, especially German, are tolerably numerous (see p. 54 Introduc- tion), and are particularly interesting, as studies of the appearance and costume of bygone lovers of books. But of course, with regard to portrait book-plates, it is important to remember that some of them were engraved after the owners of the books were dead, and inserted as memorials of a gift, or of former owner- ship ; and had thus never actually served as Ex Libris to the originals of the portraits. As an instance may be mentioned the plate of John Hacket, Bishop of Lichfield, who was dead before Faithorne engraved the portrait of him in the year 1670, used in the books bequeathed by that prelate. But here the phrase Ex dono sufficiently calls attention to the fact that the books were the gift of the Bishop : unfortunately the inscriptions on other portrait plates are not always so explicit. The distinction to be drawn is, between the use by an owner of his portrait on his book- plate, as was certainly done by Samuel Pepys, James Gibbs, and William Thoms ; and that of the use on a book-plate of the portrait of a former owner, to record a gift, as in the case of the portrait plate of Bishop Hacket. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 89 An interesting controversy on this topic was carried on in Notes and Querit's {honAon), in February and March, 1893. One peculiarity about Early English plates is that they are almost invariably cut close to the design, frequently even small portions of the work are cut away. Whether this mutilation was done to effect a saving in paper, or to suit the sizes of book covers, or for what other reason, is not easy to decide, but the result is much to be regretted, as . the absence of some small margin around the engraving detracts greatly from its clear- ness and beauty. The design in these plates is generally 3 ins. or a little over, in height, by about 2^ to 2|- ins. in width, the plate-mark seldom being visible, but where it is I have preferred to mention it as the proper size of the plate. The mention of these sizes will be found useful in deciding whether certain individ- uals had more than one plate (as was fre - quently the case), where the same verbal description would correctly apply to each design, the difference being in the size only. Where the plate-mark was not visible I have measured the actual size of the design, namely, the greatest height, and the greatest width ; height always being taken first. Collectors must remember that reproduc- tions in the Ex Libris Journal, and other similar works, are frequently reduced in size, although termed yizf similes. Engravers. — Another noticeable fea- ture in Early British book-plates is the absence of signature of artist or engraver. Seldom indeed do they occur until Marshall signed the Littleton plate about 1640, and in 1670 when W. Faithorne put his name to the portrait plate of Bishop Racket. The next most important instance does not occur until 1715, when J. Pine signed the large allegorical plate (known as the Muni- ficentia Regia) for the University of Cam- bridge. But it is not until about 1740 that the custom of signing the plates becomes at all usual, when we find J. Skinner, of Bath, G. Bickham, and George Vertue, initiating the fashion by signing their works, which were mostly in the Chippendale style. Thus it may be taken that a signature on an Early English, or Queen Anne plate, is quite the exception ; one may be met with occasionally on a Jacobean design, whilst Chippendale, Allegorical, Wreath and Rib- bon or Festoon plates, are almost as often signed as not. Of modern plates, nearly all the best examples are either signed in full, or have initials or private marks, by which the artist or engraver can be easily identified. A fairly complete list of the engravers of book-plates in the eighteenth century, will be found in the " Guide to the Study of Book-plates," by the Hon. J. L. Warren (London: J. Pearson, 1880), and bio- graphical details of some of the more important of them, will be found in Michael Br}-an's "Dictionary of Painters and En- gravers." But of many of the names found on book-plates, especially provincial plates, nothing whatever is known. It is quite outside the range of the present work to give details of engravers, and their modes of signature — a few general notes only on the topic can be given ; those who require more details must either refer to the above-named authorities, or wait patiently until Mr. Fincham publishes his long-promised work on the "Engravers of British Book-plates." The dates and biographical details of engravers help to fix the periods of any go DATED BOOK-PLATES OF book-plates they may have signed, whilst a familiarity with their signed works frequently aids one to recognise other plates of theirs, which may neither be signed nor dated. Whilst, on the other hand, some few dated plates — such as those of Robert Mountaine — put us on the track of an artist (and one of some taste and originality, too) of whom absolutely nothing is known so far. Concerning R. Mountaine, the Hon. J. L. Warren observes (p. 169): " He appears as a very prolific engraver of book-plates about 1745 or 1750. He was a neat artist in the early, and hardly developed, Chippendale style, and in a curious arabesque fashion of his own. He did not date his Ex Libris, some fourteen of which are here catalogued. I know of no particulars respecting Moun- taine's life." When the above paragraph was written, the Hon. J. L. Warren was evidently im- acquainted with the rather numerous exam- ples of dated plates by Mountaine to be found in 1750, '51, '52, and '53. I believe I have found a book-plate engraved by Robert Mountaine for himself ; it has the monogram R.M. in the centre, is signed R.M., and is a typical example of his somewhat scratchy but graceful style. Al- though not dated, a reproduction of it is given; as if my conjecture as to its ownership should prove correct, the plate is indeed one of very exceptional interest. A very faint " R. M." will be found in the right-hand bottom corner ; both his signatures and his dates are usually small and difficult to find. Another prolific engraver of whom per- sonally little is known, is J. Skinner, of Bath, whose works, in the best taste of the Chip- pendale style, are variously signed, either in full J. Skinner, Bath; or J. Skinr Bath; or sometimes merely J.S. Bath, the J and the S being curiously entwined. But whatever the signature, there is little difficulty in recog- nising his work when one has once become familiar with the graceful outlines, the shell- work curves, and sprays of natural flowers surrounding the shields, on the not very scarce e.xamples of his fully signed and dated plates. The reproduction of the book-plate of Johnson Robinson, which will be found on the opposite page, will serve to illustrate J. Skinner's style of work. A namesake, one Matthew Skinner, of Exeter, also produced some book-plates, rather later in date than those of Skinner of Bath. Another almost unknown artist produced several plates which have been erroneously ascribed to William Hogarth, thej' being signed with the initials W.H. These were probably the work of one William Hibbart, who was residing in Bath in 1750, and signed his name in full William Hibbart Sculp. on one of the plates of Deburgh, Earl of Clanricarde. This is dated, but rather indistinctly, Warren says 1750, whilst some say it should read 1759. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 91 In a few instances, brief notes about the engravers of certain interesting plates have fimJ^oTb ^^u^ jkui"" Scxilp.Baxh 1744 been inserted in the following tables, but as before mentioned, any exhaustive treatment of this branch of Ex Libris lore could not be attempted in a work primarily intended to deal only with dated examples. Inscriptions. — a number of eight- eenth century printed labels occur with the name printed in the centre, surrounded by simple typographical ornamentation, around the outside of which will be found the following inscription, or words much to the same effect: "The Noble Art and IVIystery of Printing was first invented and practised by John Faust in the City of Mentz in High Germany, about the year of our Lord 1451, and brought into England by William Caxton, a Mercer and Citizen of London, who by the encouragement of the great, and particularly of the Abbot of Westminster, first set up a Printing Press in that Abby, and began the printing of books there about the year of our Lord 1 47 1." Now these labels have generally the imprint of either Oxford or Cambridge, and as I\Ir. Andrew W. Tuer pointed out some time ago, these book-plates or labels were souvenirs given to persons visiting the print- ing oflices, who in return for this pleasing attention on the part of the compositor were expected to present him with a fee. The custom is alluded to in a poem, entitled "The Humours of Oxford," by Mrs. Alicia D'Anvers {see Book-plate Collectors' i\Iisccllan_)', p. 29). See 1729 Martha Bartlett 1731 Mrs. Judith Hackam 1754 Jane Brand 1758 J. Bamford 1761 Anne Hett 1767 Martha Savill But Benjamin Dolbeare, of Boston, had a similar label printed for him on October 6, 1739, at the Clarendon Printing House, Oxford, on which the inscription was thus varied : — " The Noble Art and Mystery of Printixg was first invented by John Gut- TEMBERG of Mentz, a city of Germatiy, in the Year 1440, and brought into England by John Islip of London in the Year of our Lord 1471." Biblical quotations are by no means uncommon on plates of this period, two of the most hackneyed being "//c potius ad vendentes" Matthew xxv. 9, or, given in full in English, " But go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves ;" the other being " The wicked borroweth and paj'eth not again," Psalm xxxvii. 21. This is frequently quoted as "The ungodly borrow- eth and payeth not again," whilst the con- text is usually omitted, " but the righteous showeth mercy and giveth." 92 DATED BOOK-PLATES OF On the labels of College and School prizes it is usual to find the date of the century 17 — with a blank to be filled in by hand. Labels of Trinity College, Dublin, thus printed, are common enough : they are all about the same size, 6 X 3i, but vary somewhat in design. They are headed " Ingenuo viagnaque spei adolescenti (name inserted here) propter insig- nes in artibiis progressics," etc. Beneath are the arms of Dublin in a Jacobean frame. The Hon. J. L. Warren mentions a premium plate of Trinity College, Dublin, half dated 17(33), an interesting specimen as it is signed K. 0. Hara, fecit, so that it seems probable that the first design of this long series of Trinity College plates may have been the work of Kane O'Hara the dramatist, when quite a young man. There are many others of a similar class with only the century printed, and it would have been useless to enumerate all these with their latter half dates in MS. under each year as they occurred ; generally, therefore, only the earliest date accessible has been named. I received information about the following plate too late to insert it under the year 1 701 , to which it properly belongs, besides it requires a more detailed description than could have been inserted in the tabular form. The whole page measures 18J ins. high by I ij- ins. wide ; on the upper half is mounted an engraved plate measuring 8^ ins. high by 7 ins. wide. This plate consists of a hand- somely engraved Early English foliated mantling, terminating at each lower end in a tassel, and surmounted by a squire's helmet. The shield in the centre had purposely been left blank, and on this, by hand, has been sketched a cross moline between four swans, and above the helmet a swan has also been sketched, as a crest. These additions appear to have been made by a comparative novice, and no tinctures are indicated, nor is there any motto. Below, in heavy wood-cut type, is the inscription : Mrs. Margaret Combridge of Penshurst in the County of Kent, her BOOK: Presented to Her By Mr. John Thorpe, Student in Physick, of University -College in Oxford, Anno Dom. 1701. This handsome, but somewhat clumsy Ex Libris, was not mentioned by Sir A. W. Franks, nor is it at all probable that many copies of it were printed. It is the largest British book-plate in existence, so far as I am aware, and the following particulars about the donor of the book add to the interest of the plate. This Dr. John Thorpe was the eldest son of John Thorpe, gent, of Penshurst, Kent, by his wife, Anne, sister and co-heir of Oliver Combridge, of Newhouse, in the aforesaid parish of Penshurst. He was born at Newhouse, March 12th, 168 1-2, and after taking his degrees at Oxford, became an eminent physician, and an indefatigable antiquary. He was elected F.R.S. in 1705, and died in 1750. He was for many years resident in Rochester, about which ancient city he wrote several learned works. It is impossible now to say in what relationship he stood to Mrs. Margaret Com- bridge, but as Combridge was his mother's maiden name, it was probably not very distant. This interesting specimen was sent to me by Mr. Fred J. Libbie, of the United States, and was exhibited at the Annual Meeting of the Ex Libris Society, held at the Westminster Palace Hotel, London, on January 30th, 1895. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 93 Under the year 1710 mention will be found of an armorial plate belonging to the Rev. Rowland Davies. Now this was simply a nameless armorial plate, set in an early Jacobean framework, belonging to that reverend gentleman, which came into the this is wholly fictitious ; he tells me that it was cut out of the Frontispiece of Dwyer's "History of the Diocese of Killaloe," where it represents that Bishop's seal. It has evi- dently passed current amongst certain col- lectors as a genuine Ex Libris. /dtthj^ huh. Us possession of Mr. Robert Day, of Cork, who had the inscription engraved beneath the arms, and a certain number of copies struck off for his friends. As the plate gives the date of the death of the Rev. Mr. Davies in 1721, aged 82, it is of course obvious that the inscription was an addition. In 1 71 6 will be found the plate of Bishop Carr, I am informed by Mr. Carson that 3nA mdcokut Under 1723 will be found an entry of the plate of " Peter Butcher," and the motto on it, which is, however, incorrectly given. It should read, " Opiferque per orbem dicor," which is the motto of the Apothecaries' Company, and is thus translated in Elvin's "Handbook of Mottoes": "I am called a bringer of help throughout the world." Burke thus describes the arms : — 94 DATED BOOK-PLATES OF " In a shield azure, Apollo, the inventor of physic, ppr., with his head radiant, holding in his left hand a bow, and in his right, an arrow, or, supplanting a serpent, arg. ; above the shield, a helm, thereupon a mantle gules, doubled arg. '•Crest: Upon a wreath of the colours, a rhino- ceros, proper, supported by two unicorns or, armed and unguled arg., upon a compartment, to make the achievement complete." Mr. Peter Butcher, of Ipswich, may have been a member of the Apothecaries' Com- pany, but that does not explain why he bore the Company's arms on his book-plate, a fac-simile of which is given. Under 1771 will be found mention of a book-plate, " Prince of Wales and the Bishop of Osnaburgh, 3rd May 1771." This label was probably intended for the school books of the first and second sons of George III., namely, the Prince of Wales, born in 1762, and his brother Frederick afterwards Duke of York), born Aug., 1763, and elected by the Chapter of Osnaburgh to be their Bishop and Sovereign in the follow- ing February. This Bishopric, with the territories belonging to it, was held alter- nately by a Protestant and a Papist, the former being always a Prince of the House of Hanover. " Lying In Hospital Tracts " is the in- scription on a label dated mdcclxxxix., which I saw in a little volume belonging to the Rev. Mr. Carson, of Dublin, entitled, "A List of the Proprietors of Licenses for Private Sedan Chairs, at 25 March, 1788," from which it appears that the owners of sedan chairs in Dublin had to obtain licenses from the Trustees for the Lying-in Hospital, which they thus helped to support. The Rules of the Institution, with views of the building, are given in this book, which for- merly belonged to Mrs. INIeares, of 1 3 Dawson Street, Dublin, one of the owners of private sedan chairs who paid duty to the Hospital. Styles. — To facilitate identification of certain plates, some few notes on their heraldry have been appended, and to have fully described the arms in every case would have added considerably to the utility of the tables for a certain class of collectors. Yet if they will turn to page 71 of Warren's "Guide," where this plan has been carried out to some extent, they will see that the few British plates he describes between 1700 and 1714 occupy more than twenty closely printed pages, so they can form some idea of the labour that would have been required, and the space that would have been occupied, in giving the full blazon of the thousands of armorial plates herein enumerated. Only the knowledge and the patience of a Dr. Howard, combined with such collections of heraldic and genealogical materials as he possesses, would have been commensurate to the task. In concluding this portion of his work, the Hon. J. L. Warren observes: "The book-plate of Thomas Rowney, 1713, con- cludes our dated series. In August, 17 14, Queen Anne died, and with the accession of the Hpuse of Hanover a new epoch in our national history begins. In art, in litera- ture, in politics, a great change came over England." This is indeed but a slight allusion to the grave events which followed the death of Queen Anne, whose children had unfortu- nately all predeceased her. It suited the Whigs of the day, for party purposes, to set aside the rightful heir to the throne, and though the English Tories, with the Scottish and the Irish, remained for the most part loyal to the Stuarts, and fought stoutly for many years in defence of legitimist principles, the Whigs prevailed, and Queen Anne was the last to reign of •-N _ ^y "Butiy'^eer or EnalaHd, Coll? or her Ma-J^'KoycU Reff''o/ Draaoons.MMOr r From the Collation of Janus Robt-rts Broun, Esq. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 95 the gifted but unfortunate Stuarts, the direct descendants of a long race of truly British born monarchs. It is easy now to point to faults in their government, and to errors in their lives, all of which have been duly chronicled and suit- ably exaggerated by Whig historians, who can trace to the glorious four Georges no mistakes in government, and no such crimes against morality as they delight in ascribing to the Stuarts. Whatever may have been the shortcomings of the later Stuarts, they were at least pos- sessed of taste and culture, and encouraged native arts, science, and literature. But with the advent of George I., ignorant of our language, destitute of taste, and utterly careless of the national feeling of his new subjects, foreign influence became all- powerful. Henceforward for a long and dreary period, literature and all the arts languished in England and Scotland, whilst in Ireland, misrule and religious persecution nearly drove the natives of that unfortunate country back into naked barbarity. In even such a minor branch of art as book-plates, the influence is at once visible, and following closely upon some of the finest examples of the Queen Anne style we come upon the heavy, pompous, allegori- cal plate done by J. Pine in 17 15, to com- memorate the royal munificence of George the First to the University of Cambridge, in presenting them with various tomes, which as the Hon. J. L. Warren justly remarks, his Hanoverian Majesty would never have opened himself. Pine, however, was equal to the occasion : allegory was in fashion, and he produced the well-known A/uniyian/ui Regia. At that period it was generally supposed that the University of Oxford remained true to its Tory principles and to the Stuart dynasty, whilst it was equally notorious that Cambridge was a centre of Whiggism, and favoured the Guelph succession. Conse- quently this present of books was suggested to the King by Viscount Townshend, then Secretary of State, as a graceful acknow- ledgment of the loyalty of the University of Cambridge ; it was, in fact, simply a clever political move which gave rise to the two following epigrams by Dr. Trapp, of Oxford, and Sir William Browne, founder of the prizes for odes and epigrams at Cambridge : " King George observing with judicious eyes The state of both his Universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse : and why ? That learned body wanted loyalty. To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning." The Reply: •' The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force ; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent. For Whigs admit no force but argument." The gift consisted of 28,965 volumes of printed books and 1,790 manuscripts, being the library of John Moore, d.d.. Lord Bishop of Ely, which the King had purchased for ^6,000 after the bishop's death. The book-plate was executed in four sizes, for folios, quartos, octavos, and for books of smaller size. Altogether, 28,200 copies were struck off", as appears from the receipted bill, dated July 8th, 1737. The three larger plates are exactly alike, and may be thus described : a florid architectural base, bear- ing a medallion portrait of George I., with an inscription which speaks for itself. Arising from it is a scroll, with the words " Munificentia Regia" and the date, 1715. Above this, on an oval shield, are the arms of the University, supported on the right by Minerva, seated, and on the left by Apollo standing, a wreath in his left hand, and in N 96 DATED BOOK-PLATES OF his right a lyre. Behind him the sun is rising through clouds. At the feet of both figures are piles of books. Behind the wbgle composition rises the apex of a pyra- mid. The smallest plate differs from the other three in several details ; the figures of Minerva and Apollo, with the sun, clouds, and pyramid, being omitted. A full sized reproduction of the largest plate appears as the frontispiece to Vol. III. of the Ex Libris Journal \ smaller copies of it are given in Hardy's "Book-plates" and in Warren's " Guide," where the Allegoric book-plates are thus summed up : "Whether ^ve take the Allegoric plates of the period of Hogarth, Pine, and George Vertue, or con- sider the later group of mythological en- gravers, such as Bartolozzi, Sherwin, Hen- shaw, and the like, it must be conceded that in England, during the eighteenth cen- tury, Allegoric book-plates were never a numerous class. Now it is not difficult to aflBliate the Allegoric mode upon the Jaco- bean. Indeed, the one seems to fade into the other by degrees which are almost im- perceptible." To the Chippendale style these plates have, however, little affinity, although they continued intermittently right through the thick of the Chippendale vogue. The styles known as Jacobean, Chippen- dale, Wreath and Ribbon, Festoon, Urn, Landscape, Portrait, Seal, Armorial, Literary, Book-pile, and Library Interiors will all be found represented in the plates of the eight- eenth century, and each of these styles has already been fully described : see Introduc- tion, " Styles of Book-plates." How the one style gradually merged into or developed into another ; how sometimes in one plate the features of two or three distinct styles will be found, so that definite classification is well-nigh impossible ; how sometimes an early Chippendale design will be found with the date of a period twenty or thirty years later than the style of the work indicates ; how, or why, the plate of a living owner should occasionally be exactly the same in design as one you have in your collection which belonged to a man who died a century ago ; these are of the mysteries of the science of book-plates which cannot be explained in any general statement ; they can only be noted by care- ful comparison, and can only be explained separately as they occur. The Beaded Frame design.— There is, however, one style of design which still requires a few words of description. I allude to what I may term the " beaded- frame " plate, some excellent examples of which were produced by Neele, of 352 Strand, who was working towards the close of the eighteenth century, and signed two plates for John Ellis, Esqr. In these the arms are on a spade shield having a background of horizontal lines set in an oval beaded frame. In one state of the plate the owner's name is not given, in the other "John Ellis, Esqr." is engraved below the oval frame. Another excellent example of Neele's work in this style is the plate of " Joh. Mit- ford. Int. Temp. et. Hosp. Line. Soc." In this the inscription runs around the arms, between them and the oval beaded frame, whilst below and outside the frame is the signature "Neele sculp. 352 Strand." This plate must not be confounded with another engraved for Joh. Mitford by Ovendon, also oval and rather similar in appearance, but without the beaded frame. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 97 Very similar in design are the plates of John Tekell, 1785 ; Frances Margaret Est; two Dowdeswell plates ; Francis Leighton (with the motto, ''Dread Shame") ; T. In- gram ; Rowland Hosier, Esq. ; Robt. Hun- ter ; John Rotton ; William Tennant, Aston Halt ; and Henry Wakeman. These last are neither signed nor dated, but I have selected them haphazard from my collection as specimens of the "Beaded-frame" plate. The above are all oval examples, but beaded frames may be met with which are circular, such as that of Lord Monson, with the space between the design and the frame still filled in with horizontal lines ; or Samuel Crough- ton, where the spade shield and black shading in the background are enclosed within an octagon frame, or rather a square frame with the four corners cut out by seg- ments of circles. Peter Churchill has the spade shield and oval beaded frame, but the inner space is left white (not filled in with horizontal lines) ; whilst John Plomer Clarke has a rather small oval beaded frame with the background filled in with perpendicular lines between the frame and a square-eared shield. Neele also engraved a handsome plate which Mr. Robert Surtees, of Mainsforth, designed for himself. In this the shield, with the wreath surrounding it, repose on a background of horizontal lines, but the design is square, and has no bead frame around it. In the Hon. J. L. Warren's " Guide," there is a chapter on " Book-plates of Historic In- terest," in which he deals lightly and grace- fully with the Ex Libris of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury ; William Penn, Esq., Pro- prietor of Pennsylvania ; Robert Harley ; Matthew Prior, Esq.; Laurence Sterne; Mr. Horatio Walpole ; John Wilkes, Esq. ; David Garrick; and the Honble. Charles James Fox. Unfortunately the book-plates of notable men are comparatively seldom dated, and only those bearing a date have been admitted into this work; in several instances space would not permit of the insertion of bio- graphical details of the owners, so that a few notes here must suffice. First as regards the Humes, Earls of Marchmont, about whom a history was recently w-ritten by Miss Margaret Warrender, a grand-daughter of the late Sir Hugh Hume Campbell, of Marchmont : it was entitled, " Marchmont and the Humes of Polwarth, by one of their descendants." W. Blackwood & Sons. 1894. In it are reproduced four dated book-plates of the last century. They bear the following inscriptions : — i._"The Right Hon.ble Patrick Hume Earl of Marchmont Viscount of Blasonberry Lord Polwarth of Polwarth &c Lord High Chancelor of Scotland 1702." 2. — "The Right Honble Sr Alexr Campbell of Cesnock one of the senators of the Colledge of Justice and one of the Lords of Her Maties most Honble Privy Counsell & Exchequer &c: 1707." 3. — "The Right Honble Alexander Lord Polwarth & Eldest son of Patrick Earl of Marchmont, Lord Clerk Register of Scotland & Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire His Majesties Ambassador Extraordi- nary & Plenepotentiary to the King of Denmark, Anno. 1721." 4. — " His Excellency Alexander Earle of March- mont Viscount of Blasonberry Lord Polwarth of Polwarth Redbraes & Greenlaw Knight of the most noble order of ye Thistle His Majesties Amb: Ex- traordinary & Plenipotentiary to ye Congress at Cambray Lord Clerk Register of Scotland. Lord Leiutenant & Sherrif of Berwickshire Ao 1725." These are all mentioned in their proper years. Charles Montague Lord Halifax, poet, and, according to Dr. Johnson, an artful and an active statesman, was twice a Regent of Great Britain and Ireland, and was, on the accession of George I., created Earl of Hali- fax, K.G., and first commissioner of the 98 DATED BOOK-PLATES OF Treasur}', yet these honours he enjoyeJ bai a short time, for he died in May, 1715, of inflammation of the hmgs. Of his poetical works that by which he is best remembered is the burlesque he wrote in conjunction with Mat. Prior, on Dryden's "Hind and Panther," and his chief claim on our atten- tion is that he had a Queen Anne book-plate, dated 1702, with the motto, " Olium cum dignitale," which was reproduced in the Ex Libris Joiiftial, and is herein gi\en by the kind permission of the Council of the Ex Libris Societv. In the case of the Philip Thicknesse plates, dated 1753, 1755, and 1782, it was not advisable to give the following bio- graphical details in the tables : — Captain Philip Thicknesse, Lieutenant-Governor of the Fort of Landguard Point, was born about 1721, and died at Boulogne in 1793. On November loth, 17+9, he married the Lady Mary (daughter of James Touchet, Lord Audley), by whom he had a son, George Thickuesbc Touchet, who succeeded to the title of Baron Audley on the death of his Uncle — John, Lord Audley, in April, 1777. This partially explains the curious title of the following work, which contains many racy anecdotes about bygone celebrities of Bath and Southampton : " Memoirs and Anecdotes of Philip Thicknesse, late Lieut. -Governor of Land Guard Fort, and un- fortunately Father to George Touchet, Baron Aud- ley." Writing on " Some Scrawls on Books," in September, 1894, ]\Ir. Andrew Lang re- marked : — " Another scrawl is curious, in ' Memoirs and Anecdotes of Philip Thicknesse, late Lieutenant- Governor of Land Guard Fort, and, unfortunately, father to George Touchet, Baron Audley.' I17SS.) This amazingly absurd and really curious collection of tattle and abuse was published by subscription. On the flyleaf, in MS., we read, ' During the writing and printing of this volume, Mr. T. was ill, and took large Doses of Laudanum, besides host (?) of a bad printer, and therefore trust (sic) the candid reader will correct his errors, as he proceeds he hopes to render the second vol. a little more perfect.' On the last flyleaf we have : ' In Capt. Thicknesse's will, proved 1793, occurs the following singular bequest: " I leave my right hand, to be cut off after death, to my son Lord Audley, and I desire it may be sent to him, in hopes that such a sight may remind him of his duty to God, after having so long abandoned his duty to a father who once affectionately loved him." The earlier note is in Mr. Thicknesse's own hand, dated ' Bath, 17th September, 17SS.' It is difiicult to abstain from quoting Mr. Thicknesse's remarks on many topics, there is so much common- sense mixed with his extravagance." Unfortunately I have not been able to obtain particulars of the 1782 plate of Cap- tain Philip Thicknesse. His brother, Mr. George Thicknesse, High Master of St. Paul's School, London, also had an Ex Libris which will be found described under 1748. I have seen the majority of the plates described in the following tables ; for the descriptions of some I am indebted to cor- respondents to whom I offer my sincere THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 99 thanks, whilst of a few plates the names only have reached me. These latter must T4ioma: Prince Lilery ^tiiio Domini : c^ _, S X704. '.,C^ indeed be scarce specimens, for I have tried, in vain, amongst all my collecting friends, to obtain details of them. I found in some cases that writers unac- customed to literary work, were apt to be inaccurate in detail, and failed to realise that in a work of this description unless absolute accuracy in names, dates, mottoes, etc., could be attained, the information was worse than useless. As an instance of the difficulty of obtain- ing perfect accuracy I may mention the plate of George, Earl of Northampton, 1703. On the copy I have seen the inscription concludes thus, "Baron Compton, of Comp- ton," and the motto below the arms reads distinctly, '' Je ne serche qui ungP But on comparing this with the entry in the Hon. J. L. Warren's Guide, p. 79, the name is given as "The Right Honble. George Earl of Northampton, Baron Compton" (no men- tion "of Compton"), and the motto thus, " Ji ne cherche qui ung" with the emphasis (sic.) to show that the incorrect spelling had been carefully noted. I have never seen this second plate, nor can I get it clearly identified by any collector. But it by no means follows that it does not exist, nor that the Lord de Tabley's descrip- tion is incorrect. On the contrary the assumption is, knowing how accurate his work is in general, that his entry is correct, but that the plate itself is exceedingly rare, having perhaps been altered as to name and motto after only a few copies had been struck oft". This is pure hypothesis, but there is ample room for speculation and conjecture in the history of early book-plates. Whilst on the topic of accuracy I mav mention that foreigners, and even many natives of the United States, have a careless way of describing the inhabitants of Great Britain generally as Englishmen, and of our National flag as the Royal Standard of England. Even so accurate and scholarly a man as Sir A. W. Franks styled his list, "English dated Book-plates," although it includes many Scottish and Irish examples, and not a few of American origin. The Scots, the Irish, and the VV^elsh, are separate nationalities. They might be termed natives of Great Britain, or of Ireland, but they, not unnaturally, object to have their individuality lost in the term " English," which does not apply to them. Scotchmen, especially, cannot be expected to forget that when James Stuart succeeded Queen Elizabeth, Scotland was not absorbed by, but united to England, and as in matters pertaining to Heraldry and Genealogy, ab- solute precision of language is imperative, it is just as necessary to distinguish between Scottish and English book-plates, as between those of any other two nations. The same remark applies equally to Ireland. In each of the three countries there are Peers having their distinct titles, estates, and privileges, and county families with their alliances and armorial bearings entirely separate from those of the other two, and the term English can only be correctly applied to those be- longing exclusively to England. 100 DATED BOOK-PLATES OF With regard to the national flag, it bears the arms of England, Scotland and Ireland, those of England occupying the first and fourth quarters, though why England should thus be over-represented on the shield whilst Wales is not represented at all, is at once an absurdity and an injustice. These are the national arms (in the same sense as the army and navy are national), and the reigning family carry them officially. To style them the royal arms is in a sense misleading, be- cause they are not the family arms of Queen Victoria, nor of her alliances, which are, of course, almost exclusively German. A few German plates, of exceptional in- terest, have been included in these lists, but the systematic collector, seeking for com- prehensive information on German Heraldry and Ex Libris, must refer to the learned works of the late Herr Frederick Warnecke. The recent death of this gentleman, who was President of the German Ex Libris Society, will not only be felt as a serious loss by the members of that society, but will be lamented by everyone interested in the topic on which he vi^as one of the greatest authorities. What Herr F. Warnecke did for Germany has been done for Sweden by the industrious Mr. C. M. Carlander, whose works on Swedish Ex Libris, published in Stockholm, are said to be both complete and instructive. I have much pleasure in acknowledging the kind assistance I have received from many collectors in the preparation of this list of eighteenth century book-plates. Several members of the Ex Libris Society have permitted me to view their collections, others have kindly sent me packets of their dated plates for comparison. In addition to the ladies and gentlemen to whom I have previously offered my thanks, I now beg to acknowledge my obligations to the Rev. A. H. F. Boughey, Cambridge; the Rev. J. Ingle Dredge ; the Rev. F. R. Ellis, M.A.; the Rev. P. M. Herford ; Mrs. Jackson, of Wimbledon ; Messrs. W'illiam Bolton, of Croydon ; F. George, of Bristol ; James Gordon, of Edinburgh ; Robert A. Goodsir, of Edinburgh ; H. Gough, of Redhill ; and Captain Spencer V. F. Henslowe, of Colchester ; F. James Libbie, of Boston, U.S.A. ; George Potter, of Holloway ; J. Carlton Stitt ; T. Jeston White, of Bryans- ton Street ; Robert C. Walker, f.s.a., of Newport, Fife ; John M. Watkins, of Batter- sea ; John P. Woodbury, of Boston ; and several other collectors in the United States, where book-plate collecting is making great progress. To Mr. James Roberts Brown and Mr. F. George, of Bristol, I am indebted for the loan of some plates for reproduction, as I am also to Mr. Arthur Schomberg, of Melk- sham, for the loan of the James Gibbs plate, which had been removed from Dugdale's Monasiicon, the Radclyffe Library plate being pasted over it. The handsome volume on "American Book-P"lates " by Mr. Charles Dexter Allen, published by Messrs. George Bell and Sons, London, contains valuable information as to the early dated Ex Libris found in the United States. Wherever I have quoted from his pages I have given full reference to them, and gladly acknowledge my in- debtedness to Mr. Allen. The same gentleman prepared a small illustrated Catalogue for the Exhibition of Early American Book-Plates held at the Grolier Club. New York, in October 1894. I have also referred several times to illustra- tions in this handy little volume, although I fear that few British collectors can obtain it. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. lOI Dr. L. Bouland, President of the French Society of Collectors of Ex Libris, and Monsieur Jean Grellet, President of the Swiss Heraldic Society, also sent me valu- able information. The Council of the Ex Libris Society granted me permission to make use of several fac similes of Early Ex Libris which had appeared in the Ex Libris Journal, for the loan of which I tender my sincere thanks. Words are quite inadequate to express the gratitude I feel for the continued assistance I have received from the Rev. T. W. Carson, M.A., of Dublin. Not only has he been at all times ready to send me his plates for entry, but he has even gone through the drudgery of comparing the proofs with the plates in his collection, and correcting many of the mottoes and references, which his extensive classical reading so well enabled him to do. I02 DATED BOOK-PLATES OF FRENCH EX LIBRIS. FRENCH Ex Libris of the eighteenth century have a melancholy interest for all who have studied the troubles and calamities France passed through during that awful period. Art in France, more than in most other countries, is affected by, and reflects the national life in its prosperity, and in its reverses. The dawn of the eighteenth century found France taking the lead in European politics, with Louis XIV. on the throne, who, if not still quite so powerful and magnificent as he had been, was still le grand monarque, the head of a splendid Court, where every art was cultivated and every luxury indulged in and encouraged, without a thought for the miseries of the wretched people whose lives and properties were sacrificed to maintain them. Heraldry flourished in its most sumptuous forms, and amongst the book-plates of that period are some of the finest that have ever been designed. As an example of the adulation which Louis XIV. received from his subjects the following passage relating to the Order of Saint Louis may be quoted from the Abrege Nouveau et Methodique du Blason, published in Lyons in 1705 : " L'Ordre Militaire de Saint Louis fut etabli en France au mois d' Avril de Ian 1693, P^^ '^ P'^is grand Roy qui fut jamais et qui puisse etre dans les siecles a venir, qui s'est toujours fait egalement admirer soit en paix soit en guerre, qui a scu si heureusement reprimer les duels, aneantir I'heresie dans ses Etats, y faire fieurir toutes sortes de Sciences et de beaux Arts, qui a vaincu tant de fois plusieurs Puissances de TEurope lesquelles s'etant souvent liguees contre lui seul n'ont jamais servi qu'a augmenter la grandeur de ses victoires et de ses triomphes, qui a rendu la France infiniment plus florissante qu'elle n'a etee encor jusques a nos jours, en un mot qui des le premier moment de sa nais- sance n'a cesse de reniplir d' etonnement toute la terre par mille actions illustres et que Ton ne se lassera jamais d'admirer. Ce Prince qui a toujours e'te I'amour et la veneration de ses peuples, en etablissant I'Ordre de Saint Louis s'en est declare le Chef." etc. It was perhaps a pardonable exaggeration to say that Louis XIV. had astonished the whole world with his actions from the very moment of his birth, but in sober truth he was, in his prime, a very close approach to a kingly individual, and insisted on the dignity of his office, and the rigid observance of etiquette. The book on Heraldry above alluded to contains full instructions for the precise armorial bearings and distinctive badges to be worn by the various branches of the Royal Family, legitimate and illegitimate (and the latter are somewhat numerous), by OfiBcers of the King's Household, the THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 103 great Officers of State, Marshals of France, Generals and Admirals, Colonels of Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry; Cardinals and Church dignitaries. Judges and the other Officers of Justice, Finance, and the Civil Service. So clearly are all the separate arms and devices shown and described that no one could possibly mistake the King's Bottle Holder for the Grand Falconer, or the first Huntsman for the Captain of the King's Guard. The batons in saltire of a Marshal of France, and the anchors in various posi- tions to indicate Admirals of different grades were at once appropriate, distinctive and ornamental adjuncts to their achievements. Such were the Court regulations, and so long as Louis XIV. was alive they were, no doubt, strictly observed, but later on, when Louis XV. was King, a general laxity pre- vailed, indicative of the coming storm ; a decadence in art was observable, the de- signers and engravers of book-plates caught the pretty flippant fashion then in vogue, and in their works began to degenerate from the grand and massive treatment of the arms and their accessories into all kinds of Allegorical absurdities, more suitable for ceilings or wall panels than for the heraldic achievements of great nobles. The helmet and mantling are discarded, to be replaced by enormous coronets en- tirely out of proportion to the rest of the design ; the shield no longer faces you squarely with all its bearings boldly dis- played, but is shown at various angles and of the most un-shieldlike forms, being borne aloft in the clouds by angels, cupids, or mythological deities, and surrounded by rainbows, ribbons, wreaths of flowers, and other flimsy ornaments equally unsuitable. Whilst as to the heraldic supporters, where such continue to be shown, they no longer preserve the formal stately attitudes proper to such dignified upholders of aristo- cratic escutcheons : they either sprawl inele- gantly about under the shield, as in the plates of Boula de Nanteuil, and of Bos- cheron, both dated 1777; or appear to be playing at hide and seek around the shield, or even asleep by the side of it ; as for the insignia of rank and offices such as coronets, flags, batons, anchors, swords, etc., the rules for their adoption appear to have been set at defiance, and the rank of the owner of a Louis XV. or Louis XVI. plate cannot be safely assumed from the insignia, which according to the ancient rules of French Heraldry should have sufficed at once to show the office or the title of the bearer. It is true that owing to the peculiar regu- lations in force in France, prior to the revolution, as to the hereditary nature of nobility, the number of persons entitled to style themselves Marquis, Count, or Baron, and to carry coronets on their arms, was so enormous that finally these titles con- veyed little or no idea of distinction, and were indeed more the topics of ridicule than of admiration. Never in Great Britain has such chaos been seen, so that it is rather difficult for us to realise the absurdities of the false assumption of titles and arms which took place just a few years before the revolution, and all in the face of the most stringent paper regula- lations to the contrary. But the end came, and almost with the abrupt force of an earthquake. Heraldry, which had long appeared ridiculous in the eyes of those who did not make use of it, suddenly became extremely dangerous to those who did. Consequently many book- plates of the French revolutionary period are curious indications of a transition, more o I04 DATED BOOK-PLATES OF rapid and complete from onu extreme to the other, than can be found in the Art of any other civilised nation. Mention has already been made of the changes in the plates of Boyveau-Laffecteur, Bourbon-Busset, and Joseph Richard, to suit the republican tastes (see p. 38 Introduction), to these many others may be added, such as the Ex Libris of " Le Prince de Beaufond," which was altered to " Charles-Louis Le- prince," and the elaborate heraldic book- plate of the Marquis de Portia, which was covered by a simple printed label : " Ce livre fait partie de la bibliotheque de I\I. de Fortia d' Urban, demeurant i Paris, rue de la Rochefoucaud, No. 21, division du Mont Blanc." M. Pigou covered his arms and coronet of a Marquis with a plain label in which the name Pigou was surrounded by a garland of roses. Le Citoyen Labbe, quoting from Rosseau, had the sentiment : " L' Homme est n6 libre" printed above his name, whilst others adopted still more republican ideas, as the Deputy Gillet who placed the Cap of Liberty on his plate, with the words " Liberie, Egalite," whilst Laforest boldly cries for " La liberty ou la mort." But in those troubled times most men of any position had far more serious topics to occupy their minds than the planning of Ex Libris for their books, and indeed the poor heraldic engravers found their business suddenly come to an end, and one of them, M. Crussaire, finding himself without work, advertised that he would gladly execute " tout esp^ce de sujets s6rieux ou agr^ables relatifs aux diverses circonstances de la Revolution, pour boites, bon-bonni6res, boutons, medallions." Immense changes are now crowded into a few years. The fall of the ancient aristoc- racy of France, the execution of Louis XVI., the advent of the new era of " Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity," ushered in by blood and warfare, the brilliant victories of Napoleon, his sudden rise to power, and his election as First Consul of France, in November, 1799. And thus, so far as France is concerned, the century ends, and with it closes, perhaps for ever, the pride and pomp of ancient lineage and heraldic achievements. The following interesting letter appeared in Notes and Queries (London), August 25, 1 894., bearing upon the Heraldic and Genea- logical Records of France : — "As there always appears to be a doubt in the public mind as to whether there is any office in France at all corresponding to our heralds' offices in this country, I ventured to put this query to a well-known authority in Paris, together with the queries as to whether there is any ground for the statement that the archives of the French Heralds' College were destroyed by fire by the Commune, and also if there is any Heraldic or Genealogical Society at all corresponding to the Government Office ; and 1 received the following reply : — " ' The old Government had the " Gene'alogistes du Roi," for proofs of nobility, and the "Juges d'.'^rmes,' such as d'Hozier and Cherieu. The Monarchical Governments of this century had the " Conseil du Sceau des Titres," now suppressed. The archives of these officers are now dispersed, part to the Bibliotheque Nationale (Cabinet des Titres), part to the Hotel de Soubise (in the series M. and MM.), part to the Ministere de la Justice (for the period after 1789). In short, the equivalent of the Heralds' College of England never existed in France. However, the Conseil du Sceau had some similarity to that body. There is no Heraldic Society, but some persons, without legal authority, occupy themselves with questions of nobility, but they necessarily cannot be regarded as altogether trustworthy. Not knowing of a Heralds' College in France, I cannot accuse the Commune of having burnt the archives. The fires of rSyi destroyed the parochial registers (entries of birth, marriage, and death) preserved at the Hotel de Ville and the Library of the Louvre, which included some precious MSS. containing some correspondence of the last two centuries.' "Arthur Vicars, Ulster." For information as to Foreign Engravers and their works, reference should be made to "Les Graveurs du Dix Huitieme sikle " par Portalis et Beraldi. Paris, 1880. 6 vols. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 105 A FEW NOTES ON AMERICAN BOOK-PLATES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. VARIOUS causes, such as wars, fires, and public commotion, have led to the destruction or dispersal of many of the earliest collections of books in America, in which one might have reasonably expected to find some choice old book-plates. The famous Hutchinson library was des- troyed by a mob, the Henry Knox, Samuel Vaughan, and Mather collections were simi- larly treated. The old college libraries of Harvard, Yale, William and Mary, and Princeton, have all suftered from fires at various periods. During the war of Independence the British soldiers were seen to carry away the books from the library of Columbia College to barter them for drink. Many libraries, belonging to owners of loyalist sympathies, were removed from America during the Revolution, whilst what few remained in Virginia and the other Southern States were in many cases either scattered or destroyed during the war. Coming down to more modern times, namely, the great Civil War which broke out in 1 86 1, similar ravages were committed in the southern cities during Sherman's march, when wheel-barrows loaded with valuable literary collections stolen from private libra- ries were trundled through the streets to be sold for liquor. Comparatively few libraries therefore in the United States have enjoyed that im- munity from change or destruction which has been brought about in Great Britain by the long absence of civil war or commotion. Two of the best known early American libraries were those belonging to Thomas Prince of Boston, and James Logan of Philadelphia. Thomas Prince was born in Sandwich, Mass., May tsth, 1687, and died in 1758. He had a plain label book-plate dated 1704, and most of the books he collected are now preserved in the Boston Public Library. That he commenced to collect books early in his career is shown by a label afiixed in a number of books formerly in his library. It reads: "This book belongs to the New England Library, begun to be collected by Thomas Prince, upon his entering Harvard College, July 6th, 1703." This label is entered under the year 1703, where, however, the christian name is given erroneously as James. James Logan, who was born in County Armagh, Ireland, October 20th, 1674, was not only a successful politician and business io6 DATED BOOK-PLATES OF man, but a good classical scholar, and the author of a number of works, some of which were printed by Benjamin Franklin. He used an armorial book-plate, although he boldly avowed that he had no right to the arms upon it. By his will, he left his library, consisting of nearly 3,000 volumes, to the City of Philadelphia. Such were the early owners of libraries in America ; gradually as the population ex- tended, and as wealth increased, so printing developed and books multiplied. Still, it was many years before America produced native engravers skilful enough to execute good armorial book-plates, which therefore, until about 1750 were usually imported from England. A collector in the United States wrote me a short time since, that type-printed labels were very numerous in his part of the coun- try, especially those belonging to the period after the revolutionary war, and down to about 1820-5. Money was not plentiful, nor were there many skilful engravers, whilst, just then, printing offices were springing up all over the eastern States, and type-printed labels naturally resulted. Of course, the older and wealthier families had plates engraved (fre- quently, indeed, sent out from the mother country), but the people of only moderate means, and the people who lived in countr}- towns, had their work done evidently at the printing office in the town. Many of these labels, although not dated, bear the names of towns in Massachusetts, like Worcester, Hingham, Salem, Newburyport, Billerica, Hartford, Concord, etc. Some time since Dr. Joseph Henry Dubbs wrote an instructive essay on the " German Book-plates of Pennsylvania," in which he stated that the early settlers in the German counties of Pennsylvania were mostly poor people, driven from their homes along the Rhine by repeated French invasions. These pioneers remembered the oppression to which they had been subjected by the ruling classes in Germany, and it was their fi.Ked determination to prevent the establishment of similar conditions in their new home. Notwithstanding the prevalence of such sentiments, the careful student of the pro- vincial period is surprised to find that in those days many German families of Penn- sylvania regarded themselves as entitled to heraldic honours. This was especially the case with certain families which were remotely of Huguenot descent, but had be- come pretty thoroughly Germanized before they came to America. The ministers, too, were generally well educated, and some of these were so conservative that they actually impressed their arms on every marriage certificate to which they attached their signature. Dr. Dubbs then describes at some length two dated plates in his possession. These are the unique plates of John Peter Miller, Prior of the Convent of Seventh-Day Bap- tists at Ephrata, in the county of Lancaster, Pennsylvania : — " The first of these labels is a mere frag- ment, though enough remains to determine the inscription. It bears Miller's monastic name, as follows : "Bruder Jabez, Ephrata, 178 — " The second of the Miller plates is still in its original position, on the inside of a book which bears internal evidence of having once been the property of the prior of Eph- rata. On this occasion he called himself ' Peter the Hermit,' in allusion to his solitary life. The name is printed in large Roman THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 107 and the stanza in German characters. It reads as follows : — "PETRUS-HEREMIT. " Vol! Kreuz und Triibsal ist der Weg, Darauf ich hier muss gehen, Und lieden viel geheime Schlaeg', Das macht oft bittre Wehen ; Doch wann zu end der lange Kampf und Streit, So geh ich ein zur stillen Ewigkeit. 1791 " The above stanza I translate : — " 'The path I journey here below Is full of grief and sorrow ; I sufter many a secret blow, And grievous pains I borrow ; But when the war and conflict's o'er, I'll rest in peace forevermore.' "John Peter Miller (1710-1796) was a native of the Rhenish Palatinate. He was sent to America in 1730 as missionary to the Germans of Pennsylvania ; but four years later he joined a mystical brotherhood which had been founded at Ephrata by Conrad Beissel. The fraternity adopted a strict monastic rule, and after the death of the founder Miller became its head. Under his direction the literary activity of the order was remarkable, and many books were published which are now regarded as among the rarest issues of the American press. In his old age, it seems, the prior composed a stanza concerning life and death, and at- tached it to his favourite volumes in the form of an Ex Libris." American Engravers of the Eighteenth Century. — Comparatively few of the early American plates are dated, the earliest known specimen by an American engraver being that done by N. Hurd for Thomas Bering, dated 1 749, so that we have here only to deal really with the work pro- duced in the half century between 1749 and 1 800. It is comparatively easy to enumerate American engravers who have signed book- plates, but it is by no means so easy to form an idea of the dates when they were pro- duced, unless they are actually dated, as the styles were generally formed upon British examples of earlier periods. Of many of the engravers absolutely nothing is known ; they worked in obscurity, and their signa- tures on a few old book-plates are all that preserve them from complete oblivion. The names and dates of a few of the leading- engravers may be of some assistance in identifying American works, and in help- ing to fix their periods. It must be under- stood that no attempt has been made to enumerate all their works ; such a catalogue would have occupied too much space. The dated examples will be found in the tables, whilst most of the others will be found fully described in Mr. C. D. Allen's "American Book-plates," published by Messrs. George Bell and Sons, London. Mr. R. C. Lichten- stein has also written some valuable articles on this branch of the subject. James Akin produced plates for Peter A. Brown (Book-pile), Hector Coffin (A gor- geous Wreath and Ribbon Armorial), and N. W. Coffin. 6'. AUardice engraved the plate for the Library Company of Baltimore. Alexander Anderson, an eminent copper- plate engraver, and the first American en- graver on wood, produced book-plates both in the Allegorical and Chippendale styles, also a few plain labels. For an interesting notice of the career of this persevering and talented artist, see the Ex Libris Journal, Vol. II., p. 54. He was bom in New York, 1775, and died after a long, active, and useful life, on the 17th February, 1870. He engraved an armorial Chip, book-plate for himself (copper-plate), io8 DATED BOOK-PLATES OF Alex'. Anderson, also one for the Apprentices' Library, New York. Abel Bowen was the first wood engraver in Boston ; his name appears on one of the plates of Harvard College, New England, the first of which was engraved and signed by N. Hurd. Abel Bowen was born in New York, 1790, and died in 1850. John Boyd, whose only signed work thus far known is the Armorial Chippendale plate of Samuel Chase (one of the signers of the American Declaration of Independence), was working in Philadelphia as late as 1812. Joseph Calkndcr, born in Boston, 1751, produced plates in the Chippendale, Ribbon and Wreath, and Allegorical styles ; he was in Boston from 1789 to 1805. (See "Ameri- can Academy of Arts," 1780 ; Bowdoin Col- lege, 1780). He also produced others not dated. Mr. Allen gives a list of his works, p. 126. Henry Dawkins was a prolific engraver of Ex Libris, which were all in the Chippen- dale style ; see plates of John Burnet, Esq., New York, 1754; James Duane, Mayor of New York City ; Samuel Jones, Gerard Bancker, and many others not dated. For a notice of Dawkins and his works see the Ex Libris Journal, Vol. H., p. 53 ; and Mr. Allen's "American Book-plates," p. 131. Nathaniel Dearborn, born in 1786, was an associate of Abel Bowen, and an early wood engraver of Boston. Only one Armorial plate is known that is signed by him, namely, that of Charles Beck. Amos Doolittle, a self-taught engraver, of New Haven, Connecticut, born in 1754, was one of the earliest American engravers of historical scenes, and in that respect dis- putes priority with Paul Revere. He was a member of the Governor's Foot Guards, and marched to Boston. After his return, he engraved sketches of the battle of Lex- ington. He designed and engraved many book-plates for public libraries, etc. ; they are mostly in the Allegorical style. He did three plates for the Mechanic Li- brary, New Haven, Conn. One not signed, the smallest, shows a smith and a boy at work at an anvil, with the motto over them, " Improve the moment," plate mark 3 by 3:^. A second, which is signed Doolittle del el sculp, is 4^ by 3 1, shows two cupids at work at an anvil, and has the same motto. A pile of books surmounts the design. Both of these are inscribed at the foot Mechanic Library, New Haven. The third and largest, signed A. Doolittle del et sculp, is a totally different design. A landscape with books and papers scattered carelessly in the foregound ; two cupids hold aloft a scroll, on which is inscribed the titles, " Theology, History, Biography, Voyages and Travels, Classical." Below is the verse — 'Tis Books a lasting pleasure can supply, Charm while we live, and teach us how to die ; Seek here ye Young the anchor of your mind. Here suffering Age a blest provision find. At the head of the design on a scroll, Social Liby _ Company, size 4! by 3J. The Mechanic Library Society was organised in 1793, surrendered its name and united with the Social Library in 1815. All were merged into the Young Men's Institute in 1840. Gideon Fairman, born in Connecticut in 1774, signed a few plates. John Mason Furnass, a nephew of Natha- niel Hurd, of Boston ; only one book-plate is known as his work ; it is a Chippendale Armorial for Eli Forbes. Elisha and Edward Gallaudet, of New York city, only one or two specimens of book-plates by each are known. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 109 Abraham Godwin, born in New Jersey in 1763. One book-plate only by him is known, a library interior, nameless. .S. Harris was in Boston about 1798, and produced some pictorial plates. Charles P. Harrison, an Englishman by birth, was associated for a time with Mave- rick. Designed and engraved the Armorial plates for William Betts, and David Paul Brown. Samuel Hill, a copper-plate engraver, was in Boston about 1790, and produced a few Wreath and Ribbon book-plates. Nathaniel Hurd, of Boston, born Feb. 13, 1730, died 1777, was the best of the early American engravers. The earliest book- plate known by him (which is also the earliest known dated and signed specimen by an American engraver) is that of Thomas Dering, in 1749, an Armorial Chippendale. He produced good plates in all the accepted Armorial styles. See Benjamin Greene, 1757 ; a fine festoon plate of Jonathan Jackson, not dated, but probably about 1775. J. Jackson was born in Boston 1743, and died there in 1810. The Harvard College first Ex Libris, Peter R. Livingston (not dated), reproduced in Ex Libris Journal, Vol. I., p. 81. In Mr. Allen's "American Book-plates," a list of N. Hurd's works will be found on page 1 15. Thomas Johnson, born in Boston, 1708. His principal engravings were done in the first half of the eighteenth century. He sometimes signed his name Johnston. He died in 1767. Francis Kearney, a pupil of Peter R. Maverick. He went to Philadelphia early in the present century, and worked in that city for twenty years. Peler Rushton Maverick, called Maverick the first (17SS-1807), an Englishman who went to New York about 1774; he was the most prolific engraver of book-plates of all the early engravers, working principally in the Ribbon and Wreath style, which was in fashion when he left England ; he also produced several good Allegorical and Pictorials, and some plates in the plain Armorial style. He died in New York about 1807. For a list of his works see Allen's "American Book-plates," p. 142. Peter Maverick, son of the preceding, born 1 78 1, died 1831, also etched and en- graved a few book-plates, but is better known as an engraver of bank-notes. /. /. Morin, of New York, did the Armorial plate for George Clarke, who settled in the State of New York in 1789. Paul Revere, the self-instructed engraver of Boston, produced several book-plates which are now of great interest to collectors. Born 173s, died 1818. %&& Ex Libris Journal, Vol. n., p. 54, and Allen's " American Book- plates," p. 146. Paul Revere was the Ameri- can patriot of whom Longfellow sang the song of his ride : — "Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the Eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five ; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year." William Rollinson was born in England in 1760, but inhabited New York towards the close of the eighteenth century. He pro- duced a good number of plates in the Ribbon and Wreath, and plain Armorial styles. Mr. Allen gives a list of his signed book-plates. Jacob Sargeant, a watchmaker of Hartford, Conn., U.S.A., who engraved a plate for himself about 1789. Some copies are named and dated, but these are not genuine "pulls," the name and date having recently been added. Reproduced in the Ex Libris Journal, Vol U., p. 44, "Bogus Heraldry." no DATED BOOK-PLATES OF J. Smithers, an Englishman who settled in Philadelphia in 1773, engraved a few- Chippendale and Armorial plates of only moderate merit. T. Sparrow, a wood engraver \\\\o worked in Annapolis from 1765 to about 1780. Only two book-plates by him are known. William D. Terry engraved the plate for the Redwood Library of Newport, a fine piece of work. James Thachara was a partner of John Vallance. Only one book-plate by him is known, the Ribbon and Wreath of John Lenthall. James Trenchard, born in New Jersey in 1746, w'as a pupil of Smithers. Only one plate by him is known, it is in the Chippen- dale style, namely, that of General Joseph Bloomfield, engraved about 1785, signed, J. Trenchard, sculp. James Turner, an early American engraver, of whom but little is known. Three signed book-plates by him are preserved. John Vallance, who was associated with James Thackara, signed one book-plate, a Ribbon and Wreath, of Joseph Wiseman. In writing of the book-plates of North America in the following tables, I have styled those which were produced before I yj6, American ; the declaration of the inde- pendence of the United States took place on the 4th of July, 1776, after which date the letters U.S.A. are sufficient to indicate their nationality. iT^O BOOK-PLATES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. DURING the first half of the nineteenth century Art, in Great Britain, was in a deplorable condition, and public taste was at its lowest ebb. Even in such a com- paratively trifling branch of art as book- plates the effects can.be clearly seen. The best engravers of the eighteenth century were dying out, and there were few rising men to replace them. A constant succession of wars on the Continent, and in the American colonies, had left the general public little time or money to collect books, or to beautify them with handsome bindings and book-plates. The court and aristocracy of the later Georges, and of William the Fourth, exer- cised no influence for good, nor indeed was there much improvement visible until about the time of the first great exhibition in 1 85 1, when the British public seemed for the first time to realise that the love of the beautiful, if properly cultivated, would not only render life more enjoyable, but might even be turned to profitable account in business. In book-plates the improvement was not immediately visible, indeed, until we reach the sixties they were neither numerous nor beautiful. Of originality there was none; the old styles of Armorial design were copied and modified, a few debased Chippendales were produced, some funereal-looking Urn de- signs, with here and there a heavy Alle- gorical composition, and worse than all a large proportion of plain typographical labels were used, just about as uninteresting artistically as an ordinary visiting card. The tables will show that of all these compara- tively few were dated ; indeed, the fashion of dating book-plates is a comparatively modern revival ; it does not appear to have come in vogue till late in the seventies. Almost the only engraver of the early years of the century whose name seems worthy of mention, Thomas Bewick, pro- duced some seventy or eighty book-plates, it is true, but he seldom dated them. He died in 1828. See S. Hodgson, 1800; J. Murray, 1802; B. Sidwell, 1821 ; Charles I 12 DATED BOOK-PLATES OF Thorp, 1822 ; and W. Robson, 1824. Thenceforward, until 1857, there is scarcely a dated plate signed by any man worth recalling, till here we meet with one who was both a poet and an artist, the late Mr. William Bell Scott. Here and there scattered about are a few- signed plates, produced by the heraldic stationers, but to their signatures little in- terest attaches, as in most cases the work was performed by obscure engravers at- tached to the houses, and is of the usual stereotyped plain armorial character, all very clear, cold, formal, and, save for the herald- ry, uninteresting. Next in order of date after Mr. Scott we come to Mr. John Leighton, who has not only produced many handsome plates in the past, but is fortunately still at W'ork both with pen and pencil on Ex Libris work, with which his name is so intimately con- nected. In 1864 we first come to the entry of a plate by Mr. C. W. Sherborn, namely that of John William Warden. Unfortunately it is not signed, but in 1873 occurs the hand- some monogram plate he designed for himself, which is dated, and signed "C.W.S. In. & fecit." From that date forward most of the good book-plate work has been produced by artists who are still living, and the following alphabetical list may be useful for reference to collectors, as well as to book-lovers who meditate ordering book- plates for themselves, and scarcely know to whom to apply for the purpose. Modern Designers & Engravers. — In the following list will be found the names of some of the principal living B ritish, French, and American designers and engra- vers of book-plates, with references to their dated works. Space would not permit the insertion of a more complete catalogue, nor was it possible, for the same reason, to enumerate the names of the many heraldic engravers who have recently produced book- plates without dates. I allude to E. A. Abbey, Paul Avril, Aubrey Beardsley, Leo Culleton, E. H. Garratt, Curwen, Thomas Moring, Cloud & Shapland, Stern of Paris, Salt, Allan Wyon, and many others. Such information requires a volume to itself, and indeed collectors would gladly welcome its appearance. It must be remembered that the artists herein named are not all professionally engaged in the production of book-plates : Henry Andre, 3 Faubourg Saint Jacques, Paris. Formerly Secretary of the Society Franfnise des Collectionneun d' Ex Libris. See Andre, 1893 ; L. Bihn, 1893 ; Dr. L. Bouland, 1893 ; A.G., 1893 ; his own portrait plate, 1894 ; Bargallo, 1895. John D. Batten, 15 Airlie Gardens, Campden Hill, London, \V. See 1886, 1887, 1889, 1890, 1892, and 1893. Robert Anning Bell, Hogarth Club, Dover St., London, W. See i8g-, 1892, 1893, 1894 ; see The Stiitiio, .15th August, 1894. Mr. Bell has also executed a large number of book-plates not dated. In the Ex Libris Journal, August, 1895, Vol. V., there is an illustrated article on Mr. R. A. Bell's work as a book-plate designer, with a list of his principal productions. This admirable criticism is from the pen of Mr. Gleeson White, who is himself not only an artist, but is also thoroughly acquainted with the technique of the production of book-plates. His appreciations are therefore as valuable as they are interesting. Aglaiis Bouvenne, 24 rue de Cormeille a Leval- lois-Perret, Seine. Member of Council Soci^teFran- gaise ; has designed a number of modern dated book-plates. Amongst them may be named those for Victor Hugo, dated 1870 ; Alexis Martin, 1868 ; Octave Uzanne, 1882 ; and Theophile Gautier, 1872; Champfleury, 1874; Benoit, 1883; Comtesse de Noe, 1888; Uzanne, 1892. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. "3 Colonel Joseph Alfred Bradney, j.p., Memb. Ex L. Soc, Talycoed Court, Monmouth ; designed plates for Sir H. M. Jackson, Bart., 1892 ; Major Noel, 1889 ; Edward Jenl-where have I sought peace and found it nowhere save in a corner with a book.' — Thomas a Kcmpis. ' He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.' — Isanc Barrow. ' By the aid of books we collect around us all things, all places, men and times. To be without books is the abyss of penury.' — y. RuskinJ" For brevity and conciseness the instruc- tions given on his Armorial book-plate by the late Rev. Mr. William Charles Cotton, Vicar of Frodsham, can scarcely be sur- passed, " Borrow bravely, Keep carefully. Peruse patiently, Return righteously." In the lists of Dated plates the mottoes or quotations have been given wherever it was possible to copy them ; as to the thou- sands to be found on non-dated plates, sufficient has been said to show that they merit collection and preservation in a work devoted to themselves. Materials will not be wanting to the enthusiast who takes up the scheme, for collectors are ever ready to assist in these labours. Germain and Swedish Book- plates. — I have been compelled to omit German and Swedish book-plates from the list of nineteenth century dated plates. The other entries are so numerous and so lengthy, that had plates of German and Swedish origin been included, this portion of the work would have far exceeded its pre- decessors in bulk, for German dated plates especially have become very numerous of late years. Collectors who are interested in these branches have the grand works of C. M. Carlander {" Svenska Bibliotek och Ex Libris." Stockholm, 1889-94. Three vols., 8vo., with 216 illustrations of choice book- plates), and the late Herr F. Warnecke, on German Ex Libris, to refer to, as well as the Journal of the German Book-plate Society, which is published quarterly in Berlin. There is room not only for a translation of Herr Warnecke's work, but also for a list of the plates he accidentally omitted, and of the numerous plates which have been produced since the publication of his book in 1890. I had collected a mass of information on this latter topic, which, for the above- mentioned reasons, I have put aside for the present. To have printed a portion only would have been confusing to the collector, and of little interest to the general reader. The few German plates which I have included, either belong to members of the Ex Libris Society, or possess some other features of exceptional interest. It is a common practice in Germany to have Ex Libris printed in metals and colours. 124 DATED BOOK-PLATES. so that the heraldic details can be all properly shown, according to the rules of blazon. The effect is striking, and in some cases even very handsome ; but the fashion is not likely to be generally adopted in this country, where such showy tokens would be generally considered as-too ostentatious for domestic use, although well enough on furniture, carriage panels, etc. One of the most successful instances I know of is the handsome plate designed by Mr. J. Vinycomb for Mr. Richard Southcote Mansergh, dated 1S94. This forms the frontispiece to Mr. Vinycomb's work, " On the Processes for the Production of Ex Libris." Conclusion. — Much has already been written about book-plates, and more remains to be written, for I have but treated of one branch of a subject which could, and should be, examined from several different points of view. So long as the relics of distinguished men of the past are treasured, so long as history, genealogy, and heraldry are .studied, so long will a good collection of book- plates be worth forming and preserving, a futurity which promises to stretch far into centuries yet to come. I think I mav fairly claim to have shown that the collection and the study of Ex Libris may be considered both amusing and instructive ; if I have succeeded in so doing, my work has not been in vain. To collectors who have rendered me assistance during the publication of this work I can only repeat the expressions of my sincere gratitude. Information has been sent to me from all parts, and even by complete strangers, whilst artists have given me valuable help by furnishing lists of their dated designs. The Rev. Mr. Carson, of Dublin, was again so kind as to compare my lists with his collection, and to him I am indebted, deeply indebted, for advice and information of the greatest utility, during the many months this work has been in progress. For the loan of the illustrations I beg to thank the Lady Mayo, Mr. Sherborn, Mr. H. S. Marks, Mr.T. Erat Harrison, Mons. H. Andr6, Mr. E. D. French, Mr. J. R. Brown, Mr. Fincham, Mr. R. S. Mansergh, Mons. F. Bargall6, Mr. J. Vinycomb, Mr. Harr)- Soane, Mr. H. B. Score, Mr. Gleeson White, Mr. \V. H. Foster, Mons. L(5on Quantin, Mr. R. A. Bell, and the Council of the Ex Libris Society. Walter Hamilton. " Ellnrbce," Elms Road, Clapham Common, Surrey, August, 1895. XXJII DATED BOOK-PLATES Date. Name. 1516 1521 1522 1524 1525 Liber Hieronimi Ebner (Two shields, the arms of Ebner and Fiihrer. Crest, the two peculiarly distinctive German horns.) 5 in. by 4 in. The earliest known dated plate. Apud Inclytam Germaniae Basileam mdxvi. (The Schonthal Convent at Basle, as shown by the arms.) Dr. Gregorius Anger (German). The Arms of Jodocus. "Propria yodociis girit hciec sua sigiia parentnm ; Matrcm virffo iwtat, fibula dupln patri'iu.'^ Johannis Revelles, Granatensis, Episcopus Vien- nensis. (John Revelles, Bishop of Vienna.) Large plate, 17^ in. by 13 in. Bilibald Pirckheimer The inscription reads: " Bilibaldi Pirkeymheri effigies ^tatis suae anno Liii. Vivitiir ingcnio caetera mortis i'runt/' mdxxiv. (B. P. was a scholar, book collector, and author, born at Eichstadt in 1470, died in Nuremberg in 1530-) B. Pirckheimer also used a large Armorial woodcut book - plate also designed by Albert Durer. This is not signed or dated. This is inscribed " Liber Bilibaldi Pirckheimer." Sibi et amicis. P. D. Hector Pomer, Praepos S. Laur. .. (Hector Pomer was the last prior of the Abbey of Saint Laurence in Nuremberg.) 13 in. by g in. See Ex L. y., Vol. IL, p. 60, and Warren, pp. 129, 202. The earliest dated book-plate signed by artist or engraver. Style. Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Eccles. Portrait plate Arm. Pict. Motto and Artist. "Dcus re/ngium mcum." Bartsch ascribes this to Albert Durer. See Warren, pp. 12S, 194, 202 ; Hardy, p. 86, and plate; H. Bou- chot, p. 25. See Warren, p. 202. Sec Warren, pp. 195, 202. He thus translates the rhyme : — " The arms ot either parent here Jodocus hath displayed : The fatlier bears the buckles, and liis mother bears the maid." Ascribed to Albert Durer. See Warren, p. 135. k copper plate by \. D. (Albert Durer). See Ex L.y., Vol. IL, p. rig; and Hardy, p. 86. " Inicium sapicntiac Timor Do- mini " with the same text in Hebrew and Greek. See reproduction in Warren, plate I and p. 127 ; see also under 1529. "Omnia Munda muitdis." The same in Hebrew and Greek. Signed R.A. The design has been ascribed to Albert Durer, the initials being those of the wood engraver. See Hardy, p. 87 ; Castle, ist edit., p. 31, and Castle, 2nd edit., p. 35, but he dates it 1521. 2 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1525 Nameless woodcut, 4J in. by 3 in. .^scribed by Mr. Warren to Gabriel d' Eyb, Bishop of Aichstadt. Arm. Eccles. No motto. Said to be designed by Albert Durer. See Warren, p. 132. »> Joannis Drexel, S.S. Theol. Doctor, Canon et Paroch. ad D. Maur. Augtae. Arm. No motto. 1526 Nameless Armorial (Rehen family) Arms, a bull No inscription. ."Vscribed to Al- bert Durer. See Warren, p. 135. ») Nameless German plate. (Bishop's arms— query, Bishop of Salzburg.) Arm. Eccles. No motto. In collection at South Kensington Museum. 1529 Reverendus Pater D. Melchior, Episcopus Ascalonen suffraganeus ac Decanus Con- stantien Patronus Libri. Arm. Eccles. Coloured woodcut. No motto. '* Nameless engraved copper plate. Belonging to Bilibald Pirckheimer. Allegorical design. Signed J. B., 1529. For a reproduction see Mr. Quaritch's " Book Collectors " ; see also Hardy, p. 87. 1534 Antonius D. G. Episcopus Philadelphiae, Suffragan Eistetten. (Antony, Bishop of Philadelphia, Suffragan of Eichstadt.) No details See Warren, p. 203. 1536 M.R.A.—I.H.S.— I.O.E.S. W.H. No details " In domino coiifiilo." See Warren, p. 203. 1539 Justus Syringus No details *' Estate prudcntes stent serpcnfes,^* See Warren, p. 203. 1540 Emptus est iste liber per nos Doctorem Joannem Fabrum Episcopum Viennesem.etc. Actum Vienne in Episcopali Curia, prima die Sep- tembris. Anno Salutis m.d.\xxx. Dated September i, 1540. Bishop Faber died in 1541. See Warren, pp. 197, 203. 1541 Long Latin inscription recording a gift of books by John Faber, Bishop of Vienna, to the College of St. Nicholas in that city. 11 in. by 7 J in. Liber Christophori Scheurli J.U.D. qui natus est II Novemb. 14S1. (Both the book-plates of Christopher Scheurl, who was born on Nov. 11, 1481, contain Biblical texts in Latin, which are given by Mr. Warren.) No details Two varieties. See Warren, pp. 203, 204. 1543 Excudebat Christoph. Details wanting. 1546 Anonymous (German). Coloured woodcut. Arms No inscription whatever 1553 1554 Carolus Agricola Hammonius. Juris Utriusque Doctor. Date scarcely visible. S.M.P. V.LD. Arm. Pict. Arms in a wreath No motto. J.B. (? Jacques Bink.) See Ex L. J., Vol. i, p. i, and reproduction. See Warren, p. 204. 1555 Andreas Imhoff No details Ascribed by Warren to Virgil Solis, not signed. See Warren, pp. 139, 204. 1556 V/iguleus Hundt de Lauterpach. Jure Co. Arm. Coloured No motto. (German) 6 in. by 4 in. 1558 Societatis Jesu, 1558. Ex liberalitate R. et I. Principis ac Domini Danielis, Archi- episcopi S.S. Moguntinae, etc. (A legacy of books by Daniel Brendel of Ham- burg, Archbishop of Mayence, to the Jesuit College in that city, which he had founded.) No details See Warren, p. 204. 1559 Michael Zimmermann Details wanting. 1560 Insig. Philippi A. Piani No details See Warren, p. 205. »» Sigillum de Bellaers Seal (Date incorrect.) DATED BOOK-PLATES. 3 1561 Symbolum Conradi Lycosthenis Arm. By Froben. The earliest known book-plate of Alsace, not " Omnem crede diem tibi diUix- dated, but as Conrad Wolfhardt ("Lycosthenis") isse supremum." Also two Latin de Rouffach died 25th March, 1561, it must have quotations. been used prior to that date. See Petite Revue d'Ex-Libris Ahaciens, p. 29 and reproduction. 1562 Ex bibliotheca Joannis Racebergii, Medici Arm. (In the collection of Mr. C. W. Sherborn.) 1564 Martinus Eisengrein, Stutgardianus, S. Theo- Arm. Woodcut. No motto. Date at logiae Licentiatus et Praepositus Mospur- top. Helmet and crest. gensis. A smaller plate with same arms, helmet and crest, but different inscription, not dated. Martinus Eisengrein, Stutgardianus, Pastor In- Arm. Woodcut. No motto. Date at goltstadiensis ad S. Mauritium, Theologiae Ordinarius Professor et Protonotarius Apos- tolicus. Eccles. bottom. Francz Pfeil. D. . . Arms, " Time reeht-las Gott •walten.'''' I* (Coloured woodcut.) Seefi^rL.y., Vol.I.,p. 120. Portrait Signed C.G. »» Frantz Pfeil D. Arm. " Time reeht-las Gott walten." See Warren, p. 205. 1565 Martinus Eisengrein, Stutgardianus, Pastor In- Arm. Woodcut. No motto. (See 1564.) goltstadiensis ad S. Mauritium, Theologiae Eccles. There are four of these Eisen- ordinarius Professor et Protonotarius Apos- grein plates ; in two the shield is tolicus. surmounted by a clerical hat and Not named by Mr. Warren. tassels, in the other two the shield is surmounted by a helmet and crest. Crest, A demi-man naked, carrying a staff. Jo. Eg Knoringen Arm. "In spe contra aspein." John Giles Knoringen has a Latin verse con- The plate is a coloured woodcut. cerning the arms on his plate, which Mr. Warren See Warren, pp. 195, ig6, 205. renders thus : — '* These are the famed insignia of my sires, Which in their proper tinctures thou mayst see, Not bribes, as is the fashion of these days, But virtue raised them to nobility." Schol. Lib. Gram. Rogeri Cholmley, Mil Arm. No motto. (Modern plate, probably date of the foundation of the school.) J. Keymer, 142 Cheapside 1567 Georgius, Praepositus S. Crucis Augustae Electus Arm. " /;; maun Dni sortes nieae." Anno M.D.LXVii Mense Decemb. (Provost A very handsome plate printed of St. Cross, Augsburg.) in colours. Reproduced in the Ex Libris Zeitseliri/t, Berlin. See Warren, p. 205. »» Insignia Michaelis Pijhelmair. U. J. Doct. No details See Warren, p. 205. 1568 Abtei Weissenau No See Warren, p. 205. (The Abbey of Weissenau in Swabia.) details 1569 Pfinzing von Henfenfeld No "Patriae et amicis." M.Z. (Mat- (Henfenfeld, a Nuremberg family.) details thias Ziindt). See Warren, pp. 206, 139. 1570 Wolfius Christoferus ab Enzestorf . . No *' Dirigc me in semita rccta.^'' (Austrian.) details See Warren, p. 206. „ Sebalt Millner Von Zwai Raden (of the Two No See Warren, p. 206. Wheels). details )» Nicolaus Firlei in Dambrovizca (Bohemia) No " Pietas homiiii tutissima Virtus." details See Warren, p. 206. 1572 Philipp Jacob Wernher J.U.D. Advocatus und No See Warren, p. 206. Procurator Juratus zu Rothweil. (P. J. details Wernher, lawyer, etc., of Rothweil, in Swabia.) 4 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1573 Balthasar D. G. Abbas Fulden. CoUegii ad S. ■ No See Warren, p. 206. Petrum Societatis Jesu. details ,, Johannes Dulcius (German). 1574 N. Bacon eques auratus & magni sigilli Angliae Arm. " Mi'dloci'ia Jirnia,''^ Gustos librum hunc bibliothecae Cantabrig coloured The first dated English book- dicavit 1574. plate known. See in Griggs' ist There was another plate exactly similar in series, plate i ; Hardy, p. 23 ; design, but not coloured and without the gift Castle, 2nd edition, frontispiece, inscription. coloured. (Sir Nicholas Bacon, born 1510, knighted by- Queen Elizabeth and made Lord Keeper, died 1579. ■ „ Ex bibliotheca Caroli Albosii E. Eduensis (Charles Printed " Ex laborc quies." d'Alboise, d'Autun). Label See Poulet-Malassis, p. 4, as to this, the first dated French book- plate ; Warren, p. 206. ^, Adalbertus et Ockarius, Fundatores Monast. No (The monastery of Tegernsee, in Tegerns. Quirinis Dei Gratia Abbas Mo- details Bavaria). nasterii in Tegernsee. An 1574. See Warren, p. 206. 1575 Ulrich Herzog yn Mecklenburgh. (Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh.) Arm. See Warren, p. 206. " Georg. von Vechelde No details See Warren, p. 209. ,, Jo. Serrani. Commentariorum de Statu Religiosi.etc. Pict. 1582 Dr. Zacharias Starck (German) Arm. ,, Hochreuter (German) Arm. 1584 Oberkamptii v. Dobrun Arm. See Warren, p. 209. „ Talbot, oi Gonvile's Hall in Wymondham Co. Arm. No motto. Norfolk. A modern plate with this date 1584 placed above the shield. See Arbitrary Dates. Not named by Mr. Franks. 1585 Sr Tho Tresame Knight Arm. ^^ Fecit viihi magna qui potens (This Sir Thomas Tresame or Tresham was est. Jun. 29. 1585." knighted by Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth on See plate and full description July 18, 1575. Mr. Castle erroneously gives the in the Book-plate Collector's Mis- year of the knighthood as 1585.) cellany, pp. 12, ig; also in Castle, p. 40, and Hardy, p. 24 ; and Castle, 2nd edit., p. 44. Not named by Mr. Franks. " Joseph Holand Arm. MS. plate. Ex libris Cameroniarii Arm. 1587 Erhardus Voight Dei Gratia hujus Monasterii Arm. Reproduced in the Ex Libris Abbas, ac Bibliothecae hujus Auctor et Zcitschrift, Berlin. Fundator amplissimus. See Warren, p. 209. (The Monastery of Krems-MUnster in Ober Oesterreich.) ,, G.B.A. Arm. No motto. (German woodcut, two shields supported by an angel.) Eccles. 1588 R. et N. Dominus Wolfgangus Andreas Rem No See Warren, pp. 196, 209. a Ketz, etc. Testamento legavit. details (A legacy of 1004 books to the Monastery of St. Cross, Augsburg, by Wolfgang Andrew Rem a Ketz, Provost of the Cathedral in that city.) 1589 Lancelotus Andrews, Bishop of Winchester, gift Printed Doubtful date. to Pembroke Coll: Cambridge. Label 1590 Thomas Lunde, Canon. S. Johannis Ratis. (Thomas Arm. " Nihil virtitte nohilius'^ Lunde, Canon of St. John's Church, Ratisbon.) See Warren, p. 2og. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1590 1592 1593 1594 1595 1596 1597 1598 Richard James Spiers, Oxford (Modern, probably about iS6o.) Dilherren von Thummenberg (German) Joh Georgii a Werdenstein, Insignia et Pro- genitores. Johannes Christophorus Prueschench, Pontanus Joannes Heller und Anna Gnoellinger Christophorus Zuppacher (German) Christophorus, Baro aWolckhenstain, et Rodnegg, etc. (German.) Woodcut, yj in. by 5J in. Christophorus, Baro a Wolckhenstain et Rodnegg, etc. Same as above, but only 3J in. by 2j in. Thure Bielke (Earliest dated Swedish book-plate) Andreas Beham der Elter See reproduction. Christophorus Baro a Wolckhenstain et Rodgnegg, etc. Size, 7J m. by 5^ in. A.V.H. (?A. Von Hecht). ^tatis Suae xxxviii. Anno M.D.LXXXXVi. Very scarce German portrait woodcut, with arms alongside. See descriptive notes under Portrait plates. See reproduction. Anna Vander Hans Schrunder Arm. No details Arm. No details Arm. Arm. Arm. Pict. Arm. Arm. Arm. Portrait Pict. No details " Diiiii spiro spcro." Hans Sibmacher " Non omnibus omnia plticciit." Dominic Custodis fe. ao 1592. See Warren, p. 209. See Warren, p. 209. No motto. See Warren, p. 210. No motto. See Ex L. J., part 12, Vol. ni., and Warren, p. 210. See Hardy, p. 109. " Cnm bonis ambnla. Omnia a Deo. Ora et labora." See Warren, p. 210. See Warren, p. 210. '* Iste mcos ornat Clypeits longo ordine patrcs ; Sit genus liis rcliquuni fertile, forte, piiim : Haeeastnwrtahtndepingitiviago Jiguram, Da sit mens sano eorpore sana Deus." Two varieties. Verse on other example differs slightly. "Alls in will Gottes." DATED BOOK-PLATES OF THE CENTURY. SEVENTEENTH 1600 Henricus D.G. Eps. August. iGoo. (Henry, Bishop of Augsburg.) Arm. Eccles. No motto. See Warren, p. 2io. ,, Georg. Straub Arm. 1601 Joannis Ernestus Comes a Turri Arm. " Fiivoris causa Possessoyi.^^ (Hand-drawn and coloured.) Probably Italian. H.I.R. 1603 Zacharias Geizkofler de Gailenbach m Haunsheim et Mos. Eques aurat. Divo Rudolpho H. Rom. Imp: et Sereniss Archiduc. Austriae, etc. Summus Thesaurarius. (Zacharias Geizkofler of Gailenbach, Grand Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire under Rudolf II.) Arm. D.C.F. (Domenic Custos fecit). Two sizes, 8 in. by 6 in. and 5j by 3j. See also under 1605. See Warren, p. 2ro. 1604 Albertus Hungerus S.S. Theologiae Doctor, Pro- fessor, etc. (Albert Hunger, Doctor of Theology.) No details See Warren, p. 210. „ Georg: Reinh Arm. 1605 Nameless Allegorical Plate. Death's head, hour- glass, lamp, flowers, etc. (In collection of the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby.) Motto, a cryptogram : " ho Die MIliI Cras tlbl." (dimiic ii = 1000 + 500 -f 100 + 5 = 1605.) Zacharias Geizkofler von Gailenbach, Ritter, etc. Maria Geizkoflerin, geborne von Rehe- lingen. (Zacharias Geizkofler and his wife Maria, born Rehelingen.) Arm. Signed S.C. or C.S. See Warren, p. 2ii ; see also under 1603. M Hans Wolff Gunichs zu Munich Arm. >) Jonas Heindelius Arm. " Constanter syncere." •• Adam Schwindt J. U. Licentiat (a lawyer) No details See Warren, p. 211. 1606 Johannes Praepositus Sanctae Crucis Augustae. (John, Provost of St. Cross at Augsburg.) No details See Warren, p. 2H. 1607 Jo. Lorentz ar Regger Riter Arm.Pict. No motto. See reproduction. 1608 Jacobus Keim, Abbas Monasterii S. Jacobi, Mog. I.H.S. M.R.A. (James Keim, Abbot of the Monastery of St. James, at Mayence.) No details See Warren, p. 211. )) Elizabeth Pindar Printed label " God's providence is mine in- heritance." Not named by Mr. Franks. 1609 Ex bibliotheca I. P. Domini Dni Petri Vok, Ursini, Domini Domus a Rosenberg, etc. (Peter Vok, Ursinus, Count of Rosenberg, Bohemia.) Very fine plate, lo in. by 6 in. Arm.Pict. " Verbiim Domini mnnet in eter- nuiii." " In sileiitio et spe." Aeg Sadeler fecit. See Warren, pp. 139, 199, 211, for full description. " Ex Bibliotheca Illustrissimi Principis Domini, Dni, Petri Vok, Ursini, Domini Domus a Rosen- berg, etc. Arm.Pict. No motto. Smaller than above. E.G.S. fe. 1610 Josephus Draper me jure possidet. Anno Dom i6io. Label " God's providence is mine in- heritance." Not named by Mr. Franks. n E.G.L.O. above the arms; below on a scroll, M.E. D.D. (dono dedit). A gift from M.E. to E.G.L.O. Arms within a laurel wreath See Warren, p. 211. 1611 Wilhelm Blommendal. In S. Peter uff dem Heumart in Coin. (William Blumenthal, of St. Peter's on the Haymarket, at Cologne.) No details See Warren, p. 212. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 7 1611 Nameless. Alexandre Bouchart, Sieur de Blosse- Arm. Leonard Gaultier. ville, Conseiller au Parlenient de Rouen. See reproduction in H. Bouchot, p. 32, and Hamilton, " French Book-plates," pp. 6, 43. »» Melchior a Valle, protonotarius insignis ecclae. Arm. No motto. Sancti Georgi Naceis cantor et canonicus, Eccles. See Poulet-Malassis, p. 7, and etc. Hamilton," French Book-plates," (Melchior de la Vallee, Canon of Nancy, was pp. 6, 43. executed for sorcery.) Very scarce plate, date doubtful. 1612 Johannes Christophorus Herwart ah Hohen- No See Warren, p. 212. burg D.U. Serenissimi Ducis Bavariae Max- details imiiiani Consiliarius Aulicus. (J. C. Herwart, Privy Councillor to Maximilian, Duke of Bavaria.) 1613 Owen's Grammar School. Governors. The Wor- Pict. Dame Alice Owen, Foundress. shipful Company of Brewers Library. 1613. Modern plate. Not named by Mr. Franks. »» Sydney Sussex Colledge. Ex dono Willielmi Arm. No motto. Willmer de Sywell in Com: Northamtoniae Early See Misc. Gen., Vol. IV., p. 238 ; Armigeri quondam pencionarii in ista Domo Eng. also in Griggs' ist Series, plate 2. Viz in Anno Domini 1599 sed dedit in Ano Large plate. ■\rms and crest Dni 1613. of Willmer. (Gift to Sidney Sussex College by William Willmer.) 1615 Francisco Lustio Arm. " Virhtte nicremnr honores.^^ »» Brierly Plain Arm. No motto. ,j Sir Oswald Walter Brierly, Marine Painter to Arm. " Vouloir c'est poiivoir." (By John Her Majesty. Pict. Leighton.) (Both the above are modern plates ; the date Not named by Mr. Franks. probably refers to the grant of arms.) 1618 Johan Casparus Sulzerus. Vit. v.d.m. Arm. No motto. (German.) 1» Ex bibliotheca Serenissrum utriusq: Bavariae Ducum Arm. Pict. No motto. See 1746. Several (Library of the Dukes of Bavaria at Munich.) similar plates in various sizes. Two sizes, one 6f in. by 5^ in., one 3f in. by 2^ in. See Warren, p. 212. t» Nameless plate Arm. " Quid rctribttavi Domino pro quae tribiiit milii." See Warren, p. 212. 1* Johannes Vennitzer, Messerschmidt. Natus Portrait "Fides. Charitas. Christus ist Norimbergae anno 1565. Die 14 maii h. 5. Arm. mein Ltbeii, Sterbeii ist mein m. 22 p.m. (J. Vennitzer, Cutler, born in gewin." J. Pfann sculps. See Nuremberg at 22 minutes after 5 p.m. on also 1629. May the 14th, 1565 ) He died in 1629. This curious and most interest- There is a German verse on the plate, of which ing plate was reproduced in the Mr. Warren gives a metrical translation. Ex L. y.. Vol. HI., p. 85. See See Portrait Plates. also Warren, pp. igS, 212. 1619 Johannes Guilhelmus Kress a Kressenstain .. Arms of I. Timoth: 4. " Pietas nd omnia (5J in. by 3^ in. There is a much larger wood- Kress and utilis, promissionem habens vitae, cut, 13 in. by lof , attributed by Bartsch to Albert of quae nunc est, ct fiiturae." Durer.) his wife H.T. scu. (Hans Troschel, born See also under 1645. 1592, died 1633). See Warren, pp. 137, 213 ; Hardy, p. 93. 1620 Nameless plate, with several initials. Motto, "Con- Tobias Bidenharter. Sculp. See Warren, pp. 139, 146. stanter." (German.) See 1624. No 1621 Johannes Laurentius Loelius details ,, Dietrich von und zue Riedenburg No details See Warren, p. 213. 1624 Nameless plate, with several initials. Motto, " Con- No "Constanter. Non Fata recusant " stanter," etc. Twice dated, 1620 and 1624. details etc. Tobias Bidenharter, Sculp., 1620. See Warren, p. 213. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628 1629 1630 1633 (Date of birth.) 1634 Christoph Burkhart, Basel (See " Ex Libris Alsaciens," p. 15.) Joannes Drexel S.S. Theol. Doctor Canon et Paroch ad D. Maur. AugJJ. Dorothy Paynton Nameless. (Ex libris de Chaponay, prevot des marchands de la ville de Lyon en 1627.) Thomas Ernnst von Ehrnstain (German) Thos. Morton, Bishop of Durham. Presentation to St. John's College, Cambridge. Strangford (Viscount) Probably of later date. Der Erbar Johannes Fenizer Messerschmidt ilnd Verleger wie auch des Grossern Raths Genannter zii Nurnberg alhier Natus A9 1565. d. 14. May Denat. d. 21. Nov. Ao 1629. (Portrait probably copied from that by Pfann in 1618. Plate is the same size and has the same German verse at foot as the Vennitzer plate of i6t8.) Dns Edoardus Dering miles et Baronettus, in aula Regia Priuatis Cameris adiuratus Locum tenens in officio Conestabulariae Castri Dovor, etc. (Sir Edward Dering, Bart., died June 22, 1644.) See Misc. Geii.ct Her. ,\'o\s. I. and III., 2nd Series. Mooney of Moone Co. Kildare (A modern plate.) Johann Sigmundt 1631 Edovardus Benlowes. Presentation to St. College, Cambridge. Franciscus Frampton John's Francis Anderson Abdias Ashton SS^ Theolog. Bac. Ecclesiae de Middleton in agro Lancastrensi Rector, etc. Edward Audley, oweth (sic) this Booke Johannes Collet filius Thomae Collet. Pater Thomae, Gulielmi, ac Johannis, omnium superstes. Natus quarto junii, 1633. De- nasciturus quando Deo visum fuerit; interim hujus proprietarius John (sic) Collet. ■William Undrill Henry Vernon Ex dono Johannis Plat, Armigeri unius Lectorum hujus Hospitii. Anno Dom 1634. Arm. Pict. Printed label Arm. Pict Arm. Printed label Crest Portrait Arm. Arm. and mantling Arm. Arm. Printed label • Printed label Printed label Printed label Label. Woodcut border Printed label Printed label Printed label " Goll nehrct mid mchret, Den der Ihn Ehret." No motto. (German). " Gallo cnnentc spcs rcdit." Two sizes, the larger one signed " Joan Picartincidit." Very hand- some plate. See Poulet - Malassis, p. 9 ; Hamilton, "French Book-plates," p. 44. '■' Rccte facicndo neminem timeas." " Virtus inccndit vires.^'' Not named by Mr. Franks. " Synib. aiis dem 25 Psnhn v. 12. Schlecht Und rccht das bcliiite viich.^^ G. D. Heumann, Sc. (Heumann died 1757, so this plate must have been engraved much later than 1629, in which year Vennitzer died). Two large and very rare plates, differing in the arms, but having similar inscriptions. Mr. Rylands only mentions one example. See Hardy, p. 26. " Virtus sola nobilitat.^^ Not named by Mr. Franks. " A'oK val la vertii a chi la Fortuna incontra." Named in Griggs' ist Series. Records a gift of too marks to St. John's College, Cambridge. See Rylands, p. 55. See Griggs' 1st Series, pi. 25. See Hardy, p. 141. Not named bv Mr. Franks. Named in Griggs' ist .Series. Printed | (Presentation to Gray's Inn label Library.) Not named by Mr. Franks, DATED BOOK-PLATES. 9 1634 Philippa Bragg (Gift) Printed label )i Joannes Collins. Presentation to St. John's College, Cambridge. Printed label n Jeremias Holt. Presentation to St. John's Col- lege, Cambridge. Printed label n Erhardus a Muckhenthall in Haecksennackher No details " Post Nubila Phoebus." See Warren, p. 213. )» Ex done Richardi Osbaldeston Armigeri unius Lectorum hujus Hospitii. Anno Dom 1634. Printed label (Presentation to Gray's Inn Library). Not named by Mr. Franks. 1635 Nathaniel et Franciscus Bacon Fratres et Socii hujus Societatis dederunt, 1635. Printed label (Several copies of this label on books in Gray's Inn Library.) Not named by Mr. Franks. •• Elias Ashmole Printed label See Castle, p. 108. Not named by Mr. Franks. ■• Ex dono Francisci Gregorie Armigeri hujus Hospitii Anno Dom. 1635. Printed label (On a book in Gray's Inn Library.) Not named by Mr. Franks. " Ex dono Edwardi Henden. Serviens ad legem. Printed label (On a book in Gray's Inn Library.) Not named by Mr. Franks. •• Wolleius Leigh Printed label " Edoardus Lightfoot. Presentation to St. John's College, Cambridge. Printed label " Sebastianus Myllerus, Episcopus Adramyttenus SulTraganeus et Canonicus Augustanus. (Sebastian Myller, Bishop, etc., Augsburg.) Arm. Eccles. No motto. Wolffgang Kilian fecit. See Warren, plate 14 and pp. 139. 213- 1636 Conservando Cresco. S. P. Monasterii S. Petri Salisburgi. (St. Peter's Monastery at Saltz- burg.) Ex Libris Pauperum Studiosorum Domus Grego- rianse, Monachii. (Library of the Poor Students, Gregori.in Convent at Munich.) No details No details See Warren, p. 213. "Dntc ct Dahitur:' D.G. See Warren, p. 213. 1) Ex dono Mag. Dni. D. Andreae Lisiecki Instiga- toris Regni. Surrog. Jud. Castrensis Callis- siensis. (Andrew Lisiecki, Public Prosecutor of Kalisz in Poland.) No details See Warren, pp. 193, 213. - Ex dono Evers Armyne hujus Societatis Label (On a book in Gray's Inn Library.) Not named by Mr. Franks. 1637 Ex dono Johannis Bladen, hujus societatis Label (On a book in Gray's Inn Library.) Not named by Mr. Franks. 1638 Academiae Harvardianae sigillum (U.S.A. Modern reprint.) Pict. " Veritas" It Franciscus Dee, bishop of Peterborough. Pre- sentation to St. John's College, Cambridge. Printed label »» Wolff Jacob Ungelter von Deissenhaussen LH.S.— M.R.A. No details See Warren, p. 213. 1639 Ja: Riddell, of Kinglass Arm. Early Eng. " Right to share." See Ex L. J., Vol. I. p. 77 and plate; and Griggs' 2nd Series, pi. 84. Not named by Mr. Franks. 1640 Timotheus Hutton. Presentation to St. John's College, Cambridge. Printed label )* Guilhelmus Quarles. Presentation to Pembroke College, Cambridge. Printed label n Christophorus Hieronymus Kress a Kressen- stain. " Pro Religionc et Pntria." See Warren, pp. 137, 214. „ J.E. (Doubtful date.) Pict. " Aniiiia rcsurgat." lO DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1640 T. L. Robillard Arm. Pict. No motto. Delinea et sculpsit A plate with canting arms, 2 billiard cues in par C. G. Geisler a Geneve. Mr. saltire, between 4 billiard balls. Date on open Warren gives Geisler's date as book is indistinct, and the plate is not so old as about 1750. See in Hamilton's 1640. Robillard founded a pottery (? at Lyons). " French Book-plates," p. 142. 1641 Sr William St Quintin Bart (of Thirsk) Book-pile No motto. (1641 was the date of the creation of the See Castle, p. 98; 2nd edit., 118. baronetcy ; the plate was probably engraved Theearliest dated English book- much later.) pile plate known. Not named by Mr. Franks. 1642 Steven Day No details Not named by Mr. Franks. 1643 G.S.K.U.N. No details See Warren, p. 214. 1644 Nameless French plate (6| in. by 6 in.) Arm. No motto. By Raigniauld, Riomi (of Riomi, in Auvergne). See Warren, pp. 140, 214; and Hardy, p. loi. »» Thomas Bell Label. Not named by Mr. Franks. 1645 Wilhelm Kress von Kressenstein. Clara ge- Arm. " Vulnera Christi, Credentiiim borne Viatissin. (William Kress and Clara, Voliiptas." born Viatis, his wife.) See Warren, pp. 138, 214, and This William Kress was the son of John several varieties in Ex L. y.,Vol. William Kress, whose plate is entered under 1619. IV., Part I. 1646 Insignia Ferdinandi ab et in Hagenau ad Stum No Joannes Sadeler. Petrum, etc. (8 in. by 7 in.) details See Warren, pp. 139, 214. »» Closter Weihen-Stephen. (The Weihen Monastery). See Warren, p. 214. n Jean Nicolas de Tralage, ne a Limoges le 20 Arm. No motto. See Hamilton's Mars 1646. " French Book-plates," p. 56. 1648 Sum Floriany Scoti (Schott) Argentinensis.emptus sum Francofurti anno 1648. 1650 Brasenose Coll: Label Not named by Mr. Franks. »» Andre Felibien escuier Sieur des Avaux, Seigneur Arm. No motto. Two sizes, both re- de lavercy. Historiographe du Roy. produced in Hamilton's " French (See also i66g.) Book-plates," pp. 7, 51 ; Poulet- Malassis, p. 21 ; Warren, p. 214 ; Ex L. J., Vol. 2, p. Si. 9$ Sigill: Coll: Harvard, Cant.ib: Nov. Angl: 1650 (U.S.A.) Arm. Pict. " Christo et Ecclesiae." N. Hurd (This plate was probably engraved about 1755.) sc Boston (born 1729, died 1777). »1 William Meryfield June 22. 1650 Pict. Not named by Mr. Franks. »» Charles Marquis et Comte de Rostaing Arm. Pierre Notin. 1651 CoUegio Emmanuelis Viri pluribus nominibus hon- Printed See Rylands' " Notes on Book- orandi Mri. Francisci Ash, Mercatoris label plates," p. 4. Londinensis. (Francis Ash, gift to Emanuel College, Cambridge.) 1653 Elizabeth Flesher, Her Book Label No motto. Not named by Mr. Franks. Robertus Metcalfe. Presentation to St. John's Printed College, Cambridge. label 1654 Antonius Biderman. (3 in. by 2J in.) Signed S.S.H. See Warren, p. 2 14. Joachim L. Baro in Windhaag Di^s in Reichenau Arm. No motto. Pragthal et Saxenegg. S.C.M. Consil. et Small plate, 2j in. by ij in. Regens. 11 Rupertus Praepositus et Archidiaconus Cathedralis Arm. "In manibits Domini sortes mcae." et regularis ecclesiae Chiemensis. Eccles. Ps. XXX. 18. Wolfg Kilian sculpsit. 1655 Nicholas Martigny de Marsal Arm. Sebastien Le Clerc. See Hamil- (See also i65o ; four sizes known.) ton's " French Book-plates," p. 53, DATED BOOK-PLATES. II 1656 Joachim L. Bare in Windhaag, Dominus in Richenau, Pragthal, Saxenegg. et gros Pop- pen, S.C.M. Consil. et Regens. (Baron von Windhaag. See also 1654 and 1661.) Arm. No motto. See Warren, p. 214. „ Joannes Schwegerle I.U.L. Ao Christi 1656. Arm. " Ut fcrl divina voluntas." 1657 Messire Pierre Coloma, Baron de Moriensart, etc. Arm. No motto. See Warren, p. 215. Re- (Probably Belgian.) produced in Hamilton's " French Book-plates," p. 54. Robert Trollap (of Yorke and Newcastle, Free- Printed No motto. mason) his Booke. label Not named by Mr. Franks. 1658 Joan. Phi. Mockel. Proton. Ap. J. U. L. Ao 1658. No See Warren, p. 215. (Ecclesiastical lawyer.) details 1659 Ex Bibliotheca Reverendi, Nobilissimi, Consultissi- Arm. No motto. Large plate. mique Viri, Dm D. Guilielmi Van Hamme, Eccles. See Warren, p. 215, and Rylands' Patricii Bruxel. Pbri, J.U.L. Prothonotarii Notes, p. 5. Apost. Cathedralis Eccliae Antverp: Canonici, Scholastici, etc. (William Van Hamme of Brussels, and Canon of Antwerp Cathedral, pfr \ 1660 Nameless Conventual Ex Libris (large) Arm. Pict. ^^ Medio tiitlssimus ibis." See Warren, p. 215. M Neville Castelyne Printed label Not named by Mr. Franks. '■ Daniell Lysons Printed label 1» Nicolas Martigny de Marsal (See also 1655.) Arm. Sebastien Le Clerc. 1661 ExLibris S.S.C.G.B.L.B.S.S. Arm. " Deo et Cncsari." (The arms are the same as those of Maximilian See Warren, p. 215. Lewis Breiner.) Joachim L. Baro in Windhag, Dns in Reichenau, Arm. See Warren, p. 215 ; see also Pragthal et Saxenegg. S. C. M. Consil. et under 1654 and 1656. Regens. (Baron von Windhaag.) 1662 James Blatt Printed label Not named by Mr. Franks. Sr Francis Fust of Hill Court in the County of Arm. " Terrena per vices sunt aliena." Gloucester. Baronet. Created 2i|t August Forty One variety has " Swift and 1662 the 14 year of King Charles 2nd. quarter- True" above the crest. There are (The date is rather misleading. The first ings two smaller armorial plates, not baronet was Sir Edward Fust, whilst this plate dated. relates to Sir F. F., who married Miss Fanny See Ex L. J., Vol. II., p. 65 ; Tooker in 1724, and succeeded to the baronetcy and Warren, p. 64. only in 1728.) 1663 Matthaeus Abbas Urspergensis 1633. Elect. 1628. No " Spera in eo : &• Ipse faciei." (Matthew, Abbot of Ursperg in Swabia.) details See Warren, p. 215. » Basilius Prise, Liber ejus. Novemb 12, 1663 .. Printed No motto. label Not named by Mr. Franks. 1664 Edward Clarke. May 21 1664 Printed No motto. label with Not named by Mr. Franks. border 1665 Henricus Gaudy Printed label 1666 Theophilus Krannost No "Est animae Christus spcsque. details salusquc, mcac." See Warren, p. 215. II Thomas Seeker, Coll Christ. June i. 1666. Printed No motto. label with Not named by Mr. Franks. border DATED BOOK-PLATES. I 1667 Thomas Curtis Thomas Sisson Closter Thierhaupten. Corbianianus Abbas. (Thierhaupten Convent.) Dr. Rich. Baylie, Dean of Salisbury. (Gift.) Nameless plate of the Cavendish Family (See 169S.) 1668 16(68) 1669 1671 Franciscus D. G. Praepositus Sanctae Crucis Augustae. (Francis, Provost of St. Cross at Augsburg.) Johannes Milton (? 1669) King William's College, Isle of Man (Modern plate.) Samuel Pepys Initials with two anchors crossed, indicating his official position at the Admiralty. This is not dated, but in his Diary, July 21, 1668, occurs this entry : " Went to my plate maker's and there spent an hour about contriving my little plates for my books of the King's four yards," which no doubt refers to this design. Pepys had three other plates, not dated — two portraits by R. White, and one armorial. See Ex L.y., Vol. III., Part u. Francisci Hill et amicorum Anno Domini 1668 . . (Mr. Griggs explains that this plate should be spelt Hill, not Hil.) Andre Felibien. Historiographe du Koy Ex dono Roberti Raworth, Armigeri Unius Ma- gistrorum de Banco Hospitii Grayiensis. Anno i66g. Gilbert Nicholson of Balrath in the County of Meath Esq. (Identical in general design with the plate of Thomas Carter, 1722, who may have had it copied for himself.) George Raymond 1670 Bernardos D.G. Praepo: Ex dono Joannis Hacket Lichfieldens et Coven- trjens Episcopi. (John Hacket, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.) Martha Simcox her Book. August 30. Anno Dom. 1670. Ex dono Rachael Comitissae Bathon: Dotariae. (Gift by Rachael, Countess Dowager of Bath.) Ford, Mayor (Arms of the City of London.) Printed label Printed label Arm. Eccles. Arm. Early Eng. No details Printed label Arm. Mono- gram Printed label Arm. Label Arm. Printed label Portrait Large label Arm. in scroll Arm. No motto. See Warren, p. 216. " Cavendo tutus." See Warren, p. 69. He dates it 1668 ; probably printer's error. "/h nujuibus Domijti soytt-s meaey Ps. 30, V. 16. See Warren, p. 216; see also under 1678. Not named by Mr. Franks. " Assiduitate non dcsidia." See Castle, p. 106, and 2nd edit., p. 7 ; Hardy, pp. 136, 157. No motto. See Griggs' ist Series, pi. 25 ; Warren, p. 65. No motto. See also 1650. (Nearly a hundred of these pre- sentation labels are to be found in the Gray's Inn Library.) Not named by Mr. Franks. " Pro Ripublica." See Warren, p. 65 ; plate in Castle, p. 55, and 2nd edit., p. 64; Hardy, p. 35 ; and Griggs' ist Series, pi. 23. Doubtful. Details wanting. " Inscrui Deo it lactare." W. Faithorne sculp. See Griggs' 2nd Series, pi. 36, and plate in H ardy, p. 150 ; Castle, p. 107, and 2nd edit., p. 130. No motto. See plate in Castle, p. 56, and 2nd edit., p. 63. Not named by Mr. Franks. '•Bon temps vieiidm," etc. See Hardy, p. 30, and plate, p. 143, and Notes and Queries, July 12, 18S4; Castle, p. 53, and 2nd edit., p. 62. Not named by Mr. Franks. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 13 1671 A. de Mareste, Escuier, Seigneur et Patron d'Alge. Conseiller du Roi. Arm. ".(4 Dieit jc m'dreste.'^ 1672 C.R. (Convent of Roth) Arm. Eccles. See Warren, p. 216. »1 Joannes Taylor Printed label ,, Nameless French plate Arm. No motto. Signed J. Blocquet. (By the arms this was the Ex Libris of Charles See Poulet-Malassis, p. 23, and Maurice Le Tellier, Archbishop of Rheims.) Warren, p. 216. Large plate. Ex Haereditate Revmi Dni D. Sebastiani Denichii, No See Warren, p. 216. Episcopi Almirensis, etc. (Legacy of Se- details bastian Denichio, Bishop of Almeria in Grenada.) 1673 Leonor Le Francois escr Sr de Rigawille. (Leonor *^ MfUorn st'queiitr.^'' Le Francois, Esquire, Lord of Rigawille.) See Poulet-Malassis, p. 23, and Warren, p. 216. Thomas Sowtheby. Coll. Joh. June 7, 1673 . . Printed No motto. (? of St. John's College, Oxford.) label See Griggs' ist Series, pi. 25. 1674 Forster family Details wanting. Hans Heinrich Freyherr von Herwarth Herr Arm. No motto. auf Hohenburg. 1675 Nameless plate of Sir Thomas Gore of Alderton. Arm. Pict. " Vi ct Virtute." Michael Bur- (On p. 57, Mr. Hardy says this plate is dated ; ghers fecit. this does not seem to be the case, but 1675 is Reproduced in Griggs' ist Series about the correct date. There are two other and Hardy, p. 29. larger Gore plates, not named or dated, one by Not named by Mr. Franks. William Faithorne.) It Mr William Tibbs, a Governor to Christ's Hospital Label Not named by Mr. Franks. 1676 L.'W.M.B. .. No details See Warren, p. 216. »» Sir Thomas Isham Arm. David Loggan. (Doubtful if dated, but engraved in 1676.) Not named by Mr. Franks. See Hardy, pp. 8, 150. 1677 Julianae Boyd (Date doubtful.) Not named by Mr. Franks. ^, John Georges of Baunton in Gloucestershire Esq' Arm. Size of arms, 5J by 3J. a member of the Honourable house of Not named by Mr. Franks. Comons for this present Parliament 1677 descended of the antient and worthy family of the Georges of Cicester in the said county. 1678 Christophorus D.G. Praepositus Sanctae Crucis No ^^ Domimis Protector Mens/* Augustae. (Christopher, Provost of the details See Warren, p. 216 ; see also Holy Cross, Augsburg.) 1668. »» Michael Rupzecht Th. et Can. Dr R., etc. P.E.A. Arm. " Estate /■ruiii-tites siciit scrpcutes." Consil: Eccl: ad D. Petri Dilingae Dec. 1679 Sr. Robert Clayton of the City of London. Arm. No motto. Two varieties. Knight ."Mderman & Ma)'or thereof Ano 1679. Early Eng. See Warren, p. 66. )» David Paynter of Dale Castle, Pembrokeshire . . Chip. See Hardy, p. 35, and Rylands' (Date doubtful ; probably a century later.) Arm. Notes, p. 6. Not named by Mr. Franks. ■• Johannes Williams .. Printed label »1 Nameless German Ex Libris Arm. See Warren, p. 216. 1680 Nameless Ex Libris (large) Arm. " Enateiit nut cvolent." R. Collin fecit Bruxellae. 14 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1681 1682 1682-3 1688 1684 1685 1686 1687 Nameless Ex Libris Nicholas Higginson Johannes Laurentius Loelius Philosophiae et Medicinae Doct: (J. L. Loelius, Doctor of Medicine.) Johan Casparus Sulzerus vit. V.D.M. (Swiss) Jo. Theodoric. Hauser de Gleichenstorff. Cath. Eccles. Constant, et August. Canonic. (J.T. Hauser de Gleichenstorff, Canon of the Cathedral at Constance.) Johan Junkersdorff . . Richard Lord Maitland Lord Justice Clerke for the Kingdome of Scotland and one of ye Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Councell. 1682. Eldest Sone to the Right Honorable Charles Earle of Lauder- dale Viscount Maitland Lord Thirlestane Musselburgh and Bolton. Richard Keyt The Hon. Sr Henry Goodrick of Ripston Park of York, etc. Sir John Anstruther Bart. Henricus Cross-grove. Norvici. Typographus Natus Aug 14. 1683. Arms, A dexter hand grasping a sword transfix- ing a heart, in pale. No tinctures are shown. Crest, A squire's helmet surmounted by five ostrich feathers. Mantling, Early English style. Henry Cross-grove was a printer of some im- portance in Norwich. He published, and probably owned, the Norivich Mercury, and may have had the plate engraved in Norwich for one of his customers. That scarcely explains why he should have placed the date of his own birth upon it. William Blakeston March 5, 1684 Petrus Gunning, Bishop of Ely (Presentation to St. John's College, Cambridge, Benjamin Morsse Thomas Johnson. Coll Eman. Jan 29 1684-5 • William Twemlowe of Hatherton in Cheshire Esquire. (Mr. Hardy (p. 35) calls this plate " William Tremlow." Mr. Rylands (p. 74) says it was engraved for Mr. William Twemlowe, who died in 1843.) Jo: Bate of Sheffield (? If a book-plate.) A singular design repre- senting Love, Marriage, Time, and Death. Arm. Printed label No details Arm. No details No details Arms with supporters in oval mantling Printed label Arm. Arm. Arm. Printed label Printed label Printed label Label Arm. Pict. Alleg. Virtutis Praeminm." Melchior Kusell fecit. See Warren, pp. 217, 218; see also i6go. No motto. See Warren, p. 217. See Warren, p. 217. "Consilio et animis." Not named by Mr. Franks. (The tinctures indicated by their initials. Scotch.) No motto. Doubtful if a book- plate. Not named by Mr. Franks. Doubtful date. Probably engraved after 171 1. Not named by Mr. Franks. No motto. A very puzzling ar- morial plate. Below the shield is a scroll on which there had been an inscription ; this was erased on the only two examples I have met with. Beneath the scroll is engraved the inscription here given. This plate is not named by Mr. Franks. Not named by Mr. Franks. Date doubtful. See Rylands, p. 74. Not named by Mr. Franks. " Beware young man Lest mirth trapan [sic] And pleasures thee deceive At thy left hand Pale Death doth stand Who waits but for Time's leave.' Jo Bate sculpsit. Not named by Mr. Franks. DATED BOOK-PLATES. IS 1687 Ann Lovelace Octob. the 15 1687 Label No motto. Not named by Mr. Franks. 1688 Anna Gustafz Dotter Elvia (Swedish.) Printed label No motto. In Book-plate Collector's Misc. »1 Caroli Andreae a Schlechten Serenismo Elector! Bavariae a Consiliis Camerae Officii, etc. (A Bavarian government official.) No details " hi solo spes tiita Deo." See Warren, p. 217. 1689 M. Melchior Thumb, Decanus et Parochus Fran- tenhusii. (A gift by M. M. Thumb, Priest of Frankenhausen in Saxony.) Arm. " Fidus amicus crit," etc. Long Latin inscription. See Warren, p. 217. 1690 Johannes Laurentius Loelius. Philos et Medi- cinae Doctor. No details See Warren, p. 218 ; see also under 1681. „ Ex Museo D. Claudii RufEer See Castle, p. 212. ** Anton Edler Herr von Sohleren Kaiserlicher Majestat Reichs Hoff Rath Churfurstlicher Trierischer Geheimbder Rath U. Canzler und Hoff Richter. (Anthony von Sohleren, an Imperial official at Treves.) No details See Warren, p. 217. 1692 Ex libris Bibliothecac quam illustrissimus Ecclesiae Princeps D. Petrus Daniel Huetius Epis- copus Abrincensis Domui Professae Paris P. P. Soc. Jesu. Integram Vivens Donavit, Anno 1692. (A Legacy from P. D. Huet, Bishop of Avranches, to the Society of Jesuits, Paris.) Arm. Eccles. No motto. Four sizes. See Warren, pp. 101,218, and pi. 15 ; and Hamilton's " French Book-plates," p. 52 ; also Guigard's "Armorial du Bibliophile." t» Thomas Johnson Printed label Ex libris quos Domui Professae Parisiensi Soc. Jesu testamento reliquit vir Clarissim: D. J^gi- dius Menagius Patritius Andegavensis, vir Inter Literates Eruditissimus. Anno 1692. (Legacy of books bequeathed by the noted scholar and collector Menage, to the Society of Jesuits, Paris. He died July 23, 1692.) Arm. Eccles. No motto. See Warren, p. 218, and plate in Hamilton's "French Book-plates," p. 53 ; also Guigard's " Armorial du Bibliophile." 1692-3 Walter Mildmay, Coll Emman: Feby 16 1692-3 Printed label No motto. 1693 Johannes Billingsley Printed label 1694 N. R. Frizon de Blamont Conr (Conseiller) au Parlement. Paris. (See also 1704.) Arm. No motto. See Hamilton's "French Book- plates," p. 60; Warren, p. 202. •' Fettiplace Nott, of the Inner Temple, London Esq. Arm. "Solus iiiihi invidus obstat memo- riae et gloriae." »» William Ray, Coll Emman: August 23, 1694 Printed label Scarce. Not named by Mr. Franks. 1695 Jo. Franci. D. G. Epus Frisi. S.R.I. Princeps. (John Francis, Prince Bishop of Freysing in Bavaria.) No details See Warren, p. 218. „ G.C.G.V.P. (Proskau) Arm. No motto. »i Ad Bibliothecam Jo. Jac. Reinhardi . . See Castle, p. 212. ») Godefridi Jac. F. Thomasi R.P. Nor. Medici. (An allegorical plate, showing arms, books, coins, and bronzes.) The engraving I saw was imprinted on the back of the title-page of a small book printed in Brussels in 1662, entitled Tractatus Physiologicus dc Pulchritiidine, by Ernest Vaenis. I should not class it as a Library Interior, but -Mr. Vicars has included it in his List. Arm. Allegory Greek motto. J. B. Homann f. See Warren, p. rji. He says it is a Dutch plate designed by Sandrart, and engraved by J. Baptiste Homann nhout 1690; but it is dated 1695. See Mr. Vicars' List, and Ex L. J., Vol. I., p. 99. i6 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1696 William Midford Printed label Not named by Mr. Franks. - lo. Franci. D.G. Epfis. Frisi S.R.I. Princeps Arm. Eccles. No motto. M Du tres haul tres puissant et tres illustre Prince Arm. Motto of the Order of the Garter Guillaume Fils de la Princesse Anne par le round the Royal arms. Prince George de Danemarc Chevalier du Large plate. tres noble Ordre de la Jartiere, Installe au J. Sturt sculp. chateau de Windesore le 24™ jour de Juillet I'an MDCXCVi. 1697 Edward Chilton Details wanting. I» Thomas Tertius Okey. Medicinae Professor . . Arm. ^'Okiy arbore yove vulneratus sed (A very scarce and peculiar plate, with long inscription, for which see chapter on Arbitrary noil victiis." Not named by Mr. Franks. Dates.) ,, M. Joh. Baptista Renz. Augustan. A. C. 1697. Portrait ^^ AuxUiiim tnenm a Domino. Ps. .'Etatis. 39, Minist. 11. Arm. 121." Johan Stridbeck sc. (See Portrait Plates.) See£xL. y., Vol.IIL, pp. 62, 94. Richard Bateman Hartington Early No motto. Armorial, Not named by Mr. Franks. very small ,, Ex Libris Joan. Caroli Seyringer, J. U. D. et Arms " Haurit aquam cribris, qui vtilt Judiciorum Advocati in Austria Superiori. in a sine lUscere libris." (John Charles Seyringer, Lawyer in Austria.) sculptured Ja. de Lespier sc. (See reproduction ; the date might be taken for recess The motto is thu'- rendered by 1692.) Mr. Warren : — ** He who would learn without the aid of books. Draws water in a sieve from running brooks." See Warren, pp. 195, 218. »» Ad libros J. P. Storri. No — " et trunca et saiicia crcsco. details Jugiter lit stirps haec et trunca et sancia crescit. Sub crucc sic crescit jugiter alma Fides." See Warren, p. 218. 1698 Sr John Aubrey of Lantrithyd in the County of Arm. No motto. Two varieties, one Glamorgan Baronet, and of Boarestall in Early 5jin. bysfin. the County of Bucks. •Eng. See Warren, p. 70, and Griggs' (Subsequently the date was altered to 1718.) 1st Series, pi. 3. ,, Sir William Brownlowe of Belton in the County Arm. No motto. See Misc. Gen. et of Lincoln, Baronet. Early Her., Vol. I., 2nd Series, p. 221 ; (Two shields.) Eng. and Warren, p. 70. »» Dame Alice Brownlowe Details wanting. (Wife of the above.) H Sir John Brownlowe Arm. An altered plate. (Succeeded his father. Sir William, in 1700, Early and adopted his plate without altering the date.) Eng. »> Thomas Cartwright, of Aynho in the County of Details wanting. Northampton, Esq. l» Nameless plate (Lord Henry Cavendish) Arm. "Cavcudo tutus." No other in- (Mr. Warren dates this 1668.) Early scription except date. Eng. See Warren, p. 69. »' S£ Charles Englefield, of Englefield, in the Arm. No motto. County of Berks, Baronet. See Warren, p. 68. ,, William Fitz-Gerald, Lord Bishop of Clonfert Arm. No motto. (Consecrated 1691, died 1702. Arms of Fitz- Eccles. See Griggs' ist Series, pi. 63, Gerald impaling Cole.) and 2nd Series, pi. 48. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 17 1698 1699 Francis Gwyn, of Lansanor in the County of Glamorj^an. And of Ford-Abby in the County of Devon Esq. See reproductions. Thomas Harrison, of Copgrave in the County of York, Esq. John Hervey of Ickworth in Com. Suft'. Esqr John Highlord John Messenger of Fountains Joh Frider a Schellenberg L. Bar. in Kislegg, etc. (German.) Simon Scroope, of Danby super Yore, in com. Ebor, Esq. (Twenty-eight quarterings, all enumerated, be- ginning and ending with Scroope.) See reproduction. Elizabeth Watts The Right Honourable Thomas Wentworth, Baron of Raby and Collnell of his Maiesties Own Royall Regint of Dragoons. See reproduction. The Right Honorable Thomas Lord Viscount Dupplin, Lord Balhousie. Francis Fulford of Fulford in the County of Devon Esq. Mr William Garnet His Book, August the 10^. .•\nno Dom. 1699. Wm Hewer of Clapham in the County of Surry Esqer (The friend and secretary of Samuel Pepys.) See reproduction. Sir John Pole Sr Philip Sydenham Bart of Brympton in Somer- set and M.A. of the University of Cambridge .-Eta suae 23. (Sir Philip Sydenham succeeded his father in i6g6, and died unmarried in 1739, when the baronetcy became extinct. He had his plates altered several times, and at least fourteen varieties are known.) See Warren, p. 6g, and Hardy, p. 152. Sir Philip Sydenham Bart of Brympton in Somerset & M.A. of ye University of Cam- bridge vEtat sua 23. Sr Phil Sydenham Barrt of Brimpton in Sommer- set & M..-\. of ye Univercity of Cambridge. See reproduction. Arm. Early Eng. Arm. Arm. Early Eng. Arm. Arm. Arm. Early Eng. Printed label Arm. Early Eng. Arm. Early Eng. Arm. Label Book-pile Mono- gram Book-pile Arm. Arm. Early Eng. Arm. Early Eng. No motto. Two sizes, 5^ in. by 4J in., and 3J in. by 3 in. See Warren, p. 69 and pi. 8 ; Castle, p. 48, and 2nd edit., p. 58. No motto. See Misc. Gen. ct Her., Vol. IV., 2nd Series. " yt' n'ohlifra [sic] jamais.^'' Two sizes. See also 1702. Details wanting. Long Latin inscription. " Devaiit si je finis." A very handsome plate, gj in. by 7j in. See Warren, p. 68, and plate in Ex L. y.. Vol. n., front. ; and Hardy, p. 40. " En Dicn est font." Two varieties. See book-plate of same person as Lord Raby in 1705, and Earl of Strafford in 1712. See Warren, p. 69 ; Griggs' ist Series, pi. 65 ; Castle, p. 50, and 2nd edit., p. 59. '* Renovate amnios." No motto. Type printed, within a woodcut ornamental border. No arms or motto. See Warren, p. 70; and plate in Castle, p. 98, and 2nd edit., p. 118. Details wanting. " Medio Intissimns." See Griggs" ist Series, pi. 4 and notes. Plate 5 is another plate of Sir Philip Sydenham, not dated, signed " S.Gribelin sculp."; Motto, *^ Dux tnihi Dens." There are two smaller Syden- ham plates, also by Simon Gribe- lin, a French engraver who came to England in 1680, and died in 1733- " Medio tiitissiniiis." 6^ by 4J. See Griggs' ist Series, pi. 30, and Warren, p. 69; see also 1735. " Medio tntissinins." This plate only differs from the above in the inscription. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES AS TO SOME FOREIGN DATED PLATES. 1526 1534 1542 1544 1551 1556 1559 1568 1573 1575 1578 1579 1582 1593 1595 1602 1605 1618 1623 1643 Martin Graf zu Oting. (Mnrtin Graf of Oettingen) I Arm. Joannes Scheiring, Magdeburgensis Patricias eques Auratus Vice comes palatinus Artium et V.I. Doctor. Vitus Tuthsenhauser, zu Straubing, Doctor .. Seboldt Beham von Nurmberg Maler iecz Won- hafter Burger zu Franckfurt. Wolf Haller Wiguleus Hundt de Lauterpach Marie Brandt nee Mathieu. Bibliotheque du Consistoire de I'Eglise Frani;aise du Refuge a Berlin. Jacob Christoph von Uttenheim Nameless German plate (Wimpheling) Joannes Dulcius Gabriel Schlusselberger M. Leon Hardi Haine Nameless (Martin Closter Mayr, Med. Doctor) Zach Starck D. Q.S.E.V. Christophs Zuppacher Bibliothec Collegii Valkend. Fundat Ao 1595 Joanni Stigero (Johannes Stiger) Theodorus a Furstenberg D.G. Ecc. Paderborne Expiscops S.R. Imperii Princeps. Johannes Vennitzer Sum de Bibliotheca, quam Heidelberga capta, Spolium fecit, & P. M. Gregorio XV. trophaeum misit. Maximilianus Vtriusq ; Bavariae Dux, etc., S.R.I. Archidapifer et Princeps Elector. Anno Christi cio.iocxxiii. G.S.K.V.N. (Georg Seyfried Coler von Neunhof) Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Coloured woodcut Alleg. Arm. Pict. Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Pict. Arm. Eccles. Portrait Arm. Arm. See " Rare Book-plates," by Warnecke, 1S94. See " Rare Book-plates," 1894. No motto. See Ex L. Zeitschri/t, Oct., 1893; reproduced in colours. Signed S.B. (Sebald Beham). See *' Rare Book-plates," 1894. No motto. See " Rare Book-plates," 1894. No motto. This plate, already mentioned, was reproduced in the Ex L.Zcit- schrift, July, 1892, p. 8. ^^ Post tenebras Itix,^^ ^' Flagyor lion coiisiiniof.'^ (A modern plate.) No motto. See£.>r L.Zeitsclirift,]an.,i8g2, p. 9. No motto. M.Z. (By Matthias Zundt). " Oinnis honor suit lausqnc tiecus- quc Deo." This plate, already mentioned, was reproduced in the Ex L.Zeit- schrift, Oct., 1892, p. 11. " Homo nntus dc mulicrc Brcvi vivens tempore Rcplctiis miiltis misery's. Job xiiii." Signed S.F. See " Rare Book-plates," 1894. " Si Dens pro nobis qnis contra nos." Rom. viii. No motto. See " Rare Book-plates," 1894. This plate, already mentioned, was reproduced in the Ex L.Zeit- schrift, July, 1893, p. 50. This plate, already mentioned, was reproduced in the Ex L.Zeit- schrift, July, 1S93, P' 5'' (Danish.) "Got mein trost." H.D.S. See £.1- L. Zeitsclirift. Oct., 1893, p. 81. Biblical texts in Latin around the design. Large plate. See Ex L. Zcit- schrift. Jan., 1892, p. 11. This plate, already mentioned, was reproduced in the Ex L. Zeit- sclirift, Oct., iSgr, p. 9. No motto. See Ex L. Zcitschrift, Oct., 1892. p. 12. This plate, alre->dv mentioned, was reproduced in \.\\q Ex L. Zeit- sclirift, Oct., 1893, p. 77. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS SINCE THE FOREGOING WERE IN TYPE. 19 1610 Mr Thomas Nicholson Com Abd. 1610 (1617)' Messire Henry d'Albret Sire de Pons Seigneur de Miossens 1617. j (The whole of the above inscription is in MS.) 1634 George Windham of AUer Gentleman. Ann Dom 1634. I 1665 Henricus Gaudy. Colleg. Reginal. Cantabr. Jul. 1665. 1684 Ex libris Kenneth Comitis de Seaforth 1698 Dame Alice Brownlowe, Relict of Sr John Brownlowe late of Helton in the County of Lincoln Baronet and Daughter of Richard Sherard Esq. of Lobthorp In the said County. „ ! Thomas Cartwright, of .^ynho in the County of Northampton, Esqr Printed label Arm. Pict. Printed label in border Printed label Arms in a lozenge Arm. Early Eng. Earliest dated Scotch book-plate known. Not named by Mr. Franks. No motto. 6J by 5J. Reproduced and fully described in Lcs Archives de la SociitS Frnn- qaise lies Collcctiomuiirs iVEx- Libris, No. i, Dec, 1893. 3j by 2i in. " Hoc age Rtiit Iwra." Mentioned in a bookseller's cata- logue. No crest or motto. No motto. 3j by 3 in. From the Collection of James Roberts lirown, Esq. DATED BOOK-PLATES OP THE EIGHTEENTH CENTUBY. Note. — For the convenience of Collectors, the letters " N. n. by A. W. F." have been put against all plates in the following tables (except foreigners) which are not mentioned in the list of " English Dated Book-plates," issued in 1887 by Sir A. Wollaston Franks, k.c.b. ; and "Ex L. y." refers to the "Ex Libris yournal," published by Messrs. A. &• C. Black, Soho Square, London. Date. Name. Style. 17- George Allan. Darlington Gerr. Andrewes a.m. Coll. Ball. Oxon. Sociu.s. (He was M.A. 1738.) Mervyn Archdall a.d. H. Barry Collegium Jesu Cantabrigiense Henry Coape Esq of Duffield. Derb. Coddenham Book Society Charles Corbett, of Lincoln's Inn Sr David Cunynghame of Livingstone Bar' An 17—. The Revd Wm Daniel A Monsieur le Comte Despinchal Bartholomew Dey m.d. (He was a physician at Wymondham, Norfolk, about the middle of last century.) Ex Libris Bernardi Dufav. Emp' Anno 17 Thomas Frewen, of Brickwall, in the County of Sussex, Esq. Jacobi Harcourt s.t.p. Ex Musaeo Cli Imbert (French) Keen. (No Christian name) .. Dn Ivan Domingo Des Lobbes. Lila (Lille) en Flandes. Myles Mac Dermot of Coolavin in the County of Sligo, Esq. Robert Moore Motto and Artist. Arm. Early Chip. Arm. Chip. Literary Arm. Early Eng. Arm. Book-pile Label in border Arm. Middle Chip. Arms. Oval shield, in wreath. Crest. Pict. Printed label Arm. Arm. with supporters Arm. Jac. Arm. Jac. Arm. Arm. Chip. Arm. Printed I label Engraved label No motto. 3 X 2j. No motto. See 1746. No motto. No motto. No motto. Design, i| x 2J. See Warren's " Guide," p. 32. " Per varios casus." No motto. 3I X 3f wide. N. n. by A.W.F. Flowers, books, musi- cal instruments, etc. No motto. 1} X 2j. No motto. No motto. 4X3. See Warren's " Guide," p. 24. 17 — with 38 added in MS. " Le bon terns vicndra." Two sizes, the smaller has the motto " Le bon temps viendra.'^ No motto. Mandormet ft. 3^ x 2i. No motto. No motto. No motto. No motto. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 17 — Wrightson Mundy Esq of Markeaton (He died in 1762, aged 47.) The Honble (blank) North Esq. John Fyshe Palmer Pembroke Hall in Academia Cantabrigiensi Joseph Pocklington, Newark, Nottinghamshire W. Richardson Robert Rogers (See 1756) Alexander, Lord Salton {sic). Same arms as Lord Saltoun of i8 — . Dionys Franc Secousse Eques in Paris. Curia Patro. et e Reg Human. Litter Acad. 17 Sr Charles Sedley Bart of Southfleet Kent James Smith, of Alesbury {sic) in the County of Bucks. His Book, 17 Selkirk Stewart Thomas Stonor Esq Zach: Suger Tanrego in the Couny of Sligo Robert Taylor, Heckington Henry Vernon of Sudbury Esq. E Libris Ric: Vesey E Libris Richard Vesey M. Wall, Coll Nov. Oxon. Soc. Thomas Wright Esq of Santon Downham. Suffolk. Arm. Jac. Arm. Early Eng. Printed label Arm. Jac. Arm. Chip. Arm. Jac. Arm. with supporters Arm. Coronet of Count. Arm. Early Eng, Printed label Printed label Arm. Jac Arm. Jac A'rm. Pict Printed label Arm. EarlyEng Label in frame Printed label Crest in wreath Arm. Jac No motto. No motto. No motto. No motto. " Spcro mcUora." Signed W.S. 4X3. See also 176-. Motto scroll, but no motto. 3J X 2j. " In God is all." 3J x 2J. No motto. 2| x 2^. See 17(17), same arms. There is an undated plate bear- ing the same arms, but without the coronet, inscribed " De la Bibliotb^que de Mre Francois Robert Secousse Prestre Docteur en Theologie de la faculte de Paris, de la maison et societe de Navarre, et Cure de I'Eglise Par- roissiale de St Eustache, a Paris." 3^ X 2. See also 1719. No motto, see 17(18). " Thou Finder Kind, Have this in Mind, For unto Thee it's known. Within Thy Heart, Who e'er thou art. Each Man would have his own." N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. Oval shield in a cartouche. No motto. " Minerva diicc." J. Taylor, Sculp. See Griggs' 2nd Series, pi. 100. See also 1786. No motto, ij X 2. No motto. No motto. Type printed within ornamental woodcut border. No motto. Smaller than above. "Nil conscirc sibi." No motto. Fine plate. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 23 1700 Nameless Armorial plate, dated 1700. Quarterly of six. Crest, An eagle, wings expanded, issuing from a ducal crown or. Joscius Abbas Inferioris Altahae Lxxii Mrs Mary Barcock Josua Barnes s.t.b. Graec. Ling. Cantab. Prof. Reg. Eman. Coll. See. 1700. The Right Honble Elizabeth Lady Burghley, Wife to John Lord Burghley, and one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Sr John Brownlow, late of Belton in the County of Lincoln Baronet. Collegium Jesu Cantabrigiense Collegium Sancti Johannis Evangelistae in aca- demia Cantabrigiensi. Collegium sive Aula Mariae de Valentia communiter nuncupata Pembroke Hall in Academia Cantabrigiensi. Ex dono Johannis Brown. A.M. Collegium sive Aula S. St Trinitatis in Academia Cantabrigiensi. The Right Honble Charles Lord Cornwallis Baron of Eye in Com. Suffolk. Debut (French plate) Meinradus Abbas Imperialis Monasterij Elchin- gensis. Ex Libris Joannis Leopold S. R. L Principis Trautsohn, Comitis a Falkenstein. (German) The Right Honourable Baptist Earl of Gains- borough, Viscount Campden, Baron Noel, of Ridlington, & Baron Hicks of Ilmington, &c. Anthony Hammond of Somersham in the County of Huntington Esqr John Manners Lord Rocs eldest Son and heir apparent to the Right Honble John Earl of Rutland aect 1700. The Right Honble Rachel Mannors Lady Roos. Mitchell of Westshore and Berry, N.B. 1672- 1700. (No explanation as to the meaning of these dates.) Ex Bibliotheca Navarrica Arm. Arm. Eccles. Printed label Arm. EarlyEng Arm. EarlyEng, Arm. Jac. Arm. Arm. Jac. Arm. Jac. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters j Arm. Eccles. Arm. Arm. :EarlyEng. ; with isupporters I; Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng with supporters Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Leather label No inscription. Finely mantled to base of escutcheon. See Warren's "Guide," p. 72. " Comparavit." 3I x 2. Two small shields in an oval cartouche on a square background. N. n. by A.W.F. *^ Haec tnihi musa dcdii Vix ea nostra voco." 3J X 3. " Cor unum via una. N. n. by A.W.F. Two oval shields in a frame. No motto. No motto. No motto. See Warren's "Guide," p. 7r. No motto. 3I X 3. See Warren's " Guide," p. 71. No crest on this plate though the Hall has one. " Virtus vincit invidiam.'" 3^X3. " Tibi derclictus est pauper." No motto. Large plate, see in Ex L. Zeitschrift, July,iSg2, p. 17. " Tout bien ou ricn." Two sizes, large and medium. N. n. by A.W.F. " Pour y parvenir." 3J X 2J. Altered from his wife's plate. " Pour y parvenir." Sir A. W. Franks says these two were from the same plate, which was originally engraved for Lady Roos, whose Christian name was not Rachel, but Cath- erine. In his list he spells the name Manners in each case. "Sapiens qui assiduus." 4|X3f. This plate came from a book which had formerly belonged to James W. Mitchell, Rothesay Herald. N. n. by A.W.F. u IDATED BOOK-PLATES. 1700 1701 Hon. Henry Paget Nicholas Penny Nameless plate of Queen's College, Cambridge William Rogers, of Dowdeswell, in the County of Glocester Esqer John Sayer of Hounslow Esq. Joseph Stillington a.m. Coll. Jesu. .. Phillippus Stubs a.m. Sti Alfegi Rector apud Lond. Thomas Tanckred of Brampton in the County of Yorke Esq. Monasterium ad Locum Tegernsee (German) Montagu, Earl of Abingdon Edward Brown Gary Coke, wife of Edward Coke of Norfolk Esq. Edward Coke of Norfolk Esqr (Two sizes, similar in design and arms. Ed- ward Coke of Holkham died 1707.) Collegium sive Domus sive Aula de Clare in Uni- versitate Cantabrigiensi. Collegium sive aula D. Cntharinac in Universitate Cantabrigiensi. Collegium Dnae Franciscae Sidney Sussex, in Aca- demia Cantabrigiense. Collegium Corporis Christi & B. Virginis Mariae in Universitate Cantabrigiensi. Henry Compton Lord Bishop of London John Cooke of Inner Temple, London Esq. Cheife Prothonotary of the Court ot Comon Please (sic) Westminster. The Right Honble Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, Viscount Maldon and Baron Capell of Hadham. (Algernon, second Earl of Essex, was an officer in the Army, and served in Flanders under King William. In the reign of Queen Anne he was Constable of the Tower of London, and Colonel of the 4th Regiment of Dragoons. He died loth January, 1709.) Label N. n. by A.W.F. Arm. No motto. 35 X 2|. EarlyEng Arm. No motto. 3J X 2J. EarlyEng. The shield bears the arms of Hungary, Sicily, Naples, Jeru- salem, Anjou, and Lorraine within a bordure vert. Arm. No motto. A fine large plate. EarlyEng. See Warren's " Guide," p. 72. Plate-mark 4J x 3i. Arm. No motto. Arm. " Dominiis cxaltatio mea." N. n. by A.W.F. Reproduced in a paper on the Stubbs family in Archacologia Caniianci. Arm. No motto. Sir A. W. Franks spells this name in the modern style, Tan- cred. See 1701. J. C. Stenglin. f. See Warren's " Guide," p. 156. Arm. Nomotto. See Warren's "Guide," p. 72. Arm. I No motto. One a fine plate, 5J EarlyEng.! X 4, a smaller 3J x 2|. Arm. Jac. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Jac. Arm. Jac, Arm. Eccles. Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters No motto. No motto. No motto. 3I X 3. The Jacobean framework is very similar to that of the plate of Trinity Hall, 1700. Nomotto. See Warren's "Guide," p. 72. No motto. See Griggs' 2nd Series, pi. 6. Design, 3^ X 2}. No motto or motto scroll. See Warren's "Guide," p. 72. "Fide et Furtitudinc." Two sizes, 3iX 3| and 3gX2j. See Warren's " Guide," p. 75. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 25 1701 John Evans Lord Bishop of Bangor The Right Noble Thomas Duke of Leeds, Marquis of Carmarthen, Earl of Danby, Viscount Latimer & Dumblan, Baron Os- borne of Kiveton and Knight of ye most Noble Order of ye Garter. Dame Anna Margaretta Mason Relict of Sr Richard Mason Kt Late Gierke Comtroler of the Green Cloath to King Charles and King James the second. (Arms of Mason impaling Long, Dame Anna Margaretta having been daughter of Sir James Long of Draycot Cerne, Wilts.) The Right Honble Charles Mildmay Lord Fitzwalter Egremont Burnell and Bottetoft. John Shower Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 1701. Sigillum Societatis de promovendo Evangelio in partibus transmarinis. The Gift of the Society for propagating the Gospell in Foreign parts. (Same design as the 1704 plate, which see.) Sr Philip Sydenham Bart, of Brympton in Somerset sheir, etc. Jordan Tancred a.m. Rectr of Barwick in Elmet in ye west Riding of Yorkshire. (Jordan Tancred, of Christ Church, Oxford, took his degree of M.A. in 1687.) 1702 Michaeli Begon et Amicis (Michel Begon was Intendant de la generalite de la Rochelle, and one of the best known collectors of his day.) James Bengough of ye Inner Temple, London, Gent. Arm. Eccles. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters, Arm. Jac. Arm. EarlyEng, with supporters Pict. Pict. Arm. Arm. EarlyEng, Arm. with supporters and Coronet of Count Arm. EarlyEng. No motto. See Griggs' 2nd Series, pi. 23. Design, 3J x 2|. N. n. by A.W.F. "Pax in bcllo" and motto of the Garter around the shield. 54x4^. (The first Duke of Leeds, created 1694.) A very fine and scarce plate. See Griggs' 2nd Series, pl- 53- An elegant piece of engraving. See Griggs' 1st Series, pl. 45. See in Warren's "Guide," p. ig, named as one of the earliest specimens of the Jacobean style; see also p. 72. ' Alla-ta-hara.^' Two sizes, 3f X 3 and 2|X2j. See Warren's " Guide," p. 95. "This Book is the property of the Society for the propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and must not be removed from the Society's House." 4f X 2J. "Transicns adjuvanos." 4I X 3. A ship in full sail nearing land, a minister on the ship preaching to the natives. The minister is half as tall as the mainmast of the ship. See i6gg. See notes in Griggs' 1st Series. No motto. See Griggs' ist Series, pl. 46. Design, 3J x 3, bearing the arms and crest of the ancient family of Tancred of Borough Bridge, Yorks, namely. Argent, a chevron between three eseallops gules. Crest, An olive tree fructed proper. Sir Thomas S. Tancred, the eighth and present baronet, bears these arms and crest. No motto. Daudin. Reproduced as the Frontispiece to Hamilton's " French Book- plates," and see p. 126. Arms on an oval shield, sup- ported by two very heraldic-look- ing lions, and surmounted by a huge coronet. An elaborate engraving. 5X4. No motto. 3j X 2*. See Warren's " Guide," p. 77. This is the earliest use of the abbreviation Gent that I have met with on a book-plate. 26 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1702 The Honble James Bertie Esqr of Stanwell Arm. " Virtus ariete fortior." 2 sizes. in Com. Midd==, second son to James late Fine See Warren's " Guide," p. 78. Earle of Abingdon. mantling ,, The Honble Robert Bertie of the Middle Temple, Arm. Younger brotherof the preceding. Esqr EarlyEng. See Warren's " Guide," p. 79. It Isaac Borrow of Grayes Inn in ye County of Arm. Motto scroll but no motto. Middx Esqr EarlyEng. 3i X 2|. i» Robert Byerley of Gouldesbrough in the West Arm. " Foyall ct Loyall." Rideing of ye County of Yorke Esq. EarlyEng. Fine mantling See Warren's " Guide," p. 79. J, Charles Carroll of ye Inner Temple Esqr Second Arm. N. n. by A.W.F. son of Danieil Carroll of Litterlouna Esq. EarlyEng in the Kings County in the Kingdom of Ireland. ,, John Chamberlayne Esqr of St Margarets West- Arm. " Virtuti nihil invium." 3^ X 2j. minster. EarlyEng. ,, The Right Honble Henry Lord Colerane of Arm. Motto scroll but no motto. Colerane in ye Kingdom of Ireland. EarlyEng. with supporters 34 X 2i. M The Right Honble James, Earl of Derby, Lord Arm. with " Sans changer." Two sizes. of Man & ye Isles. supporters See Rylands' Notes, p. ig, and (James, tenth Earl of Derby, elected Mayor of Fine Warren's " Guide," p. 76. Liverpool, in 1734 ; died 1736, without issue.) mantling Edward Radcliffe, Earl of Darwentwater Vis- Arm. No motto. count Radcliffe & Langley, etc. „ Fauveau, Avocat au Parlement Arm. The Honbje Sr Henry Fletcher Bart of Hutton Arm. " Martis non Cupidinis." in ye Forrest in ye County of Cumberland. (This baronetcy was created in 1640). Charles Fox of the Parish of St Martin in the Arm. No motto. Fields, Esq. See Warren's " Guide." p. 77. This design was afterwards adopted by the politician, Charles James Fox. See Ex L. jfournal. Vol, II., p. 17. M John Godfrey of Wye, in the County of Kent Esqr Arm. No motto. H The Right Honble Charles Lord Halifax. Arm. '* Otium cum dignitatc.^' (Politician, poet, and patron of Dean Swift. EarlyEng. Two sizes, one 3J x 2|, and Died in May, 1715.) with smaller 2f x 2. supporters See Warren's " Guide," p. 75. „ Sr Simon Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt in ye Arm. " Le bon temps viendra." County of Oxon Knight. Her Majesty's EarlyEng. Solicitor General. Fine mantling. „ Mr Robert Harvey of Stockton in the County of Arm. No motto. Warwick. EarlyEng. ,, The Right Honble Sr Charles Hedges Knight Arm. No motto. 33 x 2|. one of Her Majesties Principal Secretaries EarlyEng. See Warren's "Guide," p. 95. of State. „ The Right Honble John Lord Hervey, created Arm. " y<; n'oiiblieray jamais." Baron of Ickworth in Com. Suff. March EarlyEng. Two sizes, one plate mark the 23d 1702. with 3i X 2|. (Born Aug. 27, 1665; created Baron of Ick- supporters See plate as John Hervey of worth, 1702, Earl of Bristol, Oct. 19, 1714 ; died Ickworth, Esq., 1698. January 20, 1750-1. Father of Pope's Lord See Warren's " Guide," p. 77. Hervey.) DATED BOOK-PLATES. 27 1702 Mr Ambrose Holbech of Mollington in the County of Warwick. (The " Mr." on this armorial book-plate is exceptional ; he who bears arms at this period is usually styled Armiger or Esquire.) The Right Honble Sr John Holt Knight Lord Chief Justice of ye Court of Queens Bench & one of Her Majesties Most Honble Privy Council. Sir William Hustler of Acklam in Cleveland in the North Riding of the County of Yorke Knt. Thomas KnatchbuU Esqr third Son of S^ Thomas KnatchbuU of Mershamhatch in the County of Kent Baronet. The Right Honble Anthony, Earle of Kent Abel Ketelbey of ye Middle Temple, Esqr Sr. Thomas Littleton Baronet, Treasurer of Her Majesties Navy. Henry Yelverton, Viscount Longueville The Rt Hon. Barbara, Viscountess Longueville Robert Lowndes Esqr The Honble William Lowndes Esqr Secretary to ye Right Honble Sidney Lord Godolphin Lord High Treasurer of England. The Right Honble Patrick Hume Earl of Marchmont. Viscount of Blasonberry Lord Polwarth of Polwarth & Lord High Chancellor of Scotland. Ri. MynshuU of ye Inner Temple Esq. John Newdigate of the Inner Temple, London Esqr Richard Newdigate Esq. Collegium Novum Oxon. (This College was founded in 1379 by William Wyckham, Bishop of Winchester ; hence the motto on this plate. Arm. Early Eng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Arm. shield on a mantle Arm. with supporters Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng, Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng, with supporters Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. Fine mantling No motto. 3j X 3. See Warren's " Guide," p. 78. No motto or motto scroll. Hand- some mantling enveloping three sides of the shield, and rising considerably above it. 3J x 2I. No motto. No motto or motto scroll. 3I X 2|. See plate in Hardy, p. 39, and in Griggs' 2nd Series, pi. 68 ; see Warren's " Guide," p. 77. " Foy est tout." Two sizes. See Warren's "Guide," p. 76; see also 1710, 1713, 1717, and 1733. " Ketdlus." See Griggs' 2nd Series, pi. 127, and Warren's " Guide," p. 76. Design 3J x 2f. " Uitg Dieu ct ung Roy." 3J x 2j. See Warren's " Guide," p. 77. N. n. by A.W.F. No motto. 3| X 2}. " True to the end " above crest, below shield " Fides probata coronal." See "Marchmont and the Humes of Polwarth," by one of their descendants. Wm. Blackwood & Sons, London and Edinburgh. 1894. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto, (rare) No motto. No motto. Same arms as above. " Manners makyth man." In Warren's " Guide," p. 78, the arms on this plate are thus described : Ar. two chevrons sa. between three roses gules, impaled with the arms of the See of Winchester, encircled with the garter, and ensigned with an episcopal mitre. But I have a plate of the same College, 3f x 2^, which has the same inscription and motto as the above, but with- out the Winchester arms. The arms being simply ny. two chevrons sable, between two roses gules, encircled with the garter. 28 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1702 Sr John Percivale Baronet of Burton in the Arm. " Sub criice canto." 3J X 3. Count)' of Cork in Ireland. EarlyEng. See also r7i5 and 1736. (Sir John was a busy politician and was elevated See Warren's " Guide," p. 75. to the peerage in 1715, when he had a new ex libris in that year on which he is styled John, Lord Pcrcival Baron of Burton^ etc. He again rose in the world, and had a third ex libris dated r736 whereon he appears as John Percival, Earl of Egmont. He died in 1748. His son John, second earl, was the author of " Faction Displayed.") ,, Joshua Randall Label. Samuel Sanders April 29 1702. Printed Price— label N. n. by A.W.F. t) Sr William Robinson Baronett of Newby in the Arm. No motto. 3i X 2j. North Riding of the County of Yorke. EarlyEng. See Ex L. J., Vol. 11., p. 17; see also Sr William Robinson Knight, 1704, and Sir William Robinson, 1762, who adopted this design. . William Talbot Lord Bishop of Oxford Arm. No motto. 3j X 3|. Eccles. Jac. Arm. See Griggs' 2nd Series, pi. 8. >l Sr George Tempest Bartt of Tonge in the '* Loyfe as thoitjinnds.^'' West-riding of ye County of Yorke. See Warren's " Guide," p. 77. (Baronetcy created 1664.) ^^ William Tempest of the Inner Temple, Esqr Arm. " Tempcstive" 3J X 2I. EarlyEng. See 1722. Some examples occur without the motto. ») William Tempest of the Inner Temple, Esqr Arm. EarlyEng. No motto. 3^ X 2j. »» Ex libris Bibliothecae Domesticae Richardi Towne- Arm. " Tenez le vray." 3f X 3. ley de Towneley In Agro Lancastrensi EarlyEng. (There are also several other fine Armigeri Anno .lEtatis 73 Domini 1702. Chip. Arm. plates of the Towneley (Born 1628, died at York 1707. This gentleman, who was the son and heir of Charles Towneley, a Royalist slain at the battle of Marston Moor, family, not dated). See The Palatini: Note Book, Vo\. III., p. 191, which contains left behind him a distinguished name as a man of a paper on the Towneley library ; science, a famous mathematician, and a virtuoso. Rylands' Notes, pp. 21, 36; and Warren's " Guide," pp. 9, 14, 77. The Right Honble Sr Thomas Trevor Knight Arm. No motto or motto scroll. Lord Chief Justice of Her Majesties Court EarlyEng. See Warren's " Guide," p. 76. of Comon Pleas, and one of Her Majesties Same arms as in 1738. Most HonWe Privy Council. Sr. Edmund Tumor of Stoke- Rochford. in ye Arm. No motto. County of Lincoln, Kt. Samuell Trotman of Siston in the County of Arm. No motto. Very scarce plate. Glocester Esqr EarlyEng. 3i X 21. n Sr. Thomas Winford Baronet Arm. " Tons Jours loyal." Sr Tho. Cookes Winford, of Glashampton in ye Arm. County of Worcester Baronet. EarlyEng. Godfrey Woodward of Putney in ye County of Arm. No motto, (rare) Surrey, Gent. Heavy mantling. J', (fir. cfiii/^ DATED BOOK-PLATES. 29 1703 Sir Henry Ashurst of Waterstoke, Bart The Most Noble Wriothesley Duke of Bed- ford, Knight of y; Most Noble Order of the Garter. John Bennet Esqr Judge of the Marshalls Court The Right Honble Scroop Egerton Earl of Bridgwater Viscount Brackley Earon of Elsmere. St John Brodrick of the Middle Temple Esqr (There is another old plate of Brodrick, no name or date, same motto — with supporters.) William Bromley of Baginton in ye County of Warwick. Esqr Richard Buckby of Lincolns Inn Esqr The Honble Sr Thomas Bury Kt. one of the Barons of her Ma'i^s Court of Exchequer. Richard Butler of Lincolns Inn Esqr Mary Butler John Champante of Lincolns Inn Esq. The Honble George Compton Second Son to ye Rt Honlilo George Earl of Northampton. Nathaniel Crewe, Lord Bishop of Durham and Baron Crewe of Stene. George Edwards of Henlow in Com. Bedford Esqr Robert Eyre of Lincolns Inn Esqr The Right Honble Basil Fielding Earl of Denbigh. (The family name is now spelt Feilding.) Richard Foley Esqr Second Prothonotary of Her Majesties Court of Comon Pleas. Hugh Fortescue of Filleigh in Com. Devon. Esqr John Fortescue of the Middle Temple Esqr Sr Stephen Fox of ye Parish of S'. Martins in the I'ields Knight. Edward Goldesbrougb. of Lincolns Inn Esq. Arm. Arm. EarlyEng with supporters Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Arm. EarlyEng, Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Eccles. with supporters Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. I mantled Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. EarlyEng.' Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Heavy mantling Arm. " Degencranti genus opprobrium." " Che Sara sara," and motto of the Garter. 3J x 2f. See also 1736, 1865. See Warren's " Guide," p. 83. No motto. See Warren's " Guide," p. 84. " Sic donee." 3J x zf. " A cnspide corona." See Castle, p. 51, and 2nd edition, p. 60, and Warren's " Guide," p. 83. " Vexillo virtutis vinco." Small size. 2j X 2. See Warren's " Guide," p. 82. No motto. 3j X 2i. See Warren's "Guide," p. 84. No motto. See Warren's " Guide," p. 82. Motto scroll but no motto. 3JX 2|. See Warren's " Guide," p. 84. No motto. Has helmet, wreath, and crest. N.n. by A.W.F. " Ncc jacto nee rejicio." Motto scroll but no motto. Crest, helmet, and baron's coronet. Design 3J X 2}. See Griggs' 2nd S., pi. 41 ; see Warren's " Guide," p. 80. No motto. 3I X i- A scarce plate. " Sola virtus invicta." See Warren's " Guide," p. 80. " Honor virtutis praemium.** Two sizes, one 3J X 2f, the other smaller. See Warren's " Guide," p. 79. Motto scroll but no motto. Rare. 3i X 2}. See Warren's " Guide," p. 84. " Forte scutum salus ducum." 3i X 2|. " Forte scutum salus ducum." il X 2|. See John Fortescue of Pen- warne, 1749. See Warren's " Guide," p. 84. No motto. See Warren's " Guide," p. 81. No motto. 30 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1703 The Right Honble Francis North Baron of Guilford. (Francis, second Baron Guilford, son of the celebrated Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. Died in 1729. See Warren's " Guide," p. 80, where, however, the name is erroneously spelt "Guildford.") Mr Anthony Holbeche of Bently Heath in Com Warwick. Anto Holbeche, Londo nupr Bently Heath in Com Warwick. John Hooke Serjeant at Law Edward Horsman of Stretton, Co. Rutland Nicholas Lechmere of the Middle Temple Esqr Collegium Lincolniense in Universitate Oxon. Philippus Lynch Medii Templi Socius Thomas Millington of Gosfeild Hall in Com Essex. Esqr New England Library, collected by James Prince July 6, 1703. Edward Nicholas Esqr of Gillingham in the County of Dorset. Edward Nicholas of Gillingham in the County of Dorset Esq. William Norcliffe of the Inner Temple London Esq'; The Right Honble William Lord North of Carthlage and Baron Grey of Rolleston. The Right Honb]e George, Earl of Northamp- ton, Baron Compton. The Right Honble George Earl of Northamp- ton Baron Compton of Compton. Sr Edw: Northey Knight her Majestyes Attorney General!. Edward Northey Esq second Son to Sr. Edward Northey, Kt. her Majestyes Attorney Generall. William Northey Esq, Eldest son to Sr Edward Northey Knight her Majestyes Attorney Generall. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters ' Auivio ct Jidc." 3| X 2 J. Arm. No motto. EarlyEng. See also Ambrose Holbech in 1702. Arm. No motto. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Jac. Arm. Oval shield Arm. EarlyEng. Label Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. i EarlyEng. with J supporters Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. EarlyEng. with I supporters! Arm. EarlyEng. Rich mantling Arm. Arm. No motto. 3j X 2j. No motto. Motto scroll but no motto. See Griggs' 2nd Series, pi. 137. Design 31 x 2j. No motto. 35 X 2j. See Warren's " Guide," p. 80. " De hipo." See Warren's " Guide," p. 79. The inscription being in Latin on this plate is exceptional at this period. Motto scroll but no motto. Date on scroll below arms. Two sizes, 5jX4jand 3JX2J. Motto scroll but no motto. Two sizes, one 5J X 4J, a handsome plate, the other 3! X 2|. See Warren's " Guide," p. 82. No motto. Another variety. See also 1705. Motto scroll but no motto. 3i X 2i. No motto. Two sizes, one 3J X 2|. See Warren's " Guide," p. 81. "Nisi Dominas" on crest, below arms "^i ne cherchc qui ting" (sic). See Warren's "Guide," p. 79. Probably incorrectly described. "Nisi Dominus" on crest, and below arms " jfc ne serche qui ting" (sic). 3j X 2i. "Steady." 3 X 2j. See Warren's " Guide," p. 81. " Steady." " Steady." There are 3 Northey plates : Sir Edward Northey, Kt., William Northey, eldest son, Edward Nor- they, second son. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 31 1703 Francis Page of the Inner Temple Esqr Thomas Pate of Greys Inn Esq. William Penn Esqr Proprietor of Pens^lvania . . (William Penn, born Oct. 14, 1644, died July 30, 1718. "The courtly Quaker, whose position at White- hall, as the tool of King James, seems so irrecon- cilable with his career as a sturdy and far-sighted pioneer of civilisation in the far West." — \Vant:ii.) Constantine Phipps of the Middle Temple Esqr Nathaniell Pigott of the Inner Temple London Esq. Henry Poley of Badley In Com Suff. Esqr Sr Thomas Powys Kt. Her Majties First Serjeant at Law. The Honble Robert Price Esq. one of the Barons of her Ma"« Court of Exchequer. The Most Noble James Duke of Queensberry Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Thomas Richmond alias Webb of Rodbourne Cheney in the County of Wilts Esqr John Roberts of Lincoln's Inn. The Right Honble John Earl of Roxburghe Lord Ker Cesfoord and Cavertoun. James Selby Serjeant at Law The Rt Honble Lord Charles Somerset. Second son to ye Late Marquess of Worcester. Richard Symes Esqr {Az., three escallop shells in pale.) Richard Syms Esqr {Argent, three escallop shells in pale.) The Right Honble Henry Roper Baron of Teynham. The Right Honble Henry Earl of Thomond Lord O'Brien, Baron of I Brickan. Thomas Thoroton of the Middle Temple Esqr Thomas Vernon of Hanbury Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. [EarlyEng. Arm. jEarlyEng.i Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng with supporters Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Jac. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. with supporters Arm. [EarlyEng. Arm. scroll but no motto. 3J Motto X 2i- See Warren's " Guide," p. 84. "Refine et abstiue." " Dunt clavitm teneani." 3^ X 2f. See Warren's " Guide," pp. 81, 104. and pi. 10, p. 132. His son had a book-plate in- scribed " Thomas Penn of Stoke Pogeis in the county of Bucks First (i.e. chief) Proprietor of Pen- silvania." See£jrL.y.,Vol.I.,p.4i Motto scroll but no motto. 3J X 2|. No motto scroll or motto. 3f X 2|. See Warren's "Guide," p. 95, where the name is spelt Piggott, but there is only one g on the plate. " Fortiur est qui se." 3J x 2f. See Warren's " Guide," p. 80. No motto. 3^^ X 2f. See Warren's " Guide," p. 95. " Forward" on the motto scroll below the shield, motto of the Garter around it. 3J x if- See Warren's " Guide," p. 82. " Resolve well Persevere." (Rare.) 3l X 2a. See Warren's " Guide," p. 84. " Aiide et Vince." " Pro Christo et Patria dulce periculum." 3^ x 2f. See Warren's " Guide," p. 82. Motto scroll but no motto. 3jX2f See Warren's "Guide," p. 81. ^* Mutare vel timere sperno." 3l' X 2|. See Warren's " Guide," p. 83. Motto scroll but no motto. 3jX2| No motto. " Spes inea in Deo." 2g X 2. " Vigneur de dessus." See Warren's " Guide," p. 83. "Deiis scutum et cornu salutis." I have also seen a copy of this plate with the motto scroll blank 3JX2J No motto. 32 DATF.D BOOK-PL ATES. 1703 Sr Wm. Windham of Orchard Windham in ye Arm. Of an ancient family, the baro- County of Summerset Bar' EarlyEng. netcy created 1661. Name gene- rally spelt Wyndham (from Wymondham in Norfolk). »» Edward Winnington of the IMiddle Temple Esqr Arm. ^^ Grata sumc manu." See also P'rancis Winnington, 1732, and plate 6 in Warren's "Guide," and p. 22, where the 1732 plate is fully described. 11 William WoUaston 1704 Sr Samuel Barnardiston of Brightwel in ye Arm. " yc trove blcn." County of Suffolk. Bart EarlyEng. Plate mark 3 x 2|. (Sir Samuel Barnardiston was created a Baronet N. n. by A.W.F. May II, 1663, and died without issue 1708. n Charles Bertie ,, Nicolas Remy Frizon de Blamont, President Arm. A Paris le 14 Aoust 1704. P. le au Parlement. with Roux. Design 3J X 2^. supporters See Hamilton's "French Book- Coronet ol plates," p. 60. Count ti Sr Orlando Bridgman of Ridley in the County of Arm. No motto. Chester Bart. (Baronetcy created 1673.) 11 William Brydges of the Middle Temple Esq. Arm. No motto. ti Sr Wilham Dawes Baronet . . Arm. No motto. 3j X 2%. (Bishop of Chester 1707-1713, and afterwards EarlyEng. See Warren's " Guide," p. 84. Archbishop of Yorl<. Died April 30, 1724.) ») Sr William Dudley of Clapton in the County of Arm. " Galea spes sal it t is," Northampton Baronet. EarlyEng. Plate mark i^i x 2J. (Baronetcy created 1660.) See Warren's " Guide," p. 85. „ Capt Robert Gardner of St Martins in the Fields "Arm. No motto. i» John Hanbury of Pontpoole in the County of Arm. Monmouth Esqr EarlyEng. »J Henry Hoare Goldsmith in London. 1704. Arm. No motto. 3 X 2I. (An oval shield in a cartouche, surrounded by Two See 1724 and i860, and many festoons.) crests other plates, not dated, of the same family, all bearing the double - headed displayed eagle, and the motto "In Ardua." 11 The Right Honb'e Robert Lord Viscount Arm. Motto scroll but no motto. 3|X2f Killmorey. EarlyEng. with supporters i» The Right Honble Philip Sydney Earle of Arm. " Quo fata voeant." Leicester Viscount Lisle and Baron Syd- EarlyEng. Two sizes, 3i' X 2j, 2^ x 23. ney of Penshurst. with supporters See Warren's " Guide," p. 86. 11 The Right Honble John Lord Lovelace Baron Arm. Motto scroll but no motto. of Hurley in Com. Berks. EarlyEng. with supporters See Warren's " Guide," p. 86. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 33 1704 The Right Honble Charles Montagu, Earl of Manchester, Viscount MandeviUe and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton. Mrs Margret (sic) Massingberd Thomas Parker of the Inner Temple Esqr Edward Pauncfort Esqr Anno 1704 The Right Honble William Earl of Portland Viscount Woodstock and Baron of Ciren- cester Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Thomae Prince Liber Anno Domini 1704 (New England Library, U.S.A.) (See reproduction of this label, and notes on Thomas Prince, in Ex L. jf., Vol. I., p. 39.) Robert Raymond of Grayes Inn Esqr Sr William Robinson Knight The Rt Honble James Cecill, Earle of Salisbury, Viscount Cranburne, and Baron Cecill of Essingdon. St Edmund's Hall, Oxon Sr Fulwar Skipwith of Newbold Hall in the County of Warwick Baronet. (The Baronetcy was created in r622. Sir Fulwar succeeded as second Baronet, and died in 1728.) Sir Fulwar Skipwith, of Newbold Hall in the County of Warwick Baronet. Sigillum Societatis de promovendo Evangelio in partibus transmarinis. The Gift of the Society for propagating the Gospell in Foreign parts, 1704. The Most Noble Ann Duchess of Southampton James Tynte Esqr . . John Ward of Capesthorne Com. Cestr and of the Inner Temple Esqr. (Born 1670, died 1749. EarlyArm. with supporters Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Early Eng.i with I supporters] Pictorial ' woodcut No motto. No motto. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng, Arm. Pict. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Motto scroll but no motto. 3jX2| See Warren's " Guide," p. 85. Motto scroll vacant. Around the arms the Garter and motto, "Honi soil qui mal y pense.'^ 3^ X 3- See Hardy's " Book-plates," p. 116. He says this may betaken as genuinely American, as Thomas Prince was born and bred in America, and did not visit England until 1709. The Prince library was bequeathed to the New Eng- land Library, which has a label to record the gift. " Nee temcre nee timidc." 3I ^ 2j plate mark. No motto. 3I X 2f. See also 1702 and 1762. N.n. by A.W.F. N.n. by A.W.F. "Sans DicHJc nc puis." Design 5i X 4i- Seventeen quarterings — in the first the Skipwith arms, Argent, three bars gules, in chief a grey- hound courant sable. See Griggs' ist S., pi. 6, and Warren's " Guide," p. 84. "Sans Dieuje ne puis." A smaller plate than the above with the Skipwith arms only. There is also a large type book label, not dated, of Sir Francis Skipwith Bart. Newbold-Revel, Warwickshire. " Trausiens adjuvanos." Plate mark 3I x 2j. See also 1701. Motto scroll but no motto. 24X22 " Cruccm ferre dignum." Two varieties. 3SX2g Hel- Motto scroll but no motto, met, no crest. 3|X2j. See Rylands' Notes, p. 57, and Warren's " Guide," p. 85. 34 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1704 John \A^ard of Capesthorne in the County of Arm. No motto. 3f X 2|. Cheshire Esqr and of the Inner Temple. EarlyEng. These two plates are identical with the exception of the inscrip- tions. „ The Right HonbI_e Thomas, Lord Viscount Arm. " y ay bonne cause." 3i X 2j. Weymouth Baron Thynne of Warminster. EarlyEng. with supporters See Warren's " Guide," p. 85. )t The Right Honbje Charles Earle of Winchelsea Arm. ^^ Advcrsis major par secundis." Viscount Maidstone Baron Fitz-Herbert of EarlyEng. 3i X 2a. Eastwell. with supporters See Warren's " Guide," p. 85. Temple Whitfeld Esq. Arm. " Virtutis gloria optima hereditas." (1705) Johannis Dabbs. Coll Eman. Cantab. Printed label 1705 The Most Noble Henry— Duke of Beaufort Arm. " Mutare vel timcre spcnio." EarlyEng. Has crest, wreath, helmet, ducal coronet and supporters. 3J X 2f. See 1725. Ex dono Henrici Cressener a.m. Label N.n. by A.W.F. Sarah Fyge Egerton Label Printed 1705 at Winslow. Oswald Ulrich Egkher (of Cologne, etc.) Arm. Pict. No motto. Sr Richard Holford of Lincolns Inn Knight Arm. No motto. 31 X 2f . EarlyEng. Scarce plate. George Montagu Esqr Arm. No motto. 3j X 2S. EarlyEng. See Warren's " Guide," p. 86. Edward Nicholas of West Horseley in the Arm. No motto. (Similar to the larger County of Surry, Esq. EarlyEng. 1703 plate). The Honble Charles North. Esq. Arm. No motto. See Warren's " Guide," p. 86. George Phipps of Oxford Esq. -Arm. No motto. (Rare.) William Foley Printed label His Excellency The Rt Honbje Tho: Went- Arm, "En Dieu est tout." 4X3. worth Lord Raby, Peer of England, with See Griggs' ist Series, pi. 65. Collo of her Ma^y? Royal Regt^ of Dragoons supporters Probably engraved abroad. (Very Lieut General of all her Ma'y? Forces & rare.) her Mat>;s Embassador ExtraO" to ye King See also i6g8 and 1712. of Prussia, 1705. (The third Baron, a soldier who served under William III. and Marlborough.) Sir Richard Temple Henry Trenchard of Fulford in ye County of Arm. No motto scroll or motto. 3jX2| Devon Esq. Early Jac. Scarce plate. Sr Edward Tumour of Hollingbury in the County Arm. Elaborate mantling. Motto scroll of Essex. Knight. EarlyEng. but no motto. ^^ X 2j. See Warren's " Guide," p. 86. Sr Thomas Webster Baronet The Right Honbje Thomas Lord Wharton.. Arms and No motto. 3J X 2f. supporters N.n. by A.W.F. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 35 1706 Henry, Duke of Beaufort Arm. " Mutare vel timere sperno." EarlyEng. (Large.) II The Most Noble Rachel Dutchess of Beaufort Arm. "Mutare vel timere sperno." (Died Sept. 13, 1709.) EarlyEng. (Large. See Misc. Gen., Vol. III., Series 2.) N.n. by A.W.F. A large plate exactly like that of Henry Duke of Probably the plate was first en- Beaufort, as above. graved for the Duchess, and after some copies had been struck off for her books the name was altered for that of her husband. Johannes Augustinus de Brosamer, Consiliarius Arm. V. Kenckel sc. " et Generalis, etc. See Warren's "Guide," p. 152. William EUay, Thirsk in Yorkshire. January 17, Printed Printed at the University-Press, " 1706. label. Cambridge. 2^ X 4i. Type N.n. by A.'W.F. border n Isaac Ewer of Lincoln's Inn Esq. Arm. No motto. " Kem. Freeman Engraved label Alexander Grant of Grant Esqr Collonell of a Arm. Regiment of Foot. EarlyEng. Gostlet Harington of Marshfeild in the Coun: of Arm. No motto ; the date is on the Glocester Gent. EarlyEng. motto scroll. 3^ X 2|. A scarce plate. See Warren's " Guide," p. 86. Mountagu Lloyd a.m. Fellow of Trinity College Arm. in Cambridge. EarlyEng. The Right Honble Edward Lord Viscount Arm. Montague of Hinchinbrook. EarlyEng The Right HonW; The Earle of Weems .. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters "yepense." 3^ X 2J. (1707) Thomas Bramston Esqr of Skreens Arm. No motto. 3j X 2|. The Bramstons of Skreens in Essex were an EarlyEng. This plate is not dated, but I ancient family. bought it in an Eton " Epigram- In 1845 Lord Braybrooke edited the autobio- matum Delectus" printed in 1703, graphy of Sir John Bramston, k.e., of Skreens, in which was written " E Libris who was born in 161 1 ; he was the eldest son of Thos Bramston August ye ist Sir John Bramston, who was made Chief Justice 1707'." of the King's Bench in 1635. There are several other Bram- ston book-plates bearing the same arms — Or, on a fess sable three plates — but not dated. 1707 Nameless Arm. No motto. Bidault. 36 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1707 The Right Honble James Hamilton, Earl of Abercorn in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Viscount of Strabane in the Kingdom of Ireland. Alexander Abercrombie of Glassaugh Sr John Areskine of Alva Baronet Thomas Bayly Gent. Sir William Bennet Bart. The Right Honyj Sr Alexr Campbell of Cesnok one of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice and one of the Lords of Her Ma'ies most Honble Privy Counsell & Exchequer. Sr James Campbell of Achenbrek, Baronet Nicholas Carew of Beddington, Esq. . . Ex Libris Jos. Carleton Die Decimo Mensis quinti. 1707. John Egerton Esqr (Of Broxton, born 1656, died 1732.) A print of this plate forms the frontispiece to " A Short Account of the Possessors of Oulton," printed by the late Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., m.p., in 1869. George Finch of Valentines in the County of Essex Esqr Abrahamus Francke a.r. Dorothy, Countess of Gainsborough Sr James Gray Baronet William Griffith of Llyn Esqr In Carnarvonshire North Wales. This same William Griffith had a smaller book- plate, not dated, Early English, Armorial, with four quarterings only. Motto, " Tout joure frest." The Honbl_e John Haldane of Gleneagles Sr Thomas Hanmer of Hanmer in com. Flint, Baronet. (Baronetcy created 1620.) The above Sir Thomas was Member of Parlia- ment for Flint, and was unanimously chosen Speaker of the House of Commons. He was also a man of letters, and prepared an edition of Shakespeare. He was twice married, his second wife being Elizabeth, the daughter and heiress of Thomas Folkes of St. Edmundsbury, in Suffolk. Elizabeth Folkes also had a book-plate, in her maiden name. Rob: Hodges. Aul: Pemb. Arm. EarlyEng Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Arm. Printed label Arm. 'EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng Printed label Arm. EarlyEng with supporters Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. Eight quarterings. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. EarlyEng. Printed label Small plate. Motto scroll but no motto. 3jX2f " Bcncdictus qui toilit crucem." " Crcscnm ut prosim " above crest, "Constantir et Priuioitcr" below shield. N. n. by A.W.F. " Forget not." No motto. No motto. " Lcoiii lion sagitth fido." 3J x Zj See Misc. Gen. et Her., Vol. I., p. 2gg ; also Rylands" Notes, pp. 26, 56. The shield shows 28 quarterings inherited by the family, which Mr. Rylands enumerates at length. Motto scroll but no motto. 3jX2j See also 17 10. " Tout bicn on ricn." " Decns et Tutameii." 3J x 2| See Warren's '"Guide," p. 87. No motto. Wilding sculp' For description of this singular coat-of-arms, see Misc. Gen. et Her., March, 1S94. N.n. by A.W.F. " Suffer, suffer." 3I x 2 a See Warren's " Guide," p. 87. Motto scroll but no motto. Two sizes, 6 X 5f and 3J X 2J. See Warren's " Guide," p. 88. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. MtSSlKE^ CHARLE,sB0NAr:KWTURZ COMTJS, V^XDEJlNoOT tJhca^on dc S chaonhovcrv ct dt ^Lcu^t,s (Sec: CoiiAScUlcr dc fcL IIZCC' ^mj)! dt doth'. ctzL Jbiuv^crauv Coiztseil cLcJlSrdbcLrtt -par jyatcLTxtc dit^. jj-votr^ j^j^. J\jequ ause Ctuts nable^ de hrakctyit, J^ds dc oyH-tfsire^ f^J^o-qitr iX)oitthicr, crt k^07x i^vv^cuxt tJoarorL de. CclHoo &cc' Z't depute:^ ar^di?ztxire ctic dit co?^p^ de Z TLO-ble^S'Se dc>s £,tctt^ de hr^abartt, eb dc jDume cvCtztz^ iDCoid/\sc -v^cmdcr Qnacht 7icc ,j}} arcrizne dc Vr&rrtpde. cir d'Olrrterv Sect' DATED BOOK-PLATES. 37 1707 1708 The Honble Sr Andrew Hume. (Scotch) Richard Jones E.sqr Arthur Moore Samuel Phillips. (American) Edmund Foley of Badley in Com. Suffolk, Esqr Sir Robert Pollok of that Ilk, Bart. John Roper Esqr The Right Honble Henry Lord Baron of Shel- burne in yf Kingdom of Ireland. Richard Shuttleworth, of Gawthorp in the County Palatine of Lancaster Esqr Sir John Swinton T. Tweady The Right Honble James Lord Waldegrave Baron of Chewton. Mrs Juliana Wentworth Daughter to Thomas Horde Esqr of Coat in Oxfordshire. Sr Edmund Anderson Baronet (Of Broughton, Lincolnshire. Baronetcy created i66o.) The Honourable Archibald Campbell Esqr .. (Grandson of ArL-hibald, eighth Earl of Argyle. Made Bishop of Aberdeen in 1721.) Mr. Alexr Campbell, Advocate his book Francis Columbine Esqr Colonel of Foot (Francis Columbine was appointed Lieut. -Col. of the Tenth Regiment in 1706, and subsequently full Colonel, and in 1739 Lieut. -General. He died at Hillingdon in Middlesex in 1746, aged 66.) The Right Honble William Earle of Niths- daill. (Scotch) Arm. EarlyEng, Arm. I Label Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Early Jac. Arm. EarlyEng with supporters Arm. EarlyEng. Printed label Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. William Northey Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. EarlyEng. ''True to the end" on a scroll above the crest ; there is also the usual motto scroll below the shield, but it is blank. 3J x 2f. No motto or motto scroll. See Warren's " Guide," p. 87. N.n. by A.W.F. "Fortior est qui se." See also 1703. Two sizes, 5J x 4J and 3J x 2f . See Warren's '• Guide," p. 95. No motto. Plate mark 2| x 2j. Oval shield in early Jac. frame. "Ul apes geometriam." 3I x 2|. See Warren's "Guide," p. 87. The crest is a bee-hive, with bees flying around. See Rylands' Notes, p. 57. No motto. See 1709. No motto. 3I X 3. " Ne oblivisenrls." See Castle, p. 52, and 2nd edit., p. 61 ; Warren's " Guide," p. 88. Three sizes, large, medium, small. See also 1756 and 1844. " Fit via vi." (Very rare plate.) " Aintaces fortunaj'iivat." Plate mark 3J X 2i. There was also a handsome plate of " Frans Columbine Esqr Lieut GenI of all His Majs For? & Coll of a Regiment," which was reproduced in Part i, Vol. III., of the Ex L. y. See also a long account of the owner in ExL.y,^ Vol. III., p. 12, by Col. Havelock. "Reviresco" over crest, "Doinimis dcdit" below shield. N.n. by A.W.F. The date is on the motto scroll, thus: " i-j- Steady -o?,." 3jX2| 38 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1708 Thomas Reresby Esqr Arm. "Mercy Jesu." 4I X 2|. EarlyEng. A handsome plate with nineteen quarterings. »» The Right Honble John Earl of Rothes Arm. "Grip fast r 3jX2|. (Scotch) EarlyEng. with supporters See Warren's "Guide," p. 88. tl Colonel William Southwell Arm. Motto scroll but no motto. 3iX2| Early Eng N. n. by A.W.F. »» William Spelman of Wickmer in the County of Arm. Motto scroll but no motto. 3jX2| Norfolke Esqr EarlyEng. *» William Thompson of Humbleton in Yorkshire Arm. Motto scroll but no motto. 3jX2g Esqr EarlyEng. See Warren's "Guide," p. 88. l» The Right Honble Charles Earle of Traquair Arm. "jfmtge Nought." EarlyEng. N.n. by A.W.F. with supporters )»■ Nameless French plate. (Le Comte de Thorigny) Arm. No motto. 1709 Owen Buckingham Reding County of Berks Arm. No motto. Esqr See Warren's " Guide," p. gi. (The grant of arms was made in 1708.) This plate has a shaded back- ground, and has a more modern appearance than other plates of this period. ,, The Right Honble William Lord Forbes Arm. " Grace me guide." EarlyEng. Plate mark 3J x 2|. with N. n. by A.W.F. supporters II Sr Francis Head Baronet Arm. " Reginae fidus, Jidus et patriae.'" (Of Rochester, Kent. Baronetcy created 1676.) EarlyEng. 3j X 2| See Warren's " Guide," p. 91. If The Most Noble John Duke of Montague . . Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters No motto. 3j X 2j. 11 Sr David Murray of Stenhope Bart .. Arm. " Pads iiuncia " above crest ; the EarlyEng. motto scroll below shield is blank. Plate mark 2| X 2i. N.n. by A.W.F. II Sr Richard Newdigate of Arbury in the County Arm. No motto. 3j X 2f . of Warwick Baronet. EarlyEng. See Warren's " Guide," p. 88. (Baronetcy created 1677.) There is a later plate, not dated, with the same arms and crest, of Sr Roger Newdigate, who was the sixth baronet. i> John, Lord Bishop of Ossory Arm. No motto. Design 3J x 2|. (John Hartstonge.) Eccles. See Griggs' 2nd S., pi. 5. ,, Sr Hugh Patersone of Bannockburn Barronet (sic) Arms "Hinc orior" over crest, " ye in oval meurs pour ce que j'ainie" below shield. arms. EarlyEng. „ Mrs Juliana Wentworth, daughter to Thomas Arm. "En Dieii est tout.'" Horde Esq of Coat in Oxfordshire. See 1707. An altered plate. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 39 1710 i Antonius Allen Armr Coll. Regal. Cantab. Soc. In Mr Montgomery Bell's Library Thomas Birch. Sid. Coll. Cantab. Admissus Pridie Iduum Aprilis Anno lyio. Printed at the University-Press. Cambridge. Chas. Bruce, Edinburgh Lady Elizabeth Cairnes (Wife of Sir Alexander Cairnes of Monaghan.) Louis du Guernier came over from Paris in 1708, and died in London 1716. Josephus Casberd Ex Libris Rowland Davies l.l.d. Prebend of Kilnaglory 1670; Dean of Ross 1679; Chap- lain to the Forces of King William in Ireland from 1688 to Sept. 1690; Dean of Cork, and Rector of Carrigaline, 1710. (Died nth December, 1721. Aged 82.) Abrahamus Francke a.m. S. S'ae & Individuae Trinitatis CoUegii apud Cantabrigienses Socius 1710. The Rt Hon Baptist Earl of Gainsborough, Viscount Campden, etc. The Right Honbl; Dorothy Countess of Gains- borough. Dorothy, Countess of Gainsborough Robert Gordon of Cluny Esqr (Scotch) Sr. James Hamilton of Rosehall Baronet Dr. Hartstonge Lord Bishop of Ossory The Right Honble Alexander, Earle of Home Lord Dunglass and Coldingame. Jemima Dutchess {sic) of Kent, mdccx. Thomas Milles Lord Bishop of Waterford and Lismore. Thomas Milles, Lord Bishop of Waterford and Lismore. John Murray of Philiphavi'gh Esqr Heritable Shirrife of ye County of Selkirk. The Right Honble James Earl of Southesque Lord Carnegy of Kinnaird and Leuchars. (Scotch) Soc: Gen: Spalding Instituta 1710. (See 1746) .. Arm. EarlyEng. Printed label Tablet Arm. Jac, Printed label Arm. Early Jac. Printed label Arm. EarlyEng. Vifith supporters Same as above. Label Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Fine mantling Engraved label Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Two shields Arm. Eccles. Mitre only Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. " Hi^ iibi eriint arUs." 3JX 25. See 1728. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. 4.J X 6J. N.n. by A.W.F. " Fuimtis." N. n. by A.W.F. Louis du Guernier. This plate is fully described by Mr. Hardy, see "Book-plates," p. 57, but he does not mention the date. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. 5 X 3i. See Ex L. J., Vol II, p. 28. N.n. by A.W.F. The whole of the inscription is a modern addition. Greek motto, "Let him search, that he may be perfect." i^X3|. See also 1707. " Tout bien oit rien." " Tout bien oil rien." These three Gainsborough plates were not named by Sir A. W. Franks. " Pax et Libertns." N.n. by A.W.F. " Saill Through." N.n. by A.W.F. A bishop's mitre in a cartouche. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. 3iX2j. See Warren's " Guide," p. 91. This lady had another plate in 1712. No motto. 3j X 2|. See Griggs' 2nd S., pi. 10 and 42. Two varieties, in one the shield is oval, in the other it is square ; same inscription. No motto. See Griggs' 2nd S., pi. 42. " Hinc usque superna vcnabor." Plate mark 3IX25. " Dread God." See Warren's " Guide," p. 91. Two sizes, medium and small, similar in other respects. Engraved by George Vertue in 1746 46 iDATEt) BOOK-PLATES. 1710 Tadcaster Library Joseph Taylor, E. Coll Exon. Oxon Hugh Wallace Anne Wotton, Her Book August ii. 1710 1711 (1712) Sr Arthur Acheson of Marketthill in the Kingdom of Ireland, Bart His Grace John Duke of AthoU Ricardus Crossinge s.t.b. Aul: Pemb: Soc: " Hisexe " Walter Douglas .. Thomas Frewen of Lincolns Inn in the County of Middlesex Esqr Sr John Houston of that Ilk Baronet Robert Jeffreys Esqr of Acton. His Book. Anno Domini 1711. William Johnston Esq. Henry Kelsall of Trinity College, Cambridge Thos Legg. Born Nov. ig 1711 Matthew Robinson Esqr Le Comte de Thorigny Arm. Printed Label Arm. Arm. with supporters Arm. Arm. EarlyEng Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Printed label Arm. EafiyEng, Arm. Arm. Scroll work Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. with supporters N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. ? By Burghers or Mt. ft. Cambridge. Printed at the Uni- versity Press. N.n. by A.W.F. '^Furfh Fortune and fill thcfettcrsy Large plate 9X5J, and smaller plates 5 J X 4J and 3 J X 2 J. These plates have the badges of the Order of the Thistle. N.n. by A.W.F. Greek motto, " To think what is honourable and to do what is honourable." N.n. by A.W.F. ^^ Christo duce vineani,''' 4X3J. Inscription on a cloth below the shield and scroll. See Warren's " Guide," p. 92. " In time " over the crest (an hour-glass) ; date on the motto scroll below shield. 2^x1}. Although small, this plate is neat and clearly engraved. 3 X 4j wide. "Nuiiquani nan paratus." N.n. by A.W.F. There is a fine early Jac. plate of George Johnston, Esq., bearing the same arms ; motto, " Paratus ad arma"; not dated; crest, Two swords in saltire. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. " Gnudet tcntamine virtus." R.M. (Mountaine). 3JX2J. This must have been engraved about 1750. Motto scroll but no motto. 3^X2| No motto. 35 X 2j. Two angels support a coronet over the oval shield. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 41 1712 The Right Honble Charles Viscount Bruce of AmpthiU (Son and Heir Apparent of Thomas Earl of Ailesbury) and Baron Bruce of Whorleton. (Lord Bruce was summoned to the Upper House in his father's lifetime.) John Cooke of Swifts in Cranbrooke in Kent Esq. Coll: Jesu Oxon. legavit Jonathan Edwards s.t.p. Principalis. Michael Grace Esqr James Houstoun m.d. Jemima Dutchess {sic) of Kent Samuel Morris . . . . . . . . Edwardus Rudd s.t.b. Trin Coll Cant Soc. .. The Right Honble Lady Heniretta (sic) Somerset His Excellency The Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Strafford Viscount Wentworth of WentworthWoodhouse, andof 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 at Utrecht ; Colonel of Her Majesty's own Royal Regiment of Dragoons; Lieutenant General of all Her Forces ; First Lord of the Admiraltry (sic) of Great Britain and Ireland ; one of ye Lords of Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council; and Knight of the Most Noble Order of ye Garter. (Thomas Wentworth, third Baron Raby, was a distinguished soldierwho served under William III. and the Duke of Marlborough. He was ambassa- dor to various Courts, and was, in 171 1, advanced to the dignities of Earl of Strafford and Viscount Wentworth. He died in 1739. See his plates as Thomas Wentworth, Baron of Raby, in 169S, and as Thomas Wentworth, Lord Raby, in 1705. Dean Swift wrote of him : " Wentworth is as proud as hell, and how he will bear one of Prior's mean birth on an equal character with him, I know not.") The. Wagstaffe. Staffordiensis Obiit A.D. 1712 XV Cal Novemb. /Etatis 67. P.M. Patris Optimi Thomas Filius inter Superstites Natu maximus P. Arm. EarlyEng, with supporters Coronet of Viscount Arm. Jac. Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. Jac, with supporters Arm. Jac Two oval shields Printed label Arm. Arm. Jac. Arm. with supporters No mantling or crest " Fiiimus." 3jX2f. See Warren's " Guide," p. 93. He had another plate with same inscription, not dated ; shield with- in an ermine mantle; same size. On the sale of the Ailesbury library in 1894 five different vari- eties of the Ailesbury Ex Libris came into the market. No motto. Died April 3, I74r. See Misc. Gen. ct Her., Vol. IV., 2nd S. No motto. See Warren's " Guide," p. 92. " £11 grace affic " above crest, ** Concordant nomine facta'* below shield. 3iX2j. See also 1767, 1790, 1813, 1829, 1834, and notes on the Grace family. See Warren's " Guide," p. 92. Motto of the Garter round the dexter shield. 3iX2|. Framework more ornamental than in the 1710 plate. See Warren's " Guide," p. 92. No crest or motto. See 1717. No motto. Arms in a lozenge. See Castle, p. 61,2nd edit., p. 71. " En Dicii est tont." 6JX4J. See Griggs' 1st S., plates 31 and 65 ; Hardy, p. 139 ; Wartens " Guide," p. 93. The absence of any mantling, the error in spelling, and the very full enumeration of titles and offices lead one to suppo.se this plate may have been engraved on the Continent. Arm. Floral The arms are placed above a long Latin inscription. Reproduced in Griggs' 2nd S., pi. 62, where it is 8JX5i. N.n. byA.W.F. 42 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1712 E. Bibliotheca Reverend! Doctissimique viri Ed- Printed No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. ward! Waple s.T.E. Ecclesiae S<[Sepulchri label London. Vicar!!, mdccxii. „ Ex Liber!s {sic) 111 ac Gen Domin! Max!m!l!ani Arm. No motto. The coronet resembles Felices L. B. de Lesch, ab et in Hilgerts- and that of a French marquis. hausen et Stain. coronet 1713 Christopher Boughton Second Bro: to Mr Tho Boughton of Kings-cliffe in Northampton- shire and Fellow of St. Johns Coll in Camb. S.T.B. Arm. Gulielmus Brock e Collegio JEni Nasi Anno Arm. No motto. Dom 1713. „ John Fortescue ,^ Henry Duke of Kent Arm. Jac. " Stat religione fnrentum." (Henry Grey, twelfth Earl of Kent, succeeded with See Griggs' ist S., pi. 22 ; his father in 1702, and was created in 1706 Vis- ducal Warren's " Guide," p. 93 ; Ex L. count Goodrich, Earl of Harold and Marquess of coronet y.. Vol. IV., p. 10. Kent. In 1710 he was created Duke of Kent, and Arms of Grey, shield surrounded and on 25th October, 1712, was elected Knight of supporters by the Garter and motto, " Honi the Garter, shortly after which this plate was soit qui mal y pense.'^ Engraved engraved. He died 1741, when the title became in a very fine and effective style, extinct.) anda very typical specimen. 5X4. This interesting plate is thus described in Warren's "Guide": " Arms. Barry of six, ar. and az., surrounded by the Garter. Sup- porters, Two wyvcrns ar. Mant- ling wholly absent. The escutcheon placed on a highly ornamented Jac. framework. The name and date in an oblong Jac. framework appended below the bracket. See other plates of this family in 1702, Anthony, Earl of Kent {2); 1710 and 1712, Jemima, Duchess of Kent; 1713, Henry, Duke of Kent (2) ; 1717, Anthony, Earl of Harold (his heir); 1733, Henry, Duke of Kent (2). Henry Duke of Kent Arm. Smaller than above, with different Large arms. Shield surrounded by the ducal Garter, on which the motto, "Honi coronet soit qui mal y pense. 39X25. " Ralph Maceo Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. Tho: Rowney of the City of Oxford Esqr Arm. Motto scroll but no motto. EarlyEng. Plate mark 3|X2j. See Warren's "Guide," p. 94. Mr. Skinner of Lincolns Inn .. Arm. "Dns est magna Parentium virtus." EarlyEng. Design 5IX4. There are numerous undated but modern plates of the Skinner family bearing the same arms. ») Daniel Thresher Engraved label Jane Trinder Printed label DATED BOOK-PLATES. 43 1714 1715 John Blomfeild A.B. (Bosville) Elizabeth Elgar William Grimston of Gorhambury in Hertford- shire Esqr The Right Honble The Lord Harley The Right Honble Wm Lord St John Baron < St John of Bletso in ye County of Bedford. Ex dono Thomae Thurlin s.t.p. (Gift to St John's College, Cambridge.) Ex Libris Laurent'' Ludovici. (Last name erased) Nameless French plate, signed Gerard Scotin major sculp. Lutetiae Parisior. John Blomfeild Joh. Heinr. Burckhard m.d. George Evans Lord Carbery (1715 was the date of creation of Baron Carbery of Carbery Co: Cork. He died Feb. 8, 1759.) The Right Honble Elizabeth Countess of Cardigan. (Lady Elizabeth Bruce, daughter of the second Earl of Aylesbury, married James, third Earl of Cardigan, who died July 5, 1732.) James Graeme of Buchlyvie. (Arms of Graham of Bucklyvie, a junior branch of Inchbrackie.) Munificentia Regia, 1715 (Book-plates commemorating the presentation of books from the library of John Moore, Bishop of Ely, which King George I. gave to the Uni- versity of Cambridge.) One signed J.B sc, plate mark 3J x 2|, is an exact reproduction of the large plate. One signed J. Pine sculp, plate mark 2JX2J, has the arms and portrait, but no supporters or background, and the books are differently arranged. Several book-plates were executed by John Pine, who was a very eminent engraver, and, from 1743 to his death in 1756, Bluemantle Pursuivant. Label Printed label Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Plain Arm. with supporters Printed label Arm. with supporters Library Interior Label Arm. Plain Arm. with supporters Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. EarlyEng, Arm. Allegori- cal No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. See also in 1715. "Virtute et fide:' 5JX4J. Supporters, two angels of singu- larly unprepossessing appearance. " Data fata sccutiis." ifx ij. There is probably also a larger plate than this. No motto. 3I X 2|. "Vita brevis ars lotiga." S^Xij No motto. See in 1714 also. Gerard Scotin sculp. Two sizes. "Libcrias" Plate mark 4^X3!. (Doubtful.) The plate appears more modern, and was perhaps first engraved for Grace's book. "En grace affie." 3JX3. See Misc. Gen. et Her., March, 1894. N n. by A.W.F. "Cuba at cxciibo" on motto scroll above the crest. A. Burdon scu. 3|X2iJ. See Griggs' 1st S., pi. 52. By Archibald Burden, who signed the plates of Lundin of that Ilk, and Birnieof Broomhill ; these are also given in Griggs, and the name thereon is spelt Burdi-n. Early example of a signed plate. No motto. J. Pine sc. Four sizes, the largest signed in full, the smaller J. P. sc. Copies of Pine's work were afterwards made at Cambridge, to replace the second and third sizes of the original plates, by John Baldrey; these are signed J.B. sc. See reproduction in Warren, pi. 4, and pp. 38, 163 ; Hardy, p. 60 ; Ex L. y.. Vol. III., where the large plate is gi%-en full size. Large plate 9x7, medium 3 J x 2 J, small 2jxi|. 44 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1715 1716 John Ld Percival Baron of Burton in the County of Cork in Ireland. Joannis Baptistae Recanati. Patr. Vene Ursus Josephus Valier de Vendelstorf, etc., Maria Johana Zurmatten sein Ehege- mahlin. (Swiss) Nameless Armorial plate, dated Anno 17 16. Belong- ing to the Earl of Lauderdale. Two smaller plates not dated. Sigill. Caroli Carr Episcopi Laonensis The Paternal Arms of Sr William Fleming of Rydal in the County of Westmoreland, Bart. Who quarters the Arms of Urswick, Lan- caster, Hodleston, Millam Boyvil, Fenwick, Stapleton, Falconbridge, Fitz Alan, Maltra- vers, Ingham, Ue la Pool, and Chaucer. (William Fleming, created Baronet in 1705, died in 1736.) Francis Hawes Esquire Receiver General of His Majesty's Customs. Thomas Hawes Matthew Skinner of Line: Inn Esq'' .. Johannes Smith Armiger. Coll. Regal. Commen- salis ad Mensam Socior. Admis Mali 10 1716. Tho=Squire Dominicus Barnabas Turgot. Episc Sagiensis (Dominique- Barnabe Turgot de Saint Clair, Bishop of Seez, died Dec. 18, 1727, leaving a valuable library which was sold in Paris in March, 1730) Mr Humphrey Wainwright, School master in Bunny. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. Arm. Two shields with supporters Arm. with supporters Arm. Eccles. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Arm. Arm. EarlyEng Printed label Arm. EarlyEng, Arm. Eccles. Coronet of Marquis and hat of Bishop Label " Sub cruce canto." 3^X3^. Same arms as on the plates of Sr John Percivale 1702, and John Percival Earl of Egmont 1736. No motto. F.V.E. No motto. Design 3jx 3. '■^ Consllio et nn'nnis'" below the arms, which are enclosed in a wreath bound by a ribbon on which is " Patientia victrix.^* Reproduced in Griggs' 2nd S., pi. 87. Design 4jx 4. The smaller plates are 3JX2J, both have the motto " Consilio et animis" below the shield, one only has '^Dcojuvante" above the crest. The two plates are different in several other respects. N o motto. 2 J X 2 ; . N ot a genu- ine book-plate. See introduction. '* Pax, copia, sap'wtttia.^^ Anno 1716 Vander Gucht. Two sizes. See Griggs' rst S., pi. 7. See Warren's "Guide," p. 163; he mentions it as the second British book-plate which is both dated and signed by the engraver. Michael Vander Gucht was a native of Antwerp who came over to London, and was well patro- nised as an engraver by the pub- lishers. He died in Bloomsbury in 1725. '^ Fritctiis Vii'tittis/' 3^X2^. A shield surrounded by profuse mantling in an oval frame. Woodcut. I believe this is similar to the above. "Sis tibi Lex." Two sizes, 5 j X 3} See also 1729. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. 2j X 2. A scarce American early dated plate. No motto. 3}X3. See Guigard's "Armorial" and Hamilton's "French Book-plates," pp. 106, no. Some copies are dated 1717. Printed at Nottingham in the year 1716. N.n. by A.W.P". DATED BOOK-PLATES. 45 17(17) Dionys. Franc. Secousse, Eques in Paris. Curia Patronus. S{ John Aubrey of Lantrithyd in the County of Glamorgan Baronet and of Boarestall in the County of Bucks. (Baronetcy created in i66o.) John Blomfeild Francis Brace of Lincolns Inn. The Right Honble Edward Lord Harley Anthony, Earl of Harold (Eldest son of Henry Grey, Duke of Kent.) Will. Lloyd. Episcopus Vigorn. 1717. (Bishop of Worcester, one of the seven Bishops sent to the Tower. He was consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph 16S0, translated to Lichfield and Coventry 1692, and to Worcester in i6gg. He died in 1717 — the date of this plate— in his gist year.) | Edwardus Rudd s.t.p. Trin: Coll: Cant: Soc: 1717 Arthurs St George s:t:d. Cancel: Clogherensis. (Chancellor of Clogher, died 1772.) (S.T.U. = Doctor of Sacred Theology.) William Muir of Auchindrain. (Scotch) Ex Libris Joh: Stearne s:t:d. Epi: Clogherensis. (Bishop of Clogher. He had also been Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and was a friend of Dean Swift. He died in 1745, leaving large charitable bequests, and the greater part of his library to the University of Dublin.) Dominicus Barnabas Turgot Episc. Sagiensis. Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. Printed label \ Arm. EarlyEng. I mantling Arm. Jac. PlainArm. with Coronet. No 'supportersi Arm. I Eccles. No motto. 2j X 2I. Very similar to the plate of Secousse 17 — , but more highly finished. No motto. This is the larger of the two plates of i6g8 with the date altered, it having belonged to the father of this Sir John. See also 1714, 1715. A Queen Anne shield (Rylands, No. 2g) with graceful mantling above it. No motto. 3J X 2j. Looks more modern than 1717. Engraved by George Vertue. See Rylands' Notes, p. 11. No motto. 3I X 3. See Griggs' ist S., p. 5, See 1713, 1718. No motto. Circular, 2j diameter. Arms of the See impaling Lloyd. See Griggs' ist S., p. 6, pi. 36, and 2nd S., pi. 44. 1718 I Nameless plate. A Library Interior with composi- tors at work in the background. I saw this book-plate removed, in Paris, from an old quarto volume on architecture. William Aldom The plate of 1712, but with crest and motto added. " Firmitas in Coelo, fragilitas in Terra." Design 4J x 3. See Griggs' 2nd S., pi. 35. " Post mortem vita." N. n. by A.W.F. No motto. Design 2J x 2g. See Griggs' ist S., pi. 36, and 2nd S., pi. 14. See Warren's " Guide," p. 10. Arms of the See impaling Stearne. ■The plate is foreign in appear- ance. Arm. I No motto. Design 3 x 2j. Eccles. Se£ description under 1716. Arm. Arm. Early Jac. Fine mantling Arm. EarlyEng Arm. Eccles. Arm. Library interior Printed label " Uni vcro." B. Picart del. 5J X 3j- See in Hamilton's "French Book- plates," p. 58. B. Picart signed other book-plates in 1 722 and 173 1. N.n. by A.W.F. 4« DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1718 William Assheton Esq, of Gray's Inn. Judge of the Court of Admiralty of Penn. (American) Sr John Aubrey Bart John Backhouse. His Book, the 4'h of the loth month, 171S. Mr Thos Francke of Lincolns Inne. March g'h lyifi Edward Haistwell of the Middle Temple Esqr MDCCXVIII. Mary Countess of Harrold (spelt thus on plate) (Arms of Grey with a label, and Tufton, side by side on two shields, under the coronet of a countess Lady Mary Tufton, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Thanet, married Anthony, Earl of Harold, eldest son of the Duke of Kent, but had no issue.) The Honble Lord Kimmergham Jacobi Mickleton de Crook Hall, in Com Dunelm. A.D. 171S William Price of Vaenol in Flintshire Esqr Ano Uni: 1718. Sr Charles Sedley Bart of Southfleet Kent 17(19) E. Libris Richard Vesey 1719 The 1698 plate altered. See Griggs' ist S., pi. note, p. 4. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. 3, and Arm. Jac. Arm. Label Arm. Oval shield in cartouche 1 Arm. Jac.! " Fcstiiia lente." Oval scrolled shield surrounded by mantling and palm-leaves, on an oval shaded background. Plate mark 3^ X2J. Arm. Jac. No motto. Design 3} x 3. frame See Griggs' ist S., pi. 53, and p. 5 ; see Anthony, Earl of Harold in 1717. Arm. Arm. spade shield within a mantle Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng. ' True to the end.'" ' Sohis niiiius sohis." Rare plate. 3i X 2|. Achivement of the Right Honble John, Earl of Aboyne. M. Joh. Albrecht Burk, Pfarrer zu Grafenberg. (^German.) Caroli VI. indulta de Ludewig Die xi. Mens April MDCCXIX. Ex Libris Jacobi Annibalis Claret Delatourrette. Equitis. Regi a consiliis in suprema Lugdun- ensi monetalium Judicum curia praesidis, capitalium rerum Praetoris Primarii. Jac. Jeffery. Aul Pemb. Soc. .. J. P. de Ludewig Die xi. mens april. (German) Label Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. Pict. Arm. "VitabrevisgloriniTterna."il X2| See also the plate of William Price 1755, bearing the same arms, crest, and motto. No motto. 3x2. " Sfant caetcrn tigno ' stand on a beam). No motto. (The rest Arm with No motto. 3jX2i. Reproduced supporters in Hamilton's "French Book- Coronet of plates,'" p. 62. Count See also 1740. Label N.n. by A.W.F. Arm. Two sizes. Sysang, Halae (Halle in Saxony). See Warren's "Guide," p. 156. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 47 1719 172- 1720 1721 Henry . Maister . of . Kingston upon Hull Franciscus Roper, gift to St John's Coll. Camb. Denis Francois Secousse. Paris Rowland Wynn McFarlane 172(8) Messire Louis Charles Delauerdure DAllennes, Chevalier, Seigneur d'Hesquels, etc. (French) Bibliotheca M. H. Theodori Baron .. The Right Honble the Earl of Berkshire Lord Marshall of England, anno 1720. W: H: de Burgo S* Petri .. (White Kennett, Bishop of Peterborough.) Henry Cornelisen Esqr: W. Hogarth Engraver. Aprill ye 23rd 1720 Newsham Peers, de Alveston Com; War: Arm. M. Wencesl: Niederwerffer. Past: Neusalz: (German) Nameless plate, dated 1720 17(21) Dickson Downing .. 172(1) Joseph Sedgwick Nameless plate. Interior of a printing office Jeconiah Ashley Arm. Jac. Arm. Printed label Arm. with supporters Coronet 01 Count Arm. Jac. with supporters Arm. Eccles. book-pile Arm. Jac. Pict. Arm. EarlyEng Arm. Eccles. Arm. Jac. Arm. Early Jac. Pict. Engraved label " Vix ca tioslro voco " (I can scarce call these things our own). Reproduced (but smaller than the original) in Castle, ist edit., p. 62, and 2nd edit., p 72, and Ex L.y., vol. III., p. 33. See also 1815. N.n. by A.W.F. Two sizes. Three varieties, only one dated. No motto. 4X3f. " Nous . maintlcii . droin will maintain.) 3JX2J. (We No motto. See Griggs' 2nd S., pi. 16. Two plates, both book-piles. De- sign in Griggs is 3IX4. No motto. 3jX2^. Names on a cloth below the shield, held by two men. No motto. 3X3J. (Probably a trade card.) Mr. Austin Dobson gives a facsimile of a book-plate said to have been designed for Hogarth, but it is somewhat doubtful whe- ther he ever used it. Not dated. No motto or motto scroll. 4JX 3j. See Griggs' 2nd S., pi. 123. N.n. by A.W.F. "Jesus mcus salvnlor." Mentioned by Sir A. W. Franks. No motto. Plate mark 3J x 2|. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. 3jX3. N.n. by A.W.F. '* Vitam mortuis reddo.^^ B. Picart del. 48 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1721 Rowland Davies l.l.d. Prebend of Kilnaglory 1670: Dean of Ross 1679: Chaplain to the Forces of King William in Ireland from 16S8 to Sept 1690 : Dean of Cork & Rector of Carrigaline, 1710. Joan. Lud. Foyelle, doctor theologicas, et ecclesiae Atrebatensis Canonicus. The Right Honble Alexander Lord Polwarth, Eldest Son of Patrick Earl of Marchmont, Lord Clerk Register of Scotland & Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire. His Majesties Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten- tiary to the King of Denmark. Anno 1721. (Somewhat similar to the plate of the Earl of Marchmont 1702, which see.) Edward Prior, Coll Trin. Cant. Alum. Joseph Sedgwick (? Figure i in date in MS.) Christian Ernst, Graf zu Stolberg .. Theodorus Richardus Sauvage Virdun Doct I Med. ! Edvardus Yardley. a.m. CoUegii D'. Johannis Cantab Socius. 1722 Mr Archibald Campbell, Yonr of Sharwan Thomas Carter, of Robertstowne in the County of Meath Esqr (This is probably the plate of Thomas Carter, who in 1731 was made Master of the Rolls in Ireland, an office which he held till 1754) Ex Libris Amadei LuUin. (Of Geneva) The motto is on a scroll at head of the design ; below are the LuUin arms, Gules, a castle linviiig two toK'crs ; caryatides at the sides hold aloft curtains displaying the interior of a library. In the immediate foreground are cupids playing with books. The names of owner and engraver are on a cartouche below the design. T. Wilson, Bookseller, York. (Not dated) There is another copy of this design with "Calcutta 1774" above, and "John Andrews's Circulating Library " below the design, signed Shepperd sc. A crown and book being substituted for the Lullin arms, both in the Andrews and the Wilson plates. There is another imitation (reproduced in the Ex Libris Journal) inscribed " T. Lownds's Cir- culating Library," and having the motto " Utile dulci " on the motto scroll over the design. This is signed Angitr fct, but is not dated. No motto. See 1710. Died nth December, 1721, aged 82. (This was added to the plate as a biographical record by Mr. R. Day.) N.n. by A.W.F. " His itiir ad astra." Vallet fecit. "True to the end" above crest, below shield " Fides probata cor- onal." See " Marchmont and the Humes of Polwarth " by one of their descendants. Wm. Black- wood & Sons, London and Edin- burgh, 1S94. N.n. by A.W.F. Label : N.n. by A.W.F. Arm. Jac. j No motto. Design 3jX2|. Arm. 1 No motto. Sg. sc. See Warren's " Guide," p. 155. Arm. " Cunctayido." Arm. Arm. with supporters! Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. Jac. No motto. (See Misc. Gen. IV., 2nd S.) et Her., Vol. Arm. " Sub libcrtate quictem." 4jX3|. See Griggs' ist S., pi. 23, and notes, p. 6. Arms of Carter differenced by a label. Plate same general design as that of Gilbert Nicholson, dated 1669. Arm. Library interior Arm. Library interior "III veritaie caritas." Ephes. iv. 15 (" But speaking the truth in love.") B. Picart f. 1722. Plate mark 5jX3|. Reproduced by Mr. Hardy, p. 108, where, however, the name is incorrectly spelt Lulin. See£.r L. J., Vol. IV., p. 134. Neither the reproductions, nor the imitations, give any idea of the beauty of design, nor of the exquisite finish, of this charming engraving. This individual stole the above design, and spoilt it in the steal- ing. He omitted the motto — perhaps it stung his conscience. There are also several German imitations of Picart's design. See an article on these plates in the Ex L. y., Vol. IV., p. 134. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 49 1722 William Tempest of Cranbrook in Kent Esqr 1723 Nameless. A field with beehives and bees ; men at work. Floral border and ribbon, motto on ribbon. Ex Libris F. B. Bibliopolae et typographi Paris .. (A modern French plate, belonging to M. Bertrand.) Peter Butcher (Beneath the plate was written in a contem- porary hand, " Peter Butcher, his Book mdccxxiii. Ipswich.") John Finch jun Mr. Othniel Haggatt. His Book The Gift of Benjamin Lane Esqr Des^d who Died ig Oct 1723. fPhere is another plate with the same name and very similar, but not signed by NichoUs.) E bibliotheca Reverend! admodum in Christo Patris ac Domini Dni Johannis Robinson Episcopi Londmensis, quam mihi inter alios quinque partitam moriens legavit April 11. 1723. D. F. Secousse, Eques in Paris Saml: Strode Messire Charles Bonaventure Comte vander Noot Baron de Schoonhoven et de Mares &ca Conseiller de sa Mate Imp'e Et Cathe au Souverain Conseil de Brabant par patante du 9. mars 1713. Refu aux Etats nobles de bra- bant, fils de Mefsire Rogier Wouthier, en son vivant Baron de Carloo Sea et deputez ordi- naire au dit corps de la noblesse des Etats de Brabant, et de Dame Anne Louijse van- der Gracht nee Baronne de Vrempde et d'Olmen &ca Arm. EarlyEng. Pict. Arm. Arm. Printed label Printed label Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Ecdes. Arm. Arm. Arm. Tempestive." 3JX2J. An altered plate ; see 1702. " Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes." F. M. la Cave fecit. Since this was entered in my list I have seen the engraving on the title page of a Histoire d' Angleterre, published in 1727; it is not, therefore, a book-plate, although some dealers have passed it off as one. " Ex utroquc lux." 2^X21. "Opieerou per orbem dicor." 4iX4i- Although no date is on the plate itself, it is such a singular speci- men that it deserves to be recorded. N. n. by A.W.F. No motto. Nicholls sculp. Prob- ably Sutton Nicholls, of London. See Griggs' ist S., pi. 67. The shield, surrounded by mant- ling, except the base, is in an oval opening, plain shaded square framework around. Size of repro- duction 4X3. See Griggs' 2nd S., pi. 7. Design 3JX3. No motto. 3 X2.J. Shield surrounded by rich mant- ling, background filled in with lines. Arms impaled. See also Saml_ Strode 1741, and Willm Strode 1730. No motto. 6X5J. J. Harrewyn sculp. Brux. Fine Armorial plate. Repro- duced in the Ex L. y., Vol. IV., p. 69. The inscription is of historical interest, recording the facts that the Count Vander Noot was appointed by Letters Patent a member of the Sovereign Council of Brabant, to his Imperial and Catholic Majesty (Philip V.), on the gth March, 1713, the nobility of his birth being shown by his being the son of the Baron de Carloo and Lady Anne Louise, Baroness de Vrempde. 5° DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1724 Esqr one Esqr one of the of the The Honble George Baillie Lords of the Treasury. The Honble George Baillie Lords of the Treasury. Thomas Bassett Peter Foulkes d.d. Canon of Christ Church Oxon. 17(25) 1725 The Gift of Henry Hoare Esqr Who Died March 12. 1724, aged 47. Ami by his last Will and Testament hath vested the Sum of Two Thousand Pounds in Trustees, who are to apply the Yearly Interest, Rents and Profits, arising out of the said Sum, to the pur- chasing, dispersing, and giving away Yearly, Bibles, Common Prayer Books, & such other Books as are intirely agreeable to the Principles and Doctrine of the Church of England, as now by Law established, and most conducive to the advancement of Christian Faith and Piety in the World. Gulielmus Parry, b.d. Coll. Jesu. Oxon. Socius. Nicolas Robillard. Auditeur des Comptes Trinity Hall, Cambridge William Urquhart, younger of Meldrum. Advocat: E Libris Willi Camell, de Disse in Norfolk Nameless plate. (? George, Viscount Parker) The Rt Honble John Lord Boyle .. Robert Elliston, Gent, Comptrolr of his Majesties Customs of New York in America mdccxxv (Date over the crest.) John Hog Eibliotheca Loeniana .. •. •• (Fine German engraving of a Library Interior.) Arm. Jac. Arm. Jac. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Jac. Plain Arm. I Arm. Arm. Printed label Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. Jac. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Library Interior R. Cooper Sculp. A. Johnston Sculp. No motto. 3f X 2|. No motto. 5JX3J. The inscription is printed be- neath the arms, the whole in a black border. There are several varieties, one is signed B. Cole scul. See 1704 and 1S60. There are many undated book- plates of the same family, all bearing the double-headed dis- played eagle, and the motto "In Arciiia'" (For arduous undertak- ings). The Irish family of the name of Hoare use the motto "Djim s/iiVo i/i-ro" (While I breathe I hope). No crest, motto scroll, or motto. Shield (Rylands No. 15) in a scrolled cartouche. 3iX2g. See 1725 and 1732. No motto. " Safere atitie." B. Picart d. "Honor virtutispraemiiim." 2^X2 Hulett sc. ("James Hulett an indifferent engraver." — See War- ren's " Guide," p. 167.) " Bono vince tiiaiuin." Design 3JX2J. The earliest American book- plate known to collectors. Prob- ably engraved in England. Reproduced inthe Art Amateur, New York. Feb., 1S94, and in Mr. C. D. Allen's List of Early Ameri- can Book-plates. See also Hardy, p. 115, and Ex L.J., Vol. III., p. 158. Two varieties, with the same arms, but one is not dated. " Dot gloria vires." (Scarce.) '* Deus nobis haee otia feeity P. Fehr. del et fecit. See Warren's " Guide," p. 148. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 51 1725 172(6) 1726 His Excellency Alexander Earle of Marchmont Viscount of Blasonberry, Lord Polwarth of Polwarth Redbraes and Greenlaw Knight of ye most ancient & noble order of ye Thistle His Majesties Ambr Extraordinary & Pleni- potentiary to ye Congreess at Cambray L» Batty Worsop Printed label 1734 Nameless plate. (Sir Harry Pope Blount of Titten- Arm. Jac. George Vertue. hanger, Bart.) See also 1735. i» Ricardus Attwood, Gift to Pembroke Coll. Cam- bridge. „ D. Philippi Dominici Beraudi DATED BOOK-PLATES. 59 1734 Tho Breton Northampton „ Carolus Bush apud Turrim Londin. Sr Thomas Hare Baronet, of Stow Norfolk. 1735 Arm. Small mantling Arm. Jac No motto. G. Bickham sculp. Plate mark 3|X2i. Hall, John Lloyd a.m. The Rt Honble the Lord Lynne. J. Paget. (Monogram on shield) The Honble Charles Townshend (Afterwards Viscount Townshend.) H.P.B. (Sir Harry Pope Blount of Tittenhanger, Bart.) Sir Thos: Brand Knt Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod and Gentleman Usher Daily Waitv to His Majesty Anno 1735. M. Johnson. Hon Soc. 1. Templi et Antiq. Lond. S. et Gen. Spaldg- Inst et Seer Francis Massy Esq of Rixton, Lancashire (Born 1704, died 1748.) Jacobi Perard v.d.m. Thomas Potter of the Middle Temple Ant. von Reitlinger Math. Skinner Esqr one of his Majesty's Serjeants at Law. Sr Philip Sydenham Bart J. B. Tissot, pharmacopoloe. Bisuntini. (Besanjon) David L. Williamoz Lausannen Nunc mihi: nunc alii.'''' Date in scroll above crest. Plate mark 3jX2J. Arm. Jac' No motto. 4JX3J. j This plate is reproduced in i Hardy, p. 47. j See also Warren's " Guide," p. 24 : " The Jacobean frame still I in characteristic angularity. This ' example gives the latticed or diapered lining extremely well." Arm. j Welsh motto. Bickham. Two varieties. Arm. " Hcec gcncri incrcinentn fides." Early No arms or motto. Chip. N.n. by A.W.F. Arm. " Hac gencri incrementa fides " scrolled (Faith obtained these honours for shield ' our race). 3.JX2J. I Same arms as those of Lord Lynne, but quartered instead of impaled. Plain helmet, no crest or wreath. Arm. Jac Arm. ] Arm. Pict. Arm. Jac. Arm. Arm. Jac. Arm. Arm. Arm. Jac, Arm. Arm. G. Vertue Set. In two states; this is altered from the 1734 plate. Motto of the Order of the Thistle, ^^ Nemo me impune laces- sit." 4|X3. Rods of Office in saltire behind the arms. "Excifent." G.V. Scr (George Vertue). J. Skinner Bath Sculpt See Rylands' Notes, p. 58, where the date is given as 1735, but both Warren and Franks mention this plate as dated 1739. He may have had another, how- ever. No motto. A.C. Motto erased. " Dominus pars hereditatis mea." No motto. " Sit Dens in sttidiis." 3J X 2f . See also 1699, 1727, 1738. No motto. Two varieties. No motto. J. G. Ramel sculpsit London, 1735. Shield in handsome'scroll work, plain square border 2^x3^ wide. 6o DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1736 Nameless plate. (Arms of Hillersdon, a Devon- shire family, Argent, on a chevron sable three bulls' hencls cabossed of the first. Crest, A squirrel sejant proper cracking a nut or.) Nameless French armorial plate, with large ducal coronet. The first and fourth quarters are France. The most Noble John Duke of Bedford (John, fourth Duke of Bedford.) Francis Blomefield. Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk. (The historian of Norfolk.) John Percival Earl of Egmont. (For a list of the plates of the Percival family, see Ex L. J., Vol. III., p. i6o. The arms are Argent on a chief indented gules, three crosses palee 0} the first. Crest, A thistle erect, with leaves, proper.) Jacobus Gibbs. Architectus. (Mr. James Gibbs, architect, was born in Aber- deen in 1674. He designed the churches of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields and St. Mary-le-Strand, London, the Radclifl" Library, O.xford, and other collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings. Died August 5, 1754. A bust of him by Rysbrack is in the church of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London.) Elizabeth Fenton, Sheffield Parish of Fersfield Mr Tho Glover, Minis^ of Hawkhurst in Kent J. Leman m:a. Ex Libris Jac-Bern. Durey de Noinville. Equitis, libellorum Supplicum Magistri, et in supremo Consilio Prsesidis. J. Spicer a.m. .. .■ •. •. Johan Joseph Antoni Freinhueber von dorn Wang Churfrt Regis Rhat zu Landtshuet. (German) Arm. " Nobis copia venit." 2|X2;Ji. EarlyEng. Background filled in with black shading; square frame. Arm. " Sic propriis consuluit otiis an/to 1736." 3iX2j. Arm. " Che sara sara." 4JX3. Early Jac! Crest, wreath, helmet, mantling, with and ducal coronet above the shield, supporters See Warren, p. 24, and re- produced in Castle, p. 64, and 2nd edit., p. 75. See also 1703 and 1865. Arm. Jac. " Pro aris et focis." W. H. Toms sculp. 4jX34- This plate has been recently re-engraved by Mr. C. W. Sher- born. Arm. "Snb cruee canto." 35X35- with This plate has crest, wreath, supporters helmet, and earl's coronet. See also Sr. John Percivale Baronet 1702, and John Lord Percival 1715 ; 1804, 1874, and 1892. Portrait No motto. B.B. s. 4X5I. (B.B. plate was Bernard Baron, a French engraver.) The portrait of Mr. James Gibbs in a cartouche surrounded by oak leaves. N. n. by A.W.F. See Ex L. y.. Vol. IV., p. 202. See Ex L. J., Vol. III., p. 8. N. n. by A.'W.F. Printed label Printed label Arm. Jac. Arm. Jac Arm. Two shields Early Chip. Arm. No motto. Oval shield, Az., a chevron erm. betw. 3 crescents ar. " Volens semperque juvare para- /«i." Gu Stephens. Cantab. 3JX2f Date indistinct, doubtful whe- ther 1730 or 1736. No motto. 2|X2|. No motto, ifxij. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 6i Nameless plate with Order of the Toison d'Or (? Geripan) Nameless French plate. (? Blancey) His Grace James Duke of Atholl, Lord of Man & the Isles. Lord Strange, &c. (Scotch; John Conyers of Walthamstow in Essex Esqr Sr David Cunynghame of Livingstone Bart An 1737- Robert Darwin Esq. of Lincoln's Inn .. Jac. de Grille Destoublon Collegium Emmanuelis Cantabrigiae Anna Fothergill Sam' Goodford of ye Inner Temple Esqr Joseph Jephson Mr Thos: & Mrs Anne Paine Edward Pigott, of Whitton, Middlesex, Gent. Charlotte Pigott at Whitton Middlesex William Richards Thomas Rider Swaffham Library J: Dalton F: Rayner Church wardens. Jacobus Henricus Tribourdet Arm. Arm. with supporters Coronet of Marquis Arm. with supporters Arm. Oval shield 'in cartouche Arm. Jac. Arm. Coronet of Marquis Arm. Printed label Arm. Jac. Printed label Printed label Arm. I Arm. Jac. Lozenge Engraved label Printed label Arm. Jac. Thomas Frewen, of Brickwall in Co. Sussex Esq. ; Arm. Jac. John Harrington. Gift Francis Carington Esq. of Wotton Warwickshire Joseph Collins John Deane George Hume Printed label Arm. Jac. Arm. EarlyEng. mantling Arm. Jac, No motto. J. C. Philips del et fecit, 1737. No motto. Louise du Vivier f. 1737- 2iX3j. ''Fiirth fortune an(J fill the fitters." Motto and badges of the Order of the Thistle. J. Skinner Sculp. " Per vnrius casus." Plate mark 3JX3. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. See Misc. Gen. ct Her., \o\.ll\., 2nd S. See also 1771. Two varieties, one with motto, one without. " Emmanuel." Stephens. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. 3hX2J. Described in Warren's "Guide," p. 24. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. H. Gravelot. Described in Warren's " Guide,' p. 24. " Reg! semper fiticlis." J.S. sculp. (J. Skinner). Plate mark 3i X 2 J. No motto. A poor engraving. Arms surrounded by a plain black border. Plate mark 2|x 2 J. 62 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1738 1739 Patrick Ogilvie of Inchmartine Esqr (Scotch) Edward Pauncefort Sr Philip Sydenham Bart The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Trevor Nameless French plate. (On a blank shield the names written in are Claude Louis Bertrand Jacqueniin.) Daniel Austin David Bosanquet Jno Bourchier Esqr To John Campbell Esq Cashier — Edinr The Royal Bank of Scotland, etc. G. Dickins. Aul. Trin. Cantab. Alumn. Benjamin Dolbeare of Boston in New England. Oxford Printed at the Clarendon Printing House October 6, 1739. Erasmus Earle, Scholae Holtensis Col: William Hanmer Brackley Kennett Lucanische Bibliothec: Francis Massy Esq. of Rixton, Lancashire (Born 1704, died 1748. The last of the ancient family of Mascys of Rixton. There is also a scarce Jac. plate of Rich^l Massie Esq of Cod- dington, Cheshire, but it is not dated.) EdwiJ^ Yardley b.d. Archdeacon of Cardigan Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. " Tout jour." G. Chalmers sculp. Edr 1738. N.n. by A.W.F. " S/< Dens in Studiis.'' See also 1699, 1727, and 1735. Of Sir Philip Sydenham's book- plates 14 varieties are known. Arm. with] Motto scroll but no motto, supporters 3iX3j. See 1702. Pict. No motto. C. Charles in. J. C. Franf scul. Nanceii. 1739. Printed label Arm. Jac. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Chip.Pict. Arm. Early Chip. Printed label Printed label Arm. Printed label Arm. Arm. Jac, Arm. EarlyEng. No motto. Plate mark 2X ij. "Follow me" above crest, "Ex- pedite at Consulto^' below arms. Date very indistinct. See 1774. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. "The Noble Art and Mystery of Printing was first invented by John Guttemeurg of Alentz, a city of Germany, in the Year 1440, and brought into England by John Islip of Loudon in the Year of our Lord 1471." 5JX7J. No motto. "Garde I'liouneur." No motto. J. Skmner Bath Sculpt 3 X 2j. Reproduced in Rylands' Notes, see page 32. On p. 58 Mr. Ry- lands mentions a plate of Francis Massy, dated 1735 ; this, however, may be a clerical error. No motto. See Misc. Gen. et Her. ,Vo\.lV., 2nd S. 3jX2f. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 63 1740 Nameless Armorial plate. " Chris:er Burton 1740" written below arms. E. libris Hen. Aston Arm. Jac. No motto. 2|X2. " John Bancks Pict. G. Bickham sc. Reproduced in Castle, p. 69, and 2nd edit., p. 79. *l James Bentham. Ely A. d. 1740 Printed label in border No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. '• Robert Bull, His Book. Derby : Printed in the year of our Lord God 1740. Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. Ex Libris Jacobi Annibalis Claret Delatourrette in Suprema Lugdunensi monetalium Judicum curia praesidis et Capitalium rerum Praetoris Primarii Mercatorum Praepositi nee non Civitatis Praefecti. Arm. with supporters Coronet of Count No motto. Same arms as in the 1719 plate. 3iX2j. 1» Ambr: Dickins junr E. Soc. Lincoln. Armig. Elizabeth Ethelstone. Her Book 1740-1 Arm. EarlyEng. Printed label No motto. 3^X2 J. See the similar plate of Fr. Dickins 1795, and Rylands' Notes, p. 51. N.n. by A.W.F. It Wm. Gonville of Alford. Philibertus de Rymon Bacalaureus in Theologia. Doctor in utroque Jure Canonicus et Senator Cabilonensis. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Eccles. No motto. No motto. The Rt Honble William Earl of Strafford, Visct. Wentworth of Wentworth -Wood- house, and of Stainborough, Baron of Raby, Newmarch & Oversly, and Baronet. Arm. with supporters "En Dial est tout." Arms sur- rounded by a plain border line, 3|X3i N.n. by A.W.F. See Griggs' 2nd S., pi. 147. See also 1705 and 1712. 11 Joh: Stuber S. Th. Stud. Argent. (Strassburg) " yesiis mca Salus." 11 John Wiltshire, Bath. (Fine plate. The arms of Wiltshire on a carved tablet supported by figures of Shakespeare and Pope. Books and musical instruments beneath.) Arm. Pict. No motto. 5X3J. Ross in et delin. J. Skinner sculp. See Griggs' ist S., pi. 57, and Warren's " Guide,'' p. 174. 1741 East Apthorp a.m. Cambridge Arm.Chip. "Nemo nisi Christus." Plate mark 3|X2j. See Warren's "Guide," p. 31; he calls it an Early Chip. N.n. by A.W.F. *t John Carr. Massingham Arm. Jac. " Lcnius quant ferine. Rare. N.n. by A.W.F. ** )l John Philip Fuhr .. Edward Harford jun: Arm. Early Chip. Arm. Jac. No motto. J. Skinf sculp. 3x21. No motto. Plate mark 2^ x 2. II Sr James Harington Bar'.: Arm. Jac. No motto. >» Coll. Harleyana. (Large plate) Arm. Pict. " Virtuteetfidc." George Vertue. Not used as a book-plate. See Warren's " Guide," p. 43. n De la Biblioteque de Monsieur Larcher Arm. 64 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1741 F.M.G.Z. Leinlngen V. Daxeur (P'riedrich Magnus, Count of Leiningen Dagsburg.) Arm. 3 crests " Siinm ciiiqne." 3X2^ )J G.C. Oe. (German) Arm. Library Interior Andr: Hoeger del et sc. " Saml Strode (Probably of Newnham Paik, Devon.) Arm. Jac. No motto. 3JX2}. This has only the dexter arms of the 1723 plate. Ermine, on a canton sable a crescent argent. " Willm Strode Arm. Jac. No motto. Same arms as the 1730 plate, but has no supporters or cherubs. See also Sam\ Strode 1723, and Willm Strode 1730. JJ Sol dieci carta bollata deli Eccelentis, Camera. B3. Arm. No motto. 2JX2J. Argent, a cross gules, surmounted by a ducal coronet. 1742 Edward Archer Arm. scrolled shield on mantle No motto. Crest, A quiver full of arrows. n Nicholas Archer Arm. scrolled shield on mantle No motto. 3X2J. Crt^l, A quiver full of arrows. 1) Robert Jehannot de Beaumont. Conseillier du Roy. Lieutenant General au Bailliage et siege presidial de Verdun. Arm. with supporters No motto. Allin sculp fecit. Design 3jX2i. Reproduced in Hamilton's"French Book-plates," p. 64. i» Patk Brown in Cork Arm.Chip. Motto scroll but no motto. N.n. by A.W.F. »♦ Sir William Dunbar of Hemprigi Bart Arm. with supporters "Sub sfie" above crest, motto scroll below shield is blank. 4I x 2I N.n. by A.W.F. )» Thos Haviland. Bath (There is an undated plate of Petrus de Havil- land bearing the same arms, viz., Argent, three towers, t7c'0 and one, on which the motto is ^^ Doininus forlissima turr'is"; and other plates of the Haviland and de Havilland families having the same arms. Guernsey family.) Arm. Early Chip. Name on the motto scroll. No motto. J.Skinr Sculp. (J. Skinner of Bath.) 3X2|. ft Henry Pennant Esq. J. Skinner sculp. » Ex Libris Guillielmi Pitra Arm. No motto. M John Randolph Esq. of the Middle Temple (it reads Tempce) London. Arm. Pict. No motto. J. Skinner, Bath. N.n. by A.W.F. John Robinson m.d. (Warren says of this: "Mantling preserved separate. Lattice work lining to frame" — which exactly applies to the following plate. Perhaps he erred in the Christian name ?) Arm. Jac. This is described in Warren's "Guide," p. 24, but is not named by Sir A. W. Franks. " Robert Robinson, m.d. Arm. Jac. Motto scroll but no motto. 3jX2| Vert, a chevron or between three stags at gaze argent. M Robert Winfield, His Book. Printed in the Year 1742. Printed label No motto. i|X3 wide. N.n. by A.W.F. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 65 1743 Nameless German plate. A landscape within orna- Pict. "Non tofa peril." G. D. Heu- mental framework ; in the foreground a mann. fecit. stump of a tree, climbing which is a cater- See Warren's "Guide," p. 159. pillar, while from a twig hangs a chrysalis, and close to it hovers a butterfly. Above on a ribbon intertwined with the frame is the motto, " Non tota peril." ^^ Ex Lib. Vaucresson de Cormainville, trib. et Arm. with "Lege cl rcddc." Beaumont fecit. Castra metat. Equest et turmoe Due. in supporters 3iX2|. ala tribuni generalis equitum. Anno 1743. Coronet of Count ^, Richard Cox Arm.Chip. "Garde la Foy." Plate mark 3J (Next to this plate in Griggs is another of X3. Reproduced in Griggs' 2nd Richard Cox, without date or motto, and with a S., pi. III. variation in the arms. Same framework.) ») Charles Delafaye Esq. of Wichbury, Wilts Arm. No motto. J Skinner. Bath Sculp. Early Plate mark 35X2J. Chip. See Warren's " Guide," pp. 31, 174: "The Chippendale shell- border and untied flowers are both present, though but timidly and tentatively developed." »» Claude Rene Gotry Delavallee Mono- gram )1 Benjamin Hatley Foote .. Arm.Chip. " Pedclentim.'" 4JX3J. (It has been suggested that this plate was See Warren's "Guide," p. 31 : " This is a very decided Chippen- dale plate with the style far more developed than on the above De- ante-dated some years. There is another Arm. Chip, plate of Benjamin Hatley Foote, not dated.) lafaye by Skinner." Reproduced in Castle, p. 76, and 2nd edit., p. 89. " Henry Goodwyn Arm. Early Jac. No motto. 3X2^. 11 Robert Goodwyn Arm. No motto. »1 John Hepburn, Surgeon, in Stamford, Lincolnshire Label N.n. by A.W.F. 11 William Hillary md. Bath Arm. " Virtnte nihil inviiiiii." J. S. EarlyEng. (Skinner). ti Alexander Hoskins Arm. Named in Mr. Vicars' list of Book- (Same design as the plate of Jno David Barbutt Book-pile pile Ex Libris. Esq., and often found pasted over it.) 11 John Earl of Hyndford Arm. Jac. " Toiiljour presl '' above the crest ; with "Nemo me iiiipiiiielncessit" around supporters the oval shield, and on a motto scroll beneath " Ex bene nierito." Design surrounded by plain square framework 4§X3i, as re- produced in Griggs' 2nd S.,pl. 61. »» Johannis Christophori Seiffii. (Frankfort Arm. Pict. No motto. A. Reinhardt sc. See Warren's "Guide," p. 154. It Edmund Trott m.a. Arm.Chip. No motto. 3IX3J. 66 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1744 Nameless French plate. (Arms of Mahuet, of , Lorraine.) William Downing, his book 1744. Arm with supporters Printed label Ex Libris Florentii Joly. Semurei in supremo Senatu Burgundiae Patroni. Franciscus Praepositus Cann Regg; in Polling. Anno 1744. Franciscus Praepositus Cann: Regg: in Polling. Franciscus Praepositus S. Salvatoris PoUingae. A9 1744 (After which there is added on a separate bracket at the base of the design — " Ad bibliothecam ibidem.") John Mitford of Newtown Hampshire, 1744. .. Thomas Pattison of Stockton in the County of Durham. Dowdall Pigott Mrs Sally Richards. (American) Johnson Robinson Jno Smith Esqr Durham John Wood, of Bath, Architect. Arm. Arm.Pict. Eccles. Pict. Eccles. Arm. Eccles. Arm. Printed label Label Arm.Chip. Arm. Jac. Arm.Chip. No motto. Nicole a Nancy. No motto. i^X2j. See Warren's " Guide," p. i : " The book is opened and displays, pasted inside the cover, a paper label. It reads, in a plain border, William Downing, his book 1744. Now in England we call such a ticket as this, William Downing's book-plate, as abroad it would be xalled his ex libris. In either case the meaning is, that this special volumewasin i744William Down- ing's property and no other man's : that the book was one from among his books, an item of his library, a unit in his collection." " Ex candore decus." 3jX2|. " Inventa levetnr.'" Jung\vierth sc. Mon. six 3 J. In a scrolled cartouche three oval shields, surmounted by a cherub having a mitre and crozier. See Warren's "Guide," p. 152. " Inventa levetur,'' Jung\vierth del et Sc. M. Same as above, but without arms in the lower division. No motto. Small plate. 2JX2. See Warren's "Guide," pp. 13, 152. No motto. Shield surrounded by widely flowing mantling, the whole on an oval shaded background, 3^X2^. Inscription below the oval design. Plate mark 4^X3 J. See also William Mitford of 1769. See Rylands' Notes, p. 10. N.n. by A.W.F. B. Cole. Named in C. D. Allen's American List. " Despcratio facit audacem." J. Skinr Sculpt Bath. Plate mark 3iX2i. No motto or motto scroll. Arms in a plain black border, 3|X2|. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 67 1745 Nameless armorial plate belonging to a member of the Herbert family. Arms, Pci- pole azure and gules, three lions rampant argent. Crest, A ivyvern vert, holding in the mouth a sinister hand, conped at the wrist, gules. 17(46) 1746 Nameless French plate. (Le Preudhomme de Fon- tenay.) The arms surmounted by the coro- net of a Marquis. E Museo E. L. de Danckelmann. (German) Peter Dobree E.G. Monogram on shield. E. Gatelier f. 1745- on a label below the shield. Willm Haskoll Richard Hassell Esqr of Lincoln's Inne. John Hughes of Brecon: Esq. Richard Norcliffe Merchant in Hull. .. Thomas Potter of the Middle Temple Francis Rogers Euseby Stratford is^ June 1745 Thomas Thornbery Esquire Windsor Herald . Erhardi Frid Weinland Sub regimine Reverendissimi Domini Roberti Abbatis. Benja: Adamson. Arm. Chip Arm.Pict, Arm. Library Interior Printed label Shield Arm. EarlyEng. Arm.Chip. Arm.Chip. Arm. Jac. Chip. Arm. Jac. Arm. Plain shield Arm.Pict. Arm. Eccles. Arm.Chip. Signed J. June, an engraver men- tioned briefly by Bryan, who dates him in 1760. See Warren's "Guide," p. i6g, who says this Ex Libris would pass at first sight for a foreign work. The framework of the shield may be called Roeoco. The landscape accessories, the trees right and left, with a brook flowing out from below the es- cutcheon frame, are at this period most unusual on British book- plates. A single cupid is seated on the right of the shield. No motto. Nicole a Nancy. 4JX3 An oval shield supported by two greyhounds, and surrounded by flags; below are cannon balls and warlike implements. Reproduced in Hamilton's " French Book- plates," p. 97. Bernigeroth del et sc. Named in Warren's " Guide," p. 146. No arms or motto. Scrolled shield with palm leaves. 4JX3J. No motto. Plate mark 4 X2j. Motto scroll but no motto. J. Skinr Sculpt Plate mark 3I X 2 J "Sine macula." Date on scroll below arms. Signed LH. 3JX3I In two states, one not dated. "■Mens conscia reeti." Plate mark 3|X2i. " Virtuti nihil obstat et armis." 2f X2j. Printed in brown ink. " Qui videt providet." 4X2I. • N.n. by A.W.F. No motto, geb zu Eslingen d. 29 sbr. 1745. 3^X21. A vineyard is shown on the shield, in allusion to the owner's name. No motto. Two oval shields con- joined, surmounted by a mitre, crozier, and coronet of count. 4X3i- No motto. Bath J. Skinr sculp. 3iX2j. See Warren's "Guide," p. 174. 68 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1746 Mervyn Archdall A. d. 1746 Arm. Early Chip. No motto. 3jX3. Reproduced in "Examples of Irish Book-plates," by 11. F. Burke, F.S.A., 1894, it being the only in- stance of a dated plate in that volume. See also 17 — . N.n.byA.W.F. •* Ex Electoral! Bibliotheca Sereniss: Utriusq: Bava- riae Ducum. Arm. with supporters No motto. 5X3i. Seealsoi6i8. There are several similar plates, not dated. " Hen. Toye Bridgeman Esq of Princknash Glou- cestershire. Arm. Chip. " Propositi fennxS' J. Skinr sculpt. 3JX2J. See Warren's " Guide, " p. 174. ■' Jacob Cushing, His Book 1746 (Minister at Waltham, Mass., America.) Printed label See Ex L. y., Vol. 3, p. 126. Type border. 1. William Grant »» John Hobson, His Book August i. 1746 Label N.n. byA.W.F. n The Ipswich Library The Gift of Arm. '' Isaac Mendes London Arm Chip. " Gratia Dei sufficit me." Levi sculp. 3JX2J. See Warren's " Guide," pp. 31, 173. " Martha Miller Her Book. Nottingham. Printed label No motto. " Dorothea Robinson. Printed at the Theatre in Oxford July ig An Dom 1746. Printed label in border N.n. by A.W.F. " Soc: Gen: Spalding Instituta mdccx. (The Gentle- man's Society, Spalding.) Arm. Designed by Maurice Johnson, the founder of the Society, and engraved by George Vertue. John Wiltshire. Bath Pict-Chip. J. Skinner sculp. Doubtful if this is a correct date, or mistaken for the 1740 plate. I have not seen it, nor is it named by Sir A. W. Franks. 1747 Nameless French plate. ^^Facies tttntat semperque liecenter." H. Gravelot. Nameless plate (Astley). Bath Junes 1747 Arm. Jac. "The Help of man always short, Whose aid the Sick oft needs. All saving thine, Loosing every Yoke." Miss Sarah Burdon, Her Book. Printed label No motto. Brackley Kennett Printed label James Morris. Floral label Bickham sculp. Saml Pye. Bristol Arm.Chip. No motto. Milton F. 3X2J. The shield is supported by a fallen skeleton and a naked man. The same arms as are on the book- plate of Henry James Pye, Poet Laureate, Ermine^ a bt'iul fusiliy gules. The same crest on both. See Ex L. J., Vol. III., p. 136. J) Nobilis Patrtci Veneti Claudii Rocher Pict. Serancourt fecit. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 69 1747 1748 Bibliotheque de Mr L'Abbe de Seichamps (Coronet of Count over the arms.) Leond Smelt Esqi; Sober Society. Ap. 3. 1747 Henry Walters Esq. Henry Walters Esq. John Woodroffe a.m. John Woodroffe m.a. Ex munificentia lUustrissimi & Reverendissimi D.D. Henrici Francisci Xaverii de Belsunce de Castelmoron, Episcopi Massiliensis, Collegii hujiis Fundatoris. Collegii Belsuncai Soc. Jesu Catalogo inscriptus. Ann Chauncy Robt; Clavering Esqr W^ Crowle Inner Temple Caroli Garrett Arm. perlongae Amicitiae Pignus. Nati 40 August! 1674. Denati 170 Sep^s 1748. ^tatis 74. Carolus Gottrauv 1748. (Swiss) Patk Heron John Hughes G. Leunckens Lovani (Louvain) A. Bened. de la Roulliere .. Frances Sabine The. Shelley Lewes Ann. 1748 Arm. with supporters Arm. Pict. Arm.Chip Arm. Chip. Arm.Chip. Arm.Chip. Label Printed label Arm.Chip. Crest in frame Arm. Literary Arm. Early Chip. Arm. Arm. Printed label Canting Arms. Chip. "Qui scmintmt in lacrymis in ex- ultatione nu-tcnt." Nicole a Nancy. 4iX2|. No motto. " Virtus tandem viffebit." B. Levi sculp. N,n. by A.W.F. "Sit dux sapicntia." Bath. J. Sl Thos Worsley Arm. R. Mountaine. ? 1751, which see. „ Inscriptus Catalogo Librorum Josephi Xaupi, Arm. No motto. Avisse. fecit. See Sorbonae Doctoris, Canonici et Archidiaconi Eccles. 1765. Coronet of Count. in Ecclesia Elnensi, Abbatis de jau. (French) »» Ben Young of Swaff ham Label N.n. by A.W.F. 1751 Nameless French plate. (Academie de Nancy) .. Arm. " Aninuim ceiisoris sumet honcsii." Library H. Gravelot inv. Delafosse sculp- interior sit. n Nameless armorial plate. (Perkins) Arm. Chip " Sua premia laudi." Taylor Worcr del et Sculp. 3^X2*. N.n. by A.W.F. 1* E Bibliotheca Baronis de Baltimore, a.d. 1751 Crest No motto. The design is circular, two inches in diameter, two flags issuing from a ducal crown, and above a baron's coronet. See Warren's "Guide," p. 12. )» J. Moody Bingham Arm.Chip No crest or motto. Mountaine Sculp. Plate mark 3|X2f The date, simply 51, is very faint ; as usual in Mountaine's plates, it will be found bet%veen the curls of the shellwork below the shield. )» James Brackstone Citizen of London i Arm.Chip. No motto or motto scroll. Plate mark, one size 3JX2J. Reproduced in Hardy, p. 50. Warren, in his " Guide," p. 31, calls this plate a singularly pure example of the Chippendale style, giving its fully developed charac- teristics. ), " Griifl; Collalto 'schen " Library. (German) Pict. See Ex Libris Zcitsclirift, Berlin. Barnaby Hilcock. Dublin Plain " Contra sthnulum calces." Very Arm. rough engraving. 11 Alexander Jacob Arm. No motto. Mountaine. ,, John Kendall, junior N.n. by A.W.F. n Gul: Oliver ex CEde Christi Alumn. Oxon. Arm.Chip " Odi profaniim.'' J. Skinr sculp. >• B. Perkins. Worcester 1 Arm. No motto. J. Skinr sculp. N.n. by A.W.F. ' DATED BOOK-PLATES. 73 1751 Maximilian Emanuel von Bertrand, Graf zu Perusa und Criechingen, etc. (A long list of German titles and offices.) Arm. Pict. No motto. 4iX2j. »i Uu Cabinet de Messire Barthelemy Gabriel RoUand. Arm. Date doubtful; probably 1761, which see. " William Thompson of Humbleton in Yorkshire, Esq. Thos Worsley Arm.Chip. No motto. Plate mark 3 X2|. JJ Arm.Chip, No motto. Mountaine sculp. 3JX2J. Date indistinct. See 1750. 1752 Nameless armorial plate. (Sir Charles Frederick, K.B.) The arms surrounded by military trophies. Arm.Chip. No motto. Two sizes, the larger, 4^X3, is signed G. Haines delin W. H. Toms sculp 1752; the smaller is signed G. Hains delin W. H. Toms, sculp. See War- ren's " Guide," p. 172. The larger plate was reproduced in the Ex L. y.. Vol. IV., pp. 103, 116, and reduced in Mr. Castle's book, p. 80. There is also a very handsome plate, not dated, but inscribed in full : Sr Charles Frederick, Surveyor General of the Ordnance. Design Arm. with supporters ^^ Prctiumquc ct causa lahoris.'^ Reproduced in Ex L. jf., Vol. IV., see pp. 155, 163. The plate dated 1752 bore only the Frederick arms, but on this plate Sir Charles impales the arms of his wife, Lucy, daughter of Hugh Boscawen, ist Viscount Falmouth. it Nameless plate. (Arms of Poisson de Marigny) Arm. C. N. Cochin. " N. Bacon, Eman. Coll. Printed label ,, Michael Baynes R. Mountaine. ») Thomas Dobree, Son Nic. of Guernsey. Printed label Nomotto. 3X2J. N.n.byA.W.F. There are several other fine armorial plates of the Dobree family, not dated. One of Peter Dobree, about 1720, is a handsome specimen of mantling. It Josue le Marchant fs. Eleazar. 1752 Printed (Eleazar was Seigneur du Comte, Guernsey.) label 11 B. H. Florisone Arm. Thibau. Signature and date in- distinct. See 1759. 11 J. B. Gastaldy. D. Med. Arm. No motto. Neyrier fecit. 11 H. Harbord, Christ's College Engraved label Stephens fecit. 11 Bibliotecque de Mr Here Arm. Pict. Nomotto. D. Colin, fecit. 4JX3. Reproduced in Hamilton's'-French Book-plates," p. 93. 1) John Hoadly l.l.d. Arm.Chip. " Veritas et patria." R. M. Sc. (Mountaine). 3JX2J. 11 George Kemp. Anno Dom 1752 Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. 11 Guls Larkham A.M. e C.C.C. Oxon. .. Crest No motto. Circular frame, 2 in- diameter. '• Thomas Otway Esqr of Castle Otway Arm.Chip. " Si Dens nobiscum qiiis contra t1 E Libris Johannis Reresby A.B. Coll Regin. Cantab, a.d. 1752. Printed label Nomotto. i|X3j. 74 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1752 Tho: Goodridge Waller Date on the scroll. R. M sc (Mountaine). N.n. by A.W.F. »» Granville Wheler Arm. Jac. No motto. 2^X2g. ,, William Willock Woodcut No motto. The name and date label are printed within a roughly cut Chip, frame, 3^X3. Two sizes, the larger one is not dated, but has " Liverpool " on it. ,, Petro Antonii Verdussen. Antverpiensis. 20 Aprilis 1752. 1753 Society for promoting Arts and Commerce. Insti- Engraved No motto. 2X3f. Design resem- tuted London mdcclih. label bles the obverse and reverse of a medal. jj C. Blackstone Arm.Chip. No motto. Mountaine Sc. 3yX2f ,, Ric. Chal. Cobbe .. Arm. Chip. "Mortens cano." R.M. (Mountaine) 1) Charles O'Connor of Belanagare in the County Arm. Irish motto. SeeWarren's "Guide," of Rosconion Esq. Middle p. 31: " Not well engraved, but Chip. decidedly middle Chippendale." ,, The Rev. J. Dobson a.m. J. Skinner sculpt. If GAZR. (Apparently German) Arm. Around the rim of a large coronet Eccles. above the arms is '•Firmamoitum with nteum et refugium nuitm," Ps. 70. supporters v. 13. (This quotation answers to Psalm Ixxi. 3 in the English ver- sion, " For thou art my rock and my fortress.") Below the arms is theTnotto"Candortctamorc.''^^X3 " A L'Hospital Comtesse Arm. No motto. Merche fecit. 3 J x 2J. Coronet of Count. 1» Linonian Library, Yale College. Linonia Sept 12th. Arm. "Amicltia Concordia." Doolittle 1753- sc. See also r8o2. Reproduced in Allen's "American Book-plates," p. 69. ») Nichos Middleton, London .. Arm. Pict. No motto. Wells del et sculp. N.n. by A.W.F. 11 Pringle (no Christian name) Arm. No motto. Mountaine Sculp. Early 2JX2J. Chip. If Pringle Arm. Mountaine Sculp. Different plate ; has a border of vine leaves. ff Biblioth: Acad. Altdorf ex beneficio fundation. Arms No motto. M. TjToff facieb. Pauli Jacobi de Marperger, August Im- over a See Warren's "Guide," p. 157. perat. et Reip Norimberg consiliari. bookcase 11 Joseph Pocklington Printed label See also 176-. If Hugh Rogers of the Burrough of Helstone in the Arm.Chip. No motto. 3JX2J. Incorrectly County of Cornwall. engraved, metal on metal. Argent three harts tripping or. Another copy, not dated, has a chevron sable added. H Philip Thicknesse Esqr, Land Guard Fort Arm.Chip. N.n. by A.W.F. See Warren's "Guide," p. 31. See 1748, 1755, and 1782. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 75 1753 1754 Le Chevalier Du Mars de Vaudoncour Seigneur de Warise Vaudoncour Rauille, &c. (Lorraine) Arm. Pict. with supporters Richard Vevers Nameless German plate. Episcopal arms, Gules, three keys. Academ. Mosq: Instit: William Beales. Norwich, Printed in the Year 1754- Jane Brand Printed January 31. 1754 John Burnet Esqr New York John Burnet, Attorneyiat Law, New York (Same arms as above — Argtnt, three holly leaves in chief vert, and a hunting horn in base sable, garnished gules. Not dated.) Arm. Eccles. Pict. Printed label Printed label Arm. Chip. Arm. Jac. Columbia College in the City of New York. Library of Dr Otto von Struve. Bought from Barnard Library Fund. L. Dawson, a.d. 1754 Ex Libris Delaleu (French plate, coronet of Count.) Joseph Dudley (American) Seal Name on a Chip, shield Arm. Pict Arm. EarlyEng, " Uim marie refiellit." Nicole (Nancy). 4JX3. There is a plate of Charles Fran- cois Dumars de Vaudoncour, etc., not dated, having the same motto, but with variations in the armorial bearings. This is signed Lamcon fecit. N.n. by A.W.F. "Pour bien" and "In hoc signo." P. Wauters. Sc. See Warren's " Guide," p. 160. J. Basire sc. " May Pleasure ne'er your Happiness beguile But Love and Fortune ever on you smile." See the following plate for a very similar motto. N.n. by A.W.F. " Pleasures unmiied your happy hours beguile And Love and friendship ever on you smile." " The noble art & mystery of Print- ing, "etcaround the border. 2JX3J "Virescit vulnere virtus" on a ribbon over the crest. H. Dawkins sculp. There are seated figures on each side of the arms. This is reproduced in Mr. C. D. Allen's "Early American Book- plates," design measures 3^X3; also see a reduced reproduction in Ex L. y., Vol. L, p. 40. "Virescit vulnere virtus." Smaller than the above and different in de- sign ; no engraver's name or date, and no figures at side of the shield. Reproduced in Mr. C. D. Allen's "Early American Book-plates," frame measures 2 J X 2j. There are several modern Eng- lish book-plates of the Burnet and Burnett families bearing similar arms, and the same motto ("Virtue increases by a wound"). "Sigillum Collegii Columbias Novi Eboraci." N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. Franfois Montulay fecit. 4I X 3|. Reproduced in Hamilton's"French Book-plates," p. 66. "Necgladionecarcu." The name of the original owner was erased by Hurd, and this name and date engraved in its place. See Ex L. J., Vol. III., p. 143. Reproduced in Allen's "American Book-plates," p. 38. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 77 1755 17(56) 1756 Rich: Chapman, Coll: Eman. Cantab. The Arms of Marsh Dickinson Esqr John Holmes of Holt in Norfolk a.d. 1755. Jean Elie Jaqu^ri, de Moudon en Suisse. Ne en 1732. James Kenion Praemium Priscilla Ottley mdcclv. Philips William Price Esqr at Rhiwlase in Mer'h Shire Ao Dni 1755. Ad Bibliothecam Canoniae Regularis in Diessen B.P.I. D. Philip Thicknesse Esq, Landguard Fort Philemon Robbins, His Book, a.d. 1755. (American) Nameless plate. In a garter Masonic emblems, around the garter the motto "In utramque paratus." Joseph Barber, Bookseller Newcastle T. Campbell a.b. (There is an earlier plate of yohn Campbell, not dated, with same arms, crest and motto. Musical instruments, books, globe, etc., around the shield.) ChaB Carver Collegii Pacis Friburgensis . . . . Domus Sapientiae Friburg S. Hieronymus Universitatis Friburgensis George Farmor Earl of Pomfret, Baron Lempster. J. Reis, Chirurgi Augustini Da Benedetto XIV Lambertini. Li 5 Aprile 1756, above arms; Emo eRmo Sig, Cardinale Francesco de Rodt. Printed label Arm. Chip. Engraved label Arm.Chip Engraved label Leather label Book-pile Arm.Chip. Arm. Eccles. Chip. Label AUeg. Chip. Arm.Chip. Arm.Chip. Arm. Eccles. Arm. Eccles. Arm. Pict. Arm. with supporters Pict. Arm. Eccles. No motto. No motto. B. Cole Sculp. 3X2J. Below several Greek inscriptions are the v/ovds" ArburExpticatorla" and "Verbi Graeci." A peculiar and very original plate. " Ubi amor ibi fides." M. Skinner Exon sculp. 1755. 3X2i. A purely British book-plate, although designed for a Swiss. N.n. by A.W.F. "Vita brevis gloria externa." Plate mark 3jX2|. The same arms, crest, and motto as on the plate of William Price of 1718, but no tinctures here are shown. Quar- terly, ist and 4th, a lion rampant, 2nd and 3rd, a rose. No motto. A. Schon ft. Two oval shields in a foliated car- touche. 2jX3g. See Warren's " Guide," p. 155. See also 1748, 1753, and 1782. Named by Mr. C. D. Allen, p. 275. 3X2. On this plate a former owner had written, " Devise des francma^ons, Secte infame." No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. " Ne obliviscaris." Plate mark 3IX3. Reproduced in Castle, p. 81, and 2nd edit., p. 94. See also 1708 and 1844. No motto. 3iX3. No motto. No motto. 3jX2i. No motto. " Hora e' sempre." Plate mark 3iX36. No motto. A woodcut, the tinc- tures blazoned in or, argent, and gules. A cardinal's red hat and tassels above the arms, dxzh 78 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1756 1757 Robert Rogers Thomas Stagg Mr. Thibault, Conseiller d'Etat De Cursay, de Landry et de la Parisiere — Thomas- seau. Ecuyer originaire d'Angers. De Cursay-Thomasseau J. Tylston. Chester Sherlock Willis Nameless plate. (Crest of Kettle) Ex Libris M'ri Josephi Barre, Presb. Paris Sacrae Facult Paris. Doct. Theologi. Walter Blount Walter Blount. (The above plate altered) There is also an Armorial Chippendale plate, not dated, of Sr Walter Blount of Sodington in the County of Worcester B.-.rt, with the same motto, and many others of the same ancient family. Sr James Campbell Bart Thomas Chilcot, Organist of Bath Francis Colman (A solicitor, died 1820, aged 80 years. Family originally of Tiverton, Devonshire.) James Elmy, Beccles Suffolk Du Chambge Bon D'Elbhecq. (Flemish) Benjamin Greene. (American) (A merchant of Boston.) Thomas Hacket, Leicester Arm. Early Chip. Printed label Arm. Arm. with supporters Arm. Printed label Arm.Chip, W. Hassell. St John's College, Cambridge, a.d. 1757- John Hort Esqr Dub: 1757 Crest Floral Arm.Chip. Arm.Chip. Arm. with supporters Arm.Chip. Arm. Arm. Literary Arm. Jac. Printed label Printed label Arm.Chip. supporters No motto. 56 appears to have been added later than the 17. N.n. by A.W.F. Collin sc. Nancy. '*il/(T/o nioyi qitam foadari.''^ P.P. Choffard fecit. P. P. Choffard. N.n. by A.W.F. " The ungodly borroweth and pay- eth not again," Psalm xxxvii. 21, on the motto scroll. 3|X2i. See Warren's "Guide," p. 97: "Terse, neat, and to the point." No motto. N. Kettle sculp. Monogram J. B. on shield. No motto. 2f X 2. No crest or motto. Taylor Wor- cesr sculp. 3|X2|. Crest and motto added. " Lux tua via men." Taylor Worcesr Sculp, 1757. See reproduction. " Forget not." 3| X 2f . No motto. Plate mark 3JX2J. A curious blending of Jacobean and Chippendale styles. N.n. by A.W.F. Polak sculp. No motto. Named in Mr. Vicars' List of Literary Plates. Same design as Van Huerne. No motto. N.H. scp. (N.Hurd). 3jX2f. See Warren's " Guide," p. 172, and Allen's " American Book-plates," p. 211. " The Mystery of Printing was invented in the Year of our Lord 1442, by John Guttemburgh, of Mentz, in Germany, and brought into England by William Caxton, Merchant, in the Year 1468." This is printed round the border. Border composed of typo, orna- ments. 2|X3j. No motto. 2|Xit. DATED BOOK-PI. lATES. 79 1757 George JoUand, Junior. Louth Woodcut label 11 Ex Libris J. C. V. Moehsen m.d. Pract. Berol. Library J. F. Gericke. sculps. Berol. 1757. Acad. Nat. Cur. (German) interior Large plate with portrait of Moeh- (See description in Mr. Vicars' list.) sen. In one corner part of bookcase burning, dated i Sept. 1753 ; over door 1756. These are probably the dates of the library being injured by fire and rebuilt, 1757 being the date of the engrav- ing of the plate. See also 175S. Ex Libris Mtri Petri Alexandri de Mohr. Presb. Floral No motto. Plate mark 3iX2|. Paris. Sacrae Facult. Paris. Doct. Theo- Reproduced in Ex Libris Ana, logi. 1757. Juin, 1S94. *» Samuel Trotinan of Bucknell Oxfordshire Esqr Arm. No motto. A number 22 shield, with light mantling. 4X3. ** The Gift of his Royal Highness George Prince British "Ich Dicn." J. Kirk fecit. of Wales. Arms See Warren's '■ Guide," p. 173. 1758 Nameless Flemish plate, with a marshal's baton Ant. Opdebeeck, fecit. Mechlin. Named in Warren's "Guide," P- 153- J» A.B.B. Crest Webb >1 John Bamford, Leicester, Sept. 3, 1758 Printed Around the border is the inscription label " The Mystery of Printing was invented in the year of our Lord 1442, by yohii Guttciiiburgh, of Maitz, in Germany, and brought into England by William Caxton, Merchant, in the Year 146S." N.n. by A.W.F. „ Ex Libris Wolfgang Christoph Sac. Rom. Imp. Arm. Pict. No motto. J. E. Nilson del et Comitis ab Uberacker, etc. 28 Nov. 1758. scul. (German) 11 Anne Dale Printed label 11 Ex bibliotheca Michaelis Ignatii Dugan Arm.Chip. " Pro Deo Rege et Patria." Plate mark3jX2|. Musical emblems. Ex dono Williams (sic) Gibbon a.m. In Usum Arm. No motto. Spade shield, palm- Hospitii de Bridewell Capellani. leaves at side. 3|X2j. N.n. by A.W.F. " Joanns Glegg a.m. Aul Pemb Soc. Cantab Arm. Early Chip. " Qui potest capere capiat." 4X3- tT Name erased, but J.G. on a bale of goods; probably Arm.Chip. No motto. 4X3J. A Chippen- J. Gresley. dale shield, vairy, ermine and (The Rev. Mr. Carson has a copy of this plate, gules. Crest: A lion passant. so also has Miss Chamberlayne ; in both the In background ships in full sail ; name is erased.) in foreground bales and barrels of goods, etc. All printed in red ink. N.n. by A.W.F. 1) John Zephaniah Holwell Esq. Fine Chip. Arm. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. 11 Richard Kaye, Vinerian Scholar of the Laws of Arm.Chip. England in Oxford. 8o DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1758 M. Lock Jo. Car. Vil. Moehsen Andrew Robb, senior, In Ribbald of Carsebonny, His Book. December i6, mdcclviii. William Robinson of Nelo. John Twigg, his Book 1759 Nameless plate (J. G. H. Oetrichs). (German) Albany Society Library. (American) ExJLibris de Buissy . . Deburgh Earl of Clanricarde (There is a similar plate not signed or dated.) B. H. Florisone. (French) .. E Libris Gulielmi Grace Armig: 1759. Matthew Hodge, Bookseller and Binder, near the Market Cross in Tiverton. Symbolum Bibliothecae Joannis Bernard! Nack Civis et Mercatoris Francofurtensis. (Frank- fort) The Hon. J. L. Warren reproduced this plate in his " Guide to the Study of Book-plates," pi. i5, and thus referred to it : " This seems a remarkable phrase, but probably it is not a formula of book- possession ; meaning in this case merely the sign of the book-shop of B. Nack, inasmuch as that book- shop is depicted under very fanciful conditions." Mr. Warren only refers to this dated plate, but I also possess the Wicker impression, which is printed on the reverse of the dated engra- ving. In this condition I look upon this double book-plate as one of the most curious, and per- haps one of the scarcest, known. Horatius St Paul Sacri Romani Imperii, Comes de St Paul. (There was an earlier plate, not dated, belong- ing to the Count de St. Paul.) Printed label Library Interior Printed label Chip. Orna- mental label Pict. Arm. Pict. Arm. with supporters Arm. with supporters Arm. Arm. with supporters Two crests Printed label Portrait and Book shop in fore- ground, sea and ships in back- ground Arm. Gerisce. Berol. Named in Warren's " Guide," p. 151. See also 1757. No motto. A rose below the inscription. 3X3J. N.n.byA.W.F. Derby : Printed by S. Drewry, 1758. Same ornamental border as J. Smyth of 1732, and Samuel Brown 1755. Glassbach fee. " Occulti miranda potentia fati." "May concord prevail and the undcrtakcing prosper.'" Repro- duced in Mr. Allen's " American Book-plates," p. 84. See Ex L. y., Vol. III., p. 42. " Attente nuit Buissy." P. P. Choffard fecit. 1759. 3iX2|. " Un roy nn foy mi loy.'" W. Hibbart sculp: 1759. Plate mark 3jX2|. See also 1750. Sir A. W. Franks puts this plate in the year 1759, which is correct, but some specimens are so faintly printed that the g resembles an o, and Mr. Warren calls it 1750 ; see page 172 of his " Guide," under Hibbart, No motto. Thibau ft. (signature and date indistinct). 3|X2j. " Concordant nomine facta." 3X2|. See list of the Grace plates. No motto. Sherborne : printed by R. Goadby. N.n. by A.W.F. "Fragili suspcnso qnacramtis sta- bili Lucro." Dr. Osterlander Inv. De St Hilaire del et sc. 1759. Plate 4SX3. There is another plate of the same design, but much better en- graved, signed " Dr. Osterlander inv," and "Wicker sc." This is not dated. Nack's names are printed in bolder type, and there is no letter N on the bale the boys are busy packing. See Warren's "Guide," pp. 14 and 154, and p. 55, Part I., of this work. The dated plate is also reproduced in Mr. Vicars' List. No motto. Roger sc. Small plate. Horace St. Paul, born 1729, died 1812. In the Austrian ser- vice during the Seven Years' War, and created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1759. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 8i 1759 Insignia Josephi de Pettenkofer. Consiliarii Aulici Actual. Arm. No motto. Sculp de la Haye. II Thomas Peacock Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. »> Ex Libris Joan Jac. Baillard Du Pinet presb. Arm. Coronet of Count No motto. 2jxi5. 1) Joseph Taylor Arm. No motto. Coffin, Exon. Late Chip. Plate mark 2fX2j. 176- A. Dirix Arm. No motto. tl Civis Bibliothecae Academiae Edinburgenae Engraved In the British Museum collection. label N.n. by A.W.F. )» Ex Caroli. Ferd. Hommelii Bibliotheca Library Interior Long Latin inscription. 11 Joseph Pocklington Newark, Nottinghamshire Arm.Chip. "Spero meliora." Signed W.S. (? by W. Stephens, who pro- duced other plates about this period.) Plate mark 4X3. The crest is placed on a mini- ature copy of the Chip, shield, which contains the arms. See Hardy, p. 51. I have seen a copy of this plate with the date filled in 1791. 1760 Nobis Clemens Augustus sibi. "C.A." in centre. Arm. No motto. B.H. de Brockes S. (German) Eccles. R5> ac Revnii Electoris Consil inv. et sc. 1760. Design 4IX3J. Two varieties. See Warren's " Guide," p. 147. l» Johann Conrad Beuther Arm. Pict. No motto. G. Eichler del. Eichel sculp. Finely engraved plate, scientific instruments, etc. II BCC (Monogram) Crest No motto. Plate mark 2jx i|. II Mary Chatham Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. t» Sir John Cullum Bart, and Dame Susanna his Printed No motto. SeeMisc.Gen.ct Her., wife. label in 1894, Vol. v., 2nd S., for this border and 14 other plates of the Cullum and allied families. .. The Honble George Lewis Erskine Esq. (Scotch) Arm.Chip. "Judge nought." N.n. by A.W.F. 11 Sir William Forbes n Thos. Harct. Gwillym, Gierke Arm.Chip. No motto. II Wmus Harper, v.d.p. Pict. " Veritas clarior e tcnebris de- pressa resurget." '• Gcmens &■ sperans." A ship on a rough sea. 11 Filippo Linarti (Italian) Portrait SeeHardy's"Book-plates,"p. 158. II Theod: Cte Morawitsky (Very indistinct) Arm. No motto. 2jX2|. Library Aloys Comte la Rosee fecit. Interior M Soci^te de lecture de la Fosse, Nantes Literary Woodcut 82 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1760 Thomas Pownall " The ungodly borroweth and (Named in Warren's "Guide," p. gy. Doubt- payeth not again," Ps. xxxvii. 21. ful if dated.) ** Videte et cavete ah avaritia,^' Luke xii. 15. " Max Comte de Preysing Arm. No motto. Sculp De la Haye 1760. 3lX2f. Three helmets and crests over the shield. See lygo. »1 Max Graf von Preysing Arm. De la Haye Sc. IJ Gul. O. Purnell a.m. Coll. Winton Soc. Chip. W.H. ,, Carolus Roussel Jul. 1760 Arm. No motto. Plate mark 3|X2|. •■ Jonathan Smith, mdcclx. (American) Printed label Named by Mr. C. D. Allen, p. 282. „ Anthony Stokes of the Inner Temple, Esqr Arm. Chip. No motto. " James Vere Junr Arm. Chip. No motto. Plate mark 3I X 2f . Reproduced in Castle, p. 82, and 2nd edit., p. 95. Thomas Walker Engraved label 1761 East Apthorp. a.m. Cambridge, mdcclxi. Arm. " Nemo nisi Christiis." (A clerg>-man, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1733, died 1816.) Named in Mr. C. D. Allen's " American Book-plates," p. 165. Plate mark 3lX2|. Two varieties. It John Bailey. M.O. Ipswich Arm. Jac. No motto. 3|X2i. (No explanation of the letters M.O.) Curious as having the inscription engraved on the shield with the armorial bearings. See also 1789. Andrew Baldrey Ipswich 1761 Chip. Pict. No motto ; inscription on the shield. A palette and brushes in place of a crest. 2a x 2J. N.n. by A.W.F. Thos Boycott Arm. Chip. No motto. 3iX2l. An extraordinary specimen of debased and over-elaborated Chip- pendale work. " Andrew Congalton His book, April 20, 1761 .. Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. J. J. F. Godard presb: emerit. Cadom: Decanus. Book-pile (French ; Dean of Caen.) t» A. J. Have. (French) Arm. books V. de Semeuze del et sc. Anne Hett. April 10. 1761 Wreath " The noble art and mystery of " and Printing was first invented in the Ribbon year 1450, by John Faust in the city of Mentz in Germany, and was brought into England in the year r46o in the reign of Henry VI by Frederic Corsellis who set up the first printing press in Oxford, afterwards in the year 1474 in Westminster. In the year 1484 the first printing press was set up in the city of London by Richard Pinson." N.n. by A.W.F. " Bibliotheca Hoermanniana. (German C. S. W. Behrisch, Lips. See Warren's "Guide," p. 146. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 83 1761 1762 Mr. le Prince de Lambesc, Grand Ecuyer de France. John Matthews. (One ( erased) Elizabeth Mordant John Ord, Lincolns Inn Joseph Pocklington, Newark, Nottinghamshire (Plate No. 3 in Mr. Warren's " Guide " was the Chippendale plate of Richd Caryer, which he says is, except the heraldry, identical with this plate of Joseph Pocklington. He thinks the Caryer plate was the original of the two. It possesses the curiously distinctive feature of a large Chip, shield for the arms, and a smaller supplementary Chip, shield above, on which the crest and wTeath are engraved.) F. J. Schwendt (Francois Ignace Schwendt, born at Haguenau 27 Sept., 1736, died 29 Sept., 1824. He was an Alsatian of some note, mayor of his native town in 1792, and again from 180S to i8ir. He was also a Member of the National Assembly for the city of Strasbourg.) Ex dono Thomae Sherlock S.T.P. Episcopi Londinensis mdcclxi. Alexander Staples his Book, 1761. Du Cabinet de Messire Barthelemy Gabriel RoUand, Conseiller au Parlement. Presi- dent a la premiere des Requetes du Palais. 1761. (Coronet of Count.) W. Whywall Robert Ballard David Christie, May ist, 1762 Jno Fenn Arm. Label Printed label Arm. Chip. Arm. Chip. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. 3iX2|. See Warren's " Guide," p. 32 : " This plate gives about the limit of pure Chippendale, for signs of decadence are here observable." Reproduced in Castle, p. 83, and 2nd edit., p. 96. ^^ Sp€ro nteliora." See also 17 — . N.n. by A.W.F. Arm. with supporters Arm. Chip. Printed label \rm. with supporters Arm. Arm.Chip. Printed label Arm. Jac. No motto. Traiteur fecit. 3^X2i Reproduced on p. 137 of Les Archives dc la Socit'ti- Fraii<;aisi- dcs Collectionnctirs d' Ex Libris, No. g, Aout, 1894. Two shields. No motto. 2IX3J Sir A. W. Franks thus describes the plate : Thomas Sherlock, bishop of London. No motto. 2JX3J. Type in a border. See 1763. No motto. Same arms as Barthe- lemy Gabriel RoUand D'Ercerville. 1750. Three states. 3|X2j. See Warren's " Guide," p. 17. " Du Cabinet" is in a scroll above the crest ; the remainder of the inscription is below the arms. "Du Cabinet de " would seem rather more appropriate to the nu- mismatist than to the bibliophile. No motto. "Falccs conflantur in ciises." 3iX2f: Military trophies. No motto. 1JX3J. N.n. by A.W.F." No motto. Probably the work of a novice. N.n. by A.W.F. 84 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1762 176(3) 1763 Caroli. Ferd: Hommelii Bibliotheca .. (M. Poulet-Malassis, on page 42, translates these names as Charles-Frederic Hommeau, but the second name is clearly intended for Ferdinand. He also gives a slightly different version of the Latin inscription ; but I prefer to quote Mr. Warren's version, as being probably the more correct of the two. See also under 176-) Ex Libris Petri Antonii Convers Laudonensis Le Commissaire Laumonier .. Henry Manaton Esqr ,Kilworthy Devon Robert Meetkerke J. Poole Biblioteque de Mr. de Provencheres . . (A French plate. Coronet of Marquis.) Sr William Robinson Baronett of Newby in the North Riding of the County of Yorke. (Grandson of the owner of the 1702 plate.) David Routh His Book, Norfolk. (American) Aug: Scholtzii, Canonici (Magdeburg) Ex bibliotheca Schoepfliniana (Schoepflin, the historian.) C. T. Felix de Wavrans, Episc-Iprensis Library Interior Ex Libris Gulielmi Sinclair E. CoUeg. Reg. Aberdon. Vet. 67th Regiment Arm. Coronet of Count Arm. Arm.Chip. Printed label Arm. with supporters Arm. EarlyEng. Printed label Arm. Crest Arm. Printed label Arm.Pict. "Intra quatuordecim dies comma- datum ni reddideris neque belle custodicris, alio tempore, ' Non habeo dicam '" (" If you do not return the loan within 14 days, or do not keep it carefully, on another occasion, when you wish to bor- row something, I shall say ' I have it not.' ") Mr. Warren thus describes this plate: "The design represents the interior of a comfortable lib- rary. In the centre is a statue of Apollo. On the pedestal is the date 1762. The room is lined with lofty book-cases, except the left wall, whereon hang seven framed portraits, and below are two geographical globes." See Warren's " Guide," p. 98 ; Poulet- Malassis, p. 42 ; Hardy's "Book- plates," p. 127. No motto. L. Monnier fecit Divione (Dijon). 3JX2J. Repro- duced in Hamilton's " French Book-plates," p. 61. A. Docaigne, fecit. No motto. Coffin, Exon. 2jX2i. No motto. Nicole. 4X2J. No motto. 3jX2|. The 1702 plate, with the date altered by changing the o into 6. See Ex L. J., Vol. II., p. 17, and Vol. III., p. g. See also Sr William Robinson Knight, 1704. Allen's p. 276. Named in Mr. C. D. " American Book-plates," Bernigeroth, Lips, sc. See Warren's "Guide," p. 146. J. R. Metzger. See " Petite Revue d'Ex Libris Alsaciens," p. 33. Bickham. Sc. Marche a Lille. " Bellona ceased, let Science take the Field, To Keep your conquests, Pallas lend a Shield." J. Taylor sculpt. O Jfatnej Dtlt fiCff^^T^pms Sta/fi.tyja DATED BOOK-PLATES. 85 1763 1764 This book belongs to . . (A blank form intended for the owner to fill in his name.) G.P.E. A.N.B. (The Monastery of Baumburg, Germany.) Charles Shaw Lord Cathcart Richard Gough Ex Libris Hedouin. (French) James Jones of Harlaxton in the County of Lin- coln March the igth 1763. Printed with his own Hand at Stamford in Lincolnshire. Theobald Muntz, pasteur a I'eglise fran9aise de Mulhouse. John Neale Pleydell Nott Esq Great Lodge Braydon Forest Wilts. Dorothy Peirse of York. May 27. 1763 F. de la Rouchefoucault, Marchionis de Bayers. Alexander Staples his Book. 1763. N. Toke. Coll: Om: Ani: Socius. (All Souls' Col- lege.) John, Duke of Athole Thomas Philipp Von Der Hagen (German) William Lloyd ( of North Wales) McNachtan of that Ilk's Arms. 1764 Edward Morant, Brokenhurst (There is some doubt as to the accuracy of this date.) E Libris Johannis Morshead. Anno Domini, 1764. Ex Libris Francisci Perrault. Ecclesiae de Pra- ville in Belsia. Rectoris 1764. Eliz. Pierson. London : Printed in the year 1764. Philip Rashleigh Pict. Arm. Two shields Arm. with supporters Arm. Woodcut and printed label Arm. Chip, Label Printed label Arm. Printed label Arm. Arm. landscape Printed label Portrait Printed label [Arm.Chip. F. Bartolozzi. No motto. 3iX2|. "y'espere de reiissir" and motto of the Order of the Thistle. Two varieties. One variety, arms in oval shield, surrounded by a looped mantle. No motto. V. de Semeuze, inv. et sculp. Military trophies on a pedestal. Rough woodcut at top, represen- ting Cupid aiming a dart at a country damsel. 6JX3J. " Paccm sed coronntam." 4jX2|. See Warren's "Guide," p. 175, where this plate is ascribed to W. H. Toms; also p. 1S6. N.n. by A.W.F. Augustin de St Aubin del. This plate exists in three states. No motto. Type in a border. See 1761. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. Cole sc. F. C. Gericke, Berol (Berlin) sc. See Warren's " Guide," p. 151. Printed by J. Ross. "I hope in God." N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. See also the plates of John Morant, dated 1786, 1825, and 1862 No motto. 2|X3- A singular jumble of type and typo, orna- ments. N.n. by A.W.F. " Solamen in solitudine " Le Tillier inv. 5X3. Reproduced in Hardy, p. 158, and Ex L. J., Vol. HI., p. 69. " God is love and thaVs a niercy,'^ N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. 3 X 2j. 86 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1764 (1765) 1765 17(66) 1766 Francis Rogers Sirejean Fils Du Reclus. (Veuf en 1784) John Wilson of AUonby Cumberland Scul' a.d. 1764. (Thof Fenwick 1765.) The Fenwick arms; name and date written in contemporary hand. This Book was given by the Reverend John Allen, Rector of Eastwick, to his Successors in that Rectory. 1765. Ex Munificentia Senatus Populique Arausicani Miss Eliz. Barber .. The Belfast Library a.d. 1765 Ludwig Ernst von Konigsberg). L Clarke D.D. Borowsky (Theolog in MDCCLXV. Z. Clarke J. B. Comitis. Natus Lovaniz 21 Aug. 1765 This Book belongs to James Gregory, Aberdeen. February ist mdcclxv. Ex Lib. Monast: St Petri Montis Majoris. Secus arel. Congres St. Mauri. (German) Joann: Skipp e Coll Mert. Daniel Thomas Josephi Xaupi E. Nobilibus Perpiniani Civibus, Canonici, et Archidiaconi in ecclesia Per- pinianensi, Abbatis de jau, Sacrae facultatis Parisiensis e regia societate doctoris et ab ineunte anno 1765. V. decani. Jno Whittingham (the final m squeezed in over the n) Glover. Worcester. A scarce and beautiful plate, from which the name has been erased. (? John Smart) Arm.Chip. Arm. Engraved label Arm. W. and R. Printed label Arm. Literary. Chip, frame Pict. Library Interior Arm. Engraved label Arm. Eccles. Chip. Label Arm. Eccles. Coronet of Count Engraved label. Chip, frame Arm.Chip. No motto. W.W.F. N.n. by A.W.F. Colin, sc 1754. No motto. Plate mark 3jX3f. Apparently engraved by a novice. ^^ Tons jours loyal.'^ 3X2^. There are many Fenwick book- plates, one by Bewick. See also 1814. 2^X31- No motto. A premium plate. Mutilated example. N.n. by A.W.F. " The Truth in love." " ApoUinis et Minervae Domum." See in Mr. Vicars' List. Prob- ably school premium plate. N.n. by A.W.F. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. Brupacher fee. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. Plate mark 4X2^. Same plate as 1750, with al- tered inscription. Avis sc fecit 1750 (this signature is very in- distinct, and might be read Avisse fecit). No motto. 3jX2|. Mr. Whittingham subsequently had the name re-engraved, so that the whole of it went on one line. See 17(73). " Noli me tangere." Crest, an elephant. 3J X 2|. D. Malone Sculpsit. A iielfast engraver, not named by Mr. Warren. J DATED BOOK-PLATES. 87 1766 1767 Nameless plate. On a shell-shaped shield, Argent, three korsc-slwcs snblc, two and one. Sup- porters, Mars and Minerva. (Swiss. Said to belong to de Snieth, Seigneur de Grand- cour, Vaud.) Nameless plate. (For Johann Valentin Meyer of Hamburg.) Arm. Arm. Pict. Nameless French plate. (Two cross keys over a lance-head.) Thomas Blackett Augusta Anna Brydges Donaldson, Williamshaw, Ayrshire. T. Frome. Cricklade. Lauchlan McLean of Torloisk Gio Lopi Herr Adolf von Trott 2u Solz (Treves Anna Helena, Stewart. Charles Tyrrell. Nameless plate. The arms of Soame, an ancient Suffolk family, namely, Gulcs, a chevron between three mallets or. Crest, A hire, standing thereon a falcon. Mrs Frances Burroughs. Died 5'J^ May 1767. Aged 76 years. (This plate — hitherto unknown to Sir A. W. Franks, and other leading collectors — was found in a folio entitled " The History of the Old and New Testament," printed in London 1701. It was exhibited at the meeting of the Sette of Odd Volumes held in London on 12th October, 1S94.) The inscription, below the arms, appeared to have been added by hand. Alleg. Eccles. Printed label Arms in lozenge Plain Arm. Printed label Jac. Scotch Style Arm. Pict Printed label Arm. Arm. Late Chip. Arm. EarlyEng No motto. Gio Lopi inv et scul. Libur 1766. 4jX5jwide. In an oval frame a naked man with a scythe on his shoulder. Wille filius del. Halm Sculp. No motto. A beautiful design by the son of the well-known artist, J. C. Wille, who thus refers to the plate in his diary: " Repondu a M. J. V. Meyer a Bordeaux. Je lui envoye une epreuve de ses armes, qu'il en avail prie de lui faire graver. C'est mon fils qui en a fait le dessin, qui repre'sente une figure avec une faux sur I'epaule, et Halm I'a grave." Reproduced in the Ex L. y.. Vol. IV., p. 178. No motto. J. M. Moreau jeune. No motto. 3X2J. The lozenge surrounded by branches and flowers. " Ant Pax aut Belliini." 3IX2J. This plate appears more modern, say about 1830. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. "Altera Merces." N.n. by A.W.F. Libur sc. Back sc. See Warren's " Guide,"' p. 146. No motto. 1JX2J. " Sans craindre." No motto. Crow fecit. See Warren's Plate mark 3jX3j. Guide," p. 185. No motto. A very large plate, measuring 15 ins. X iij. The arms in a lozenge, surrounded by Early English mantling; head of a cherub below the escutcheon. The arms were Azure, three fleurs de lys ermine, for Bur- roughs (or Burrows) impaling, quarterly first and fourth ermine, second and third or, over all, on the fess point, a sun in its splen- dour. N.n. by A.W.F. 88 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1767 Ann Cannon Joan Talbot Dillon, Generosus Anglus Sac. Rom. Imp. Eques Hereditarius et Liber Baro Viennae. Aust. 1767. J. Talbot Dillon. Genere Anglus Munificentia Augg. S. R. Imp. Eques Hereditary & Liber Baro. Viennae, Aust, 1767. Robert Foulis Michael Grace, of Gracefield Esqre De la Bibliotheque de Linsigne Eglise Primatialle de Lorraine. (Arms of Lorraine on the small inescutcheon.) F.A.M. Martha Savill. Cambridge, Printed June 25, 1767 Label Arm. with supporters Arm. with supporters Printed label Arm. W. and R, Arm. Eccles. Printed label 7 X4i Honble Robert Heny Southwell Lieut ist^ Regt of Horse. Thomas Wright Suffolk. Esqr: of Santon Downham, Joseph Wilkins May 20, a. d. 1767 On the Art of Printing. Hail Mystic Art I which Men like Angels taught To speak to Eyes, and paint unbody'd Thought ! Tho' deaf, and dumb ; blest Skill, relieved by Thee, We make one Sense perform the other three. We see, we hear, we touch the Head and Heart, And take, or give, what each but yields in part. With the hard Laws of Distance we dispense. And, without Sound, apart, commune in Sense. Dead Letters, thus with living Notions fraught. Prove to the Souls the Telescopes of Thought ; To mortal Life a deathless Witness give ; And bid all Deeds and Titles last and live. In scanty Life, Eternity we taste ; View the first Ages, and intorm the last. Arts, Hist'ry, Laws, we purchase with a Look, And keep, like Fate, all Nature in a Book. Arm. Pict. Arm. Jac. Printed label " Auxilinm ab nlto." 3JX3J. Shield with sixteen quarterings, surmounted by the coronet of a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire. " Auxilitim nb Alto." 3iX3j. Shield with sixteen quarterings, surmounted by the coronet of a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire. On first quarter the Dillon arms, the same as borne by Baron Clonbrock of Clonbrock, Ireland, created 1790. " En grace affie." " Concordant nomine facta." See list of the Grace family plates. No motto. Nicole a Nancy. 5JX3J. Reproduced in Hamil- ton's " French Book-plates," p. 88. J. W. Meil, inv. et fe. See Warren's " Guide,' p. 153. Around the name and date is printed — " The Noble Art and Mystery of Printing was first invented and prac- tised by John Faust, in the City of Mentz in High Germany, about the Year of our Lord 1451, and brought into England by William Caston, a Mercer and Citizen of London, who by the Encouragement of the Great, and particularly of the Abbot of West- minster, first set up a Printing Press in the Abby, and began the printing of Books there about the Year of our Lord 1471." See the Book-plate Collector's Miscellany, p. 29. See also 1729 and 1731. N.n. by A.W.F. " Pro patria mori." 3|X2i. Military trophy at foot. No motto. 33X25. Had also aplate dated 17 — only. The names and date with verses beneath are printed within a typo, ornamental border, the whole in a plain square frame 5X4|. Copied from an example in the collection of Mr. James Roberts Brown, V.P. ExL.S. N.n. by A.W.F. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1768 Nameless French plate Arm. Moreau fecit. 11 11 Rev. P. Beavis James Campbell Chip. Engraved label A Chip, shield, the name added in type. N.n. by A.W.F. 11 P. R. Le Cornier de Cideville Arm. Bacheley del. et sculp. 11 J'appartiens a Cleenewerek de Crayencour Arm. No motto. Helman. 3jX2f. Shield surrounded by "festoons held by cupids. Found in three states. i» College of Arms Engraved label N.n. by A.W.F. 11 Fra: Eades, Birmm .. Literary N.n. by A.W.F. 11 Rev. Thomas Evans Printed label 11 Hugh Farmer Groom Dec' 1768 Leather label 11 J. Gulston, .. Arm. Jac. "Crescitstib poiirleri-virtus." 2^X3 ? An older plate with date added. 11 De Hansy, a Paris Library nterior Fonbonne sc. 11 Richard Hassell Esqr of Barnet Arm. EarlyEng. No motto. An altered plate. If John Homfray mdcclxviii. . . (Arms enclosed n a square ruled frame 4jX2|. Plate mark 5X3^.) Arm. many quarter- ings " Vulneror non vincor" over the crest, and below the arms, " L'Homme vrai aime son pays." Appears more modern than 1768. 11 John Jennings Arm. Late Chip. " Virtus sola twbilitas." The date above the crest. Plate mark 3i X 2i. 11 Bibliotheque de D. Laflize Maitre en Chirurgie a Nancy. Pict. Alleg. No motto. Collin, a Nancy. 3J X ij. Reproduced in Hamilton's "French Book-plates," p. g8. " Elizabeth Lockyer Printed label 11 Nicholas Pike. (American) . . Printed label 11 Frederic Guillaume August de Sellentin Arm. Landscape No motto. D. Berger filius inve del. et fecit. Berolini. Hand- some plate. 5JX3J. 11 Legavit Robertus Smith. S.T.P. Magister CoUegii A.D. MDCCLXVIII. Arm. Festoons No motto. 3JX2J. 11 Sir Richard Steele Bart (Date of creation of the baronetcy 1768, of Hampstead, co. Dublin. The fifth baronet, Sir F. F. A. Steele, died in 1876, and the title became extinct, as his twin sons went abroad, and were never again heard of.) Arm. No motto. (The family motto was " Absque labore nihil.") N.n. by A. W. F. 11 Ludovico Vacher Pastori Vitellensi .. (Cure de Vitteaux, Cote d'Or.) Arm. Pict. "Mulgcas non prcmas." Monier sculp. 4 X 2j. Reproduced in Hamilton's "French Book-plates," p. 138. Canting arms with the Coronet of Count. 11 Richard Wilding mdcclxviii. Printed label No motto. 2^x3!. N.n. by A.W.F. go DATED BOOK-PLATES. 17(69) 1769 Collegium Corporis Christi & B. Virginis Mari« in Universitate Cantabrigiensi. Nameless Flemish plate William Armorer's book Jacob Bankson Josephus Jacobus Henerkus De Battis I. U. Doctor S: S: Theologiae. Licentiat, Offi- cialis Curiae Consiliaris, Ecclesiastic, Chori S: Willibadi Canonicus et Custos Eustet- tensis. Wm Beckett. Junor {sic) Benoit Bieswal avocat en Parlement T. Bonner Lincoln College Oxford Com. & (This inscription Jno. Brand. Exhib. shield : on a Chip, below on a scroll is the motto, and below again is "Newcastle upon Tyne 1769.") L. Claviere. (French) Wm Crawfurd Margareta Von Dassel. (German) . Charles Farr, Salisbury Octr g. 1769. Samuel Farr m.d. Richd Glover Junr Aug? Henry Duke of Grafton. Margaret Hill her Book. March 2, 1769. J.B. Richard Maitland Le Comte de Luzignem Willm Mitford of Gilbury Hampshire, 1769 (There is also an undated plate of William Mitford of Exbury, Hampshire, with different arms, a square shield without mantling or motto, oval shaded background. In all three cases the inscriptions are engraved below the oval designs.) Edwardus Newling Ex Libris Aloys Com: de la Rosee . . College St. Augustins. (No place-name) lArm. Jac. Arm. Eccles. Printed label Label Arm. No crest, motto, or motto scroll. Plate mark 3i X 3. From the same copper plate as the 1701 ; see description in Warren, p. 72. " Constanter et Prudcnter." L. Fruytiers f. Antverpiae. 7jx6. No motto. No motto. 2X3|. No motto. Vacheron fecit I76g. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. " Vclim lion errare." No arms, but over the shield, in place of a crest, a lyre and two trumpets. 2j X 2\. A curious and scarce little plate. Coronet of Count. No motto. See Ex L.Zeitsdirift, April, i8g3. '^Variant semper dantotia mentem." 2| X 2j. Reproduced in Castle, 1st edit., p. 117, and 2nd edit, p. 142. No motto. "London March. I76g," in MS. " Etdccus et pretium recti." Two sizes, 3IX3J and 2JX2J. No motto. i}X2|. N.n. by A.W.F. "Pnixetpen." 4X2f. The arms of Scotland in an oval wreath. No motto. Beugnet. 3X2J. No motto. Plate mark 4JX3}. This is the plate of John Mit- ford of 1744 with the inscription altered. See Rylands' Notes, p. 10: " The mantlet has many folds, as if blown about by the wind, but it is not cut or scrolled, and therefore is very unlike an Early Armorial plate. There is an oval background, shaded with horizon- tal lines behind the achievement." Printed label Arm. Pict. No motto. Aloys, Comes de la Rosee, inv, del etSculpst. 3JX2J. See Warren's " Guide," p. 154. Arm. Eccles. Leather label Arm. Arm. Pict Chip, frame Arm. Arm. Arm.Chip. Arm. Pict. Arm. Book-pile Arm. with supporters' Printed label Arm. Arm. Arm. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 91 1769 177- 17(70) 1770 Henricus Stebbing. Grayensis. M. Thouvenin Consr du Roy Charles Grant James Grant (Arms, Gules, a boar's head couped argent, muzzled azure, between three antique erowns or. These are the arms of Grant of Shewglie, matri- culated first in 1776, which were altered by a second matriculation in 1796, and are — Gules, on a fess argent betiveen three antique erowns or, a lion passant guardant of the first, imperially crowned ppr.) Joseph Pocklington George Purse Selkirk Stewart Plate with the Fenwick arms. " Thos Fenwick 1770" written on a blank scroll below the shield. Ex Libris Caroli Ludovici D.M.p. (French) Samuel Bayly Francisci Andry Petri Blanchard (French) Joannes Carpenter, Archiep. Dub. & Hib. Pr. .. (Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland.) Dartmouth College Library. (America) Sigill. Col. Dartmuth Nov. Hant. in America 1770. A. P. de Fontenay, Sgr de Sommant, Noiron, etc. G. C. Fox. Falmouth John Gill Theod. Cte. Morawitzky (Polish) V. (French) Arm.Seal Arm. Arm. festoon Arm. No motto. " Vigilat et cantat.' Nancy. Arm.Chip. Printed label Printed label Arm. W. and R American Academy of Arts and Sciences, mdcclxx. AUeg. Mono, in shield Printed label Arm. Arm. Eccles. Pict. Arm. Printed label Arm. V. only Collin, a '^ Revircscimus." N.n. by A.W.F. ** Revirescimnsy A spade shield surrounded by festoons, and surmounted by a large banyan tree as crest. 4X 2|. ' Spero meliora.' No motto. "Tons jours loyal." 3X2J. The same plate is found, and with the same inscription, but other dates. See 1765. A handsome plate attributed to Callender. Fully described in Mr. Allen's " American Book- plates," p. 163, and reproduced on p. 126. The date on the repro- duction, however, is MDCCLXXX, No motto. No motto. Head of a horse as crest. Date stamp in red ink. 3iX3- Coronet of Marquis over arms. "Alleluia." Plate mark 2jx 2|. See Griggs' 2nd S., pi. 21. Design 2jX2. No motto. There are several other plates of Dartmouth College. J. N. Moreau Sculp. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. N. n. by A.W.F. Aloys, Comte la Rosee. fecit. Villiez fecit. 92 17(71) 1771 DATED BOOK-PLATES. M. Wall. Coll. Nov. Oxon. Soc. Nameless French plate. Cong. Miss. Sem. S. Car. Pict. (Did this belong to a Seminary of Saint Charles at Poitiers ?) Nameless Swiss plate. (? Gerber, Soleure. Has a coronet similar to that of a French Marquis.) Le Chir De Bellehache Officier de Cavalerie au Reg'. D'Artois. (Coronet of Count over the arms.) A. Berglint Mr. Taverne de Burgault J. Cleoburey, a.b. St. John's College Cambridge. John Coffin. (Of Mass., N. America) Erasmus Darwin m.d. f.r.s. Lichfield 1771. .. (Poet and physician, died April, 1802.) M. L. Comte D'Essalles Thomas Ewing, Dublin Jacobus Maximilianus I. S: R: I: Co: Comes et Dominus Collalti S. Salvactoris, etc. Joannes Perkins Mr. Daniel Simpson Joh: Spoerlin v.d.m. pasteur a Mulhouse R. D. Thomas. Tornacen (Tournay) Hannah Tindall. May 1771 .. Thos Wentworth, Bretton Hall, Yorkshire Thos Wentworth, Bretton Hall, Yorkshire. July 30, 1771. (A remarkable plate. Same arms as Thomas Wentworth Baron of Raby i6g8, and Sir John Wentworth of North Elmes Hall. See also 1796. The owner was a schoolmaster; see Ex L. J., Vol. III., p. 9.) Crest Pict. Arm. with supporters Arm. Military trophies Crest Pict. Arm. Printed label Arm. Jac. Arm. Arm. Engraved label Arm. Pict. Printed label Leather • label Legacy label Label Arm. Books Arm. Pict. " Nil conscire sibi." Plate mark 2jXlf. " Tuelur et nutrit " above design, " PapUlon 1771" below. Repro- duced on p. 172, No. II, of the Archives de la Societe Franfaise. "Deo Patriae et Amicis." Design 3X2|. No motto. Design 3JX2J. Re- produced in Hamilton's " French Book-plates," p. 63. (There is a smaller armorial plate not dated, and without the military insignia). " Di tibi dent annos a te nam cetera siimcs" (Ovid), above de- sign ; " Nomen et arma locum servant " he\ov/. C. G. Fehrman, Sculpsit, Stockholmiae. Design 5X3. Swedish plate. No motto. Merche. No motto. iJX3i. Motto scroll, but no motto. See Ex L. J., Vol. HI., p. 124, and Allen's " American Book- plates," p. 186. " E conchis omnia." Plate mark 2| X 2j. See Misc. Gen. et Her., Vol. III., S. 2. " Tiirris Domini fortitudo mea,''* J. Traiteur fecit. N.n. by A.W.F. Long Latin inscriptions. T. Viero inc. Plate mark 2| X 4^. No motto. Nomotto. 2jX3^. N.n. by A.W.F. R. Beilby Sculpt. Newcastle. See also 1789 and 1796. " Each their own." 4JX3J. Above the arms are the three lines following: — "Knowledge to AVisdom reaches by degrees As Brooks run to Rivers Rivers run to seas An able Head — with an Honest Heart and " and below the arms are the six following lines : — "Let Minerva's arts your ev'ry Action Guide And more in wisdom than in strength confide If you with virtue and with prudence arm No fraud can reach you and no strength can Harm Safe in yourself your foes you may defy And Vice and folly from your lace shall fly." DATED BOOK-PLATES. 93 1771 Prince of Wales, and the Bishop of Osna- Label No motto. J. Kirk sculpt Bed- burgh. y^i May, 1771. with ford Str- Covt Garden. 2^X3^. two crests The inscription is on a ribbon which encircles the crests of the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of York. ti Vincent demeure actuellement Rue des Mathurins, Printed Hotel de Clugny. label - 1772 Jno Baldwin Arm. Jac. " Pax corona Belli." Plate mark 3 X 2I. »' Richard Beresford, Charleston (America) Arm. See Allen's " American Book- plates," p. 172. i» J. Bowens. (Vpres) Arm. with No motto. Merche graveur des supporters Etats, a Lille. 3X2^. »» Matthew Cadoux Engraved label No motto. )» Duval. (French) Floral label No motto. Zapouraph sculp. ft Mary Fleming Printed label. N.n. by A.W.F. >> J. Floyde .. Stamped label No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. " Mr. Thomas Gent. Printer, ^t So. Printed label 11 Ex Libris G. Van Gintertaelen Printed No motto, j' X 3. label »» Franc: Philipp: Gugger. Canonicus Solodoren- Arm. " Philosophiae Virtiiti sen ac sis (Soleure). Scicntiae." Coronet of Marquis. Plate mark 3:^X2 J. If Gregorius Christianus Comes ab Haxthausen Arm. with ^^ Ex Candore Dcctts." (A Danish plate. Gregory Christian, Count of supporters J. S. Winckler del et Sculp Haxthausen, born 1732, died iSoz.) Fridricswcerk. ij De La Biblioteque De Mr Poulletier Gendarme Arm. No motto. Canting arms, Sable, De la Garde Ordinaire Du Koy a Compiegne. (hrcc pullets proper. Supporters, two eagles. Coronet of Count. 3iX2j. fi This Belongs to George Purse. August 27th, 1772 Printed Curious border of typographical label ornaments. N.n. by A.W.F. »» H.S. on shield. S. Elisabeta Diaconus Vratislau. (Remainder of inscription illegible.) Shield Mr. le Marquis de Saisseval Arm. with No motto. Traiteur. 3JX2J. .supporters This Marquis assumed a ducal coronet. •• Ed Smith. September gth, 1772 Printed label Livres de Mr Terray, Maitre des Requetes. Arm. with No motto. 3X23. Coronet of (The Abbe Joseph-Marie Terray was born at supporters Count. Reproduced in Hamilton's Boen X715, died in Paris 1778. He was Con- "French Book-plates," p. jzq; troller-General of Fmance under Louis XV., and see also Guigard's " Armorial possessed a very fine library.) du Bibliophile." »» M. Wall. Coll. Nov. Oxon. Soc. Crest ** Nil conscire stbi." This plate is found with various dates filled in by hand. t> , Peter Whitelock .. Arm. Chip, No motto. 2JX2. 94 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 17(73) C. Darwin. Lichfield Printed label No motto. Type border 2jX ij. Ji Jno. Whittingham. Glover Worcester Engraved No motto. 3jX2j. An altered label. plate. Mr. Whittingham had the Chip. same plate with the final m in his frame name squeezed in over the a. See 17(66). 1773 Ex Libria D. D. d'Archambault. (? of Chartres) Arm. Pict. "In Armis Lcones." A. Sergent Eccles. Scul. Carnuti. 5 X 3J. Repro- duced in Hamilton's " French Book-plates," p. no. Mr. Vicars names it as of 1773 ; the date is indistinct, in some copies it appears 1778. n St. George Bowles Printed label n Kempe Brydges junr Arm. No motto. Plate mark 3^X 2j. Spade shield with festoon. This Book belongs to Alexr. Chalmers Printed No motto. Two sizes, same in- label scription, 2X3J wide. »» John Colthurst, his book Label N.n. by A.W.F. " Samuel Cotton. Stourbridge Engraved No motto. 2X3J. label N.n. by A.W.F. Johannes Agritius Carolus Adamus Embden. Arm. No motto. Wicker sc. Serenissimi Principis Salm Salmensis Con- siliarius Intimus et Archi Satrapa: Juris utriusque Doctor. ») H. K. Gardiner Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. ,^ Mary Hanson. St Edmunds' Bury, Suffolk. Prmted Plate of Mary Hanson, afterwards Oxford. July 22, 1773. Printed at the label Lady CuUum by marriage. Clarendon Press. in border See the Misc. Gen. ft Her., Vol. v., 2nd S., 1894. >) Franc. Jos. Ant. Hell, bailli de I'eveche de Bale, etc. P. P. Choffard fecit. )> Hector Macaulay. Quebec, Printed No motto. iiX3j. label N.n. by A.W.F. }i Wm Mitford, of Pitts Hill .. Pict. Sherwin fecit. (John Keys Sher- .AUeg. win). See Warren's "Guide," p. 182 : " This plate appears to have been engraved the year after Sherwin gained the gold medal for drawing at the Royal Academy." J) James Otis. Feby 1773 Printed See Allen's " American Book- (Orator and patriot of Massachusetts, N.America.) label plates," p. 25S. tj R. Thomas Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. n Jno Whittingham. Glover Worcester Sir A. W. Franks places this in 1773 ; it is really only a half date. See 17(73). 1) Rbts Willoughby a.m. m.d. .. Crest "Recte moliri et malignum spernere vulgus." i|X2j. N.n. by A.W.F. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 95 1774 M.D.A. (Mary Dorothy Astley) (See also Margaret Este.) The Adderley John Andrews's Circulating Library. Calcutta 1774- Literary Label Library Interior Richard Beresford, Charles Town, South Carolina. 1 Arm. De la Biblioteque de M. Costard de Bursard .. Edw. Wills Busbey To John Campbell Esqr Cashier Edinr (The date is on a bank-note of the Royal Bank of Scotland, and is very indistinct.) Raymundus Dapp . . Margaret Este R. Fowler b.a. Jas Haviland, Bath Morris Hughes G. L. Bishop of Kilmore (George Lewis Jones, Bishop of Kilmore.) The Property of Richard Power, of James's- Street, 1774. Martha Shorte, Sevenoaks, Kent Anthony Thorpe Arm. with supporters Engraved label Arm. Pict. Literary Arm. Oval shield Arm.Chip Printed label Arm. Eccles. festoon Printed label Printed label Printed label Names on books. Margaret Este direxit. N.n. by A.W.F. N.n. byA.W.F. " Utile duici " above the design. Shepperd Sc. 4IX3. The design is stolen from a plate engraved by B. Picart, in 1722, for " Amadei Lulin," repro- duced by Mr. Hardy, p. 108. The same design was appropriated for the plate of T. Wilson, Book- seller, York, and Lownds's Cir- culating Library. Motto scroll but no motto. 3iX2j See Ex L. y., Vol. III., p. 59. Mr. Allen only mentions the 1772 plate in his book. No motto. Coronet of French Marquis. 4JX2I. Mottoes, " FollozB mc" and "Ex- pedite at Consiiito.^' Mr. John Campbell was Assist- ant-Cashier of the Royal Bank of Scotland from 1734 to 1745, when he became Head Cashier. He died Feb. 5, 1777. N.n. by A.W.F. Gericke jun. in v. del et sc. See Warren's " Guide," p. 151. Margaret Este direxit C.A. and M.E. See Dorothy Astley. "Henceforth catch men." Plate mark3|X3j. Chip, frame. No motto. 3 X 2j. A scarce plate. See also Tho^_ Haviland, 1742. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. 3J X 2j. See in Griggs' 2nd S., pi. 12. See also 1790. Sir A. W. Franks mentions this plate, and another of 1774. with the names " Geo. Lewis Jones, bishop of Kilmore." See Warren's "Guide," p. 178, and Mr. Thairlwall's Notes on the faulty heraldry of this plate, and that of 1790, when J. L. Jones was Bishop of Kildare, quoted on p. 18 of Introduction. No motto. I5X3. No motto. 2JX2}. Ornamental border 96 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 17(75) 1775 17(76) 1776 M. Wall. Coll. Nov. Oxon. Soc. Nameless French plate Cabre N. Guibal, Pr Peintre du Due de Wurtemberg William Hooper Hull Subscription Library, 1775. Entered George Joy's Book. January i, 1775 Anthy. Lambert, Alnwick Rilliet. (Of Gene%a) Domenico Torres. Negoziante di Libri Napoli. (Italian) Francis and Mary Wadman T. West E Libs M. Wall mb. Coll Nov. Oxon. Soc. T. Biddle, High Wycombe Bucks Marie Louis Barthelemy Cte de Bar Baron de Limanton et de Sosay Lieutnt au Regnt D'infanterie du Roy 1776. Rev. John Caulfeild dd. *Euphemia Gordon of Kenmure. above arms; bclozv the arms, Archdeacon of Kilmore. Ex Bibliotheca Car: Frid: Schr: de Cronstern S. R. Maj. Dania a Consiliis Confer: & Status. (Danish) James Hughes Carolus Lomax, e Soc"; pharm: Londin. Crest in wreath Arm. with supportersl Literary Printed label Printed label Printed label Arm.Chip. Arm. Pict. Book-pile Printed label Crest Aim. W. & R. Arm. Arm. Spade shield festoons " Nil conscire sibi." 2jX if. " Sic itiir ad astra gradibus virtutis." ^^ fecit. 3iX2f. C. Gaucher. Designed by N. Guibal himself. See Warren's "Guide," p. 151. Pr'nted in red. 3X4J. No motto. iJX2|. N.n. by A.'W.F. No motto. J. Oliphant sculp. " Jiistitia et aiiiirnitas." C. Monet del. P. P. Choffard Sculp. Plate mark 7X4^. A very handsome Swiss plate. An oval shield, surrounded by flowers, rests against a column, a seated figure of Justice, with scientific instruments around her, points to the name on the plinth below. " 1775 Con Privilegio." Doubtful as a book. plate; used as a label by a bookseller. Arm. Arm. Arm. festoon " Nil conscire sibi." See also 17(71) and 17(75). " Pleasure in pleasing." N.n. by A.W.F. ^^ Au feu an feu." 3^X2j. The shield is surrounded by flags and warlike implements, and surmounted by the Coronet of Count. " Deo duccfcrro comitante." Plate mark3jX2f. Sir A. W. Franks gives the name as Caulfield, which is incorrect. There are several other plates of this family, not dated, having the same mottoes; and one, a land- scape plate, of Richard Caul/eld LL.D., who was Librarian of Queen's College, Cork. No arms or motto. No motto. The arms in an oval frame, suspended by a loop and ribbons. 6|X3j. See Plate. Spade shield, festoons. Plate mark 3|X2j. No motto. No motto. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 97 1776 T. Marks. 1776 „ Arnold Middleton Souchay, Eqis Lugduni „ James Swayne May, 1776 of America) 1777 Ex Museo J. G. R. Boscheron John Campbell Esq. James Duke of Chandos. 1777. Below this in smaller type. " Brydges Duke of Chandos impaling Gamon and Grace Q'y-" J. Comins, e coll. Exon. Oxen Wm Bell Crafton Margaret Fall. No — . 1777. Thomas Hendry Thomas Johnes John Charles Middleton (in Arabic) Joseph Moore Ex Libris Ant. Franc. Alex. Boula de Nanteuil, above arms; below arms, " Libellorum supli- cum Magister a mandatis Regiae celsitudinis, Dominje Provincialiuni ComitissEe, et in suprema Galliarum curia, senator ad hono- Marquis de Rognes Martha Saunders 1777 .. .. .. J. B. M. Schumacher. Eccl. Vird. Can. Thos. Scott. May 1777 George Townsend, his Book, 1777 A. B. Wall M.D. Francois Bernard de Vallier, bailli de Baech- bourg. Franz Bernhard Wallier Vogt auf Bachburg. (Swiss) Benjamin White South Lambeth Engraved label No motto. 2x3. N.n. by A.W.F. Printed label No motto. i|X2j. N.n. by A.W.F. C. Monet del P. P. Chofifard sculp Printed label No motto. Not named by Mr C. Dexter Allen. Arm. Arm. with supporters Mono. Urn Woodcut label Engraved label Arm. Urn Printed label Arm. Arms on lozenge Arm. Woodcut Arm. Printed label Ann. Arm. Arm. Coronet of Count. No motto. Berthault sculp. 3jX2g. Repro- duced in Hamilton's " French Book-plates," p. 65. Date indistinct, see 1774. '' Maintienle droit." Plate mark 4|X3|. See notes on the plates of the Grace family. R. Coffin. No motto. No motto. 1JX2J. N.n. by A.W.F. N.n. by A.W.F. Begbie. " Sperati miseri cavete felices.^' N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. 35 X 2j. Coronet of Count. Singular design. There is only one lion acting as a supporter, and the shield is actually lying on his back. Reproduced in Hamil- ton's "French Book-plates," p. 67 J. Moreau del. No motto. 2}X2j. Festoon around the lozenge. No motto. German. •' Vive Plume.'' N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. Doubtful if a printed date. See the following entry with German inscription ; see also 1792. No motto. 2}X2j. There is an undated plate, very similar in appearance, and having the same arms, with the letters F.B.W.L. over the crest. 2|X2| No motto. 98 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1778 Ex Libria D. D. d'Archambault Arm. Pict. "In armis leonis." A Sergent Eccles. Soul Carnuti. 5X35. Date indistinct. See 1773. ,, Boula. (French) Arm. Pict. M. P. Sc. It William Cooper, d.d. f.r.s. Archdeacon of York, Book-pile " Virtute." Prebend of Norwell Overhall, in the Church See Rylands' Notes, p. 18. of Southwell, Co. Nottingham, Rector of Kirkby upon Wiske, and Vicar of Manfield, Yorksh: 1778. „ E Bibliotheca Gabrielis Duvall. a. d. 1778 Engraved Name within a woodcut border. (Gabriel Duvall was of Huguenot descent, born label in which are 13 stars. Signed in Maryland, 1752. Member of Congress, Comp- T.S. (Sparrow). troller of Currency 1802, Associate Justice U.S. See Allen's "American Book- Supreme Court iSri. Died 1844.) plates," p. 196, and Ex L. J., Vol. III., p. 143. The two descriptions slightly differ. ») Thomas Elmslie Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. Bibliothecas Eliensi addidit Josephus Bentham, Printed No motto. 2X3J. )» Academias Cantabrigiensi Typographus. MDCCLXXViii. (Ely Library) label N.n. by A.W.F. Sam. Farewell. Holebrook Arm. No motto. 3X2|. festoon On the fly-leaf of the volume was written " Sam: Farewell Coll: Wadh:Oxon. Feby ye 25th lyyy." Jean Francois Gillet. Ecuyer Arm. with No motto. 3J X 2j. Coronet of supporters Count. Reproduced in Hamilton's " French Book-plates," p. 68. M. L. Miller Arm. E. C. Thelott. del et fee. " John Pierce Morton Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. " Park 1778. (Gordon arms. ? Gordon of Park) .. Arm. Jac. " Salus per Christum " over crest, "Sic tutus" below shield. 3X2J John Watkins, His Book Label J. Allen scripsit. • Probably a pen-and-ink sketch. 1779 John Andrews Label N.n. by A.W.F. John Philipps Carpenter Printed label Jl Bristowe Cooper Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. 1) William Dodge Cooper, 1779 Printed No motto. 1JX3J. label N.n. by A.W.F. George Dowglass Arm. No motto. Bears the Douglas W. and R. crowned heart. N.n. by A.W.F. Ex libris Duche Arm. Pict. No motto. 3X2. P. Marillier inv. et del. De Launay le jeune Sculp. Two oval shields in a scrolled cartouche. Reproduced in Hamilton's "French Book-plates," p. 69. M Anna Sutton Earle Leather label No motto. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 99 1 779 BibliotheCEe Electoralis Monacensis Jacob Friedeman This Boot; belongs to Thomas Elmslee. Old- meldrum. George Fairholme of Greenhill Esqr: George Fairholme of Greenknow Esqr (Not dated) ConnetabUe te Mare Chaussee de France De Flaghac Capne de Dragons Ex libris Joannis Christiani Gerning, Moeno- Francofurtensis (Frankfort). John Goodricke E. bibliotheca . Henrici . Harford . a.d. 1779 W. R. Highmore, m.d. Francois Grangier de Lamotte. Cap. de Dragons au Regt de Deux Fonts. James Mackintosh C. D. Oehme. (German) Robert Painter Cambridge J. J. Reuss M. Jerem David Reuss Jean Armand Tronchin (of Geneva) Anna Sutton Wade J. Whalley G. C. Wilder Diac. Laur. Revd Sidenham Teast Wylde. a.b. Bristol 178- Arm. Label Arm. 1 Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Pict. Chip, Printed label Engraved label Plain Arm. Printed label Portrait Printed label Arm. Pict Arm. Pict Leather label Printed label Arm. Pict Bruder Jaebez, Ephrata (The plate of John Peter Miller, Prior of the Convent of Seventh Day Baptists at Ephrata, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.) Printed label No motto. Two sizes. Ch. Wink. del. Sockler sc. See Warren's "Guide," p. 155. Wicker sc. Named m Warren's "Guide," p. 157. N.n. by A.W.F. " Spero ineliord." 4X2J: Oval shield with festoons. " Spero meliora." Same plate as the above altered, and with the date only partially erased. No motto. Randu. " Lciudatc nniiiia men Doiiiiniiiii." Dudout f. (or Dudouit f.) " Reconciliato inimico nc conjidas." Ana Ros. Wicker, Sc. A Chip, frame supported by two cupids. Named in Warren, p. 157. See also in r 780. N.n. by A.W.F. Circular label, 2§ diameter. In- scription around the label, H.H. in centre. No motto. "Qiiamplurimissuccurrfrc." Lake Sc. 3iX2i. See Warren's '• Guide," p. 1S7. Ch. Gaucher. N.n. by A.W.F. Leipzig, g Octobre 1779. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. Par son Ami Miiller. 3|X2g. See Warren's "Guide," P- 153- Necker.f. See Warren's "Guide," p. 159. No motto. Coronetof Count. P.P. Choffard fecit. Design 3JX2J. N.n. by A.W.F. Wilder. " Spcrat iiifestis." 3JX24. Spade shield leaning against an urn. Trees, etc. N.n. by A.W.F. See also I7gt. See Mr. Allen's "American Book-plates," p. 249. 100 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 178- The Property of Aaron Putnam, Medford. 178- Printed " The Wicked borrow, but do not label return again ; See thou art not of that Number." See Allen's "American Book-plates," p. 272. 1780 Nameless Armorial plate, with military trophies . . Arm. " Tutius quo altius " above crest ; "Fertile toi," " Fenne toi," on each side of shield. Dessine et Grave par A. M. Stagnon Graveur des sceaux du Roi a Turin. 1780. 5|X4i. Geo. Allan: Darlington Arm. No motto. J. Bailey ft. Landscape See Warren's "Guide," p. 1S4. American Academy of Arts & Sciences mdcclxxx. Pict. '•Sub libertatc florcnt." Attribu- ' TVir P.ift nf ted to J. Callender. See Ex L. f.. Vol. III., p. 42. Reproduced in Allen's "American Book-plates," (The Academy was founded in 1779.) p. 127, and fully described on p. 163, where, however, the date is incorrectly given as 1770. John Blackburne Esq. Orford (Mr. John Blackburne, who was born in 1754 and died in 1833, was a fellow of the Royal Society, High Sheriff of Lancashire 1781, and represented that county in Parliament for forty-six years.) Arm. Pict. No motto. J. K. Sherwin fecit. (Signature and date reversed.) A loosely draped female figure is sketching the arms on an oval shield. See reproduction and description in Mr. J. Paul Rylands' Notes, p. 43. See also John Ireland Blackburne 1S74, which is the above plate altered. 4X3^. N.n. by A.W.F. Ex Libris Bouju Arm. No motto. Desmaison invenit. L. Chenu f. A small oval shield surrounded by garlands, resting on clouds. Design 2jX2|. " Bowdoin College. (U.S.A. Chartered 1794) Alleg. Callender. See Ex L. J., Vol. III., p. 95- " Su: Duke 17S0 Engraved label No motto. 2x2^. ,, D. Eyre Label No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. ,, John Goodricke Label N.n. by A.W.F. If Charles Hurt •Plain No motto. J. Ellis set 1780. Arm. 3|X2i. See Warren's " Guide," p. iSt. This is the only plate he names signed by J. Ellis. »I Richard Johnson Arm. "Pa.-atus." Shepperdsc. 2jxij. (Below the name is an Arabic inscription, with W. & R. Probably engraved in India by a date which tallies with the Christian year J7S0.) the man who signed the Calcutta library interior plate of John Andrews, 1774. N.n. by A.W.F. ,, Johannes Loubry ,, John Ludford (?) .. " This Book belongs to James Mcintosh. Aberdeen Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. Thos Markham Arm. No motto. 3i X 2i. Harmar Festoon Sculp: London 1780. (This en- graver is not named in Warren's " Guide.") William Shortgrave Middleton, m.dcc.lxxx. Printed No motto. 2X3J. No. label E Libris F. B. Reaston utriusq Templi Soc. Crest No motto. 2|X2j. Novr 80, W. & R. , :X>^0-il^'Utnjief Jnu OttS'Htlxirtf del ct Sc. 17/^ DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1780 1781 1782 A. B. L. Grimod de la Reyniere, in Supremo Senatu Patroni. (French) M. le Comte de Vaudreuil, Grand Fauconnier. Label Arm. T. Whatley Bened. Guil. Zahnii Printed label Thomas Atkinson W. J. Bn. Bentinck Thomas Bever ll.d. Hen. Toye Bridgman Esqr Leicester Andre Gaspard Parfait, Comte de Bizemont- Prunele. (Thirteen years later the Count was a refugee in London, and had another e.\ libris inscribed: " M. Bizemont, Drawing Master, No ig Norton Street, near Portland Street. 1794.") Marie Catherine d'Hallot. (Wife of the above) Property of the Massachusetts Medical Society, incorporated November, 1781. Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy. Le 8 Aoust 1781. Beatus Fidelis lib Baro Zur-Laubende Thur- netge Stelenburg. Commendator Ord. S. Ludovici Generalis Locum tenens in Regis Christ exercitibus. mdcclxxxi. (Swiss) Printed label Arm. Pict Arm. Arm. Arm. Pict. Alleg. Arm. Samuel Beuzeville. (Bequest plate) W. Gallon Des Livres de Mr Dubut Cure de Viroflay. Protonotaire Apostolique Commandeur de rOrdre de Christ. No motto. No motto. Has the insignia of his office. 3 X2|. There is also a pretty little armorial plate, not dated, but of about the same period : Comtesse de Vaudreuil. Gouvernement du Louvre. 2^X3^. N.n. by A.W.F. R. Winkeles Sculp. N.n. by A.W.F. N.n. by A.W.F. " Propositi tiiui.r." 3JX2J. A spade shield surrounded by graceful festoons. Dessine et grave par Ch. Gaucher de I'Acad. des Arts de Londres. See Hamilton's "French Book- plates," p. 79. Comte de Bizemont (By the Prunele.) " Natura duces. See Allen's ' plates," p. 247. No motto. ijXiJ. ' Callander sc. American Book- Arm. No motto. Sc. Casp Brupacher. Oval shield and coronet. Stat of the Order of St. Louis. 3JX3. Printed label Printed label Arm. Pict. Eccles. " Crux Christi gloria mea." J. Le Roy fecit. 1782. Design 4^X3. Reproduced in Hamilton's " French Book-plates," p. 113. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1782 1783 Monogram of the name Meissier surrounded by a circle in which is the inscription, " Astron de la Mar. de I'Ac. R. des Sc, &c." John Morgan, Christ Church, Oxford, mdcclxxxii. Sir Hugh Munro, of Fowlis Bart G. Norris, Norfolk John Peachey, Esqr (John Peachey, created Lord Selsey in 1794.) Livres de Mr de Praroman. Capt. aux Gardes Suisses 1782. (Swiss) Thelluson Philip Thicknesse Ex Libris Roberti Vandebergue, Anno Domini 1782. Herr Clemens von Hueber von der Wiltau von Sr Churss Durchlaucht zu Pfalz prae- sentirter Assessor juravit i Junii 1782. The Order of St. Patrick was instituted in 17S3 ; its motto, " Qiiis separabit" and date, are fre- quently to be found on plates of Irish nobility, and therefore 1783 must not be taken as fixing the date of the book-plates, when accompanied by the insignia of the Order of St. Patrick. The following arc a few modern instances : — De Burgh, Earl of Clanricarde De Burgh, Marquis of Clanricarde Elton Hall .. (Elton Hall, Peterborough, is the seat of the Earls of Carysfort, an Irish peerage. Both the present Earl and his predecessor were Knights of the Order of St. Patrick.) Lord Farnham. k.p. (Henry, Lord Farnham, and his wife were both killed in the Abergele railway accident on August 20, r868.) General Viscount Wolseley Nameless plate. (With flags captured from French and Indian troops, and Order of St. Patrick.) Crest Printed label Arm. with supporters Printed label Arm.Chip Arm. 3 crests Printed label Arm. No motto. This was the Ex Libris of Charles Meissier, the famous astronomer, born in 1730, died in Paris, 1817. 2I inches diameter. No motto. 2X2J. •'Dread God." 3|X2j. No motto. "Ne quisquam serviat ense." Plate mark aj X 2J. See £.1; L. J., Vol. II., p. 18. This appears like a poor im- pression of the same plate which was engraved about twenty years earlier, the date 1782 having been added. No motto. Schueler. Plate mark 5X3. There is a plate dated 1606 of Niclaus von Preroman Ritter und Schuldtheiss in Friburg, bearing the same arms. 4J X 3J. N.n. by A.W.F. N.n. byA.W.F. No details. See Notes on Book-plates of the Eighteenth Century. No motto. i|X2|. No motto. Arm. with "C/h Roy, unfoy, un loy." supporters six 2}. Arm. with supporters Arm. " Un Roy, un/oy, un loy." 4X3. Arms surrounded by the collar of the order, surmounted by Coronet of an Earl. See also 1894. Arm. " ye suis pret." Arm. Arm. See under the correct date, 1885. " Porro unum est necessaritim," DATED BOOK-PLATES. 103 1783 1784 The following plates are correctly dated: F. Arundell Junr Stroud, Glocr shire Wm Cooke John Devey. (Spade shield in a circle) Library of the Duchy of Cornwall. Founded by his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, 1783- Tho. Fetherston Lincolns Inn Greenock Library Janry 1783 Sir Thomas Bankes I'anson Baronet of Corfe Castle, Dorset. Matthew Irvine The Gift of Thos Llewelyn, Esq l.l.d. Obiit 7 Aug 1783. Charles Palmer, Wanstead, Essex, mdcclxxxiii. Thomas Penn, his book, February the 6ih 1783. John Rate, His Book Deptford Lucy Rate, Her Book Deptford Joannes Williams . . Salisbury Martha Shorte, Sevenoaks, Kent Nameless plate. Nameless plate, burg.) (Norwich Public Library) (Duke of York, Bishop of Osna- R. B. (German) James Boll De la bibliotheque de Mr. Fays James Gordon Joannes Green, Bishop of Lincoln, gift to St. John's College, Cambridge. (Bishop Green died in 1779.) De Hr Samuel Van Hoogstraten Hr Van Hey- cop & Boeycop. George Hopewell, Chair-Maker, Hucknall-Torkard, Nottinghamshire, 1784. Arm. festoon Arm. Arm. with supporters Arm. Engraved label Arm. festoon. Printed label Arm. Arm. Chip. Engraved label Printed label Printed label Label Printed label Pict. label Arm. Eccles. Arm. Printed label Arm. Printed label Printed label Arm. Printed label No motto. 3^X2j. N.n. by A.W.F. " The trees of the Lord are full of sap." Two inches diameter. N.n. by A.W.F. Arms of the Prince of Wales, surrounded by the garter; " Ich Dien" on scroll beneath. 5X3^. No crest or motto. 35X2^. Plain spade shield. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto or motto scroll. Plate mark4X3j. Spade shield. S.ee Warren's " Guide," p. 178. N.n. by A.W.F. W. Gingell. " Dolorc Icnio dnlorem." 2|X2j. The same plate exists without the address or date. No motto. 2JX3. N.n. by A.'W.F. No motto. These two labels are alike. iiX2 N.n. by A.W.F. No details. See also 1788. N.n. by A.W.F. " Laborum dnlce leiiiinen." G. B, Cipriani de). F Bartolozzi sculpt- Engraver to his Majesty. Pubd as the Act directs Feby loth 1784 by J. Edmondson Warwick Street, Golden Square. Very large plate. No motto. 3 X 2j. N.n. by A.W.F. Par son fils en 1784. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. No motto. Border 1JX3J. Very scarce label. 104 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1784 Catherine Houghton's book Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. n Literary Society Commenced at Michaelmas 1784. James Linden, Junr Above Bar Street, Southampton. Printed label 2iX2j. N.n. by A.W.F. 11 The Free Public Library of New Haven. (U.S.A. modern) Pict. Sigill. Civitat Novi Port, in Repub. Connecticutensi. 4X2J. 11 John Newman Stamped label No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. 17(85) (Jas ) Gahan Arm. festoon " Diiin spiro spcro." N.n. by A.W.F. t) This Book Belongs to the Lending Parochial Library o{ Abergavamy In the County of il/o»»ioHl Lying-in Hospital Tracts, m.dcc.lxxxix. (Mrs. Meares) Proprietor of private licensed Sedan Chairs. (No 104) Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. This curious label is in a small volume now belonging to the Rev. Mr. Carson, of Dublin ; fully de- scribed in the Notes. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 107 1789 New York Society Library 1789. (U.S.A.) (There are several other plates of this Library, not dated.) Pict. " Emollit mores." Maverick Set Crown Street. Design, as repro- duced by Mr. C. D. Allen, 5J x 3|. In this example the body and thighs of the kneeling Indian are covered with small dots, in other examples the shading is done by transverse lines — evidently an alteration in the plate. See Allen's "American Book-plates," pp. 61, 256. It F. Nivardus Abbas Bildhusanus XL. Arm. Eccles. No motto. See 1790 and 1792. " James Palmer, Bristol Arm. festoons Nomotto. Doddrell, fecit. 34X2§ M Peter Prattinton Label N.n. by A.W.F. ,, K. R. (Lozenge) Label No motto. Jacob Sargeant. (U.S.A.) .. (Date was added on some modern impressions. The original plate was not dated.) Jacob Sargeant was a clock and watchmaker of Hartford, Connecticut, and engraved this plate himself, placing his initials over the face of the clock, which he assumed as a crest. Arm. Jac. "Cito pede praterit netas." J. S. sculp. 4 X 3i. See Ex L. y.. Vol. II., p. 44 ; and also repro- duced in Allen's "American Book- plates," p. 47. It William Strickland of Boynton (See also Sir William Strickland, Bart, 180&.) Arm. Military trophies "^ la volonte dc Dicu." 4X3J. The date is on the scroll at foot of the plate, and is somewhat in- distinct. See Ex L. J., Vol. III., p. 9. Instituted Dec 3, 1789. N.n. by A.W.F. 1* Suffolk Public Library, Bury St Edmunds Label »» Thos Wentworth, Bretton Hall, Yorkshire Pict. See Warren's " Guide," p. 56. He says this plate was by Ralph Beilby. Sir A. W. Franks men- tions two varieties. See also 1771 and 1796. »» Percival Wood, St John's Hill, Shrewsbury. February ist mdcclxxxix. Engraved label No motto. 2^X35. (1790) C. Corday d' Armont Sainte-Trinite de Caen 20 decembre 1790. Achete 2 fr. With monogram of " Charlotte " below. MS. This written inscription by Char- lotte Corday exists in one of her books which escaped destruction, and is an interesting souvenir, although it is not an actual book- plate. 179- John Bland N.n. by A.W.F. )i J. R. Merian Socin. (Swiss) Printed label Nomotto. i|X2j. U H. Stamford E libe — and 179- partly covered by foliage. Urn. Trees, rocks, etc. Nomotto. 3JX4. See Warren's "Guide," p. 56, and reproduction in Ex L. J., Vol. IV., p. 24. 1790 Nameless plate. (Blundell School, Tiverton) Pict. T. Foot sculp. )l Johannes Alexander a.d. 1790 PlainArm. Nomotto. 2jxi|. t* This Book is the Property of the Historical Society, Established in Boston. 1790. Printed label See Mr. Allen's "American Book- plates," p. 247. io8 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1790 Scrope Berdraore, s.t.p. Coll. Mert. Gustos. .. PlainArm. Spade shield. No crest, wreath, or motto. 3iX2i. »» Scrope Berdmore d:d: Coll. Mert. Custos. PlainArm. Spade shield. No crest, wreath, or motto. 3 X 2j. Sir A. W. Franks mentions three varieties of Scrope Berdmore's book-plates. " Thomas Sterling Berry Crest "Liberie tout (sic) cntiere " above the crest. 2|X2j. •• Thomas Sterling Berry Crest "Bncfi/fc" below the crest. 2JX2 Crest the same in both plates, A griffin's head erased. 1) Willm. Champante Arm. "Necjacto ncc rejicio.'" n John Eliot Printed label No motto. From the Library of the late Rev. Joseph Printed No motto. N.n. byA.W.F. See Fownes, of Shrewsbury, 1790. (U.S.A.) label Allen's " American Book-plates," p. 204. 11 Richard Grace, Esqr m.p. Arm. with Three crests. "En grace affie" supporters above arms; below arms, "Con- cordant nomine facta." 4I X 3J and3jX3j- , , There are many other book- plates of the Grace family. See 1712, 1796, 1813, 1816, 1829, 1834. Wm Hay ford. Leeds. Arm. No motto. See E.x L. J., Vol. festoon III., p. 8. Geo. Lewis Jones, d:d: Lord Bishop of Kildare. Arm. No motto. 3iX2i. See Griggs' (G. L. Jones had previously been Bishop of Kilmore. See 1774.) Eccles. 2nd S., pi. 13. See notes on the faulty heraldry of these plates of 1774 and 1790, p. 18 of Introduction. n Louisa Larkin Engraved label Johann Maximilian Graf v. Preysing, etc. Arm. Pict. No motto. See 1760. •• J. Newson. January 20. 1790 Printed label N.n. byA.W.F. )» F. Nivardus Abbas Bildhusanus. Arm. Eccles. No motto. See 1789 and 1792. ») Rev. Joseph Powell Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. Thomas Smith Printed " label •• Worcester Library. Instituted 1790. Arm. Pict. "Floreat." 4^X3. Two varieties, one signed Ross Sc. Ex bibliotheca Warclanensi Ex: Comit: de Arm. with "Oinnetriniini pcrfectiim." S. Halle " Borch Lubeschitz. Palat: Belg: Loc: supporters sc. Berol. (Berlin). 6X4|. Tent: Copi: I'olon Equit: Aqui: Alb: Sti: Shield surrounded by a mantle Stan: Leon: Aur: et Johan Melit. stands on a rock, background (See reproduction of this plate.) trees and clouds. A Count's coro- net over the arms is surmounted by three helms and crests. There is a smaller arm. plate, also by S. Halle, not dated, inscribed " Ex Bibliotheca War- clanensi Comit: de Borch." It contains simply the in-escutcheon of the large plate, namely. Or, three ravens proper. 3J X 3. loTtUicr iiii! cfUnuipic- cblttlU ainicj , Sx^iS^tAmL. From the Collection of F. George, Esq. DATED BOOK-PLATES. log 1791 Nameless plate. (German^ Nameless plate. (? Schwartzkopf. Boy in a garden with tree, and a tall sunflower.) Wm Allison John Blandy John Chadwick, Esqr Healey Hall, Lancashire. (Born 1720, died 1800.) This Premium was given to (Miss Wrixon) for her excellent answering, in all the Tables and Notations of Arithmetic. Cittadella Board- ing-SchooI, Dec. (21^) 1791. John Clap. Roxbury. (American) Gift by the Will of Francis Cockayne Cust Esq to his Nephew Lord Brownlow : i.Decr lygi- Robert Dickinson's book Ex Libris Bibliothecje Domestica; Thomasi Eccle- ston de Scarisbrick in agro Lancastrensi Armigeri. a.d. 1791. Louis Ferrier, his Book ; Edinburgh Carlotta Gisinett. (Doubtful date) Charlotte Gwynnett John Blackburn Hart Petrus-Heremit. (The assumed name of John Peter Miller, a native of the Rhenish Palatinate, who went to America in 1730 as a missionary, but joined a mystic brotherhood and finally became Prior of the Convent of Seventh-Day Baptists at Ephrata, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He died in 1796.) Arm. Urn Pict. Engraved label Arm. PlainArm. Printed label Printed label and ornaments Urn in oval frame Label Arm. W. and R. Herr Friederich August von Leutsch von Sr Churss Durchlaucht zu Sachsen praesentirter Assessor juravit 22 October 1791. Printed label Printed label Printed label Printed label Arm. No motto. P. W. Schwarz inv et sculp. " Fur me'nic Frcundc uud niich.^* Weichmann inv et fecit. See Warren's "Guide," pp. 98, 157. In the first entry he says it is by Weichmann, in the second by Wachsmann. Spade shield. ^'Ex Urnn resur- gam." Plate mark 4X3J. •' Jiixta Salopiam " above crest, " V'irtutc nihil majus " below shield. 3|X2i. See Rylands' Notes, p. 42, giv- ing the names ot the twenty-six quarterings shown on the shield. No motto. 2iX2:V. N.n. by A.W.F." See Ex L. y., Vol. III., p. 124. The inscription is engraved on the side of the urn. No arms or motto. Design 2|X2. April 3o'_h 1 79 1. No motto. Two oval shields suspended by ribbons, the whole background shaded. 3X2^. Sir A. VV. Franks gives an entry Thomas Ecclcstjii, in 1791. It is doubtful whether he means this plate, or another with the name in its English torm. See Rylands' Notes, p. 61. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. N.n. by A.W.F. The name is printed in large Roman type ; below it, in Ger- man type, the verse : — ' Voll Kreuz und Triibsal ist der VVeg, Darauf ich hier muss gehen, Und lieden viel geheinie Schlaeg', Das macht oft bittie Wehen ; Doch wann zu end der lange Kanipf und Streit, So geh ich ein zur stillen Ewigkeit." Which may be rendered thus : — " The path I journey here below Is full ot grief and sorrow ; I suffer many a secret blow, And grievous pains I borrow ; But when the war and conflict's o'er, I'll rest in peace for evermore," No motto. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1791 Joseph Von Mayenburg Ex Libris J. B. Michaud Pontissaliensis Legati in Natli Conventu 1791 Bibliotheca FF. Min. Recollect, ad SS. Trinit. Renov. et Auctae. Thomas Thaxter's 1791. (U.S.A.) .. 1792 John Wheeler The Honble Alexander Abercromby one of the Lords of Council and Session and Lord Commissioner of Justiciary 1792. The Asylum for Indigent Deaf and Dumb Children George Carter (of Virginia, U.S.A.) J. G. F. Chassel. (French) .. Thos Eyre. (Bequest) Samuel Gundry's Book. Calne. Wilts. Collegium Sancti Johannis Evangelistae in Acade- mia Cantabrigiensi 1792. J. Liston J. Mallard .. Mr Pasquier de Messange 1792 F. Nivardus Abbas Bildhusanus XL. . . E. Owen's Circulating Library. Wine Street. Swansea. C. S. Schinz, Med Dr (^sculapius is driving Death from the bedside of a sick man.) J. R. Tunney, August 25. 1792 Joseph Vickers Pict. Mono- gram on shield. Festoons Label Printed label Printed label J.R. (Date very small.) " La Liberti OH la Mart." A cap of liberty over the shield in place of crest. Plate 4^X3. See Poulet- Malassis ; also reproduced in Hamilton's "French Book-plates," p. 82; Ex L. y.. Vol. II., p. 65. No motto. See Allen's plates," p. 17. PlainArm. Chip. Printed label Printed label Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Arm. W. and R. festoon Arm. Arm. Eccles. Printed label Alleg. Pict. Stamped label ' American Book- ' Vive lit vivas." 4X3J. Founded 1792. N.n.byA.W.F. See Ex L. J., Vol. III., p. 97. George Carter had another label, not dated. C. Charles, in. See Warren's " Guide," p. 147. N.n. by A.W.F. Shield has supporters. No motto. Plate mark 3^X3. An altered plate. Sir A. W. Franks gives the inscription in English. Spade shield with festoon. No motto. Williams Sc. 3iX2j. No motto. Plate mark 3SX2J. Given as Millard by Sir A. W. Franks. Festoons around shield. Coronet of Count. No motto. 3JX2J. Re- produced in Hamilton's "French Book-plates," p. 70. No motto. Three shields sur- mounted by a mitre. 3jX2^. Printed by E. Owen 1792. 3X2J N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. D. Chodowiecki. f. 3j X 2j. See Warren's " Guide," p. 143. Daniel Nicholas Chodo- wiecki, a celebrated and prolific engraver, was born at Dantzig in 1726, died in 1801. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1792 1793 de Wallier Conseiller d'Etat ancien Baillif de Bechbourg. (Swiss) J. Walmsley. (U.S.A.) Ex Bib. P: D: Prin: Sue. BuU. N. P. R. C. M. B. FR. AS. AC. Nal. S. (Captain Philip d'Auvergne.) Bibliotheque de Louis Antoine Paul Bourbon Busset Citoyen Francjais. 1793. (This plate is usually found pasted over the earlier armorial plate of 1788, whereon the owner is styled the Vte de Bourbon Busset, etc.) David Bridges The Friendly Society of Cordwainers in So: Shields. Instituted the 10 June 1793. Anna Damer (The Honourable Anne Seymour Damer, sculp- tress, who in lygg presented a bust of Lord Nelson to the Corporation of the city of London, which is still in the Guildhall.) Anne Seymour Damer Honble Lionel Damer. (Not dated) . . John Damer Esqr Edw. Hamerill. (? Ha»mell) M.M. (Cypher) 26th Novbf 1793. Theodosia Matthews, Her Book. Revd Edwd Napier, Sutton Walrond. Dorset . . John Sutcliffe. (Huddersfield) Arm. Arin. Arm. AUeg. Printed label, floral border Printed label Arm. Pict Arm. Pict. Arm. W. and R. Arm. Chip, Engraved label Engraved label Label i Arm. j festoon W. andR. Engraved label No motto. Same arms as on the 1777 plates, but the quarterings I, 2, 3, 4, are here placed 2, i, 4, 3, and the whole design is in an oval frame, 2f X2^. Very crude work. The mantling encloses the shield. Motto scroll but no motto. See Allen's " American Book-plates," p. 298. Barnes & Co. Coventry St. Fine plate. See Warren's " Guide," pp. 3 and 183. No motto. 3^X2j. Both plates are reproduced in Hamilton's " French Book-plates." p. So. Engraved by Beilby & Bewick. (Doubtful if a book-plate). N.n. by A.W.F. Arms on a lozenge resting on a pedestal ; a female figure kneeling points to sculptor's tools. Signed Agnes Berry invt et del' Londini 1793. Franciscus Legat Sculp'. Design 5 X3J. Same as the above, except the alteration in name. " Til nc cede malis." Same family as above. No motto. Same family as above. See Warren's "Guide," pp. 3, 184, and 1S7. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto, ijxif. N.n. by A.W.F. No motto. E. G. Napier sc. 3fX2i. N.n. by A.W.F. SutcliiTe del. Shilleto Leedssculpt. See Ex L. y., Vol. III., p. 9. 112 DATED BOOK-PLATfiS. 179(4) E Libris Thomas McGeary .. Printed label No motto. 1794 T.B. (Thomas Barritt, of Manchester) (An etched plate, representing Barritt leaning on a helmet and breast-plate, surrounded by pieces of armour, weapons, books, coins, etc. To his left is a heater-shaped shield. Thomas Barritt was a saddler of Manchester, well known for his antiquarian tastes. He died in 1820.) Pict. Arm. " Profert antiqua in apriciim." See Rylands' Notes, p. I2 ; and Castle, p. 109, and and edit., p. 132. This plate is very scarce. It was probably the work of Barritt himself. N.n. by A.W.F. n Fr. Biddulph M.S. ob 20 Jany 1794 JB 28. Pict. Bequest plate. n Ri: Bingham PlainArm. No motto. 4X3. >> M. Bizemont, Drawing Master, No 19 Norton Street, near Portland Street. (A refugee French nobleman, Andre Gaspard Parfait, Comte de Bizemont-Prunele.) Orna- mental label No motto. Bizemont Sc. See Hamilton's "French Book-plates," p. 79. See also under 1781. )! William Bray. Printer and Bookbinder. Church Street, Launceston. Label No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. " This Book belongs to the Chichester Library Society. Established 1794. Arm. No motto. 2X3^. " Lau. Comyn Esqr 1794. Sans Souci. Arm. spade shield " Courage." Shield in festoons. 3iX2j. George Cooper Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. " James Cunningham, Junior. (American) Arm. Chip. W.A.F. See Ex L. y.. Vol. HL, p. 125. Date doubtful. " Dromore Reading Society 1794. (With a ruined castle beneath.) Oval bead frame No motto. Welch sculp. 3JX3 '• Henry Drury, Eton College. Printed label It Charles Graux, Bath Printed label No motto. i|X2j. N.n. by A.W.F. •• John Blackburn Hart Printed label " James King Printed , label N.n. by A.W.F. " J. Kings (Halifax) Yorks. Printed label See Ex L. J., Vol. IIL, p. 8. N.n. by A.W.F. » Kingston, Canada: Santa Johanis Evangelistae Sigillum Collegii Latomorum. Pict. Masonic See Mr. C. D. Allen's " American Book-plates," p. 233. )) Library. Historical Society T.C.D. (Trinity College, Dublin.) Shield in wreath Instituted in the year 1794. No arms. N.n. by A.W.F. .. H. Masterman. Eton Reg. Coll. Alumn. Label N.n. by A.W.F. <. R. Montensis Label ■• Edwd Powell Arm. Small oval bead frame. 2Xi|. No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. " The property of Mrs Sally Richards, 1794. (U.S.A.) Printed label Has ornamental type border. See Allen's "American Book-plates," p. 274. J. Smith, Norwich . . Label No motto. N.n. by A.W.F. Mrs Sophia Uvedale. Ipsw ich. I Printed label No motto. i|X3. DATED BOOK-PLATES. "3 (1795) James Vivian Tippet (Below, in contemporary handwriting, " E. libris Jacobi V. Tippet Vicesimo octavo Februarii 1795.") Printed label No motto, ijxsj. 1795 William Barroll. Chestertown. (U.S.A.) Pict. Label See£.vL.y.,Vol. III.,p. 58; and Allen's " American Book-plates," p. 169. „ John Bland, Darlington Label N.n. by A.W.F. '■ Ann Carter, East Cowes, Isle of Wight. February 5> 1795- Printed label No motto. 2fX3|. M Thomas Comley, Romsey Label No motto. Inscription in an oval beaded frame. i}X2j. N.n. by A.W.F. " Samuel Deane (of Falmouth, U.S.A.) Printed label See Ex L. J., Vol. III., p. 126. Fr. Dickins Armig. . . (Probably an altered plate.) Arm. EarlyEng. No motto Plate mark 3IX2J. Very similar to the plate of Ambr. Dickins junr 1740, omit- ting the shaded background. See Rylands' Notes, p. 51. ,, Alexander Dykes, Ipswich. N.n. by A.W.F. B H (? A musical society) Pict. A lyre surrounded by a garter, on which is the motto " Curanim duke Uvamfii," surmounted by Prince of Wales' feathers and " Ich Dien." Printed in green. 4iX3i. " Daniel Herbert Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. ,, Elizabeth Jones. Mold. Label N.n. by A.W.F. '• Timothy Tripp Lee, e.a. Vicar of Thame, Oxon. Arm. No motto. A spade shield with festoons. 3JX2J. See 1S31. ,, Joseph Parr. Colchester Label N.n. by A.W.F. " Philotechnian Library Yale College. (U.S.A.) . . Pict. No motto. Jos. Perkins, sc. N. York. See Allen's "American Book-plates," p. 309. •■ Charles Ramus Esqr Merry Hill. Arm. No motto. A spade shield in a mantle. N.n. by A.W.F. John Warrmer Label N.n. by A.W.F. Mary Westcott Label N.n. by A.W.F. 1796 Nameless. Motto, " Virtttte duce," etc. Schellenberg. f. See Warren's "Guide," p. 155. „ David Barclay Label No motto. M T. H. Basset Label N.n. by A.W.F. 11 H. F. Bessborough .. (Lady Henrietta Frances Spencer, who, in 1780, married Frederick, third Earl of Bess- borough.) Bartolozzi received ;C2o for this plate. Pict. No motto. G. B. Cipriani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculps, r.a. London. Pubd Dec!13o, 1796 by F. Barto- lozzi. 3X3J. See plate in Hardy, p. 68; ExL.y.,Wo]. III., p. 40; Castle, p. 113, and 2nd edit., p. 138 ; see also Warren's " Guide," pp. 48, 184. 114 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1796 Bequest of A. Broughton: m.d. Arm. Pict No motto. J. T. (J. Taylor) invt (The arms on a shield leaning against an urn, Cook sculp. See Castle, p. 118, beneath a cocoanut tree. Sea and ships in the and 2nd edit., p. 143. Plate mark background. Oval frame.) 4fX3i- Design 3JX2J. 11 Petri Jos: De Buck. Ant. (Antwerp) Label No motto. " Jane Dearlove Printed label N.n. by A.W.F. I» Davidis Dickinson. (American) Printed label 11 Jonathan Elvin (Fac-simile of an indistinct Arm. " Spectcmur agendo." (Looks autograph.) 2 crests more modern than r796.) 5X3f. (Grandfather of Mr. C. N. Elvin, author of See also 1841, i860. several works on Heraldry.) Sir Richard Gamon Bart. M.P. for Winchester. PlainArm. " Virfiis in arifuis." Plate mark Below, this inscription follows : " Gamon 3jX2g. See Notes on the Grace and Grace Qly (quarterly) impaling Murray family plates. D. of Athol." 11 John Lloyd. Carmarthen. Crest No motto. 3X2J. 11 Thos Wentworth. February I4. Thomas M. Crowder " Sigillum Caroli Calvert Corner Arm. Seal "Facta nOH verba" (Deeds not words). 2i diameter. » D. P. Davies Eng. label " y Gwir er Gwawd." »» (Sir) Charles Compton William Domvile (The second baronet, born 1822. Baronetcy created 1815.) 3 Crests "Dial pour la trancher qui cen- tre ?" (If God be for the Trench, who shall be against them ? His mother was a Trench). " Qui Stat caveat ni cadat " (Let him that standeth take heed lest he (M.—cf. I Cor. X. 12). .> Dunse Library, Dunse Label " The English Grammar School, No. 75 Grafton Street, Dublin. Prize label No motto. W. Esdail sc. n Nevins Memorial Library. Methuen, Mass. (U.S.A.) Printed label No motto. " George Easter, Norwich Engraved label No motto. 1) Convictus Friburgensis. In Solemni Praemiorum distributione, etc. A book No motto. Lith de L. J. Schmid. Design 4X2^. Ii8 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 18— College of Fort William French Protestant Hospital Eng. label Pict. Charles Gaisford. Caius College Garrick Club i8— .. Girton Cdllege H. B. Grimaldi, Ejus liber Frederick William Hackwood. F. R. Hist. Soc. Wednesbury. John Holt .. Ex Libris Franc Thom Jaume. (French) Robert John Jennings Collegium Jesu Cantabrigiense Company of Leathersellers, London Leeds Public Libraries Reference Department William Beauchamp Lygon (The Hon. William Beauchamp Lygon. He was eldest son of the first Earl Beauchamp, and died unmarried in 1823, aged 41, having suc- ceeded as second Earl, 21st October, i8r6. The book-plate would therefore be of a date previous to this.) Library of McGill College, Montreal Alfred Octavian Mann James Heywood Markland. f.r.s, f.s.a. Inner Temple. Paulet St. John Mildmay O.xford and Cambridge University Club. Presenta- tion plate. Lady Elizabeth Palk, The Rectory, Enfield John Peddie, Schoolmaster, Aberdalgie. No James Pilbrow Richard Piatt's Grammar School at Aldenham. Samuel Rigby. (S. R. on a shield) Label Pict. Pict. Crest Pict. Prin. label Pict. Arm. Floral Arm. Mantled Arm. Printed label PlainArm No motto. ^^Dominus providcbiV (The Lord will provide. — Gen. xxii. 8) "La premiere chose qu'on doit faire quand on a emprunte un Livre c'est de le lire, afin de pouvoir le rendre plutot." Reproduced in Hamil- ton's " French Book-plates," p. 114. 3iX2i. Harry Soane. London. No motto. "All the World's a Stage." Design 2X if. Harry Soane. "Deo jiivante " (By God's help). W. Mathews, Sculp. No motto. (A modern plate.) " Hack-Nvood." Rogers. Books, musical instruments, and artistic accessories. No motto. 4jX3i. No motto. Plate mark 2|X2j. No motto. " Soli Deo honor et gloria " (Honour and glory to God alone). " Ex fide fortis " (Brave from faith). Arm. Crest Crest Arm. 2 Crests Arm. Printed label Printed label Engraved label Mono- gram "In Domine confido " (Trust in the Lord). 3JX2J. "Fide et fortitiidine" (By fide- lity and fortitude). " Marte et arte" (By strength and art). No motto. 3:1 X2|. " Dominus ilbiminatio mea " (The Lord is my light — Psalm xxvii. i). No motto. " Vis intellectus est " (Intellect is strength), on a garter around the name. 2X2. See 1S75. "Si Dens qiiis eontra'' (If God be for us, who can be against us ? — Rom. viii. 31) DATED BOOK-PLATES. iig 18— 1800 George C. M. Roberts m.d. Baltimore Saint George Hanover Square \V. i8 — (blank left for date of acquisition). St. Stephen's Club, Westminster Presented to the Stoke Newington Public Library by . Alexander Lord Saltoun John Slacke J. Studholme, Jes. Coll. University College School. At the Examination July i8 — This book was awarded, etc. (Aldenham Grammar School.) Hie liber Proemium Diligentiae Uni e Discipulis. Grammaticae Scholae Apud Aldenham, A Dignitissima Societate Brasiatorum, Dono Datus est, a.d. 1800. Association for promoting the Christian Religion. Incorporated 1800. Hunc Librum laudis testimonium et docti laboris incitamentum dederunt. Scholse Buriensis, Gubernatores. Prid. non. Maii A.D. MDCCC. d.d. Carolus Joannis Vaughan s.t.p. Schol. Harrov. Magister. d.d. Henricus Montagu Butler, a.m. Schol Harrov. Magister. Maj. Gen. Bowater John P. Boyd. (U.S.A.) Ex. bib. Josephi Collins. Waterfordiae Robert Scott Bradshaw, Belfast, mdccc Thos Chermside. 1800 G. J. Goschen Jonathan Harmer of Heathfield Jane Hewitson, April 24, 1800 R. J. Hoare Sol Hodgson. (? A funeral card) John Holt, Walton .. C. Hursthouse Gulielmi Johannis Locke. A.D. mdccc. (Error in date) Edward Pedder junr (Arms and crest in an oval border.) Edward Pedder junr (Crest and cypher in ova! border.) Literary Pict. Arm. Printed label Arm. Arm. Crest and book Floral No motto. 5|X|. See: No motto. Plate dated 1893, which see. No motto. 4fX3j. " In God is all." Arm. Leather label Crest Arm. Arm. PlainArm. Engraved label Pict. Printed label Crest Landscape Crest Landscape Pict. Printed label Library Interior Arm. Crest "/« Godis all our trust."— Psa]m cxli. 8. The arms are those of the Brewers' Company, of London. "Search the Scriptures." " Saiictas clavis fores asfcrit " ( [This] key opens the sacred door). " Stet fortuua domus '' (May the good fortune of the House stand firm). As above. No motto. No motto. Type in an oval border, i|X2f. Motto scroll, but no motto. 3JX Bolt. (Bewick). T. Bewick. H. Rogers. No motto. C. Davies Sherborn. "ye dis la verite." Plate mark 3iX2j. In Sir A. W. Franks' List this is given as Edwd Peddar, jun. " jfe dis la veriti" (I speak the truth). DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1800 1801 1802 John Prinsep Donne a la Bibliotheque de la Ville de Paris par Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. (View of Strawberry Hill.) (Design appears as vignette on the Title of "Odes by Mr Gray. Printed at Strawberry Hill. I757-'') George Best, Esq Chilston Library .. Premium, Ennis School, i8oi. Francis Spaight. Premium, Ennis School, i8or. George Studdert. Eton College Library. Duplicate, i8oi .. The Library Company of Philadelphia. (U.S.A.) Mr. Mocatta Lewis Morris Ogden. (U.S.A.) Isaac Pendleton's Property Stratford in Con- necticut June 7th A.D. 1801 . Premise. (Label in shield.) R. and A. Rippley . . Alexander, Earl of Rosslyn Richd John Uniacke Esqr .. (The Hon. R. J. Uniacke was born in 1753, died 1830. He was Attorney-General for Lower Canada iSog till 1S25, then Attorney-General for Nova Scotia till his death.) Gulielmus Arnold s.t.p. George Burrard, Coll; Mert. Soc. 1802 Revd H. Cotes, Vicar, Bedlington (Bewick cut this book-plate ; he also used it as a tail-piece in his " Birds.") Directions to Book borrowers John Gandell, Taunton Thomas Harvey r.n. William Henry Henslowe. Born Dec 29, 1802 Linonian Library, Yale College. Linonia. Sept lath 1753. (U.S.A.) Plain Arm Arm. Pict. Arm. Landscape Arm. Prin. label Label Prin. label Label Label Arm. W. & R. Arm. Arm. Printed label Plain Arm Woodcut Landscape Label Plain Arm. Star, etc. Pict. " LtitcHa noil urbs scd orbis" above arms, and " Flnctuat nee mergitur " (It rolls, but sinks not) below. Delauneysc. 5^X4^. "Fart quae seiiliai" (To speak what he may think). T. Bewick. Reproduced by Mr. Castle, who dates it as of 1800, in his first edition. No motto. No motto. Printed by Zachariah Paulson jun. N0106 Chestnut street. May, 1801. No motto. " Et si ostendo non jacta." P. Maverick Sc. iSoi. See Allen's "American Book-plates," p. 257. LP. Printer. '* Faithful and Brave." 3gX2g. See Allen's " American Book- plates," p. 293. (A Legacy label to St. John's College, Cambridge.) No motto. Design 3jx 2. " Flumina amen sylvasque in- glorins " (Let me, as one of no note, love the streams and the woods). Design 2X3J. No motto. " Persevere." " Plionarthron." " Amieitia Concordia " (Friend- ship and concord). Doolittle Sc. 1802. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1802 1803 1604 Jno. Murray, Surgeon. Newcastle The Rev. Mark Noble, F.A.S. of L. & E. (Author of "A History of the College of Arms.") R. Southey, Bristol. (Poet Laureate in 1813) . . Anderson Edwin Martin Atkins B. Elvey's book Margaret Galloway's Book R. & L. Hough Josiah Neave Porcellian Club. 1803. (Harvard Coll., U.S.A) Revd W. Shepherd . . Shepton Mallet Mission in Somersetshire Thos Sopwith F.R.s. f.g.s. hi. Jan. 1803 Ex Libris Viri Venerabilis Gottl. Ern. Schmid Sacror. Antist. Berol. Regiae Bibliothecae Dono aut minus commendabilium exem- plorum Permutationi oblatis mdccciii. M. Wight .. William Clinton Wynyard, Coldstream Guards Nameless plate — Gandae (Ghent) John Bennett, President Royal Coll of Surgeons, Edr Molesworth Galfredus, armiger Londinum Anno Domini mdccciv. Thomas Gowland John, second Lord Henniker Edwd Jackson's Book Honble William Henry Irby Mary Percival, Bouton Social Law Library Boston (U.S.A.) From the Abbott Lawrence junior Fund. Samuel Walkey Pict. Arm. Pict. Arm. Landscape Arm. Prin. label Eng. label Pict. Pict. Seal Printed label Label Arm. Arm. Arm. Shield in mantle Arm. Arm. Coronet and supporters Prin. label Arm. 3 Crests Prin. labell I Pict. ' jBooks,etc. (By T. Bewick). No motto. No motto. Label in woodcut border. "Fide ct amicitia." See Allen's "American Book-plates," p. 217. See 1808. " Vita sine Uteris mors est ' without learning is death). 3iX3j. (Life Dedicated as a memorial of Friendship. "Eprouvez." 3JX2J. "//> Licht. Ip Lieht." A French coronet of Baron. 2x2. " In veritate salus " salvation). (In truth is " Virtus vincit invidiam " (Virtue conquers envy). 3iX2f. " Dens major colnmna " (God is greater than a column [column in shield]). P. R. Adolpho, sc. 386 Oxford Street. " Honor fidelitutts pracminm " (Honour is the reward of fidelity). 3|X2j. See 1807. '' Vestra cura alitur " (It is nour- ished by your care). 5JX3I. 122 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1805 Belongs to the Caledonian Literary Society Pict. Instd Feby 22d 1805. J. Gordon Sculp. »» Mr. Dubuisson 1805 Pict. No motto. Design 3jX2g. Re- produced in Hamilton's "French Book-plates,'' p. 83. Sir Thomas Gage Bart Hengrave Hall, Suffolk Arm. Pict. No motto. Drawn by Signeira. (See Hardy, p. 70. He speaks of it as Hen- Engraved by Bartolozzi, Lisbon. grave Hall.) See Misc. Gen. et Her., Vol. L Willm Haigh, m.a. 1785. Coll: Regin: Cantab. Arm. No motto. Inducted to Vicarage, Wooler 1805. n Taylor Henrici (May. 7. 1805.) t» P. Penson. New Coll. Prin. label Francis Place Leather label „ C. G. Reuss Arm. Urn No motto. 1) Rev. Wm. Romaine. HoUycourt. 1805 Arms, Books Chas Manners Sutton d.d. Archbishop of Can- Arm. No motto. terbury. Eccles. Wm Thackara sen. .. Pict. No motto. E. Libris A. Wyatt Arm. Open book. No motto. 1» Norman F. Gerald Uniacke Lincoln's Inn 1S05 Arm. Similar to Richard John Uniacke 1801. 1806 Property Lydia Agar Pict. See Allen's " American Book- plates," p. 162. George Arnold Esqr Arm. " Ut vivas vigila " (Watch 1 that ' spade you may live). Design 3JX2J. shield )) Ex Libris, etc., legavit Professor illustrissimus Paulus Josephus de Barthez, etc. Label ,1 John Deuchar's Library. Cross. Edinburgh. .. Label »» John Fiott, b.a., St. John's College, Cambridge Arm. No motto. 3X2J. J. J. C. Gerning By A. R. 'Wicker. " Ipswich Book Club Label Woodcut border. Ex Libris C. 'Van Hulthem .. Library ^' Omixes artes, quae ad humatiitatem pertinent, Habent commune quoddam Vinculum." (One of four fine book-plates belonging to this Interior Belgian gentleman.) Cic. B. Duvivier, Brugensis deU 1806. E. de Ghendt sculp'. i» Claud G. Le Clerc. Jurisconsultus .. Arm. "Leges sitltitares" (The Laws are wholesome). ji Bibliotheque du Chateau de Mouchy-Noailles Prin. label No motto. ZJX3J. See 1847. J. & S. Hickman Craven Street 27.2.1806 Engraved Probably the father and mother " label of Rickman, the Architect. Quaker family. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 123 18(07) 180(7) 18(07) 1807 180(8) 1808 John Barker. Anno Domini 18(07) Castleknock School Praemium hoc Hterarium dederunt Praepositus et Socii Seniores CoUegii Sacro sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis juxta Dublin. Amicable Reading Society. Instituted at Ratcliff A.D. 1807. Institutio Theologica Andover. Fundata mdcccvii. (U.S.A.) William Astell Esq. John Barker Ralph Bealey, Seed Field, near Bury . . William, Duke of Bedford . . Castle-Freke Library. (Arms of Lord Carbury — 24 quarterings, all named.) Mr. Joseph CoUis J. W. Cooper Jacobus Haviland c.f. a.m. Col. Nov. Soc. Oxon. John Holt jun. Robt Harry Inglis . . Hon. William Henry Irby . . Ex Libris B. D. M. Lesueur, pictor Joh: Mainwaring s.t.e. Ant: Spoerlin, Maire de Mulhouse I. M. Stoess John Woodroffe a.e. (? An altered plate) Thomas Harvey r.n. Nameless plate. (Comte de Hoeuff, Hollande) Pict. Arm. Literary Pict. Arm. Label Prin. label Arm. Arm. Shield in wreath Leather label Arm. Prin. label Arm. Books, Violin, etc Legacy label Prin. label Arm.Chip. Arm. Arm. with supporters (School premium). 6X3J. These prize labels of Trinity College, Dublin, are very numerous, and are of various dates and designs. One, dated as early as 17(32), is signed K. O. Hara fee; one dated 17(93) has " McKenzie Printer and Stationer to the University." " Doctrhia politos constituit." — Lucretius. Design 6Jx 4. See Allen's " American Book- plates," p. 164. '•Sub cruce glorior" (I pride my- self beneath the Cross). " Che sura sara " (What will be, will be). " Pro patria" (For my country). Griffiths and Weigall, 3 St. James Street. No arms or motto. i}X3- Warwick sc. 145 Strand. No motto. "Honor Jidelitatis praemium" (Honour is the reward of fidelity). See also 1804. Not signed, but probably by M. Lesueur himself. " Sit dux sapieiitia '' (Let wisdom be your guide). J. Skinner, sculpt Bath. (Signed J. Skinr Sculp'. ). If this plate was by J. Skinner, of Bath, the date is incorrect. " Persevere." " Optimus quisque nobilissimus " (The best man is the noblest man.) Fait a I'eau forte par le Capt Rothers ce 30 aoust 1808. Plate mark3^X3|. Oval shield. Sable, a saltire argent. 124 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1808 Alexis Billiet, professor philosophiae Label ,, John Clark Label " Give attention to reading." — - Thos. Corbett, Belton. iSo8 Pict. No motto. (Very scarce wood- cut). Design 3IX2J. ,, Robert Harris Arm. " Hasty Pudding Library. (U.S.A.) Pict. " Segcs votis respondet." — Virg., Geor. i. 47 (The crop answers to our hopes). Callender sc. ,, Henbury Village and Parish Library Prin. label t) Arthur Keene Label n This Book belonged to Elizabeth Hastings, Countess of Moira, Baroness Hastings, Hungerford, etc., etc. April i8o8. Label No motto. 1) Revd W. Shepherd Pict. G.C.B. fecit (Octr 1808). 2|X3. Sir William Strickland, Bart Boynton, Yorkshire Arm. " A la Voloiiti- dc Dieii " (At God's (Baronetcy created 1641. There is an undated plate of Sr George Strickland Bart, with the same pleasure). See also William Strickland, 1789. motto.) '* Saml Welles, Boston Crest No motto. 1809 Dennis Deberdt Crest 11 W: Duck .. Label No motto. Knights of the Square Table. (U.S.A.) Arm. Pict. " Cassis tiitis simn virtus." See Allen's " American Book-plates," P- 234- „ Ex Libris Augustini Legillon, Brugensis Prin. label No motto. I) Menlough Castle (This bears the Blake arms. Menlough Castle, in Galway, is the seat of the Blake family. Baronetcy created 1622.) Arm. " Virtus sola uobilitat " (Virtue alone ennobles). Warren sculp. " Joseph Adam Stephenson, a.m.. Rector and Patron of Lympsham. Arm. (By Burnell). " Revd Dr Stopford. Letterkenny Library Label No motto. 1810 Baptist Academical Institution. Stepney Green. Established 1810. Label Walkinshaw Sculp. J, John Bloxam Arm. i> Angel James, Louisa Mary, and Joanna Ex- shaw. April 1810. Engraved label No arms or motto. " Strickland Freeman Esq'; Fawley Court. Bucks, 1810. Arm. " Liberias ct natale solum " (Liberty and our native soil). 4iX3. ,, Mr John Hely Hutchinson Prin. label No motto. )t Josephus Dominici Lewis. Sittardiensis (Holland) Label No motto. " Lord Rendlesham (Created Baron Rendlesham in 1806.) Arm. '■Lahore ct Iwnore " (By labour and honesty). Warwick, Strand. s < < CO < O I' z < DATED BOOK-PLATES. 125 1810 The property of Timothy Mann. Walpole Oct Arm. Pict. Arms of the United States. See — i8io. (U.S.A.) Allen's " American Book-plates," p. 245. ,, Marg. Ann Munn Born July ig 1807 ' Susannah Munn Born March 22 1810 Label The two names on one label. Probably American. Stepney College. Established i8io Eng. label No motto. t. Stonyhurst College ,, Presented by the Swedenborg Society British and Pict. Portrait of Emmanuel Sweden- Foreign. Instituted in London, 1810. borg. " Tantoqiie exstiltat alum- no " (Rejoices in such a pupil). ») James Henry Vizetelly Scroll No motto. »» G. E. a Wagner. (Swiss) .. Literary Wisard, sc. 181- Scholae Collinae Molinensis. School Prize. (? Mill Hill) Label ,, Association for discountenancing Vice Prize "Righteousness exalteth a na- label tion." „ School prize. Mr. Clarke's Enfield. (Xmas) 181(1) ,, John McKaill Eng. label 1811 John Dredge, Leeds Printed No motto. Mr. John Dredge was (Father of the Rev. J. Ingle Dredge, of Bide- label a Wesleyan minister. He died ford, Memb. Ex L. Soc.) February 4th, 1820, and was buried in Ashby -de-la-Zouch Churchyard. „ Lord Henry Fitz Roy Label No motto. ,, John Griffith Prin. label No motto. >» H. Hodges January 181 1 Scroll No motto. ,T John Keir Arm. R. Smirke. del. tt John Madocks Esq. Fron-iw Arm. No motto. Bowley. Salop. 3x2. »i Ce hvre fait partie de la bibliotheque du Senateur Arm. There are sixteen lines of French Comte de I'Empire, N. Fran9ois de Neuf- verse giving the blazon of his chateau, etc. arms. (For his numerous titles see reproduction in Hamilton's " French Book-plates," p. 157.) j» Nicholas Westby Esqr PlainArm. " Wfc volenti nee volant! " (Neither to him who wishes, nor to him that hastens). 3X2J. ,, Presented to Miss Anne Winstanley as a reward Leather 1^X3. of distinguished merit 1811. label „ Pensionnat de J. F. B. Wille, Membre de I'Uni- Printed Prize label. A Calais, le 29 Aout versite Imperiale, a Calais. label i8ir. 4iX3j. 1812 Ex Libris Medicis Gulielmi Moncreiff Label J» Prayer Book and Homily Society. Sold at the Engraved Instituted 1812. Society's Office, Exeter Hall, Strand, London. label 126 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1813 Robert Bloomfield. 1S13 Burlesque " Friends in need, and a Jig for (The author of "The Farmer's Boy" and other Heraldry the Heralds." W. Jackson Sc. poems. A shoe-maker by trade. He died in Gutter Lane, Cheapside. 1S23.) Reproduced in Griggs' ist S., 18S4; in Hardy's "Book-plates," p. 164; and in£;AL.y.,Vol. HL, p. 76, in which some inaccuracies in Mr. Hardy's description are corrected. A scarce plate. Design 4I x 3 J. 11 E Libris Sheffield! Grace Annig. Sup. Ord. Com. Arm. On three oval shields the crests Aul. B. Mariae. Oxon. mdccc xiii. and mottoes of the Grace, Butler, and Sheffield families. Above all the motto, "En Grace affie." De- sign 2jXl|. See notes on the Grace family, and 1712, 1790, 1816, 1829, 1834, etc. J» Colleg. Glasg. Praemium. (Glasgow College) Prin. label No motto. M John Hughes Arm. " Bibliotheque de T. S. Montagne Pict. " Datnr labore virtus" (Virtue is bestowed by labour). Rochebrune Sc. »» T.O. (Ovendon) Arm. T. Ovendon. 18(14) Thomas Clarke Crest Warwick Sc. 1814 John Burford, his book Label ,, John Fenwick of Newcastle upon Tyne, Attorney Arm. " A Fenwyke ! A Fenwyke ! A at Law. Born at Hexham 14 April 1787 Fenwyke." " Tons jours loyal" Married at Alnwick 9 June 1814. (Ever loyal). 3^X2^. ,, M. Hayes's i8r4 Arm. No motto. „ Liverpool Royal Institution Medal " Charles Nicholas Crest " Vigilanlia el constantia " (By vigilance and constancy). C.N. »» Charles Nichols (This plate was etched by John Sell Colman, the artist, for Charles Nichols of Yarmouth.) Arm. Pict. No motto. ») Captn William Nichols, l.b. v.i. St James's. Arm. " Vincit amor patriae" (The love (Military insignia below arms.) of my country prevails). „ H. Roxby, Clapham Rise Crest »! Stewartstown Sunday School Engraved label Established 1814. }| Julia Frances Tennyson Label IJ This Book was purchased on the Thames, the (4111) Printed (A curious souvenir of the great February 1814. label frost in 1814, when the Thames was frozen over.) }| Bibliotheque de Mr Boullemer de Thiville Arm. No motto. 2fX2. »» Lieutenant General William Thornton, m.p. Arm. No motto. Nor., Vol. HL, 82-83. Grosvenor Gate. 2 Crests Coll. Arm. London, 1814. 4X3. (Has sixteen quarterings, the names of most of which are given, around the shield : i , Thornton of Brockhall, County of Northampton ; 2, Newen- ham of Newenham, County of Northampton; 3, Acres; 4, Thornton of Downham ; 5, Cushin ; 6, ; 7, Bugge ; 8, Lee of Quaiendon, Bucks; g, Lee; 10, Lee; 11, Lee; 12, Wood, County of Warwick; 13, ; 14, ;] 15, Saunders, County of Oxford; 16, Thornton of Brockhall.) DATED BOOK-PLATES. 127 18(15) Thomas Clarke Crest Warwick sc. 145 Strand. »» Stockton Library Label "Forfeiture for keeping this Book beyond the Time three pence a day." 1815 Robert Bloomfield Arm. "Friends in need, and a fig for the Heralds." W. Jackson Sc. Gutter Lane, Cheapside. A bur- lesque coat-of-arms. Mr. Hardy says (p. 165) this is dated 1815. I believe it is 18 13, which see. »» Bowdoin College (U.S.A.) (Arms of Hon. James Bowdoin, who was Governor of Massachusetts, 1785-6.) Arm. »i Marshall Waller Clifton PlainArm. "Teiiez le droit" (Hold to the right). Design 3X2i. „ Ann Crawford's Prayer Book, Bought October Engraved I2th, 1815. Sligo. label ,, Cramond Subscription Library Pict. Instituted 2gtli Deer 1815. " N. Dodson Arm. No motto. G. A. Holroyd fecit, April 30tli 1815. » Holt Library Prin. label (Long inscription.) It John Keir. Impaling bearings of Keir and Bur- Arm. " Alterum non laedere" (Not to gess. 1815 and 1820. the injury of our neighbour). „ Belongs to John Leslie Prin. label ») Arthur Maister, of Kingston upon Hull PlainArm. " Vix ca nostra voeo" (I can (Same arms as Henry Maister 1719.) scarce call these things our own). 3iX2i. )1 John Murphy, Bishop Cork Arm. " Fortis et Hospitalis" (Brave Eccles. and Hospitable). See Griggs' 2nd Book-pile S., pi. 25. .. United Service Club Eng. label Oak and olive branches. ., Vaus of Barnbarroch Arm. Thomas Watson, Edinburgh Pict. No motto. 1816 W. Baily .. Prin. label *> Ex Libris Friderici Cellarii . . Pict. " Utile miscerc dulei" (To mingle the useful with the agreeable). C. Schink. Sc. )1 Chute Lodge. (Fowle Arms) PlainArm. No motto. 3jX2f. M Sheffield Grace Esq. m.dccc.xvi. Arm. " Concordant nomine facta " (The deeds concur with the name), "En g-rncf djj^f'' (Trust in Grace). 35 quarterings. Design 4* X3J. See also 1712, 1790, 1813, 1819, 1829, 1834. 1) John Gray Label ,, Wealthy A. Howell New Haven (U.S.A.) Label 1) Loyal Northumbrian Social Society, Newcastle- Arm. Pict. W. Collard Sculpt. upon-Tyne. Instituted Oct. ist 1816. - James Heywood Markland f.r.s. Crest " Marte et arte" (By strength and art). 128 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1816 Walter Butler, Marquess of Ormonde Arm. supporters " Coinmejetrouve" (As I find it). „ Elizabeth Ann Percival Label ,, Lord Selsey. Westdean Library Crest and No motto. See John Peachey Coronet 1782, created Baron Selsey 1794. ,, Martin Stapylton Esqi; of Myton in the County Arm. " Fiiic scd cui vide" (Trust, but of Yorl<. take care in whom). Older plate altered, see 1817. It Eliz. Statham " This book belongs to Charles Edward Thompson See Castle, p. 213, ist edit., and p. 307, 2nd edit. t) Harriet Wells .. Printed label 1817 Henry Gee Barnard Arm. " Fesiina Icnte" (Quickly but not hurriedly). Plate mark 4X3. n R. Beilby Nov. Cas. (Ne\vcastle-on-Tyne) Pict. R.B. (? Robert Bewick). ,, Robert Burchell Pict. G.C.B. n E.T.C. Crest No motto. „ Deuchar of that Ilii .. Label ■. Castle Freke Library " E.H. (Hill) Crest No motto. 2^ X 2j. Crest in Adams border. '.' Horticultural Society of Ireland. Established ist Pict. "7h the stveat of thy brow shall Jany 1817. thou earn thy bread," 4X44. 1* John Legh of Booths Crest See 1824. •' Saint Andrew's House, Mells Pict. " Pro Deo et Ecclesia " (For God and the Church). See also 1847. " Library of the Cathedral Church of New Sarum. James Evans, d.d., Librarian. Label V Ordnance Medical Library. Instituted by Dr. Printed Jameson, 1817. label •» Isaacus Pennington Printed (A Legacy label to St. John's label Coll., Cambridge.) i> Thomas Perkins Leather label No motto. 11 J. Richardson Leather label " Martin Stapylton Esqr of Myton in the County Arm. "Fide sed cui vide" (Trust, but of York. A.D. 1817. EarlyEng. be careful in whom). Plate mark (Evidently an earlier plate with the inscription with 5f X4i. See Rylands, p. 6. altered. It has a helmet set affronfcc, denoting supporters There is also a smaller plate that the original owner was a knight or a baronet. which is very scarce. See 1816. so that it was probably engraved about 1710-15 for Sir Bryan Stapylton, the second baronet, who died in 1727. The above-named Martin Stapyl- ton succeeded to the estate in 1817— hence the date.) - DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1 29 1818 Thos Jas \A/arren Bulkeley, Viscount Bulke- ley, Englefield Green. Bury Library Room. 26 March, 1818 William Cranitch Elgin Literary Association. Established in 1S18. Presented to Mr Fisher, of Dorchester, in Memory of Mr William Brown jun. CuUompton, 2 July, 1818. Rev. Sam. Gamble, d.d., Ramelton Edward Maltby, d.d. (Bishop of Chichester 1831, translated to Dur- ham 1836.) New York State Library Royal Literary Fund George Tufnell Henry Wright, Knutsford 1819 182- 1820 C. H. Elsley, Middle Temple Pensionnat des Demoiselles Podevin Western Literary and Scientific Institution. Pre- sented by . 182- Apprentices Library Co. of Philada (Philadelphia). Instituted 1820. The Bristol Infirmary Dr. D. Butter (Dr. D. Butter designed this plate. He was Inspector-General of Hospitals, Bengal Army.) Crest "Nee tenure nee timidc" (Neither I rashly nor timidly). Prin. label! Instructions to Subscribers. 2JX3 Leather label. Prin. label No motto. 1JX2J. Label Prin. label Printed label Label PlainArm. Crest ?X2|. No motto. Library of Dartmouth College. Presented by Isaiah Thomas Esq. A.D. i8ig in his Donation of 470 Volumes. Oliver J. Dowell Grace, Esq., Mantua House Given as a Prize at the Parsonage, July 5ih 1819, and won by a very central shot, by Charles HaMiian. Wm. Simonds Higgs, f.s.a., Kensington T. Kennedy Christopher Edward Lefroy Edward Lefroy b.c.i. Label ■ See Allen's "American plates," p. igo. Book- Arm. Stamped on leather binding Crest and book Pict. Crest Prin. label Prize label Printed label Pict. Pict. Arm. " En grace affic" (Trust in Grace). " Concordant nomine facta " (The deedsconcur with the name). See 1816, and list of Grace plates. (This inscription was on the side cover of " Woman, a Poem," by Eaton Stannard Barrett, Esq., 1818.) Long motto in black letter. Leather label. 2|X3S. Suppression of Surinam Slave Trade, iSig to r82g. See also 1829. Suppression Surinam Slave Trade. No motto. No motto. 2 X 3i. " Science, Art, Virtue." See Allen's "American Book-plates." p. 265. "Charity Universal." Burnell. " Diriget Dens " f The Lord will Allegory direct). J. & G. Menzies Edinr 1820. iJXif. I30 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1820 (1821) 1821 182(2) 1822 Richard Caulfield l.l.d. Fellow Soc Antiq Lon- don Corresp. Mem. Soc. Antiq: Normandy. Cork. The property of Richard Cromwell. (U.S.A.) Cymmrodorion R. Dade A. Gray's Private Library Josiah Hewlett m,dccc,xx. John Keir Esq. (See 1815) .. James Porteous Royal Society of Literature. Instituted November 1820. G. IV. Richard Shackleton, Griese Bank Walter Thurtell George Wratten's book. Ticehurst Rev. R. Wall, a.m. Dublin Adam Drummond Esqr. r.n. Megginch Castle Mrs E. Jones. Anno Domono {sic) 1821 B. Liddell. February 1821 B. Liddell. 16 February 1821 S.R.M. (? Maitland) R. P. Munt to John Goldham. Rachel Punter Ex bibliotheca Sobolevskyana. (Polish) William Wallis The Association Incorporated for Discountenancing Vice and Promoting the Knowledge and Practice of the Christian Religion Adjudged this Premium to (Anna Kellett) for superior merit at an Examination in the Principles of the Christian Religion & the Knowledge of the Gospel, held in (Christ Church, Cork). James Allen Presented to the Public Library of the City of Boston By Hon. Edward Everett. Landscape Pict. Crest Leather label Label Arm. Crest Arm. Eng. label Prin. label Prm. label Augustus Colthurst. (Date and signature obliterated on many specimens). Reproduced in Castle, 1st edit., p. 124. and 2nd edit., p. 151. Copper-plate. Vine around name. See Castle, ist edit., p. 213, and 2nd edit., p. 307. No motto. 2^X3|. " Impaled Bearings of Keir and Burgess." Suffield sculpt "/ wait my time." J. R. Sculp. (Date indistinct). Established by Charter dated I5tb Septr 1825. 4X3J. No motto. No motto. Arm. Label Landscape Landscape Label Arm. Crest Pict. label Viscount's coronet Pict. Engraved label " Martc et arte" (By valour and skill). Leather label, 1JX2J. T. Bewick. T. Bewick. The above plate slightly altered. No motto. Leather label, i| x 2j. Leather label. No motto. "Righteousness exaltetli a Nation." 5X2|. The words in brackets were added in MS. A view of Boston in 1630. "Siciit Patribus sit Dens nobis." Civita- tis regimine donata a.d. 1822. 3X3j. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 131 1822 The Cathedral Library at Exeter, An. Dom. 1822. Arm. Ecclesiastical design. No motto. 3iX2j. »i H. G. Gibson, to M. Gibson Label »J Maine Historical Society Library. (The dates 1605, Arm. Instituted 1822. Design 45X3^. 1649, 1678, 1820, around the arms.) It Newcastle Waltonian Club. Instituted April 5 1822. Arm. Pict. " Love us and the Honest Art of Angling." — Iz. Walton. Design 2iX4. )» Norfolk and Norwich Literary Institution, St An- Printed " Suuni cuiqne Studiuni" (Every drew's Broad Street, Norwich. Established label man has his own study). 6x4. Oct. 22nd 1822. (Regulations for circula- tion, etc., follow.) t» Edw. Penny, Canterbury George Rooke, Coll. Mert. Soc. Label Woodcut border. It Ryton Church Library Pict. Bewick. »i W S (? Streatfield) Hab. 1822. Arm. " Data fata seqtintus" (Following my destiny). 1» Charles Thorp, b.d. Rector Landscape T. Bewick & Son Sculp. (A view of Ryton Church.) )> The property of Hugh Tuttle 1822 Label See Allen's " American Book- plates," p. 293. ») The Revd R. Wood, d+d. .. Arm. " Resurgam" (I shall rise again). 182(3) Pensionnat des Demoiselles Podevin Label Prize mark, 3JX2. 1828 Unas Ex libris Gulielmi Bailey, Trin Col. Dub. Arm. ^'■Aitt nunquani tentes aut perfice'^ (Either never attempt or accom- plish). »» Unus Ex libris Gulielmi Bailey, Belfastiensis . . Arm. '■'■Aut nunquani tentes, aut per fice" (Same arms as above.) J. Thomson sc. Belfast. See Castle, ist edit., p. 126, and 2nd edit., p. 153. tl Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution Label ,, John Leeds Bozman Esqr of the Middle Temple. Arm. " Sine Virtute vani sunt honores" Below has been added, '• The Maryland W. & R. (Without Virtue honours are vain). Historian, 25th Aug. 1757, 20th April 1823." See Allen's "American Book- plates," p. 176. t» Joseph Andn Bulman. 1823 Leather label, iiX4|. 1) Chard Choir. W.W. and W.L. Churchwardens. Label No motto. Edward EUice R. H. Fenton, Aberdeen Label ») A. G. Goodridge. Milbourne Port, 28 February 1823. Label No motto. ») S. Stacei de Grimaldis Armig: 1823 . . Arm. Seal No motto. 2| diameter. See also 1824. ,, Grove Park School. Wrexham Pict. "Inter sylvas querere veruni." »» Robert Langslow of the Middle Temple, Barrister Arm. " Paratus etfortis" (Ready and at Law 1823. strong). Plate mark 4JX3J. It S.R.M. Pict. No motto. 2 X 2j. tt This Volume belongs to the Office of the Clerk of Arm. Sigillum Comitatis Northumbriae. the Peace for the County of Northumberland. " Lihertas et natale solum" (Li- Robertas Thorp. Cler: Pac: berty and my native soil). 6x6. It Sophia Rannie from W.G.F. Leather label, iJX2. 132 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1823 18(24) 1824 1825 Alexr C. Renton Esqr July 1823 Robertus Thorp, Cler: Pac: (See under North- itmbt-rland) J. G. D'Urban r.n. July 1S23 This Book was given by the Associates of the late Rev. Dr. Bray, to the Parochial Library of (Bury) In the County of (Lancaster) and Diocese of (Chester) Established by the Associates, 18(24). Ann Baker Bath Literary Institution Joseph Barretto Esq. Ob. 1824 Susan Clark Stacey Grimaldi f.s.a. (The central shield is surrounded by six smaller shields, showing the descent of the family from Alexander Grimaldi of Genoa in 1699, and the Barker family of Rochester.) See 1823. S. Stacei . de . Grimaldis. Armig; s.A.s. 1824: Sir Peter Halkett, Baronet of Pitfarran John Johnson John Legh, of Booths, Rev. P. Murphy, Parish Priest of Monasterevan and Kildangan. Wm. Robson Woolwich Public Library Royal Artillery Library, Island Bridge, October i, 1824. Johannes Symmons Arm. Bonnyrigg Subscription Librnry. Instituted IVIay 13, 1825. Ex Legato sororis Napoleonis PauUinae Burghe- siae A.D. mdcccxxv. Daniel C. Colesworthy. Portland (U.S.A.) Crest Arm. Arm. " Trust in God not in strength." C.ThomsonSc.(Cross)Edinr 2X2} " Libertas et natale solum.'' 6x6. ^' Fir me." Printed label Pict. Arm. Arm. Arm. Seal Arm. Arm. PlainArm. Printed label Pict. Label Label Arm. Landscape 3X4. The words in brackets are added in MS. Leather label. No motto. 2| diameter. "Won sj«e i)«o" (N ot without God) . Leather label. "Deo jfuvante" (God helping us), " Fania ntanctfortiinaperiit" (Our fame remains, our fortune has perished). 7X4^. (The helmet rests on the wreath, instead of the wreath on the helmet.) No motto. Grimaldi arms. Plate mark 3JX2J. See also 1S23 for other plates of this ancient family, one also — not dated — of William Grimaldi, below which, in MS., is"H. B. Grimaldi 1S77." No motto. Design 3 J X 2J. This plate is frequently found under the larger plate of Norbury Booths Hall 1826, which see. No motto. (By Bewick.) No motto. F. Sansom del et Sculp. Design 4^X4. This cu- rious plate is not dated, but the water-mark on the paper is '-What- man's Turkey Mills. 1824." Printed - " Receive Instruction rather than label ' Silver, Knowledge rather than choice Gold," Prmted label Label e^2S±££^** ^osfi.aass-^ DATED BOOK-PLATES. 133 1825 James Davis Leather label. )l E. Hanby .. Printed Oval border. Motto; — label "0/ mental pleasures reading forms a part, It mends the morals and improves the heart." Ann Hill Arm. Pict. No motto. A woodcut. 2JX3. A tree in the foreground supports a curtain, on which is the name. Landscape background. Signed Austin 1825. A scarce plate. ,, Joannes Johnson, S.T.P. de Petworth Coll: S. Arm. •* Fidenti fida anchoret Christits " Maris Magdalens apud Oxon socius Et (To him that believeth, Christ is Eccles: de Northchapel in Agro Sussexiensi a safe anchor). Rector, mdcccxxv. t» The Kintyre Club Arm. Instituted 1825. »t Eliz: Sophia Lawrence )I Maria Lees. Castle Hall Leather label. " John Morant Arm. Pict. "En Moiirnnt jf'cs/>h-c" (In dying I hope). Plate mark 5JX4}. See 1764, 1786, and 1862. ^, Royal Society of Literature. Instituted November, Arm. Established by Charter, dated 1820. G. IV. 15th Septr 1825. 4X3i Sainthill of Sainthill, Devon. 1825. Quartering PlainArm. '• Deeds not words." 5fX3|. See Tranckmore. Burridge, and Green. Ex L. y.. Vol. I., pp. 71, log. i» Scott (of Kent) PlainArm. No motto. 3jX2|. M Rachel Smith's, Book, Berwick-upon-Tweed. Prin. label ») Henry Eustatius Strickland F.S. 1826 Edward Astley Esq Arm. No motto. 1) Barnstaple . Clerical . Library. Arm. Pict. No motto. Design 2jxii. Oval beaded frame around the arms. " J. Burton Esq. Crest No motto. Schonberg & Co. lithog. „ A. E.G. Leather label, ifxif. »» Sir Mountague Cholmeley Bart. 24 Feb. 1826. Landscape AW. del. (? Way). 11 (Dobree Legacv to Trinity College, Cambridge.) Bibliothecae Coll. S.S. Trin. Cant, legavit Petrus Paulus Dobree. a.m Graecarum literarum Professor Regius et Socius CoUegii. Pict. R. Roe. Bibliotheca; Coll. S.S. Trin. Cant. Legavit Rober- Engraved No motto. tus Hole A.M. Socius Senior. label n Elizabeth Sophia Lawrence Arm. No motto. C. Knight sculpt 1826^83. 3IX3. Arms quarter- ly on a lozenge with scroll frame- work. It is somewhat unusual to find an engraver putting his age on a book-plate. ») G. A. Mc Dermott Pict. B. King. ,, (Legh of) Norbury Booths Hall Arm. " Prudcns fidelis et aiidax " (Pru- (The first quarter contains the same bearings 10 dent, faithful, and bold). Suffield as the shield of John Legh of 1824, and the crest quarter- so. 233 Strand. 5jX3^. Another is the same.) ings similar plate not signed. This plate is often found pasted over the smaller plate of John Legh, of Booths, 1824. 134 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1826 J. S. S. (John Spencer Smith, engraved in the Arm. " Virtus incendit vires " (Virtue initials.) excites our powers). ,, The Armorial Insignia of Thomas J. Scotland. Arm. No motto. Engd by A. Scott. (A knight armed cap-d-pie, holding a sword and shield.) (1827) Henry Adams Mayers 1827 Nameless plate Arm. No motto. A. Fran9ois Sculp. ., Due de Cadore 1S27-1882 Arm. No motto. ,, Daniel C. Colesworthy. Portland (U.S.A.) Label Mr Cumberland (Doubtful whether intended for use as a book- plate.) AUeg. No motto. W. Blake, inv. et sc: KM -JO. 1827. Plate mark 1JX3J William Blake died on Aug. 12, 1827, so this must have been one of his last designs. 11 Junior United Service Club Arm. No motto. 2iX2. )> Bibliotheque de Mr. le Syndic Masbou (of Geneva). Printed label No motto. 2X2J. Ex Bibliotheca Serenmi Principis Friderici de Arm. Malbeste a Paris. 4IX3J. Salm-Kyrburg. Anno 1827. Mantled " The Property of Caroline S. Sumner. Otis. Mass. December, 1S27. Printed label Printed by G. W. Whipple. De- sign 3X4. (An elaborate border is composed of printers' small ornaments). ,, R.W.Y.C. (? Royal Weymouth Yacht Club) Arm. Established 1S27. „ Mrs Whitby. Newlands Arm. No motto. See also 1S28, 1831, (Probably engraved by a novice.) 1832. 11 Library of Public School. No 3 Hudson St. New Label (Rules of the Library follow). York. Feby ist 1827. • 18(28) William Sime Crest " Fortiiua labore.'' 1828 Robert Balmanno, F.s. a. London Arm. " Persevcrando." Claimed as an American plate, as he went to that country, and died in Brooklyn. , J J. Bowen Leather label. ,, J. Burton, Esq. Crest „ M.A.P.H. & E.P.H. to John Pritt Harley .. February 5, 1S28. T. D. Hammond Hull Pict. J. Greenwood. " Mrs Whitby. Newlands. Arm. No motto. See also 1827, 1831, 1832. William H. W. Bigg Wither. New Coll, Oxon. Crest DATED BOOK-PLATES. 135 18(29) 1829 18a- 1830 (1831) 1831 William Rodwell Sheffield Grace, Esq. l.l.d., f.s.a. Peter Jones Laxton Hall Library. (Lord Carbury's arms) Christopher Edward Lefroy. ( sary Judge at Surinam) Bibliotheque de I'Eveche de Lui;on Dr. Saunders's Charity British Commis- The Property of J. G. 183- (U.S.A.) Bruff, Portsmouth, Va. Clarence Club Domk Mc Laughlin G. W. Straton Wm Vines. Brewers Hall and Leathersellers Hall. London. Elizabeth Eagar. From her aftectionate Aunt, Alice Spring. Thomas Edlyne and Elizabeth Tomlins Royal Geographical Society Etablissement Geographique de Bruxelles Harroviensi D.D. Christophorus Wordsworth, Scholae Harroviensis Magister. John Keir Assheton Percival, d.d. Thos Price Richard Brooke Riddell. The bequest of his dear aunt and godmother, 23d Jany 1830. C. & M. Field, the kind gift from their revered Friend and Pastor, the Revd. Rowland Hill, A.M., 1831. Scholae Grammaticae Glasguensis. (Glasgow Gram- mar School Premium) Rev. Frederick Lee, m.a. Magdalene College, Oxford. 1831. Naval and Military Library and Museum St. Catherine's Convent of Our Lady of Mercy Baggot Street, Dublin. Founded Deer 12th 1831. Arm. Arm. Crest Prin. label Prin. label " En grace nffii," " Concordant nomine facta." See also 1712, 1790, 1813, 1816, i8ig, 1834. "Pro patria" (For my country). J. Bacon. Suppression Surinam Slave Trade. 1S19 to 1829. Pict. Crest Arm. Arm. Arm. Pict. Label Arm. Arm. Woodcut. Inscription on a shield. See Allen's " American Book- plates," p. 178. No motto. ''Semper fidelis '' (Always faithful). " Vivit post funera virtus" (Vir- tue lives after death). See 1831. No motto. Design 3jx 2. No motto. Silvester & Co. sc. 27 Strand. 5jX3i. No motto. " Stct fortuna domns " (May the fortune of our house endure). (Prize mark). (Two designs). " Stet fortnna domns " (May the fortune of our house endure). Leather label. 1^X2^. Engraved label Label Label PlainArm. Crest W. & R. Engraved label All the words but those in italics are in MS. Long Latin inscription, dated Oct. 1831. No crest or motto. Plate mark 3|X2|. See 1795. No motto. No motto. 136 DAl'ED BOOK-PLATES. 1831 (1832) 1832 Schola Kensingtoniensis Dan' Pender Bibliotheca Pichoniana ab anno 1831 inchoata. (Pichon) Mr Alderman Terry. 1S31 Bibliothecae Coll. Trin. Cantab, legavit Jonathan Raine a.m. United Service Institution. W.R. 1S31 Wm. Vines, Brewers Hall & Leathersellers Hall London 1S31. W. Webb .. Mrs Whitby. Newlands William Wilberforce Dudgeon College of Fort William W. E. Light. Xmas 1832 1833 Cleveland House, Brixton Hii: Minchin Robert Nicholson, Ballow William, Lord Rendlesham (Peerage of Ireland, created 1806.) Sligo Library, Established 1832 Mrs Whitby. Newlands 1832 (Apparently engraved by a novice.) Belfast Institution Premium J. Burton Ex dono Caroli F. L de Coetlogon .. (To Pembroke Coll., Camb.) Royal Naval School. This Premium was awarded Bibliothecae Coll. S.S. Trin. Cant, legavit Dan. Pettiward a.m. Charles Smith, SoK-. London Johanni Oakes Taylor. Schola Cathedralis Here- fordensis 2omo die Junii 1833. Theol: Institute of Con: 1833. (Connecticut Theo- logical Institute, U.S.A.) Prize label " Saitctc et Sapicntcr" (With I righteousness and wisdom). Arm.Chip. Probably an altered plate. Arm. Gaucherel. Retouche par Ad. Varin en 1873. Leather label. 2^X4^. Label Arm. Arm. Label Arm. Arm.Chip. Arm. Label Leather label Arm.Chip. Arm. Arm. Landscape Arm. This Book was presented to the United Service Institution by . 44x34. " Vivit post fiinera virtus " (Vir- tue lives after death). 4^X4. No motto. No motto. See also 1827, 1828, 1832. No motto. Plate mark 3^ X2j. No motto. " Palmam qui meruit fcrat " (Let him who merits bear the palm). " Regarde la mart." H.C.M. " Deus niihi sol " (God is my Sun) 3X1J. " Lahore et lionore " (By industry and honesty). Warwick. Wallers sc. Dublin. Oval design. ijxii- No motto. Four varieties, dated 1827, 1828, 1831, 1832. 3iX2|. Printed label Pict. Arm. Crest Arm. Pict. (By Greene). •'Palinnm qui meruit fcrat'' (Lord Nelson's motto: Let him who merits bear the palm). 4X3J. No motto. ifXi-i No motto. ''Sit pracmiuui virtuti " (Let virtue have her reward). On a leather label, within a handsome border. See Allen's " American Book- plates," p. 187. DATED BOOK-PL lATBS. 137 1834 Sir Wm. Holland .. Arm. )» Institute of British Architects. Anno Salutis Seal Incorp. vii: Gul: iv. " Usui MDCCCXXXIV. civium decori urbiutn " (For the use of citizens — for the beauty of cities). Design 3IX2J. '5 Edinburgh Geological Society. Instituted 1834. Crest No motto. Sheffield Grace, k.h., l.l.d., f.s.a. Arm. "En grncc affic" above crests, " Concordant nomine facia " be- low arms. 3X2|. See also 1712, 1790, 1816, 1S19, 1829. I) John Hanmer (Sir) .. Arm. " Garde I'honneur.'' " Michael Jones Pict. " Vince malum bono " (Conquer evil with good). H.Shaw Sculpt July 1834. )) Mr. Pasley's School Premium Label July, 1st. 1834. 18(35) Royal Academy, Gosport ,, Pensionnat de Mortagne Label (P'rench School prize mark). 1835 Societatis Archaeol: et Herald: Univ: Oxon: Arm. " Pro Deo.Ecclesia et Rege" (For God, Church, and King). "Domi- tius illjiminatio niea " (The Lord is my light). •■ Thomas Burndred, Tinker's Clough .. Label " // thou art borrotiud by a friend," etc. ,, Ex Libris Alphei Cazenave, Doctis Medici: Pict. No motto. M. Palaiseau sc. A Literary charming French plate. Medical emblems, books and flowers. 3iX2j. „ Andrew Vincent Corbet, Bart. Arm. " Dcus fascit eorvos " (God feeds (The second baronet, died 1855. Baronetcy the ravens). Twenty quarterings. created 1808.) i> De Bibliotheca Rogeri Greisley de Drakelowe. (Large plate, shield surrounded by an elaborate border of fruits and flowers. A smaller plate than above, same inscription, no border.) Arm. No motto. See 1837. ,, Coll. S.S. Trin. Cant: donavit. Robertus Wilson Engraved Evans a.m. label ,, Ann Grigg Label )> Ex Libris Le Roy, Doctis Medici Pict. M. Palaiseau, sc. ,, Reading Room, 39 Old Change. Estabhshed 1835. Label No motto. ,, Charles Smith. Solr London Crest No motto. " John Brook Wood Grave par Honore Vidal. 1836 Ex dono ill. ac RR. in Christo patris, DD. Francisci Arm. Bibliotheca seminariiVapincensis. Antonii Arbaud, Vapencensis episcopi, 1 836. Eccles. „ Stephen Hyde Cassan m.a. f.s.a. Chaplain to Arm. "Juvant arva parentuin" (The H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, and In- Early Eng lands of my forefathers delight cumbent of Bruton, Somerset. me). With extracts from the Records of the College of Arms, London i6th July 1836. Design 4jX2i. 138 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1836 1837 183(8) 1838 Bequeathed to Duhvich College Library, by the late Rev. E. Smedley, a.m. Jane Footner, the Gift of a Friend Francis-Hartwell Henslowe. Ann Rocke All- wood. Revd Charles Lee, m.a. Vicar of Yaxley, C9 Hunts. Quebec Classical School. Instituted 1S36 John Richards, junr f.s.a. Reading. 1836 Hunc Librum cum trecentis circiter aliis, Testa- mento Collegio legavit Josephus Taylor, s.T.B. Socius. Barbavilla House County of West-Meath (Arms : Smythe impaling Monck.) Bowdoin College Library. Bond Book Fund, Estab- lished by Rev. Elias Bond 1837. Institute of British Architects. Anno Salutis MDCCCXXXVII. Collegio Sancti Davidis, apud Llanbedr in Comitatu Ceretico, T. L. Thomas Burgess, s t.p. Episcopus Sarisburiensis et Collegii Funda- tor. MDCCCXXXVII. Charles Purton Cooper, Esq. (Bencher of Lincoln's Inn.) Maidenhead, i,? School or Institution gift plate.) George Dangerfield given to him at Maidenhead Berkshire with the desire to promote his eternal welfare. Sophia Katherine Greisley . . Presented by the Right Honble Thomas Kelly Lord Mayor. February 6th 1837. Royal Kensington Literary Institution M.A.M, (Morgan) The New York Sunday School Union Present this Testimony of their kind regard to For Good Behaviour and Improvement while attending School 183(8). Boston Public Library, from the Bowditch Fund. (U.S.A.) Thomas Catton s.t.e. Hunc Librum cum C.L. circiter aliis ad Astronomiam practicam Spectantibus Coll: Div. Job. Cantab. Testa- mento legavit Thomas Catton s.t.b. R. et Ast. S.S. ejusdem Collegii Socius Maxinie Senior. Obiit Jan. 6. 1838. Printed label Label Arm. Arm. [Books in a I border Crest Printed label Arm. Printed label Seal Printed label Printed label Label Arm. Arm. Mono. Portrait Printed label No motto. ^^ Ohsequcus non vernilis^^ (Obe- dient, not servile). 4^X3^. No motto. " Panditc nunc helicuna " (Now throw open Helicon). On an open volume Caxton's mark, and some printing. 3^X2g '^ Exaltabil honore " (It will exalt with honour. The Smythe motto). No motto. "Usui Civiiim Decori Urbium" (For the use of citizens — for the beauty of cities). 4|X3|. No motto. No motto. No motto. See 1835. "In Deo fide nil liesfentniiiim' (Trust in God, do not despair). No motto. "Search the Scriptures." Woodcut. 3jX5j. Palm-tree to left, grape-vine to right, with large bunches on it ; dove flying down at top ; boy and girl praying at base. Nath: Bowditch ob. Mar 16, 1S38. (A legacy of books to St. John's College, Cambridge, bequeathed by Thomas Catton, who died Jan. 6, 1638.) DATED BOOK-PLATES. 139 1838 William Cooke Esqr Arm. " Dum spiro spero " (While I have " It is requested when a book is lent it may breath I have hope). be returned, and the leaves not turned down or dirtyd " (sic). ,, Cloth Workers Company Arm. "My trust is in God aloitf." „ Hartford Young Men's Institute. (U.S.A.) Pict. "Eslo pcrpcttia" (Endure for ever). Johannes. Thynne. d.d. Westmonast. Subdecan. Arm. Seal "y'ay bonne cause" (I have good reason. Motto of the Thynne family). i| diameter. This plate defeats its own pur- pose; it is almost impossible to decipher it. ,, E.\ Libris Toppen a Rimbourg 1838 Arm. No motto. Design 3J x 2|. ti George Wallis Pict. "/h hoc spero." G.W. 1838. „ Thomam West. Hie liber. .\nno Domini Engraved No motto. 2X2J. MDCCCXXXVIII. label „ Daniel West Prin. label No motto. ■ William Wriothesley Wingfield. Ch. Ch. .. Crest ■ •' Quoil vidcri vis esfo " (Be what you wish to appear). 1839 Anderson Pict. No motto. Plate mark 2 X2|. It Henry Gee Barnard Arm. Coll. Theol. Cicest. Inst Anno Domini 1839 Arm. Greek motto. (Theological College, Chichester.) Eccles. n The Grange, The Residence of the Rev. F. Close Pict. The Munificent gift of his M.A. Parishioners. Georgia Historical Society Library. Founded 1839. Label A. Hoen & Co. Lith. Balto Savannah Ga. (U.S.A.) ») Jac: Rob: Hope. Scholaris de Merton. mdcccxxxix. Seal » Sanger Library Eng. label „ Jacob Wood. E. Libris quos miro in Collegium Printed Studio, ad numerum mmmm.cccc. Huic label Bibliothecae Testamento legavit vir admo- dum Reverendus Jacobus Wood s.t.p. Praefectus CoUegii, Decanus Eliensis. I» Eug. Ch. Zear, Herboriste. Autorise en 1839. Pict. 18(40) Scottish Naval and Military Academy Edinburgh. Arm. " Nemo me impuue lacessit " (No one provokes me with impunity). 1840 Henry Alexander of Forkill, in the County of Arm. "Per mare per terras" (By sea and land). Armagh, Esqr 1) E. H. Cooke, August, 1840 .. Scroll No motto. »> E libris W. G. Cookesley, Etons, mdcccxl. .. Label No motto. » Humbly Knapp Arm. No motto. )» From the Library of William Otter d.d. Lord Bishop of Chichester. Died at Broadstairs Kent, August 20, 1840. Label )T From Dr. Sanden's Library, September. 1S40. Label „ A legacy label to St. John's College, Cambridge.— Label Joannes Palmer s.t.b. Obiit 9 April, 1840. I40 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1840 Coll: Theol: Wellens: a.d. 1840.— below the shield. Arm. Sea! " Absitmihi glorinri nisi in cruce" (The above is the original plate. See next (God forbid that I should glory. entry.) save in the Cross), in a garter around the shield. Mitre above. 4X3. „ Coll: Theol: Wellens: a.d. 1840 Arm. Seal "Absit milii gloriari nisi in cruce " (Wells Theological College Library. Design below the shield. Design 3X2J. nearly circular. A fine specimen of modern en- T. Moring sc. Holborn. graving.) )» Henry Woodcock. 1840 Arm. No motto. Design 2JX2. 1841 Nameless plate. (Dawson) Crest Harwood. ,, The Seal of Michael Solomon Alexander d.d., Arm. No motto. Luigi Brocktorff. Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem. 1S41. Eccles. )» Societas: Architect: Bristol, mdcccxli. Arm. No motto. Circular design. 3J diameter. M John Benett, Junr of Pythouse Arm. (? date. See 1843). ., Ex Bibliotheca Regis Karoli Alberti Arm. Stereotyp. Chirii et minae. ,, Arma Johannis Baronis Carteret de Hawnes Arm. Seal No motto. Three shields and AO X. MDCCCXLI. three crests. 2g diameter. (Of Co. Bedford, in the Peerage of Great Britain. Title extinct.) M Cheltenham . College. In the year of grace mdcccxli. Arm. '•Labor omnia vincit" — Virg., Georg, i. 145 (Labour conquers everything). " T. Crofton Croker, f.s.a., etc. Label No motto. Long list of literary titles. ,^ Francis Dawson Junr Chislehurst, Kent. The Arm. "Si Dens quis contra" (If God Gift of his Grandfather Walter VVeldon. be for us, who can be against us?)- i84r. Design 3^X2. B. Drew ■ Crest No motto. Design 2 xii. ,, Charles Norton Elvin Arm. " Elvcnaca fioreat vitii " (May (.\uthor of a Dictionary of Heraldry, and other the vine of Elvion flourish) above works.) crest, " Spcctemur Agendo" — ' Ovid, Met. viii. 120 (Let us be proved by action) below shield. 3fX2j. M Charles Norton Elvin Crest only " Elvenaca Jloreat vttis " and (This gentleman had several other book-plates. " Spectemur Agendo." 34. X2j. See i860.) ,, The Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Arm. Pict.i No motto. ,, Thos Gimlett, Junr. Strand St. Youghal Prin. label No motto. 2JX3J frame. •■ Sheffield Grace Arm. ''Concordant nomine facta." See list of Grace plates. »I R Cowley Powles Crest No motto. " Daniel Parsons, m.a. e Coll B.M.V. Oriel * Arm, * The book-plate of the earliest writer on Ex Libris. As far back as 1837 an article from his pen appeared in the Third Annual Report of the Oxford University Archceological and Heraldic Society. The Hon. J. L. Warren referred to this article with gratitude in the Preface to his "Guide," published in iSSo, but therein he spoke of Mr. Daniel Parsons as "deceased." In this he was. fortunately, in error, for the rev. gentleman not only asserted his vitality, but afterwards wrote a series of valuable articles on book-plates which appeared in the Antiquarian Magazine in 1B83, besides several letters to Notes and Queries, all ot which are useful to collectors, who certainly owe Mr. Parsons a debt of gratitude and respect for his labours and researches. g DATED BOOK-PLATES. 141 1842 Nameless plate 1843 1844 Instituted (Philadel- Brussels. Apprentices Library Company of Phila. 1820. Opened for Girls 1842. phia, U.S.A.) Bibl: Bollandiana. Brux. (Society of Bollandists. Jesuits, Editors of the "Acta Sanctorum.") W. G. Cookesley Etonae, The Most E.xcellent Brother Michael Furnell. Knight of the Eagle & Pelican. Prince Grand Rose Croix cS: K.H. Installed 12th of August 5841. P.M. Ancient Union Lodge No 13. Deputy Lieut. High Sheriff & Magistrate of the County and City of Limerick and Magistrate of the County Clare. Cahir Elly Castle & Georges Street. Limerick a.d. 1842. Stephen Garraud Academiae Harvardianae Sigillum 1638. From the donation fund of 1842. (U.S.A.) Presented to Mr Alfred Jackson by the Master Wardens and Society of Apothecaries gth November 1842. Ex dono Joseph! Littledale Francis Russell Nixon d.d., Bishop of Tasmania. Bibliothecae Coll. S. S. Trin. Cantab. Donavit Franciscus Wrangham a.m. Ejusdem Collegii. 1S42. John Benett, Junr of Pythouse Church of England Sunday School Institute. MDCCCLXIII. Presented to the Rev. John Flanagan, by the Parishioners of Newtownhamilton, in the Diocese of .Armagh. March, 1843. Maria Anna Grimaldi in memory of her parents T. G. and S. E. Knapp. Thomae Georgii filii Hieronymi Knapp Bibliotheque de J" Morel Lyon 1843 Spottiswoode Society. Instituted at Edinburgh gth June 1S43. Thomas Whytehead, a.m. The Gift of Thomas Palmer Acland of Little Bray, Devon Esqr who died March aist 1844. Arm. Eccles. Landscape Label Label .■^rm. Arm. Pict. Label Arm. Eccles. Arm. Arm. Pict. Arm. Poize 1842. See Allen's "American Book- plates," p. 265. No motto. "In oiinia (sic) pamtiis'' (Ready for all things). Plate mark 3JX 2j. See 1845. (Two varieties). Leather label, 2JX3J. A legacy label to St. John's. No motto. See the Bishop of Newcastle, dated 1847. " Hyeme exsupernta " (When the storm is overpassed). 4X2^. No motto. 3jX2^. No motto. 3jxii. Label Leather label, 2JX 3 J. Arm. ! Long Latin inscription. Arm. No motto. Pict. No motto. 3iX2J. Crest Crest, a phcenix. Motto, "Re- I surgam " (I shall rise again). Design 4X2. Label , Legacy label (St. John's). " IiubraiilabU" (Not to be shaken). Mr. Acland left £1,000 for the purchase of religious books for the poor of Devon. 4JX3. 142 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1844 Bequeathed to The Baptist Library in London by Printed 2^X3*. John Brittain Shenston, (Pastor of the label Seventh -Day Particular Baptist Church, Finsbury) who died I2th May, 1S44, aged 6g. W. H. Black, Executor and Trustee. ,, Revd Jas Campbell, l.l.d. Arm. " Ne obliviscaris" (Do not for- mantled get). Plate mark 3jX2i. See also 1708 and 1756. 11 Ex Bibliotheca Jbi Clare Presbyt. Arm. No motto. J» This Book belongs to Corpus Christi Sunday School Printed No motto. 2JX1J. Library, Established a.d. 1844. label „ C. J. W. D. Dundas, Esqre Aston Hall. Hawar- Engraved No motto. i|X2j. den. A.D. 1S44. label J, Scholae Reg. Edin. Aluirno, Hoc Praemium, dili- Arm. " Nisi Doiiiiiiiis frustra " (It is gentiae atque doctrinae indicium et insigne, vain without the Lord). W. & tribuit Senatus Edimburgensis, mense Au- A. K. Johnston Sc. gusto A.D. 1844. „ Saint Elphin's Clergy School Eng. label n J- H Arm. " Vigilant and true." n Sawyerpuram Missionary Institution ,, Abate Giovachino Mugnoz Spagnuolo dono Printed alia Comune di Bologna 1S44. label ,, William Vines Arm. n Offered to Mrs F. Vulliamy . . Arm. (As a remembrance of Neuchatel). >» Ex libris Frederic Zeerleder de Belp. Lud. Fil. Arm. No motto. Heater shield, in- (Zeerleder of Berne, Switzerland.) scription on a border around it, the whole enclosed in a square tablet of masonry, with small escutcheons in the four corners. 18(45) e libris Gulielmi Lees Arm. Seal " Ein doe, and spare not." 2 inches diameter. 1845 Michael Furnell. (Masonic) .. Arm. " In omnia paratus." Two vari- eties. See 1842. 5> Mr Willem Jan Baron D'Ablaing Van Gies- Arm. No motto. 3jX2i. The arms senburg, geb te Amsterdam i Julij 1812 of the Baron on a "square shield, Trou \vt te Wijk aan Duin 18 Sept. 1845, those of his wife, Agneta Boreel, Agneta Leopoldina Maria Boreel geb on an oval shield. te's Hage iS Sept. 1S14, etc. )T Dai Libri del Professor D. Luigi Gramantieri Printed donati ai RR. PP. Cappuccini di Bagnaca- label vallo con testamento 13 Giugno 1845. Rogiti dott. Stefano Martini Bagnacavallese. ») William Hardy f.s.a. . . • . . Arm. " Le Hardy ne qiierre pas querelc." Halfhide sculp. ,, Thomas Jones of the Middle Temple, Barrister Arm. " Virtutis praemium felicitas " at Law. Llanerchrugog Hall. (Happiness the reward of virtue), and a Welsh motto. Large plate with 16 quarterings. >J In Gymnasio R. Catholico Midensi, Navanae. Prmted "Admajorem dei gloriam" (For Premium plate. label the greater glory of God. Motto of the Jesuit Order). )) Monaghan Literary Society. 1845 Seal " Spes inea in Deo " (My hope is in God), ij diameter. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 143 1845 The Library of Queen's College, Gahvay Founded 1845. »» Library of Public School No 14. No 238 Houston Label This entry was sent by Mr. W. E. Street New York Sept i. 1845. Catalogue Baillie, of Bridgeport, U.S.A. No IIA. fi^^ The mother of Sir W. Jones used to answer his enquiries after Knowledge when young — by saying " read and you will know." He did so and be- came a good and uselul man ;— reader, the same path is open before you. 1846 J. T. Allen, Stradbrooke Literary " Et Libras ct Aniigos.^^ tl Rev. John Taylor Allen. Stradbrooke, Suffolk. Label No motto. )l Bibliotheque A. L. Benoit. Berthelming Saar- Pict. No motto. 2jxi|. Reproduced govienne 1846. (See 1894) in Hamilton's " French Book- plates," p. gg. This plate be- longed to the brothers Arthur and Louis Benoit; they had also other book-plates. t! Henrici Bradshaw Reg. Coll. Eton. Alumni. ») Clero Cornubiensi d.d. Henricus Exoniensis. (Exeter) Arm. No motto. „ C. A. Hammatt (of Newport, R.L, U.S.A.) Literary ,, Car C. James. Legavit J. Hawkes, Winton. Label )J Rear Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm Arm. See 1847. V "Office Library" ist Jany 1846. (Arms, 3 squirrels) Arm. No motto or explanation. ^, Liber E. Museo Robert! Yates \A^hytehead ap Arm. " /h puritatc, In scicntia'^ (By Crayke in Com: Ebor Nat. 1846. pureness, by knowledge). (By Mr. Cyrus Johnson). 1847 Architecturae et Archaeologicae Soc. Bedford Arm. Two varieties. »» Presented to the Library of Colby University by Printed No motto. Prof Chas E. Hamlin l.l.d. label )T William L. Hutson, Jun. Northrepps. June the Printed Three verses, entitled " A Hint 22nd 1847. label to those who borrow books " : — " If thou art borrowed by a friend," etc. j» Jacob Ley. Student of Ch. Ch. and Vicar of St Mary Magdalene, Oxford, a.d. mdcccxlvii. Crest No motto. 3 X 2j. »» Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm .. Arm. " In ardtia tendit " (He reaches towards things difficult of attain- ment). 3X2J. ft Saint Andrew's House, Mells (See 1817) Pict. " Pro Deo ct ccch-sia '' (For God and the Church). Vesica, 4|X2|. If Bibliotheque du Chateau de Mouchy-Noailles . . Label No motto. 2x3. Same as plate dated 1806. fi Coll. Pemb. Cant. Coll sive Aula Valence Marie in Academia Cantabrigiensi. Arm. No motto. ii CoUegio Sancti Davidis, apud Llanbedr in Comitatu Printed See 1848, 1849, 1850. Ceretico, d. d. d. Thomas Phillips, de label Brunswick Square apud Londinenses, Ar- miger. 1847. 144 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1847 William Tyrrell d. d. Bishop of Newcastle. MDCCCXLVII. (His patent was dated 25th June, 1847 i conse- j crated 29th June, 1S47. He was translated to I Sydney, 8th Dec, 1853.) ., Grand Lodge Province of Quebec (The Odd Fellows of Montreal.) 1848 Bazot, Notaire, .\miens Belfast Academy. Session 1847-8. Premium, June 1848. Robert Burd Thomas Crofton Croker, f.s.a., etc. .. Samuel and Isabella Marindin The .^dderley Library Marlborough Coll. M. J. Millbourn Thomas Phillips Augusta Thornton . . E. W. Unwin. 184S (in MS.) 1849 Thomas Henry Wyatt his book King Alfred College and Grammar School. Restored A.D. 1849. Comragh Lending Library Coll: Sancti Davidis apud Llanbedr d.d.d. Thomas Phillips. John Murray Drummond, Megginch Castle Thomas Yale Kimpton Hertford James Mangles, 66, Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park. Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. MDCcc.XLix. The Surtees Library, Taunton Castle. Presented by Lady Chap- man. A similar plate, omitting the word Surtees .. Arm. Mitre as crest Arm. Arm. supporters Printed label Arm. Label Arm. Arm. Label Engraved label Arm. W. & R. Arm. Seal No motto. Almost identical m style with the plate of Bishop Nixon, of Tasmania, dated 1842. Instituted Nov. 1847. No motto. 1548-1848. 2JX2J. (Long list of literary titles). See Founded a.d. 1848. Two sizes. 2j diameter, and li diameter. Leather label. i|X2j. Welsh description. See 1849,1850. Presented by Mrs. Eliza Ford, of Clifton. " Eripe te mora" (Hor., Carm. III., xxix. 5. .\way with delay!) 3iX2j. " Vi, attameii honorc " (With force and yet with honour). Arm. i iElfred Rex. Fundatcr. 5JX4. Printed ' Same as the entry under 1847. label Arm. Kirkwood. |Arm. Pict. No motto. T.Y.K. Plate mark I 3iX4i- Arm. No motto. Arm. Arm. Four small coats -of- arms on a circular seal, the whole in a square frame. W. Bidgood del. 4iX3- W. Bidgood del. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 14s 185- Aylesbury Old Bank. Bank Library J. Colbourne, Northampton J. J. Colin Rogers 1850 David Brandon ,, Hon Mrs Charles Bruce Bibliotheca Ambrosii Firmini Didoti James. Dix. Bristol (The same plate with "Biblical Collection" added on scroll beneath.) Georgius Dodd, liber ejus Sigm. Rob. Hurrell. Froude. Eccles. de. Dar- tington. Rect. et .A.chidiac. Totonens. (Totnes, Devon.) Mrs Charles Brune Henville v.d. Steen de Lehay Edward Peacock. Bottesford Moors. 1850 CoUegio Sancti Davidis apud Llanbedr in comitatu ceretico Thomas Phillips, d.d.d., De Brunswick Square apud Londinensis, Ar- miger. Capt A. E. Reid This Book belongs to the Reference Department of the South Shields Public Library, and must be returned into the hands of the Librarian or his Assistants. Thomas Pyke, Secretary and Librarian. Edward Adderly Stopford, Ai-lIuIchcoii of Meath, Left to me by Edward Stopford, Bishop of Meath. Sepr 1850. 1851 William. Boyne. Leeds „ W. Brachley ,, Augustus Howell „ Mr Houston Kidd. Citizen and Distiller. Lon- don. 8th July, 185I. „ Edward Lawes ,, ; Manchester Public Free Libraries. Reference Lib- rary Founded 1851. „ Presented to the Manchester Public Free Libraries by . Founded 1S51. Manchester Public Free Libraries The Manchester Circulating Library, and the Manchester Subscription Library, formerly used Library Interior book-plates, not dated. These exist in several "states." Crest Label Crest No motto. 1X2I. No motto. Design 2JX2J. Leather | " A la BibU- d'Or. i6g8.'' label 'Arm. Pict. "Giitlur up the fraginciits that nothing be lost.'' Design 3iX2i. Arm. Crest Arm. Arm. Label Printed label Crest Arm. Arm. Arm. Seal Arm. Burlesque Arms. Arm. Arm. .\rm. ■Arm. with, [supporters No motto. " Virtus vera nobilitas " (Virtue is true nobility). W. Pink. 4|X3l- No motto. 2jX3i. See 1847, 1S48, 1849. No motto. " Courage, Humanity, Commerce," on a garter round the shield. On the shield " /I/zonj's j-«(irf)'."' 6X4 " Patriae infclici fidelis " (Faith- ful to my unhappy country). Design 35 X2j. See i8og. " "What shall be shall.'' 2J dia- meter. ^^ Drop as rain, ilisfil as dew" (Motto of the Distillers'Company, London). 4^X3. " Quid leges sine nwribus " (What are laws without morals ? " Concilio ct Lahore " (By wisdom and toil). 4JX3. '• Concilio ct Labcre." Same size as above, and similar design. " Concilio ct Laborc." Design 3iX2|. A garter surrounding the arms and supporters. Not dated. See Vicars on " Library Interior Book-plates." 146 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1851 18(52) 1852 1853 F. C. Montagu. (Coloured) F. C. Montagu. (Coloured) The College of St. Thomas the Apostle, Colombo. (Christopher Stannard.) Hunc cum CCCC fere aliis libris huic Bibliothecae Testamento legavit vir Reverendus Christophorus Stannard, s.t.b. Collegii olim Socius. A.D. 1851. William Armstrong Mr. Ch. de Beauminy Boston Public Library Founded 1852. (U.S.A.) The Bates Fund. The Pierce Fund. The Bigelow Fund. The Ticknor Fund. The Bowditch Fund. The Townsend Fund. The Phillips Fund. The Treadwell Fund. And many others. John Sheepshanks . . Bibliotheque 1852. Societe de I'Histoire du Protes- tantisme Franfais. (Founded 1852, dated 1868.) Henricus Annesley Woodham Legum Doctor, Collegii Jesu nuper socius. Cantabrigiae, 1852. J. W. Brown Major General Sir George BuUer (This gallant officer entered the Army in 1820, took part in the Kaffir War, and fought at Alma and Inkermann. Created K.C.B. 1855.) Wilhelmi Burges Frederick Gale General Viscount Hardinge, South Park (The first Viscount, created 1846. A distin- guished officer in the Peninsular campaigns, and Governor-General of India. Died Sept. 24, 1856) Thomae Duffus Hardy, Armigeri E. libris Jacobi Kendrick m.d. de Warrington . . (Views of Warrington and of a Warrington Volunteer.) CM. (Charles Morse) Edwin Simpson Arm. Arm. Pict. Printed label Arm. Arm. Literary Pict. Arm. Pict. Arm. Label Crest Label Crest Arm. Arm. Pict. Pict. Crest No motto. 2jX2^. " De fteii assez." 2SX2. " Esto Perpctua " (" Be thou ever- lasting." The last words of Father Paul Sarpi, referring to Venice). (Legacy to St. John's College.) "Fj etarmis'" (By force and arms). L. Christophe, Nancy. 3X3. A number of labels re- cording gifts of books : these will be found under the various dates of the donations separately de- scribed. On some are the por- traits of the donors. " Pcrseverando " (By persevering). Design 2|X2. "Post teiiebras lux" (After dark- ness, light). By E. Tavernier. No motto. Spade shield. 3iX2j. Design No motto. Badge and motto (" Tria jiincta ill Uno") of the Bath. Medals of the Crimea, and of South Africa, which is dated 1853. This plate must have been executed some years later. Design 3 X ij. No motto. No motto. " Mens aequa rebus in ardiiis " — (Hor., Carm. 11. iii. i. Equanimity in arduous circumstances). By H. J. Bellars. For full de- scription of this curious and scarce plate, see Rylands' Notes, p. 51. See also 1865, and Hardy, p. 78. " Libros y nnu^os^pocos y bucnos " Several designs. (By Mr. John Leighton, but not signed). " Quid fit rectum " (What is right) DATED BOOK-PLATES. 147 1853 The Trin Coll. Union Established May mdcccliu. Presented by (Mr. C. E. Thomson June 27th) 185(3). (H W. Daines) Librarian. Hunc Librum Bibliothecae Collegii S.S. Trinitatis D.D. Reverendus admodum in Christo Pater Joannes, Episcopus Torontonensis mdcccliu. 185(4) J. J. Colin Rogers 1854 G. Hesketh Biggs. E Libris Georgii Downing Bowles, m.a. Aulae Bae Mariae Virgs Oxoniensis Alumni. Ao Di. 1854. Maria Gore, Wilcott Manor .. Walter Kerr Hamilton, d.d.. Bishop ol Salis- bury. 1854. R. J. (Jennings) The property of the Trustees of the Marylebone Free Library. E Libris Josephi Maskell, (Coll: Reg: Lend: olim alumni) Presbytiri Eccles: Cat/to!: AnglicantE. A.D. 1S54. Royal Gardens, Kew. Presented by George Ben- tham. Stanley Library King's Lynn. Founded . Anno . Domini . 1854. 18(55) Henry Brady. Gateshead 1 (Probably a medical man.) 1855 I The Trustees of Sir Edward Ffrench Bromhead; Bart. (Died 14th March, 1855.) Bibliothecae Coll S. S. Trin Cant: Esthera Hare uxor, etc. Dr Kendrick of Warrington (Views of Warrington, and of a loyal Warring- ton Volunteer, etc.) Silas Ketchum. Hopkinton N.H. (U.S.A.) Cond. 1855. London . and . Middlesex . Archaeol. Soc. Estab. MDCCCLV. The Queen to her Army. Xmas 1855 John Macfarlane Ivy Lodge. Coney Hill Foun- der of the Macfarlane Free Library & Museum. 1855. P. M. Sener (U.S.A.) (See 1892) Colleeii S.S. Trin Cantab Pict. Label Label Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Eccles. Crest Pict. Printed label British Arms Arm. Pict. Printed label Pict. Arm. Masonic Arm. Seal Arm. Arm. Pict Label " PiiKhitim at certissime" over a small tortoise. Prize plate of Trinity College, Toronto, Canada. (The library of Trinity College, Toronto, Canada.) No motto. " Virtute lion astittia " (By virtue, not by craft). " Et hunc aprum" ("This boar too," alluding to the crest, a boar pierced by a spear). Design 3IX2J No motto. No motto. Vesica 3fX2S. " Vive ut vivas " (Live that you may live). Established 1852. Opened Jan. g, 1854. No motto. iiX2j. No motto. No motto. Figure of yEsculapius. Design 3^X2^. No motto. (Bromhead of Thurlby, baronetcy created 1806). Details wanting. Mentioned by Mr. Hardy p. 78, as of 1855. I think this an er- roneous date. Mr. Rylands dates it 1853, which see. " Ex scptein seven). No motto. 2j diar. No motto. Inscription in a wreath. Crown above. "This I'll defend" above the crest. Design 3iX3. " Mann-Forti" (By the strong hand). 1749 Germany. i892Penna. Contains various other genea- logical entries. Design 2|x 2. inns " (One of [the] O. Jewett del et sc. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1856 1857-8 1857 Rev. Fred. James Aldrich, m.a. Pemb. Coll Canib. General . Apothecaries . Company . Limited . 1856 . 49 . Berners . Street. Messire Jean, Nicolas, Joseph de Buisseret, Ecuyer. The Worshipful Company of Drapers. The Gift of William Vardon, Esqre a Member of the Court of Assistants, who died 15111 Deer 1856. Anne Dumercue High School of Glasgow. 25th Sept. 1856 From the Library of Dr Melvin. Presented to Marischal College, loih September, 1856. Scholae Reg. Edin. Alumno Hoc Praemium, dili- gentiae atque doctrinae indicium et insigne tribuit Senatus Edimburgensis, mense Julio, A.D. MDCCCLVI. H.V. (French) Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan Bart (of Net- tlecombe, Somerset, the sixth baronet). Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan (K.C.B. Created baronet 1874; married Han- nah More, sister to the late Lord Macaulay, in 1834, their son being the present baronet, Sir George Otto Trevelyan.) Nameless plate Ex Libris Centuriae mdccclvii Ditchfield m.d. Inverness Royal Academy. The Chairman's prize. Hannah Dockray Lancaster, in a garter. Below is a monogram, E.M.B. Joseph Rix, f.l.s., f.r.c.s.e.. l.s.a. St. Neots, Huntingdonshire. De Bibliotheca Cavendish de Thornton. Ano Dni 1857. The Earl of Westmorland .. (The eleventh earl, who died October 16, 1859. He also had a large armorial plate by Silvester, 27 Strand.) Arm. " Fortitudo Vincit" (Fortitude ill conquer). Crest "By Piireiiess, by Knoudetl^e" '2 Cor. vi. 6). Arm. " Non secundum facicm " ([Judge] not according to the appearance — St. John vii. 24). Design 3X2J. Arm. I " Levins fit patientia " ( Hor., Carm. i. xxiv 19. It is rendered lighter by patience). Plate mark 4iX Si- Arm. Seal " Fnctis non verbis'' (By deeds, not words). Circular design, 2 inches diameter. Name and date on a scroll above the seal. Prize label Eng. label Arm. " Nisi Dominus frustra " (It is vain without the Lord. The motto of the City of Edinburgh. See Psalm cxxvii. i : " Except the Lord keep the city, the watch- man waketh but in vain"). W. & A. K. Johnston sc. 6X3J. Afm. " Pins ultra " (More beyond.- Floral Mottoof the Emperor Charles V.' 2X2|. Arm. Landscape Arm. Landscape Arm. Crest Label Label Pict. Arm. Printed label " Time tryeth troth." W.B.S. (William Bell Scott.) " Time tryeth troth." W.B.S. (William Bell Scott.) " Sunt et fuerunt." a.d. 1857. (The Century Club, New York.) Bessagnet. "God's providence is mine in- heritnncc." 3JX2A. " Quotcnnqne libris judex unuin jiidiceni lego" (''How many soever books the judge [may choose J I choose only one Judge." Doubt- less referring to the open Bible, across which the motto runs). W.R. Fiat Cariss. (i.e.,\\'.R., the engraver, was a brother of the owner.) Two sizes, but differing in many details. No motto. Parkins & Gotto, 2=;, Oxford Street. s^^g^r^-^s^is^^^^ii^^^^i DATED BOOK-PLATES. 149 18(59) 1859 1858 Universite de France. Academie de Caen. College de Dieppe Prix de decerne le I2 AoQt 1S58 a I'Eleve — Le Principal, Marie. M Admiral Duff „ 1 Mary A. Eggar » Egyptian Railway Administration. Workmen's Library. (Another large plate, not dated, bears the in- scription, " Presented to the Railway Workmen by his Highness Mahommed Said Pacha, Viceroy of Egypt.") E bibliotheca Gilberti V. Heathcote Clerici et Elisoe ejus uxoris. (There are many other plates of the Heathcotes, and of the Heathcotes of Hursley, Baronets.) Caroli Morse R. Townley Parker In Memoriam James Perry To his grandchildren. Inchmore Library. John Lewis Ricardo Esq. m.p. Founder of the first Electric Telegraph for National pur- poses. , Sr William de Sars, Chevalier. Anno 1858 „ Watkinson Library. Hartford. Conn. (U.S.A.) Incorp. 1S58. Gulielmi Gaskell Rouse, a.m. Ex MAe Christi, Oxon. Bibliotheque de Raoul de Cazenove . . Chester Law Library Established 1859 Durham School Library Charles Hebbert Presented by the Congregation meeting at Salter's Hall Chapel to their Minister the Revd Jesse Hobson, as a token of the esteem and affection in which he is held by them. March 21st 1859. Seminarium Sancts Crucis Dubliniense. mdccclix. Arm. Label Pict. Arm. Pict, Vesica Arm. Arm. Crest Arm. Arm. Portrait plate 41X3- Details wanting. No motto. Oriental decoration. Design 4iix 3i- "Dais prosperat jiistos" (God prospers the just). Design 4 X 2J. This gentleman had many book- plates, some coloured, by Mr. John Leighton. No motto. " Library presented by the Direc- tors and Shareholders of the Com- pany over which he presided for 12 years, as a cordial acknowledg- ment of the talent, energy, and exertion by which he carried their undertaking to a successful issue. r858." B.Wyon. Regent St. 4iX3| " Honor libcrtas maintcnir fault " Robert & Lepage Grs Lith. Douai. 2^X2. No motto. American Bank Note Co. N.Y. 3iX2j. Label I No motto. Arm. Pict. Arm. Arm. Arm. Stamp " Stelit in cxilio pro patria fides " (Loyalty to their native land stood firm in exile). No motto. " Tenax et fidiis " (Persevering and faithful). Design 3|X2. No motto. (Arms of Hobson of CO. Lincoln.) " /» Crttce fitUis" (My faith is in the Cross). 150 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1859 18&- Awarded by the Trustees of the Public Schools of the City of Washington to ( Henry C Howard) of Primary School No. 5. District No 2. for (Attention to study and general improvement.) (James G. Benet Mayor) (Ro. Ricketts Secretary) 1859. This book belonged to the Library of the Rev. Thomas Jackson, which Library was pur- chased by James Heald Esq of Parr's Wood near Stockport and by him generously presented to the Wesleyan Theological In- stitution in the Year 1859. Robert Sutherland Montreal (Henry Walter) Hunc cum LX fere aliis lectissi- mis libris huic Bibliothecae testamentolegavit vir Reverendus Henricus Walter s.t.b. Collegii olim socius. Nameless plate. (Sir Charles Compton William Domvile, of Santry House, Dublin, second baronet, b. 1822, married a daughter of the Earl of Howth, whose arms he impales.) Public Record Office Library This Book belongs to W. H. K. Wright, Plymouth. 1860 Arm. label Label Printed label J. T. Abbott, Rose Villa, Darlington . . J. T. Abbott, Abbeville. Darlington i860 (This family was formerly of Suffolk and East Dereham, Norfolk. An ancestor was Superior of Warden Abbey, to which the pears in the arms, and the motto refer.) Blackburn Free Library. Instituted 1S60 Boston Public Library. From the Phillips Fund. Jonathan Phillips died i860. (U.S.A.) General Theological Library Boston, Mass (U.S.A.) William . Boyne, f.s.a. Charles Chevalier (P'rench) . . Dublin Young Men's Christian Association i860. Presented by . John C. Elliott Chas Norton Elvin, m.a. (Fnc-si/itiU of the signature of Mr. C. N. Elvin, of East Dereham. This gentleman had other ar- morial book-plates— see 1841. He was the author of a Dictionary of Heraldry, and other works. He died in November, 1894.) The words in brackets are filled i in MS. "Men gloria cru.x" (The Heald motto ; The Cross is my glory). No motto. ijX3j (Legacy to St. John's Coll., Cam- bridge.) Size of border 2|xif. Arm. with supporters Label Label ! Arm. Arm. Chip. Arm. Pict. Portrait Pict. Arm. Literary Arms in a garter Arm. Arm. No motto on this, but Sir C. C. W. Domvile had another hand- some armorial plate, not dated, on which was the family motto: " Qui stat caveat ne cadat " (Let him who stands take heed lest he fall). See 18— " Horn soit qui mal y pensc." BOOKS ARE MY FRIENDS ! B-ereft of books, those pleasures dear, O-h, then my lite indeed were drear, O-h. in my books sweet pleasures lie ; K-ings cannot prize them more than 1. S-olace for care, to thee I fly. The first of many book-plates belonging to the founder of the Ex Liljris Society. ''^ Age officium office). {\cl your "Arte et labore" (By skill and industry). Falkner Manchester. '•Sicut fatribus sit Deus uohis" (The Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers — I Kings viii. 57). 3X3J. "Let there be light" (Gen. i. 3). " What shall be shall.- "Scieittia. Virtus. Labor." (Know- ledge, virtue, toil). "Prove all things, hold fast that which is good.'' 4JX3. Elliott fecit. "Elvenaca floreat vitis" (May the vine of Elvion flourish) over crest ; " Spcctemur agendo " (Let us be viewed by our actions) below arms. 4JX3. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 151 1860 1861 William Gartland. Harold's Cross Dublin George Gibson m.a. Trinity College. Cambridge William Beaufort Grimaldi Edward Hoare Esqr Factory Hill. Co: Cork (A number of plates exist of members of this family, which settled in Ireland in 1649.) See 1704 and 1724. Earl of Macclesfield (The sixth earl, born March 17, ibii ; succeeded to the title in 1S50.) Henry Christopher Metcalfe, Esqr Hawstead House. Oxford Churchmen's Union, a.d. i860 St Colman's College, Fermov. Premium. July 26th 1S60. D. Stanford's Book E Libris Scholae Grammatices Stourbridgiensis. Anno Domini mdccclx. Lith. label Two varieties. Tiffany (of New York) Edith Abadam. Middleton Hall, Carmarthenshire. (Twelve quarterings, which are thus enumerated : I, Abadam and Vermandois; 2, Milo, Earl of Here- ford ; 3, Blethin Broadspear ; 4, Cwerin Ddu ; 5, Gournay ; 6, Ince ; 7, Powell ; 8, Stebbing ; 9, Squire; io,Walrond; 11, Maxwell; 12, as first.) Cheltenham College In the year of grace 1861 . . Charles Clark of Totham Hall, Essex* (See 1863) Sir C. W. Domvile Bart. Arthurina M. Drake Arm. Arm. two Arm. Arm. Seal Mono. Printed label Label Printed label Label Arms on scrolled lozenge Arm. Printed label Prin. label See 1823, 1824. " Veiiit horn" (the hour comes\ " /» nrilun ' (aga nst difficulties), abovecrests; belo\\'shieUI. '•Dntur horn nmori " (An hour is granted to love), and " Sfero dum sfiro" (While 1 breathe, I hope). " Snferc audc " (Dare to be wise). Two plates. North Library and South Library. No motto. ^^ That they alt tmiy be one" — St. John xvii. 21. Seal 2 in. dia. No motto. " Aspire Persevere tiiui indulge not " on a garter around the arms. 4X2i. See Edward .\badam, 1865. (The name comes from Ap Adam — the son of Adam.) *' Lahore omnia vineit" (^'irg., Georg. i. 145. Labour conquers ever} thing). With twenty lines of doggrel punning verses, printed by him- self at his private press. See 186-, and 18 — . * A Pleader to the Needer when a Reader. AS all, my friend, through wily knaves, full often suffer wrongs, Forget not, pray, when it you've read, to whom this book belongs. Than one Charles Clark, of Totham Hall, none to't a right hath better, A wight, that same, more read than some in the lore of old b!ack-\ettei. And as C. C. in Essex dwells — a shire at which all laugh — His books must, sure, less fit seem drest, if they 're not bound in calf I Care take, my friend, this book you ne'er with grease or dirt besmear it; While none but awkward puppies will continue to " dog's-eat " it ! And o'er my books when book-u'or»is "grub," I 'd have them understand. No marks the margins must de-face (rom any busy " hand .'" Marks, as re-marks, in books ol Clark's, when e'er some critic spy leaves, U always him so :i-u5p-ish makes, though ihey 're but on tlie/fji'-leaves ! Yes, if so they 're used, he *d not de-fer to deal a fate most meet — He 'd have the soiler of his quires do penance in a sheet I The Ettrick Hogg — ne'er deemed a bore — his candid mind revealing. Declares, to beg "a copy" now 's a mere pre-lcxt for stealing ! So. as some knave to grant the loan of this my book may wish me, I thus my hook-plate here display, lest some such " frv " should dish me ! — But hold, — though I again declare wixH-holding I'll not brook. And "a sea of trouble " still shall take to bring book-worms " to book '." 1861. C. C. There is a short memoir of Clark in the " Dictionary of National Biography." According to this, he was born in 1806, and bred a farmer. He lived for a good many years at Great Totham Hall, where he set up his private press. an Charles Clark, Totham, Essex Printed No motto. i|X2. See 1861 label and 1866. »» (Richard Duffield) Hunc cum cccc fere aliis Printed (Legacy to St. John's Coll., Cam- libris huic Bibliothecae Testamento legavit label bridge). 2|Xl|. vir Reverendus Ricardus Duffield, s.t.b. Collegii olim Socius. n John Fawcett T.R.C.G. 1791, 1830 Presented by his Son the Revd J. T. C. Fawcett, Vicar of Kildwick, in Craven. Label No motto. J, (William Grylls) Bibliothecae Collegii Sanct. et Arm. " Vires ngminis linns habet " (One indiv. Trinitatis Cant. Legavit Gulielmus has the strength of an army. Grylls, A.M. Hujus Collegii quondam dis- Motto of Grj'Us, of Helston). cipulus Scholaris. a.d. mdccclxiii. 5X3f. 1) " Freedom : lives : Hence." January : i : mdccclxiii. Mono. )» The Bequest of the Venerable Archdeacon Freer Engraved No motto. to E. R. Dowdeswell. label it George Gibson, m.a., Trin. Coll. Camb. Details wanting. M Maria Anna Grimaldi Arm. "In mcmoriam parentum." See 1823, 1824. 1» Bequeathed by Montagu Montagu Crest " Spectenmr agendo " (Let us be viewed by our actions). „ Coll. S.S. Trin. Cantab. (E. libris E. M. Cope) Details wanting. »» The Union League Club. New York City U.C. 1863 No motto. 18(64) Garrick Club Pict. "All the World's a Stage.'' 1864 Sophia Bond. Carranure. To Letitia Rose Crest " Dcus providebit " (The Lord will provide— Gen. xxii. 8). Albert C. Coxhead Details wanting. Furness Schools. To Promote Evangelical Trnth. Crest "Dieu et mon devoir'" (God and my duty). 4^X4^. Established 1864. Revd John Graham. London. 1864 Eng. label No motto. 3jX4^. Angelo C. Hayter. From his affectionate Father, Label Sir George Hayter. W. Goddard Jackson, Junr Duddington, North- Arm. No motto. amptonshire, and Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. E.N. (Duchess of Northumberland) .. Coronet and Badge John WiUiam Warden Arm. "Industria et spe" (By labour and hope). 154 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1865 1866 Edward Abadam senr of Middleton Hall marthenshire. Car- Francis. W. Middleton Abadam. Middleton Hall. Carmarthenshire 1S65. (See also Edith Abadam 1S61.) (Shield with twelve quarterings, thus enume- rated : I, Abadam and Vermandois; 2, Milo, Earl of Hereford ; 3, Broadspear ; 4, Gwerin Ddu ; 5, Gourney ; 6, Ince ; 7, Powell; 8, Stebbing ; 9, Squire; 10, Walrond; ir, Maxwell; 12, as first.) Castle Ashby. (The seat of the Marquess of Northampton) William, Duke of Bedford. Wobuin Abbey. 1S65. (The eighth duke, born July i, iSog; succeeded his father, 1861 ; died May, 1872.) Charles Gelding mdccclxv. Henry Goschen Haverfordwest Grammar School. School Library Founded 1865. James Kendrick, m.d. Warrington (Was a local antiquary, and an enthusiastic collector of book plates.) Coll: Inst. London A.M.D.G. Loretto Convent, Fermoy 31st of July 1865. Superioress Anne Dease. Prize label. Methodist College, Belfast To the Defenders of their Country. Presented by the New York Bible Society 1865. Birthright Armorial Bearings of Mr Edwd Jas. Pemberton, of Sarkey Lodge, Gentleman, and his Descendants, obtained from the Herald {sic) College, Doctors' Commons, London, 1865. John Robson, m.d., Warrington John Earl Brownlow. Ashridge (The second earl, born March 28, 1842 ; died unmarried, Feb. 20, 1S67.) Charles Clark of Totham Hall, Essex . . C. C. (Charles Clark of Totham Hall, Essex) . . ,, Soc. Antiq. Lond. Bequeathed by Frederick William Fairholt, f.s.a. Trin. Coll. Cantab Legavit Johannes Grote, s.t.b. Arm. Arm. Coronet Arm. with supporters Arm. '^ Aspire, persevere, and indulge not," on garter around the arms. Design 4X2^. There is a larger plate, not dated. See 1861. " Aspire, persevere, and indulge not,'' on garter around the arms. Design 4X2J. " Che sarn sara '' (What will be, will be). 44x3^. See also 1703, 1736, and 1867. " bparsa coegi " (I have collected what was scattered abroad). 2| diameter. Arm. Arm. Founded by Thomas Lloyd Es- quire of Cil-y-Geithed 1613. Arm. " Virtue is honour '' See Rylands' EarlyEng. Notes, p. 51. See also 1S53. Printed label Super librum Pict. Arm. Label Arm. Label Label Printed label Label No motto. John Lindsey, Prin- ter Fermoy. " Deus nobiscuni " (God be with us). Biblical texts, flag of U.S.A. See 1861 and 1S62. See Mr. J. P. Rylands' Notes, p. 19, where this is described as a photographic book-plate. "In veritate libertas" (Liberty lies in truth). No motto. M.A. See also 1867. See 1861, 1863. Long punning inscription on lending books, already quoted under 1861. No motto. Two sizes. Mr. F. W. Fairholt was the author of a history of Tobacco, and other works. He died April 3, 1S66. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 155 1866 1867 1868 Clero Cornubiensi d. d. Henricus Exoniensis. MDCCCLXVI. (Henry Philpotts, Bishop of Exeler.) William. E. Surtees. Esq Sheriff of Durham. G. Varnier, 1866 (William Whewell) Bibliothecae Collegii sanct. et indiv. Trinitatis Cant. Legavit Guliel- mus Whewell, s.t.p. Collegii Magister. MDCCCLXVI. Nameless plate. Ducal coronet. (Duke of North- umberland) William, Duke of Bedford. Woburn Abbey. (The eighth duke, died May, 1872.) Belton House (Belton House, Grantham, seat of the Earl Brownlow.) Eye Working Men's Club Henry d'Ideville (A girl and a boy seated in front of the shield holding a scroll on which is the inscription : " Pais ce que dois Advicnne que pourya " — Do thy duty, whatever may happen.) Bibliotheque du Montessart (Baron Jerome Pichon) Octave de Rochebrune John & Caroline Smedley, Riber Castle, Matlock, Derbyshire. (With the following ancestors : Wood Wirks- worth, A.D. 1507 ; Moore Winster, a.d. 1581 ; Bright Staveley, A.D. 1595; Smedley Wirksworth, A.D. 1654 ; Ridgway Wirksworth, a.d. 1670.) Henry Scadding d.d. Canon of St. James' Toronto. Matric Coll. St. Johan Evan Cantab 1833, A.B. 1837, A.M. 1S40, S.T.P. 1852. Admiss Com Causa Oxon 1867. Nameless plate. (Alfred de Farcy) The Anthon Library. Collected by Charles An- thon. Professor of Greek and Latin in Columbia College. Ex libris Caroli Bigarne. Belnensis (Beaune) MDCCCLXVIII. Carver Clarke. Dublin Presented to the Library of Colby University by Rev. E. S. Small. (U.S.A.) Hilarii Gresy Arm. Eccles. Crest Arm. Crest and Badge Arm. Arm. Seal Arm. Library Interior Arm. Landscape Arm. Pict, Crest Mono. Label Arms of See, shape. 4X3. Exeter. Lozenge Cartouche, style Louis XV. G. A. Varin sc. " Lampnda tradam " (The Whew- ell motto: I will pass on the torch). Legacy to Trinity Coll., Cambridge. 3|X2J. " Esp^rnuce en Dicu" (Hope in GodJ. 2jxii. " Che Sara sara." Coronet and supporters. See 1703, 1736, 1865, and 1873. " Esse quam videri " (To be rather than to seem). Coronet and sup- porters. Large plate. See 1S66. No motto. " Le gaing de nostre science c'est en estre devcnu mcilleur et plus sage." A. Martial f. Imp. Beillet, Quai de la Tournelle, 35, Paris. 5X3j- A. Godreuil. del. A. Guillaumet. Sc. 1867. " Lahore surgo" (I rise by labour). " Truth is great &• will prevail." " / act." Design 4J x ii- Arm. with " Jamais ne varie." P.P. f. 8bre supporters! 1868. Label Purchased by Cornell University 1868. 2JX3*. Label Mono. Printed label Pict. " Si plus me pie plus suis." No motto. No motto. Ales sc. 156 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1868 18(69) 1869 187- 1870 James Hargrave Harrison .. Thomas Helsby Esqr Lincoln's Inn . . Societe de I'Histoire du Protestantisme Franfais. (Founded 1852) John Homfray Ex Libris Alexis Martin. (French) (Poullain de la Forestrie) C. H. Sheehan. June 1868 .. (Inscription on a foliated shield ; below, on a scroll, " E pluribus iinum " — One out of many.) William and Frances Tarn. April 18. 1868 . . (Probably date of their marriage.) Royal . Institute . of . British . Architects. Tite Donation. 1S68. Baillie of Culter Alters Societati Antiquariorum Londinensi Testamento Legavit Arthurus Ashpitel, ejusdem So- cietatis Socius. Presented to the Public Library of the City of Boston by Thomas Gold Appleton. iS'h October, 1869. (U.S.A.) Thomas Goodwyn Hatchard, d.d., Bishop of Mauritius 1869. Thomas Helsby de Lincoln's Inn Armiger Effingham Hill Arthur John Jewers Hunc . Librum . Bibliothecae . Coll . Owens . Mane. Legavit . J. Prince Lee s.t.p. Episc. Mane. i86g. (Legacy to the Owens College, Manchester, from J. P. Lee, Bishop of Manchester.) E.x libris Docteur Bonnejoy Nameless plate. (Oscar Browning, m.a., Fellow and Tutor of King's College, Cambridge.) Baillie of Culter Allers. See 18(69) Arm. Pict. Arm. Pict. with Mono. Arm. Pict. I Crest Arm. Arm. Arm. Seal on label Label Arm. Eccles. Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Eccles. Seal Pict. Allegory Arm. Details wanting. " En : Dieti : est : tnon : esperance " (In God is my hope). " Post tcncbras lux " (After dark- ness, light). " L^Honmw vrny^ aime son pays " (The true man loves his country). No motto. Signed Aglaus Bou- venne, and Imp. Beillet, Paris. P.F. 8 i86g. " Never Despair." " There is no real greatness without Virtue, nor real Virtue without Religion and Temperance." Design 3jX2|. "Vincit qui dirni " (He conquers who takes pains). Harry Soane fecit 1874. "Super fundameniis fames hones- tac" (On the foundations of honour- able reputation). Plate mark 3J X2j. "Quid clarius astris" (What is brighter than the stars ?). " Non extinguetur" (It shall not be extinguished. Motto of the Society). No motto. No motto. Seal 2j diameter. Two shields and mitre. '•EnDieuestmon Esperaunce" (sic) (My hope is in God). Large plate. (Arms of Maxie.) " Vinee malum bono " (Overcome evil with good — Romans xii. 21). 5}X4.J. See also 1880, 18S2. Oval frame around the arms, on it "Arma Jacobi Prince Lee s.t.p. Episcopi Manconiensis." 5jX3j. " Salus ex aquis." E. Bonnejoy del et sc. 187. See 1875. ^' Labor." " Theoria." "Content Ailleurs." Swain sc. (Drawn by Simeon Solomon.) Reproduced in Castle, p. 175. and 2nd edit., p. 221. " Quid elarius astris" (What is brighter than the stars ?) DATED BOOK-PLATES. 157 1870 1871 Museum of Fine Arts. Boston. A.D. 1870. (U.S.A.) Max" Hammond Dalison Mass. Founded From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June, 1870. (Mr. Charles Dickens died in that house on June 9, 1870. He was born at Landport on Feb. 7, 1812.) George Stirling Home Drummond . . Public Library of the City of Boston. Given Nov. 23d 1870 by Wm F. Channing m.d. & Mrs Mary Channing Eustis. (U.S.A.) H. W. Livett. Wells Somt (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Hunc librum quondam e libris Johannis Keble, etc. Windlesham House Brighton. Bonis moribus Praemium adjudicavit Henricus Carolus Maiden. Praeceptor. a.d. mdccclxx. Bibliothecae CoUegii sanct. et indiv. Trinitatis Cant. Maria uxor superstes Gulielmi Collings Mathison a.m. hujus coUegii quondam vice magistri, dono dedit A.S. mdccclxx. (Trinity Coll., Cambridge. The gift of Maria, wife of W. C. Mathison, a.m.) Notting Hill Working Men's Association Paisley Free Library & Museum. Founded by Sir Peter Coats, 1870. Alston College, Lancashire. A small memento of my most heartfelt regards for the Spiritual Welfare of on the occasion of his first Communion at the College Chapel, on Easter Day, 1870. T. Abbott Peters, m.a.. Rector. Scholse Rugbeiensis Alumno Studiis Feliciter Coeptis. The Governors of Erasmus Smith's Schools. Har- court Street. Dublin. Trinity College (Hartford, U.S.A.) Hunc librum donavit hujusce CoUegi Athenaeum. B. Winthrop Boston Public Library From the Ticknor Fund. (U.S.A.) J, W. Bouton, Bookseller and Importer. 706 Broadway New York. Seal ."^rm. Label ^Art. Education. Industry S (To Label Pict. Arm. I Label Crest Arm. ^' D^accomplir Aginconrt^ accomplish Agincourt). No motto. See Castle, p. 203. This label was not used by Mr. Charles Dickens himself but was put in his books by the auctioneers. He used a small undated book- plate with a crest, though how he became entitled to the crest is a doubtful point. ^' Sicut patribus sit Deus nobis" (The Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers). '^Crucc non hone fides " (My trust is in the Cross, not in the lion. — The crest is a lion). H.W. L. Designed by the owner. 4X3. Details wanting. " Miseris anxiUum fcro" (I bear help to the wretched). 4JX3. "Exfccta Dominum " (Wait on the Lord— Psalm xxvii. 14). 4j X 2i. No motto. A view of the building. 4X3J. (Sir P. Coats was a thread manu- facturer in Paisley ; knighted in 1869.) '■I commend thee to God, Who is able to keep thee from falling, : to Whom be glory, and honour, and strength, and power, both now and for all ages. — Amen. T.A.P." Eng. label! No motto. Arm.Chip.' " We are faithful to our trust." Label Pict. Printed label Label Crest Portrait Library Interior No motto. 3f X2j Geo: Ticknor ob. Jan xxvi. MDCccLxxi 3X3J. " Designed & etched by George Cruikshank in September 1871 who was born on the 27th Septr 1792." Design 5X3. This was not intended for a book-plate, though it is sometimes passed off as one, nor do I know of any Ex Libris by Geo. Cruikshank. 158 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1871 \ In piam memoriam atavi sui. Herbert! Croft, s.t.p. olim Episcopi Herefordensis hosce libros Decano et Capitulo Ecclesiae Herefordensis, D.D. Herbertus G. D. Croft, Baronettus, mense Martii MncccLxxi. Presented by James Cunningham Esqr 1871. Edgar Drummond Cadland Southampton University of London. Bequeathed by George Grote. Vice-Chancellor from 1862 to 1871. Bibliotheque de Frederic Hillemacher Der Hochschule zu Stralsburg von (Trubner et Co., London). S. Tarratt Nevill, d.d., Bishop of Dunedin John Clare Ridgway, mdccclx.xi. (On a scroll immediately below the shield is "John W. Ridgway.") (This plate first belonged to Mr. John Ridgway of Manchester, who died in 1833, then to Mr. John W. Ridgway, attorney-at-law, who died in 185 1 ; he added the W. It next passed to his son, Mr. John Clare Ridgway, of Warrington, who added his names and the date 1S71 below the older part of the engraving.) J. Paul Rylands of Highfields, Thelwall, Co: Chester. 1871. (Mr. J. P. Rylands, f.s.a., is a Vice-President Ex L. Soc.) Lyon 1871 Bibliotheque Protestante du Camp de Sathonay (Ain). Thoresby Park (Coronet and M. Thoresby Park, Notts, is the seat of Earl Manvers.) Frederick Walker, a.r.a. Frederick Walker a.r.a. Ao Dni 1871 1872 Monogram. (Theophile Gautier, the French author) Walter Hamilton f.r.g.s. (This design is an adaptation of a plate used by William Hogarth, the motto and date being added. There are other adaptations of the same design, one of John Piggott — three pickaxes on a sable shield, no date or motto ; another of Hugh Heugh Riach, no date or motto. There is another plate partly copied from that of Hogarth ; it has no name, motto, or inscription of any kind ; Arms, on a lozenge in centre. Ardent, a /ess gules be- tween six Cornish choughs snblc (Onslow family). Arm. Arm. Arm. Pict Arm. No motto. Shield above, no crest. Inscription in seven lines below. Sir HOD. Croft of Croft Castle, Herefordshire, ninth baronet. The father of the first baronet was Bishop of Hereford. "Over Fork over." Design3jX2j "Lord have mercy.''' " Gang wari- ly." " Prins ino{i'i) qitam Jidem fallere" (Rather die than break faith. — The Drummond motto). Very fine engraving. No motto. Pict. I No motto, ijxi}. Arm. Pict.! No motto. 3^X3. Arm. : A. B. Wyon. Arm. Arm. Prin. label Vesica Coronet Arm. Pict. Spade shield, festoons, no motto. Reproduced in Mr. J. P. Rylands' "Notes on Book-plates," p. 41. 4iX3. No motto. 4jX3j. See 1877. The owner of this plate is the author of the valuable work on book-plates named above. " Dieu protege la France." " Tra- vaille et Espire." " Pie repone te " (Repose in pious confidence). No motto. Two varieties. No motto. Egyptian portal Pict. No motto. Aglaus Bouvenne del et sculp. Imp Bedlet. 2jX2f. "Old Friends Old Books Old Wines." Plate mark 4^X2^. The owner was one of the founders of the Ex Libris Society, and is the author of this com- pilation. Author of " French Book-plates," " Lives of the Poets Laureate of England," etc. .Keeper of the Archives to the Sette of Odd Volumes. Was elected f.r.g.s. in 1872, but has lately resigned. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 159 1872 Bibliotheques Municipales Ville de Lyon The Willows. Sept 2oih 1872 (This book-plate belonged to Macdonell of Greenfield Glengarry, Scotland, but later of Toronto, Canada.) George Payne Odonis Russell et uxorib ejus Ex libris Thoreux J'appartiens a C. E. Thiery, Art, peintre. (Formerly Curator of the Museum of Nancy. See 1875.) Bought of the Executors of George Wightwick deceased. Pict. Books Arm. Arm. Pict. Books Label L. Seon del sc. " Craffgan nn phithich "' (The rock of the raven) above crest, " Per mare per terras (Over sea, over land) below shield. Plate mark 3|X2|. Small printed label. ''C/«r sarn sora " (What will be, will be). Book, cadenas, two cupids, etc. " N'est hcurciix qui nc vent.''' P Adol. Varin. sculp. Paris 1S72. " Tel est Ic triste sort de tout livre pret€^ soHvent it est perdu, toujours il est gate." C. E. Thy. (Thiery). This accomplished artist, member of the French Ex Libris Society, died Feb. 3, 1895. 1873 Barton Library. Thomas Pennant Barton. Boston Public Library Received May 1S73. (U.S.A.1 Woburn Abbey. (Seat of the Duke of Bedford) . . Francis . Charles . Hastings . Duke . of . Bedford. Woburn Abbey. (The ninth duke, born Oct. 16, iSig; succeeded his cousin in May, 1S72; died 1S91.) Thomas d'Edmence m.d. Died 21^' January 1873. Aged 79. Brooklyn U.S. Sigill: Coll: Harvard Cantab Nov: Angl: 1650. The Gift of the Editors of the Harvard Advocate. (Class of 1873.) Bibliotheca Haynensis (Lord John Thynne, d.d., Sub-Dean of West- minster.) E. Libris Johannis Postle Heseltine Sarah Heseltine Liber e Bibliotheca Johannis Postle Heseltine et Sarae ux. ej. A9 Salut. 1873. Donne par M. Charles Lorrain Decede Conservr de la Bibliotheque De la Ville de Metz En Fevrier 1S73. Ex Libris L. Moynier Geo. Quaile Arm. Coronet and Crest Arm. .\rm. Literary Arm. Label Label Pict. Arm. Pict. Label " Fide et Fortitudiuc " (With faith and fortitude). *' Che S(tra stirti.'^ 2~X li. '^ Che sara sara." See 1703, 1736, 1865, 1867. " /» Deo Jides '' (My faith is in God). " ynye bonne cause"' good reason). (I have No motto. No motto. " H. et. S." No motto. Several other Heseltine book- plates, neither dated nor signed, but all said to have been drawn by Montagu. '^ Aux termes de son ttsiatncnt, et sous la condition formelle qu'aucun des volumes par Ini donnes ne devra sortir de la Bibliotheque." 3iXii. No motto. L. Moynier. Design 54X3|. Wreath and ribbon. No motto. i6o DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1873 Bibl Coll. S. S. Trin Cantab e libris Edwardi Meredyth Cope a.m., etc. Label „ Primitive Wesleyan Sabbath School, Langrish Place Printed Text, Psalm cxix. 130. Peter Chapel, Summer- Hill. Dublin, February label Roe, Printer, Dublin. loth 1S73. Premium. J, Salomons Bequest. Library of the Corporation of Arm. No motto. Blades & Co London. the City of London. Purchased in Pursu- 2IX4. See 1S76. ance of the Bequest of Alderman Sir David Salomons, Baronet, m.p. ,, C.W.S. A.D. IS73. .. Mono. " Ars longa vita brevis " (Art is (C. W. Sherborn, artist and engraver. Vice- long, life is brief). " Cnrpc diem " President of the Ex Libris Society. One of the (Seize the present opportunity). earliest book-plates by this famous engraver.) C.W.S. in & fecit. Plate mark 4X2|. See 1878. 18(74) E Libris Schol: Reg: Petriburg (King's School, Peterborough). Arm. No motto. Design 2JX2. 1874 Ex dono Benj. W. Beatson, Coll. Socii (Pembroke Printed No motto. Coll., Cambridge). label „ John Ireland Blackburne Esq. Arm. Pict. No motto. Signed J. K. Sherwin (This design was originally drawn for Mr. John 1780. Reproduced in Rylands' Blackburne, 1780, which see.) Notes, p. 43, where a history of the plate is given in full. Design 34X3^. »i John Borlase and Elizabeth Bolitho Arm. " Re Den." Harry Soane. E dono Thomas Browne, filio amanti Langford Arm. No motto. 3|X2|. Sotheby Browne. A.D. 1S74 (Henry Carr) Hunc librum olim e libris viri reve- Printed No motto. Presentation of books rendi Johannis Carr, s.t.b. hujus collegii label to St. John's College, Cambridge. quondam socii senioris, avi sui jam pridem vita defuncti, huic Bibliothecae dono dedit Henricus Carr a.d. 1874. , ,j Ex libris Champfleury 1874 (Eau-forte by Aglaus Bouvenne.) *) E. R. Dowdeswell Arm. No motto. H. Soane. Charles, 7th Earl of Egmont Arm. " Sub cruce Candida '' (Under the (Born June 15, 1845; succeeded his uncle 1874.) white cross). H. Soane. Ex Musaeo Castellanae Genevensium. H. L. B. Arm. No motto. Stern graveur Paris. (Bordier, a la Chatelaine, Geneve.) Design 2X i|. Sigillum . Bart: Car: Gidley . m.a: Civit: Exon: Arm. " Munit et alit" (Protects and Cler: Com: 1S74. Vesica nourishes). •• Robert George Wyndham Herbert . . Arm. " Ung jc serviray " (One will I serve). Harry Soane. Robert . Hovenden .. Arm. No motto. Design 2|X2j. (F.S.A., Memb. Ex L. Soc, F.R.Hist.S. Author of several works on antiquarian topics.) There is a pictorial plate of Willni Ovenden bearing similar arms and crest; motto "Nil desperandum " ; not dated. >i The property of Sir K. G. Jackson, Bart., January, Printed No motto. iJX2j. 1874. label (Sir Keith George Jackson, fourth baronet, born August 2, 1842 ; succeeded his brother, who was killed at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny, in 1S57.) Thomas George Johnson. Erdington ff Arm. "Chi leggc regge" (Who runs may read). Design 2jxi|. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 161 1874 Bibliotheque du comte de Lavaur de Ste. For- tunade. Arm. C. Fichor, del. 1874. Ad.Varin,sc. t» Frederick Locker Arm. "Fear God and Fear nought" (Mr. Frederick Locker, who assumed the name Mr. Locker-Lampson had a of Lampson in 1874, on marrying his second wife, number of other book-plates, not a daughter of Sir Curtis Lampson, Bart., died at dated, one by Walter Crane, one Rowfant, Sussex, on May 30th, 1895, in his 75th by H. Stacy .Marks, r.a , and one year. He was the author of "London Lyrics" by Kate Greenaway. There are and other poems, and well known as a collector also several book-plates belonging of prints and engravings. The book-plate of his to his children ; these are not grandfather — Captain William Locker, Royal Navy dated. See reproductions in Mr. — is a choice and rt-clwrche specimen. That of his Castle's " English Book-plates," father, Edward Hawke Locker, f.r.s., f.s.a., is a p. 154, ist edit., and p. 195, 2nd plain armorial, not dated.) edit. " Bibliotheque de Victor Luzarche Eng. label " Paulatim " (By degrees). Dona- tion de Mme Vve Luzarche selon le voeu de son fils Robert. »» The Seal of George Richard Mackarness, d.d.. Arm. No motto. Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, a.d. 1874. Eccles. Vesica it Liber e Bibliotheca domestica Gulielmi Thomae Arm. "In Iwnine luce" (Shine in the Makins Ao Gra. 1874. light). it The Mitchell Library (Glasgow). Founded 1874. Arm. " Let Glasgow flourish." 2J x 3. n The Mitchell Subscription Library, founded 1874. Arm. As above. }* Norfolk Central Railway. Proposed 1874 Arm. Seal No motto. Two sizes, 3 dia. and ij dia. »i Ex Libris Joannis Nencini Pict. " Otium sine Uteris mors est " (Leisure without literature is death —Seneca). 3X3I. If The Owens College. Purchased under Mr. Chas. J. Pict. No motto. 4fX3j. Darbyshire's benefaction of 1874. label jj Bibliotheque Pichon . . Arm. P. A. Varin del sculp. Quai de (View of Library of Baron J. Pichon. Two Library la Tournelle, Paris. varieties.) Interior „ Sir Thomas Riddell Details wanting. ** Chateau de Ruille. (De la Planche, Comte de Ruille) Arm. " En tout en constre sousticndrai." Tancrede Abraham. 11 William and Frances Tarn, April i8th 1868. Crest " Viticit qui curat " (He conquers who takes pains). Harry Soane fecit 1S74. i> Lawrance Williams, Major Arm. " Come what come may " D.C.E. fecit. 1875 Ex Libris Docteur Bonnejoy Pict. " Salus ex aquis" (Heahh from the waters). E. Bonnejoy del. et sc. 1875. 11 Bouvenne (in monogram) Pict. " Colligebat . . . quis perficiet " (The book-plate of Aglaiis Bouvenne, of Paris.) (He used to collect . . . Who will finish [the collection]). Brac- quemond, del et sculp. Singular design. n E libris Basilii A. Calland e coll Lincoln .\. m. Arm. No motto. Design 3jX4i. Parochi de Thoresby juxta Hagh in com Line. A.D. mdccclxxv. i» Ex Libris Basilii A. Calland e coll Line. Par de Arm. No motto. Design I JX2|. Similar to the above, but smaller. Thoresby juxta Hagh in com Line. A.D. MDCCCLXXV. l62 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1875 John Cotton, architect. (Of Birmingham) Pict. No motto. Mr. J. Cotton has many other book-plates, mostly designed by himself See 1886, i8g-, and 1891. „ (Edgard Gaultier de Saint Basile) Arm. P. F. 1875. ,j From the library of John Jackson, Academy Place, Arm. Borough of Warrington. Warrington. Presented to the Warrington Museum and Library, by John Gordon McMinnies. Octo. 1875. E Libris Isaac Saunders Leadam, a.m., Aul: Reg. Arm. No motto. Harry Soane del. et Coll: de Brasenose. Oxen: Socii. Literary Design 3fX2J. •' Bibliotheque de Mr le Baron Le Grand de Vaux Arm. with supporters No motto. )) Liber . e . Museo . Johannis . Lentaigne c.b. de . Arm. " Pro fide rege et pnlria piigno " Tallaght Com. Dubl. Ann: Dom: mdccclxxv. (I fight for faith, king, and coun- try). " Dieu ayde." Design 4J X 2 J 11 A. de Montagu Arm. with supporters No motto. M E Libris David Murray Crest No motto. Monogram D.M. Richard Piatt's Grammar School at Aldenham. Arm. Prize label. 6|X4j. Arms and Annual Visitation. 3 Shields motto of Queen Elizabeth, " Sem- per cadem " (Always the same). Arms of Richard Piatt, founder, and British Arms, 1875. »» Wm Napier Reeve PlainArm. "Life is judged by what survives it." Design 3X2. J. Paul Rylands f.s.a. Highfields Thelwall, Arm. " Despicit quae vulgus siispicit" Cheshre. (See 1877 and i8go.) (He looks down on what the crowd look up at). F. Anselm delt. C. E. Thiery, peintre graveur de la Cour L R. A. Books C. E. Thiery (Mons. Thiery died d'Autriche. Feb. 3, 1895). See 1872. )I John Henry de la Poer, fifth Marquis of Water- Details wanting. ford. (Born 1844, succeeded his father 1S66.) It The Worcester Society of Antiquity. Library. (U.S.A.) Pict. Instituted January, 1875. 1876 H. S. Ashbee (F.S.A., Memb. Council Ex L. Sec.) Pict. No motto. See 1S90, 1894. n Ex Libris A. Beurdeley Floral No motto. E. Loizelet sculp Juin 1876. Plate mark 3^X35- " Edmond Borthon, 1876 Arm. Printed in gold on red or black paper. ,, Ex Libris Gustave Chancel .. Pict. No motto. Ales 1876. lixij' It Jules Chevrier Pict. 11 Cork High School and Kindergarten. Estd 1876. Super librum (By J. Vinycomb.) M Henry William Goodwyn Arm. No motto. George Henry Haydon, over agaynst Bedlam, Arm. Pict. A long inscription supposed to be (atte ye Manciples House) neare-bye ye Old addressed to book-borrowers, by Windmille in St George . hys ffields . South- Izaak Walton. G.H.H. (Haydon). warke. 7X4i. See reproduction. (Mr. Haydon, who died in rSgi, was for many years the Steward of Bethlem Hospital, an enthu- siastic angler, and beloved by all who knew him.) DATED BOOK-PLATES. 163 1876 Library of the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Arm. " Veritas vos Uberabit " (Truth U.S.A.). The Gift of Christopher John- Vesica will liberate you). Bailey Banks ston, M.D. Professor of Surgery in the & Biddle, Phila. Design 6x3^. University of Maryland. i» Library of the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Arm. " Veritas vos Uberabit." Design U.S.A.) Vesica 3X2|. »» George Bown Millett, of Penzance, Cornwall. Arm. Pict. " Manns haec inimiea tyrannis " (Author of several works on the Parish Records (This hand is hostile to tyrants.) of Cornwall.) Joseph Blight, sc. A very original design, 3|X2|, the names con- cealed in the ornamental border around the arms. It The Oneida Historical Society. Founded 1876. (U.S.A.) Landscape No motto. I J diameter. t» Salomons Bequest, 1873. Library of the Corpora- Arm. No motto. Blades & Co , Lon- tion of the City of London. Purchased in don. 2JX4. An interesting plate. Pursuance of the Bequest of Alderman Sir bearing the arms of Sir David David Salomons, Baronet m.p. 1876. Salomons in the centre, and the (Sir David Salomons, the first baronet, died in arms of the City of London in the 1873. He was the first Jew who held the position four corners. of Sherift', and that of Lord Mayor of London.) Mr. Hadlow, of Brighton, en- graved a handsome armorial plate for Sir David Salomons, but un- fortunately it was not dated. »* Bibliotheque de L'Universite. Donne par Claude- Printed No motto. 3X2*. Antoine Peccot Licencie es Sciences. Ne label a Paris, le 27 Avril 1856. Mort a 20 ans et 5 mois le 18 Septembre 1876. ,, V. W. Deleg: Ouv: Libre Pict. Nc mot;o. Design 3|X2|. The (M. Wynants, a bookbinder and delegate of the woikshop of a bookbinder within trade to the Exhibitions of Paris in 1867, and of £ sCroUec name. For another Philadelphia in 1876.) plate belong-.ng to M. Wynants, see 1578. »» L. West .. .. Library Interior Aglaus Bouvenne del. sculp. 1877 Ex Libris Doctoris L. Bouland. Anno 1877. Arm. " Tenax propositi " (Firm of pur- (Of Paris. President de la Societe Fran^aise pose). ijXiJ. See 1893. des CoUectionneurs d'Ex Libris. Vice-President Ex L. See.) ») E. libris Juliana Boyd Arm. Le Keux. " Sunday School, Edmonton & Tottenham Chapel. Presented to January, 1877. Label ?» The Works of Oliver Goldsmith in the Collection of Arm. Printed in red and black. Col. Lt. Col. F. R. C. Grant. label Grant has a number of other book-plates. See 1878, 1879, 1880. ») F. R. C. Grant Arm. '^ Leges juraqne serva " (Observe the laws, human and divine). " Autographs." »» Charles W. G. Howard. The Gift of the Rt. Arm. " Volo lion valeo " (I will, but Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. cannot). C. W. Sherborn. »» Boston Public Library. Bequest of Benjamin P. Pict. " Sicut patribus sit Deus nobis," Hunt. April 1877. 3X3J. .> John Kendrick Arm. No motto. I* L. (Loftie) .. Crest " Prends may tel que je snis " (Take me such as I am) . 11 R. B. Macleod, of CadboU. Invergordon Castle. 164 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1877 J. Paul Rylands, f.s.a. Highfields, Thelwall, Cheshire. (Vice-President Ex L. Soc.) Arm. EarlyEng " Dum spiro spero " (While I have breath I have hope). Design 3jX2f. A capital reproduction of the Early English style. See 1871, 1875, and 1890. " John Paul Rylands (Mr. J. P. Rylands his other armorial plates, not dated.) Arm. " Dttm spiro spero" 11 St Leonards School. St Andrew's, Fife Arm. "Ad Vitam " (Towards the Life). '* G. H. Savage, m:d: E. Libris " Reade me with the Eyes 0' the Minde The Goode is in mee see thou fl&nde And sith Bookes be but worlfs of Manne The Evill in mee looke thou banne." Pict. G.H.H. (G. H. Haydon). Design 4X4. " George Benson Tatum, of Christ Church. Oxford. Arm. " Ob: pntrinm" (For one's coun- try's sake). Harry Soane, Lon- don, 1877. Uesign 3JX3. j» Boston Public Library. Bequest of Eliza Mary Thayer. Reed July 1877. (U.S.A.) * Pict. " Sicut patribus sit Dens nobis" 1878 Nameless. (? Novello.) 10 July, 1878 .. Pict. n E Libris Jonathan Edmund Backhouse, Middle- ton-Tyas. January 1S78. Label No motto. Mr. J. E. Backhouse had two armorial plates, not dated ; motto : " Confido in Deo " (I trust in God). ,, Charles Arthur Wynne Finch Arm. Three crests and mottoes : — (Finch, the family name of the Earls of Ayles- ford. This shield bears quarterly, ist and 4th, the Finch arms ; 2nd and 3rd should be Wemyss, but the tinctures appear incorrect.) , " Aperto viverc voto" (To live with will unfettered. — P'inch motto), "Auxiliiint nieuin Domino^'' (My help Cometh from the Lord), "Tout jours prcst" (Always ready). 2|X2j. By H. Soane, not signed. ») Frank Grant (Lt. Colonel) Arm. Pict. " Leges juraque scrva " (Observe the laws, human and divine). See 1877. „ E. Libris F. R. C. Grant Pict. No motto. (By H. Soane.) ff The Green Alcove, mdccclxxviii. The New York Society Library mdcc. Art Collection. Pict. label Very scarce American plate. " Presented along with Two Hundred other Volumes to the Warrington Free Museum and Lib- rary by James Kendrick, m.d. Warrington, January, 1878. Pict. " Amore soli Ha^a/is '' (Through love for one's native soil). »» James William Mitchell. H. C. Gr. 17th June 1878. Arm. "Sapiens qui assiduus" (He is wise who is industrious). I) E Libris Caroli Augusti North Arm. " La vertu est la seule noblesse " (Virtue is the only nobility). 2|X2i. »» Elizabeth Phelps (All very intricate and involved.) Seal Allegory " Confido eonquiesco^'' (I trust and am contented). Design 3 X2.J. " Bishop Phillpotts Library. Truro. Presented by Viscount Falmouth. Label No motto. 1JX3J. Frequently found with Viscount Falmouth's book-plate. as i^o /9€/eSjt 7rt&€^ cvt^ /aveSjC ■* %ese i 1 4 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 165 1878 Ex Libris F. des Robert Arm. No motto. Coronet of Marquis; one supporter. C. Lapaix 1S7S. Plate mark 4X3J. Reproduced in Hamilton's " French Book- plates," p. 94. t) Sir William Russell Bart c.E. Arm. " Agitatione piirgatiii'" (It is puri- (Second baronet. Born April 5, 1822; suc- 2 Crests fied by movement). '■ Nitor ceeded his father 1839. Served in the Crimean donee siipcra" (I strive till I win). War and the Indian Mutinv. Sometime M.P. for Pover and for Norwich. Died in 1892.) ,, Ex Libris Carolus Gulielmus Sherborn .\no Dm! Pict. " Sie itiir ad astra " (Such is the M.D.CCC.LXXVIII. way to immortalityi. C.W.S. (Vice-President Ex L. Soc. Monogram in (C. W. Sherborn). Design 4X3. centre, surrounded by emblems of Life, Love, See 1873. and Death.) J, Edward Arthur White f.s.a. Arm. Seal No motto. J. H. Le Keux. sc. (Captain E. A. White, of Old Elvet, County Durham.) 24 diameter. A brilliant specimen of engraving by Mr. Le Keux. ., V. W. Delegat. Ouvriere libre Pict. No motto. The workshop of a (Wynants, a bookbinder, delegate to the Exhi- bitions of Paris in 1867 and of Philadelphia in 1878.) bookbinder, in a scrolled car- touche. Plate mark 3jx 2i. See 1876. 1879 Ex libris C. Bard (Bayard) Pict. A book and two monkeys. P. Pascalon inv. del. P. A. Varin sc. " E Libris Gulielmi Bousfield Arm. No motto. Harry Soane, London. 3fX2i. „ The Honble Spencer Ponsonby Fane Arm. '^ Pro Rrge Lege Grege" {Fot (Arms, quarterly, Ponsonby and Fane. Crests of Ponsonby and Fane.) EarlyEng. King. Law, People). Not signed, but by Mr. C. W. Sherborn. 4^ X 3 )) In the Collection of F. Grant. " The Heroes of Pict. A donkey laden with books See the Dunciad." 1877, 1878, 18S0. )) Lewis Vernon Harcourt Arm. " Le bail temps vicitdra." Harry Soane. Jt Hugh F. Hornby Arm. " Credc coriiit " (Trust in the horn). (By Harry So^ne.) )» Ex Bibli Lardet. (French) Arm. Pict. No motto. P. Pagnier 1S79. )> Collection de tous les Ouvrages imprimcs du Biblio- Label *^ Livres iinuvcaulx, livres vielz et phile Jacob. Formee par les soins de antiques" Etienne Dolet. I'Auteur et donnue a la Bibliotheque pub- lique de la ViUe de Montpellier. 1879. Arthur J. Jewers, f.s.a. Arm. " Vincc malum bono" (Overcome 2 Crests evil with good — Romans xii. 21). 6JX4i- Presented, along with Two Hundred ether Volumes Pict. " Amore soli natalis" (Through (Being a second gift of the like number), to the Warrington Free Museum & Library, love for one's native soil). Similar plate to that of 1878. by James Kendrick, m.d. Warrington, January, 1S79. " Frederick Macmillan Arm. "Miscris sueeurrere disco" (Virg., JEn., I. 630 — I learn to help the unfortunate). Harry Soane. In the Collection of Anne Emily Sophia Mark- Arms in No motto. (By Harry Soane.) ham 1S79, cartouche Design 34X2^. i66 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1879 The Hon. Robert Henry Meade Arm. " Tout jours prest." (C. W. Sher- (Mr. Sherborn also engraved a plate for Rev. born.) the Honble Sidney Meade, not dated. The above are brothers of the Earl of Clanwilliam.) J) A mon cher ami Louis Mohr. C. E. Matthis, Pict. "Tel est le triste sort 1879. (mohr in monogram) De tout livre pret^, Souvent il est perdu Toujours il est gat^." — Nodier. A press with cupids flying around. C.E.Matthis. Threesizes,5|X3| and smaller. Reproduced in Hamil- ton's "French Book-plates," p. 151. ,, J.M. (John Morgan). Monte Rosa. Aberdeen. Mono. No motto. 2X2. J.M. (John Morgan). Rubislaw House, Aberdeen. Pict. "Read. Mark. Learn. Digest." (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Design 3 X2j. See also 1894. Presented by the Commissioners of the Sydney Leather No motto. 3 X45. Intern.itional Exhibition of 1879. label •• Noel Paton Arm. " Do richt and fear iioclit." (De- signed by himself.) Collegium Sive Aula Mariae de Valentia communi- Arm. No motto. 4X3J. Altered from ter nuncupata Pembroke Coll. in Academia Jac. frame an older plate. Cantabrigiensi. ,, Plymouth School Board Arm. Prize mark. Cooper. „ R. Ex Libris Reiber (of Strasbourg) .. Pict. No motto. P.R. 1S79. (By Paul (One of the brothers Reiber was a great collec- Reiber.) Design 2jx if. tor of Ex Libris.) 18(80) Her Majesty's Schools of the Chapel Royal, Savoy. Arm. Prize label. No motto. 6X4. 188- Two book-plates printed in Irish characters (Society for the Study of the Irish Language and Literature, Belfast — now defunct.) Labels, 4jx 3. (By Mr. Vinycomb) 11 This book was presented to the Athenxum by Crest Freebairn Sc. n Pensionnat des Religieuses Benedictines de N. D. du Calvaire. Landerneau. .Label " Gloire a Marie." *) Library of the Society of Biblical Archaeology. II, Hart Street, Bloomsbury, W.C. Pict. No motto. 4jX3f. i% Belfast Free Library. Purchased from the Hazel- tine Fund. (United States) Pict. No motto. 4JX3. ' John Cotton, Architect and Artist. Birmingham. Pict. No motto. Mr. Cotton has a large number of pictorial book- plates, designed by himself. See 1875, 1886, 1891. ,, New-England Historic Genealogical Society. Kidder Printed Mr. Frederic Kidder died at Mel- Fund. Purchased 188-. label rose, Mass., U.S.A., Dec. 19, 1885, aged 81. He bequeathed a fund to purchase books for this Society. »> New-England Historic Genealogical Society. Sever Printed Mrs. A. E. P. Sever died in Boston, Fund. Purchased 1S8-. label Dec. 15, 1877. She left to the Society 5000 dollars for the pur- chase of books. ,, Sigill: Coll: Harvard: Cantab: Nov: Angl: 1650. Arm. " Christo et ecclesiae " (For Christ Library of the Lawrence Scientific School. and the Church.) Andrew Filmer. (Harvard College, the oldest of American col- Design 5JX3J, copied from the leges, was founded by the Rev. John Harvard, original design by N. Hurd, of who died in 1638. This date is found on some of Boston. See 1650. the College book-plates, of which there are many varieties.) DATED BOOK-PLATES. 167 188- The Piraeus Reading Room. (Inscription in English and Greek.) Label ■• Toronto Public Library Northern Circulating Lib- rary. (With rules for the borrowers.) Arm. Label "Industry. Integrity. Intelligence." 5X3i- " Yale College Library Sigill: Col: Yalen: Nov: Port: Nov: Angl: (U.S.A.) Seal " Lux et Veritas " (Light and truth). 3IX3. (Yale University is next to Harvard in import- ance in the United States. Elihu Yale, its founder, lies buried in the churchyard of Wrex- ham, North Wales, ten miles from Hawarden. His tomb in front of the church door is inscribed with the lines: — " Born in America, in Europe bred. In Africa travelled, in Asia wed. VVhere long he lived and thrived, in London dead ; Much good, some ill he did, so hope all 's even, .\nd that his soul through mercy's gone to heaven.") 1880 Sigillum -f- Commune -|- Universitatis -|- Aberdon- ensis -j- Aberdon: Kal: April, mdccclxxx. Arm. Seal Premium plate. n Library of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. (Plate dated at foot I893-) Arm. " Rectc nninerare" (To count aright). Designed by C. W. Sher- born, but not engraved by him. A " process " reproduction. De- sign 3|X2a. " J. Lewis Andre (F.S.A. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Arm. Pict. No motto. (Designed by the owner.) 3 x 2|. n G. A. Armour (Of U.S.A. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Mono. Caroli Thomae Arnold Library Interior. Crest "La vita fnggc e non s'arresta uu ora " (Life flies, and will not stay for an hour). T.G.J. 1880, and C.W.S. (Designed by T.G.Jack- son, Architect of the Schools, Oxford, and engraved by C. W. Sherborn.) *( Presented to the Town Council of the Borough of Birmingham by Richard Chamberlain Mayor. Arm. " ye tiens fernie'' (I hold firmly). 11 Gonzaque Louis Henri RoUand Comte de Chambaudoin d' Erceville Vicomte de Chapuis. Bibliotheque de Chapuis. Arm. No motto. Above the shield are twocoronets — first that of a count, above it a smaller coronet, that of a viscount. The arms are some- what similar to those borne by Mr. Charles John Shoppee, of London, who claims descent from the Chapuis family as far back as 1708. 4iX2}. i» (Cordier) Mono. " jfe Jldne done je suis." Raparlier inv. P. Ado. Varin, 1880. »t Roberti . Day . f.s.a. m.r.i.a. Aldermani . Civita- tis . Corcag. mdccclxxx. Arm. Vesica " Sic itur ad astra " (Thus one goes to the stars). J. Vinycomb del. See Castle, 2nd edit., p. 174. Design 4J X 2f . Two sizes. .. Robert Day, f.s.a. .. Arm. "Sic itur ad astra." '* Joseph Henry Dubbs d.d. Styria 1446. Hel- vetia 1531. America 1732. (Of Lancaster, U.S.A. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Arm. Floral "Ex recto deeus" (Honour through rectitude). D. Mc N. StaufTer. Design 4iJ X 2|. Dr. Dubbs has a smaller plate, not dated. If Ex L. de ma tante Pauline Etevenon, Paris Library Interior P. Adolphe Varin del sc. .. Ex Libris R. de Forrer. (Swiss) Arm. Pict. No motto. 4iX3|. i68 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1880 Ex Libris H. E. G. (Henri Greslie) .. Pict. No motto. P. Adolf Varin sc. Plate mark 6x 4J. Reproduced in H amilton's "French Book-plates," p. 90. " E Libris Frasci Grant Arm. Pict. No motto. 3|X2j. This gentleman had a number of curious book-plates. See 1877, 1878, 1S79. »> Ex . Libris . Joannis . M. Gray Literary No motto. G.R.H. (Halkett). (Director of the Scottish National Porirait Gal- Alleg. This plate exists in two states— lery, Edinburgh. Mr. Gray died in Edinburgh on in the first without any arms, in March 22, 1S94. See notice in the Ex Libris the second with a shield added in jfournal. Vol. IV., p. 71. He left his collection the top dexter corner. Both have of heraldic books to the Library of the Lyon the same date. Design 2|X2j. Office. See 1&94.) See Castle, 2nd edit., p. 250. )» Thomas Tylston Greg Arm. " Ein doe and spair not." C.W.S. (Sherborn). Ex Libris P. Guiraudi 1680-1880 Arm. Pict. "D(7 laborcm dnbo fnictus " (Give (With the arms of Renaud, Genas, and Comte de Balincourt.) thou the labour, I will give the fruits). Lith Durand. Melun. 5iX si- 1) Grosvenor Gallery Library Pict. Harry Soane ft. ,, A. H. (French) Pict. "jf'ai lit mnnuel des ouvriers." Literary E. Vallon. Very indistinct. De- sign 3 X2J. 1» Arthur John Jewers. f.s.a. . . Arm. " Viiice malum bono " (Overcome (Plate designed by the owner. Twenty quar- evil with good). Design 5X3J. terings.) See 1882. „ Presented along with One Hundred other Volumes Pict. Same plate as 1879. of Books (thus completing a Gift of Five Hundred Volumes), to the Warrington Free Museum & Library, By James Kendrick, M.D. Warrington, January, 1880. G. F. Maclear. d.d. Coll. S. August. Cantuar. Arm. " Clanis ab ortii " (Renowned Custus. from his origin). (By J.Vinycomb) " A. D. Mackmurdo .. Arm. " Omnia pro bono " (All things for good). Design 3f X2|. „ Earl of Mayo Arm. ''Acrncc sains." See 18S7, 1888. (Seventh earl; succeeded his father in 1S72.) ,, Ex Libris W. E. & J. Morden Label No motto. E. Elliott del. H. Mono. Gardner Sc. ,, E . Libris . Caroli . Morse. Five large armorial Arm. Pict. Various mottoes. Signed Langer plates, diftering in details and mottoes, all sc. Gruner dir. The top lines of signed the same. each motto are: "For there is no (The late Mr. Morse also had a number of other work nor device," "Age cannot book-plates, printed in colours. These were wither these nor custom " "Tiempo neither dated nor signed, but some were designed y yo para das," " Poeo a poco" by Mr. John Leighton, f.s.a. See i88r.) " Pais ce que tu dais, advienne que pourra." tt E. Libris Geraldi Ponsonby Engraved No motto. Oval 2|X3l- (By (The Hon. Gerald Henry Brabazon Ponsonby, label Harry Soane.) son of the fourth Earl of Bessborough. A well- See also 18S7, 1888. There is known connoisseur, and the possessor of a magni- also a simple plate, the crest over ficent collection of Ex Libris, which the author of G.P., not dated. this compilation has had several opportunities of carefully inspecting; he is also greatly indebted to the Hon. Gerald Ponsonbv for much other valuable information courteously afforded him during the progress of this work.) )) Ex . Libris . G. W. Raid, f.s.a. Ano Dmi. Arm. "Si sublime" (If [it be] on high). MDCCCLXXX. 1 C.W.S. (Sherborn). 3^X24. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 169 1880 David McNeely Stauffer c.E. a.d. i88o. (U.S.A.) Arm. '* Den . Stauf , Tra^c . ich " (I bear (Mr. Stauffer designed several plates for him- the goblet). D. Mc N. Stauffer. self, two varieties dated i88o, and some not Design 2|X2|. See 1884. See dated.) Ex L. y., Vol. IV., p. 159. 1) Ex Libris J. B. Vervliet Arm. No motto. J.B.V. inv. Jos. R. sc. (Of Antwerp. A well-known Belgian collector.) Library Interior Arms of the city of Antwerp. 1» Ex Libris J. B. Vervliet Pict. No motto. Jos R. sc. J.B.V. inv. 2XlJ. ,, C. H. M. W. A.D. i88o Arm. " Vigilatc ct orate " (Watch and (Rev. C. H. Middleton-Wake.) pray — St. Mark xiii.33), "/» veri- tate triumpho " (I triumph in the truth). (Designed by Rev. J. Loftie, engraved by Harry Soane.) Reproduced in Castle, p. 145, and 2nd edit., p. 184. i> J. W. Gleeson White Pict. (Memb. Ex L. Soc. Mr. White has several other book-plates, mostly allegorical, some de- signed by himself.) M Alexr Wood. M.A. F.s.A. Arm. Pict. " Tutus in iindis " (Safe amid the waves). (Designed and drawn by Mr. J. Lewis Andre, f.s.a., of Horsham). 3iX2^. 1881 Nameless plate Pict. "Manet semper fidelis" (He re- mains always faithful). ») Samuel . Auxer . Lancaster .Pa: Pict. " Ubi mel ibi apes " (Where there (An entomologist of the U.S.A. The plate is is honey there are bees). (De- in mock heraldic form, the crest, bearings, and signed by Mr. D. McN. Stauffer.) supporters being insects.) 2jX2j. »» Thos. Brayshaw Pict. No motto. G.R.H. in monogram. (Same design as the " Stackhouse Settle" plate, (Designed by Mr. G. R. Halkett, and has that name on a scroll above the figure of of Edinburgh.) Time.) 11 Botsford Ralph Clarke. (U.S.A.) Arm. " Volo et Valeo" (I am willing and able). By D. McN. Stauffer. Design 3X2|. " John Medley Doble Pict. " Amari aliquid" (Something bit- ter. — Luerctius). Harry Soane, Sc. London. Design 3 X2g. »» Liber e Bibliotheca Regie Schole, Etonensis Arm. "Esto perpetna" (.Mayest thou endure for ever). 3jX2j. .. Allen Gray . . Arm. )» Henry Lee Gray Crest " Spes sibi qiihqiie" {W\rg., Mn. (This gentleman, a aell-known collector in xi. 309. — Let each man trust in Exeter, died a few years ago. He had also a himselt). H.L.G. in monogram. book-label, not dated.) 31X24. Jt J. Eliot Hodgkin Pict. No motto. Design 3|X2j. (Mr. Hodgkin has a more recent armorial plate, motto, " Repos aillciirs,'" but this is not dated.) 170 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1881 P. O. Hutchinson Frank Linsly James Joseph Knight (Author, and Editor of Notes and Queries. Memb Council Ex L. Soc, etc. See 1883.) The Historical Society of the Reformed Church in the United States. Lancaster. Penna. Library University College Liverpool. Incorporated by Royal Charter a.d. mdccclxxxi. Presented by . James Martin Carr-Lloyd, of Lancing Manor in Sussex, Esq. Ex Libris Henrici C. Maxwell Lyte A.D.M. (Punning plate of M. A. de Manet) Caroli Morse New England Historic-Genealogical Society. Be- quest of Joseph J. Cooke Esq. of Provi- dence R.L Who died July 8, 1881. Bequeathed to the Public Library of the City of Boston, by Theodore Parker. Received i2th May 1881. (U.S.A.) The Royal Phoenix Building Society Incorporated A.D. 1881. X.L. J.R. Johannis Sachs Ex libris C. Sagnier Juin 81 Simon Thomas Scrope Stackhouse Settle. (See also " Thos Brayshaw " Douglas Brooke Sladen From the Sunderland Library, Blenheim Palace Purchased, December, 1881, by Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly London. Ex Libris Andrew White Tuer (F.S.A. Memb. Council Ex L. Soc.) See 1895. Printed label Arm. Library Interior Arm. Arm. Pict Arm. Arm. Crest Printed label Engraved label Arm. Seal Arm. Seal Pict. Pict. Arm. Pict. Arm. Arm. Pict. Do. Do read this book. Do read it attentively. Do Iteep it in a dry place. Do remember what you read. Do return it, ii borrowed. Don't. Don't thumb the pages. Don't dog's-ear the leaves. Don't read by the fire, and cockle the binding. Don't break the back by opening it too wide. Don't forget that the book is not yours. "y'aime d jamais" (I love for ever). Harry Soane. No motto. W.B.S. (Portrait of Joseph Knight, Esq. By W. Bell Scott.) Design 3^X3J. No motto. Arms of Frederick III., Elector of the Palatinate, 1563. Design 3jX2|. " Haec otia stiuiia fovcnf' (These periods of leisure should be periods of study). Arms of Liverpool on a shield hanging from the tree of Knowledge. Design 4 X2J. " Pro Deo et Regc " (For God and the King). C. W. Sherborn. " Laetitia et spe imtnortalitntis " (In joy and the hope of immor- tality). Design 4X3. " Manet semper fuielis " (He re- mains always faithful). P.Adolphe Varin. "Spare well. Spend well." Jahn sc. Dresden. See 1880. No motto. 2jX3i. No motto. 2jX3f. No motto. i| diameter. No motto. 3jX3. (By J. Leigh- ton, F.S.A.) " With all thy getting get wider- standing " (Prov. iv. 7.) No motto. L. Boisson sc. No motto. Design 2iX2|. "Viveut vivas" (Live that youmay live). Moring sc High Holborn. "Dieii defende le droit" (God defend the right. The arms and motto of Earl Spencer). See 18S2, 1883. "Dnm spiro spcro." An allegory representing the hanging of Pier- rot for stealing a book ; below are the lines: — " Aspice Pierrot pendu Quia ce Livre n'a pas rendu Si librum reddidisset Pierrot pendu non fulsset." Design 3^X2^. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1881 1882 University Extension Society. Whitechapel Boscary de Villeplaine Ex . libris . Jacobi . Forsythe . Wilson Belfastiensis . iS8i. James Forsythe Wilson. Belfast Sam'l H. Zahm. Lancaster. Penna. (U.S.A.' Due de Cadore 1827-1882 Georgius . Edwardus . Cokayne . Arm: Norroy . Rex . Armorum . 1882. (Norroy King of Arms.) Nathl W. Conkling. (U.S.A.) B. Q. The Hamilton Palace Library. Beckford Collection. This book was bought at So- theby's sale, June 30 — July 13, 1S82, by Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly London. Arthur John Jewers, f.s.a. (The owner designed several other large ar- morial plates for himself.) Sir Thomas North Dick-Lauder, of Grange and Fountain Hall. Bart. (The ninth baronet, born 1S46; succeeded his father in 1867. Baronetcy created 16S8.) W. R. Macdonald .. (Mr. W. Rae Macdonald was one of the pro- moters of the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891.) Frederick . John . Methold. . . (Memb. Ex L. Soc. Mr. Methold has another armorial plate, by Bentley, which is not dated.) The Piraeus Reading Room Frederick Pollock (Now Sir Frederick Pollock, the third baronet; succeeded his father in 1888.) University Arms Arm. supporters Arm. Seal Crest Pict. Arm. Arm. Vesica Arm. Pict. label Arm. Arm. supporters Arm. Landscape Arm. Label Arm. Literary No motto. T.G.J, del. (T. G. Jackson, a.r.a.). C.W.S. Sculp. (Sherborn). "Amor patriae" (Love of our country), and below arms '■^Emu- lator juris mci" (A competitor for my right). Emile Guillaudin sc 1881. Plate mark 3JX2J. "Ut seinentem feceris ita ct metes" (Cic, De Orat. 11. Ixv. 261.— As thou sowest, so shalt thou also reap). Marcus Ward & Co Ld (By J. Vinycomb. See on p. 55 of his " Production of Ex Libris.") 2i diameter. Same motto as above. Marcus Ward & Co. (J. Vinycomb J. Ornithology. Oology. (Burlesque heraldry, designed by Mr. D. McN. Stauffer.) 2JX2J. No motto. 3j X2f. "Miserere mei " ( Have mercy upon me — Psalm iv. i ) on crest : '■ Vir- tus ill arduis '' (Courage in diffi- culties). Shield in oval frame. Design 3|X2|. Harry Soane. W. Beckford, author of '■ Vathek," born 1760, died 1S44. Tenth Duke of Hamilton, born 1767, died 1852. 4X2J. See 1881, 1883. (The sale took place by order of the twelfth Duke of Hamilton, who succeeded to the title in 1863, and died May 16, 1895.) " Vince malum bono " (Overcome evil with good). 4^X3^. See also 1880. " Ut migraturus habita " (Dwell as if about to depart). C.W.S. (Sherborn). Plate mark 4IX3I. No motto. G.R.H. (Halkett). W. Watson sc. Design 3^X2}. Date indistinct, may be 1885. No motto. C.W.D. in monogram. (By C.W.Dempsey.) Design 3x2^ " Audacter et strenue" (Boldly and strenuously). Design 2J X ij. C.W.S. (Sherborn). See Castle, 1st edit., p. 232. See 1893. 172 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1882 Geraldine Ponsonby (Daughter of the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby; married Dermot. seventh Earl of Mayo, in 18S5.) Charles Leeson Prince (Member Royal College of Surgeons; Fellow Royal Astronomical and Sleteorological Societies; Memb. Ex L. Soc, etc. A very handsome plate representing the Observatory at Crowborough on a moonlight night, with an elaborately decorated border. Sir. Prince has also an armorial plate, not dated, showing the arms granted to his ancestor, Sir Richard Prince, by Charles II.) Margaret Scott Henry Stevens, Barnet, Vt. " In Paradise, the tree Of Knowledge was the pride ; By God's supreme decree. The man who eat — thei: died. But Heaven in mercy since Does him who tastes forgive ; To know, is no offence ; Now, he who eats — shall live," (Mr. Henry Stevens, the wellkno^n biblio- grapher, formerly American agent for books at 4 Trafalgar Square, London. He issued privately " Catalogue of my English Library London. Whittingham. Nov: 1S53"; and catalogued and arranged the Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition, 1S77, which he issued under his own imprint in 1878.) Kingston-on-Thames Free Public Library. Pre- sented by Mrs John Shrubsole in memory of John and Henry Shrubsole mdccclxxxh. Charles Edwin and Janet Stein-Haig From the Sunderland Library, Blenheim Palace. Purchased July 18S2, by B. Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, London. Octave Uzanne (The well-known Parisian writer. A Vice- President Ex L. Soc.) This Book was given to Emily Mary Wakefield as a Memorial of her Baptism, by her God- father, Frederick Anthony White, xxvi March, mdccclxxxh. Ex Libris . Franciscus . Davis . Ward. Clonaver. Com: Down: J. P. M.R.I. A. Ch.L:H. .\.D. MDCCCLXXXH. Ex Libris Francisci . David . Ward Wyncrofl . Civit: Belfast: J. P. M.R.I. A. Ch:L.H. A.D. MDCCCLXXXH. M. J. B. W. (Marcus J. B. Ward) Label, festoon Pict. Arm. Jac. Pict. Nomotto. SeeiSSo, 1887. 2jX3i ^' JEquo animo quod fictis, invcntti facile fit '' (That which you seek with a calm mind becomes easy to be found). Second motto round the vignette: " Atlinirtuuia sunt magna DEI opera hie et ubique per diem noctemqiie" (Won- drous are the mighty works of God, here and everywhere, by day and night). F. V. Hadlow sc. Brighton. Plate mark 8|X5j. Design 5iX4f. No motto. C.W.S. (Sherborn). ^' Freedom and Unity," Vermont. Waltons' Press, Montpelier, Vt. Design six 3 J. On the copy of this plate be- longing to the Rev Mr. Carson there is no date, but one .American authority dates it 1882. See also Allen's " American Book-plates," p. 286. Arm. " Semper fidelis ' 2 Shields ' ful). 5X3J. (Always faith- Arm. Pict. " Tyde ivhat may." 3I X 2j. See Ex L. J., Vol. V., p. 97. Arm. 'Dicii defende le droit" (May I God defend the right). Design I 2JX2J. The arms and motto of Earl Spencer. See 1881, 18S3. Pict. No motto. Aglaus Bouvenne. See in Hamilton's " French Book-plates," p. 136. See i8go. Printed " The entrance of thy words giveth label liglit" Ps cxix. 130. 4X2}. Arm. "Sub criice sains" (Salvation under the Cross). (By J. Viny- comb.) Design 3|X2|. Arm. " Snb crnce sains," Same as the above plate, except as to the address. Reproduced in Mr. Viny- 1 comb's work on Ex Libris, p. 80. Arm. " 6116 crnce sains." (By John Vesica Vinycomb, m.r.i.a.) DATED BOOK-PLATES. 173 1883 M. E. A .. .. =. Pict. Jane Henrietta Adeane .. .. •• Arm. American Antiquarian Society. Accessions. Given j Portrait, in memory of Ginery Twichell. j Label Bangor Public Library. (Bangor, Maine, U.S.A.) , Label Monogram. (Benoit) .. .. .. Pict. Ex libris Ar. Bourgeois .. .. .. Pict. Ex libris Jules Bourgeois .. .. ., Pict. Edmund Montague Boyle f.s.a. .. .. Arm. James Burnett .. .. .. Pict. Joseph Alfred Bradney of Llanfihangel-Ystern- Arm. Llewern Esq. 1883. Early Eng, (J.P., and Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Edwardi Cox, de Cardean Meigle . . . . Seal James Louis Jules Thiebauld de la Crovee. Arm. Charles Arthur Wynne Finch .. .. Arm. Edouard de Furckheim . . . . . . Arm I Bequeathed to the Bishopric of Cornwall by the Label Rev. Franke Parker, m.a.. Rector of Luffincott, Des'on. 18S3. Edmund William Gosse .. .. .. Pict. (Although Mr. Gosse objects to the fashion of collecting book-plates, he thus wrote about them in his " Gossip in a Library": — " The outward and visible mark of the citizenship of a book-lover is his book-plate To have a book- plate gives a collector great serenity and self-confidence. We have laboured in a far more conscientious spirit since we liad ours than we did before. A living poet, Lord de Tabley, wrote a fascinating volume on book-plates, some years ago. with copious illustrations. There is not, how- ever, one specimen in his book which I would exchange for mine, the work and gift of one of the most imaginative American artists, Mr. Edwin A., .\bbey. It represents a very fine gentleman of about i5io, walking in broad sunlight in a garden, reading a little book of verses. The name is coiled around him, with the motto, which I will not pre- sume to translate. Mr. Abbey's fine art is there, always before me, to keep my ideal high.") Ralph Price Hardy Edwd Robt Hughes Joseph Knight (F.S.A. Author, Editor of Notes and Queries, Memb. Council Ex L. Soc. Mr. Knight had another very beautiful plate engraved in 1894; it is not dated. See Ex L. y., Vol. V., p. 74.) The Revd Charles Robertson Manning, m.a. Diss Rectory, Norfolk. (A view of Diss Rectory.) Arm. Pict. Arm. Pict, Arm. Pict. Agaus Bou- (Clerical error I K.R. (The Hon. Kate Russell). j No motto. Name on ribbon, ornamental border. Harry Soane. Ginery Twichell born 181 1, died 1883. 3 X ii- See Allen's " American Book-plates," p. 78. Established 1883. " Avsc le temps." venne Inv. sculp, for Ag/aus.) P. Adolphe Varin. P. Adolphe Varin. Harry Soane. "Lux et vita" (Light and life). Gibson sculpt- Aberdeen. " Mors gloria forti " (Death is glory to a brave man). Design 3iX2i. See 1892. "Praemium virtutis honor'' (Hon- our is the reward of virtue). Marcus Ward. "Mors lupi agniis vita" (The death of the wolf is the life of the lamb). C.W.S. (Sherborn). "Aperto vivcre voto" (To live without a wish concealed), ' 'A tixi- lium mcum in Domino " (My help is intheLordJ, "Tout jours prest." " Ora et labora " (Pray and work). Maisenbach. No motto. i|X2f, " Gravis cantnntibus umbra " (The shade is irksome to singers). E. A. Abbey June 1883. See in Castle, p. 185. ist edit., and 2nd edit., p. 234,and£.r L. y.. Vol. n., p. 95. " Qui vent pent " (He who wills can). Harry Soane. No motto. (Designed by Sebas- tian Evans, ll.d., and engraved by Harrv Soane). Design 2jx i|. See'i88i. No motto. C. J. VV. Winter del et aqua. Plate mark 3J x 2|. See also the plate of the Rev. C. U. Manning,i884 (son of above) 174 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1883 Alex. Michael From the Sunderland Library, Blenheim Palace. Purchased, March, 1S83, by Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, London. 1884 Lord Tenterden (Third baron. 1870.) Lady Tenterden Born 1834, succeeded his uncle Ex libris Friderici Warnecke A9 1SS3 (The founder of the German Ex Libris Society, and author of the famous work on German book- plates. Herr Warnecke had other book-plates. He died in November, 1894.) Allan Becher Webb Bishop of Grahamstown. Ex libris W. H. K. Wright, F.R.Hist.Soc. Plymouth, Devon. 1883. (Secretary of the Ex Libris Society.) Pict. Arm. Arm. with jsupporters Arm. with supporters Arms. Coloured Literary " Sibi ct amico " (For self and friend). K.G.S. " Dien defcmie Ic droit" (May God defend the right). Design 2j X 2j. The arms and motto of Earl Spencer. See 1881, 1882. '^ Lahore" (By industry). "Lahore." 4X2J. No motto. A.H.(A. Hildebrandt). 4JX3. Printed in colours. See Ex L. y., Jan., 1895, for a memoir of Herr F. Warnecke. B. (Beale) Ex Libris Frederic Arthur Beale Thomas Bond British Association. Montreal Robert Day f.s.a. Ex Lib. Robert Day f.s.a., m.r.i.a. Ex Libris Dupuytrein The Grolier Club. Founded New York iS No—. Hill & Sons, 38 New Bond St. W. (Trade card) Ex libris Henrici Jadart, Reims, 1S84 Walter P. King (Of Lancaster, Pa., U.S.A.) .Maine Genealogical Society. (U.S.A.) Revd Charles Upwood Manning, b.a. (View of Diss Church, Norfolk. The owner of this plate is the son of the Rev. C. R. Manning, M.A., for whose plate see 1883.) Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Masonic Arm. Pict. Arm. Pict. Pict. Label Pict. Arm. Arm. Landscape No motto. Design 4X2^. 186-, 1885, 1892, 1893. See " Viiieit omnia veriins " (Truth conquers all things). Marcus Ward & Co. " Vlncit omnia Veritas." Marcus Ward & Co. Ltd. 1884. 4X2|. (By J. Vinycomb. See p. 62, his " Production of Ex Libris.") " With the compliments of the Montreal Committee." " Sic itur ad astra " (Thus one goes to the stars). "Sic itiir ad astra." Design 2JX1J. See 1885, i88g, 1891, 1893, 1894. R.D. Stern. Graveur. G.W.E. (George Wharton Ed- wards). See Allen's " American Book-plates," p. 73. Oval design, 2JX2J. See 1894. C. W. Sherborn inv. et sculp. " Vtinam prosim." Ad. Varin. " Ncitiira niliil alienniii " (Nothing is indifferent to me by nature). M.S. (By D. McNeely Staufier.) Design 3f X2j. No motto. Design 4jx 25. No motto. C. J. W. Winter Feet Plate mark 35X2^. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 175 1884 A. P. Alexandra House. Kensington Gore. 1884. Rich. Stpr. Philpott m.a. Prebendary of Wells. River House Hammersmith 1884. John Shiell, F.s.A.scot. David McNeely Stauffer A.M. C.E. Mem. Am. Soc. C.E: M. Inst. C.E. New York MDCCCLXXXIV. Toynbee Hall Library 28 Commercial St. E. Universities Settlement in East London. 1S84. J. Stewart Tupper .. Hugh, Duke of Westminster . Eaton . 1S84. (Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, K.G., born Oct. 13, 1825 ; succeeded his father as third Marquess of Westminster in 1S69; created Duke of West- minster in 1874. Hon. Colonel of the Queen's Westminster Volunteer Rifles.) Hugh, Duke of Westminster. Eaton 1884. 1885 The American Catholic Historical Society of Phila- delphia. Incorp. Dec 26, 1885. Ex Libris Chs Bastard. Geneve D. C. (Dr. Isaac Dobree Chepmell) " My Book. Lond. 1885. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex libris Robert Day Jr f.s.a. m.r.i.a. Cork. Ex Libris Robert Day j.p. f.s.a. m.r.i.a., etc. etc. 3 Sidney Place, Cork. Prosper Falgairolle, 1885, Vauvert Constance Flower a. d. 1885. (C.F. entwined in lilies. Now Lady Battersea. See next entry ; also 1892.) Ex Libris Cyril Flower a.d. t885 (Born Aug. 30, 1843. M.P. for Brecknock 1880-85, and for Luton t885-92; created Baron Battersea in r8g2. Married 1877, Constance, daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild, Bart.) Seal Mono. Pict. Arm. Arm. Masonic Arm. Seal ) ! Arm. Arm. Arm. Seal Engraved label An open book Arm. Landscape Arm. Landscape Arm. Floral Arm. mantled No motto. A portrait of the Princess of Wales. Design 3JX 2. No motto. E. H. N. (Edmund Hurt New). See in Castle, 2nd edit., p. 256. "Agere et pnli" (To do and to suffer). Harry Soane, London. "Den . stall/ . inline . ieh." De- sign 3 J X 2^. See 1S80. See Ex L. J., Vol. IV., p. 159. " Dominus illiiniinatio mea^^ (The Lord enlighten me). 2J dia. " L'espoir est ma foree " (Hope is my strength). Harry Soane. " Virtus null stciniiia" (Virtue, not pedigree). C. W. Sherborn fecit. Plate mark 4iX3|. Reproduced in Rylands' Notes, p. 53. Has crest, helmet, supporters, and ela- borate mantling. "Virtus non stemma." C.W. S. (Sherborn). 3X2J. Simpler de- sign than the above ; has no supporters or mantling. No motto. An open book, over which are two pens in saltire, surmounted by a mitre. 2 in. dia. Nameon shield. No motto. 2X1J "Post ueguiia liaec inca otin^^ (After these occupations my rest). 3jX2i. "Sic itiir ad astra." Marcus Ward, Belfast, t885. sjxsj. Several varieties, some with longer inscriptions. (Ogham in- scription.) "Sic itiir ad astra." Marcus Ward, Belfast. Several sizes. (Ogham inscription). David Jeune, Nimes. See Vauvert " Flares curat dens" (God takes care of the flowers). C.W.S. (Sherborn). 2j diameter. See Castle, p. 168, ist edit. " Flores curat dens." C.W.S. (Sherborn j. Design 3JX2J. See 1893. See Castle, p. 167, ist edit. 176 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1885 Ex Libris Acton Chaplin Havelock. Colonel Crest "Fideliter" (Faithfully). 1S85. " Books yield a certain spell, when you (Memb. Ex L. Soc. See also 1892.) Have read tliem thrice and study'd well." Plate mark 2f X2|. 11 Frederic William Hecht An Dni mdccclxxxv. Pict. " Inter folia fructus " (Fruit be- tween the leaves). C.W. Sherborn. " Alfred Marks Pict. No motto. H.S.M. (H.S.Marks, R.A.) No motto. G.R.H. (Halkett). 1) W. R. Macdonald Arm. Landscape W.Watson sc. Design 3jX2f. Date indistinct, may be 1882, which see. Bibliotheque de M. Noel Gueneau de Mussy Arm. " Regmim Dei et justitia" (The Juin 1885. rule of God and of Justice). Supporters and coronet of count. Design 2^X2. Ex Libris Edwardi . Lewton . Penny. s.r.P. Arm. Pict. ^' Sfero tnfestis metiio secundis" Bermudienses apud Insulas infeliciter sub- \ Hor., Carm. 11. x. 13, altered. — mersis et turpiter inhonoratis Anno Salutis hope in trouble, fear in joy). MDCCCLXXXV. Above this, in Greek, the familiar verse from Psalm xxxvii. : *' The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again." A singular oblong design. The Rev. Mr. Penny was Chap- lain of the dockyard at Bermuda, 1880-85, and now resides at Ply- mouth. 1> Robert Treat Payne. (U.S.A.) Arm. "Forward.'^ Harry Soane. 11 Sommerville Hall, Oxford Pict. T.E.H. (T. Erat Harrison.) If Ex L. Musaei Tabernensis Label (Alsatian plate.) 11 Vauvert Arm. "Prosper Falgairolle.'' David (There is a calf on the shield, but it is shown Jeune, Nimes. 2:|-X2i. gules, not vert.) 11 Henry Walter Wheeler, his booke . . Literary No motto. E.J.W.(E. J. Wheeler). Design 3fX2f. Mr. E. J. Wheeler also designed a handsome library interior book-plate for himself; . unfortunately it is not dated. General Viscount Wolseley, of Wolseley, County Arm. " Mors tnihi vita est" (Death is of Stafford, and Baron Wolseley of Cairo. supporters life to me). "Homo komini lupus" (On the shield the collar and date of the Order (Man is a wolf towards his fellow of St. Patrick, 1783. Garnet Joseph Wolseley, man). C.W.S. (Sherborn). Design first viscount ; born 1833, created Baron Wolse- 4X2J. See in Castle, 2nd edit.. ley 1882, and Viscount 1885.) p. 159. A very handsome and elaborate plate. Ex Libris W. H. K. Wright, F. R. Hist. Soc. Literary No motto. 4X2|. See 186-, Plymouth. 1883, 1892, 1893. 1886 Nameless plate. (Percy badge, Duke of Northum- Crest Ducal coronet, and motto of the berland.) Garter. 3X2j.(By C.W.Sherborn) John Alexander, Marquess of Bath Arm. " y'ai bonne cause " (I have good (John Alexander Thynne, fourth marquess, born reason). C. W. Sherborn, fecit. 1831 ; succeeded his father, June, 1837.) Design4jX3j. 11 E Libris Harriet C— . Jany 1886 Pict. No motto. 2iXi|. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 177 1886 John Cotton owns this book. Birmingham 1886 Pict. " Knowledge is Power." " The pen is mightier than the swurdj'^ etc. Design 2|xi^. See 1875, 1891. 11 Ex Libris Jacobi Emott, Bibliothecae Redwood- ianae ab ipso legatis. Ill Id. jun. 1886 acceptis. (U.S.A.) Printed label No motto. >l John Sharman Franey, b.a. Coll: Trin; Cantab: Arm. " Ut vita sic finis " (As one's life, so one's end). 1> John William Mitchell . Rothesay Herald Lyon Clerk Depute. Arm. "Sapiens qui assidiins " (He is wise who is assiduous). M A. Bertram Freeman Mitford c.b. 1886 (Algernon Bertram Freeman - Mitford, m.p. ; created C.B. 1882.) Arm. "God carcth for us." C. W. Sherborn fecit. 3jX2|. There are many fine armorial plates of the Mitford family ; see 1744, 1769. 1> Frederic Morrell, of Broughton Grange, in the County of Oxford, Esquire. 1886. Arm. mantled "Bono aninio esto" (Be of good cheer. — Acts xxvii. 25). Sher- born ft. Design 3|X2j. ,, J. Huleatt Revington Ardmayle Rectory Prin. label One of my " Hundred Books." tl In affectionate remembrance of Henry Stevens Lover of Books, born at Barnet Vermont 24 August i8ig the volume of whose earthly labour was closed in London 28 February 1886 in the Sixty-seventh year of his age. Label "And another book was opened which is the book 0/ life." t1 Lionel Walter Rothschild .. (Elder son of Baron Rothschild.) Alice Emma Shaw Stewart Crest Mono. " Concordia. Integritas. Indus- tria." (Concord, integrity, and industry). C. W. Sherborn. De- sign 2^x2. ») Horatio Percy Symonds Oxford 1886 " The above Arms are adapted from a Platino- type of a book plate in a P'rench version of Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting, in the possession of Jrhn Addington Symonds, the Arms being those of our immediate Ances- tor Joshua Symonds of London, Surgeon, date about 1690." Arm. Plate mark 3jX2|. 1» Ex libris Jacobi B. Winterbotham Cranley Lodge Cheltenham. Pict. "Inter folia frnetus" (Fruit be- tween the leaves). J.D.B. f. (The first book-plate designed by Mr. J. D. Batten.) See Castle, p. 192, 1st edit., and 2ndedit.,p.245 )) Arthur G. Wright Library Interior (By Alan Wright.) 1867 Henry Farnham Burke, f.s.a. Somerset Herald. (Memb. Ex L. Soc. Very similar to the plate of the late Mr. J. R. Planche designed by Mr. C. W. Sherborn.) Arm. " Ung Loy, Ung Roy, Ung Foy " (One law, one king, one faith). " Vinctns sednon victus " (Bound, but not beaten). E. D. Mitchell London. n Swan M. Burnett Pict. "Non omnis moriar" (Hor., Carm. III. XXX. 6. — I shall not wholly die). J.L.B. " Alfredi Cock, Arm Consiliar Dnae Reginae ad legem. Arm. " Talent de bicn faire." Harry Soane. n E. A. Coxhead Label 178 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1887 J. Daly Ao Di 1887 Arm. " Deo et RegifideUs " (Faithful to God and the King). C. W. D. (C.W. Dempsey). Design sJ^X 2f . .. Ex libris V. Duchataux, advocati Remensis, 1887. Arm. Ch. Wery fecit. " William Gray m.r.i.a. Belfast (Has a larger plate than the above, same general design, not signed or dated, by J. Vinycomb, 4 X 3I.) Landscape No motto. Marcus Ward & Co., Ltd. (J. Vinycomb.) 3JX2J. " Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Pict. " Ex solo ad solan '' (From soil to sun). (By T. E. Harrison.) " The Right Honble Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax. (Second viscount, born 1839, succeeded his father in 18S5.) Arm. "/ like my choice^ C.W.S. (Sher- born). Design 4jx 3. " R. H. (Robert Hampson) Pict. " Post tenebras spero lucem " (I hope for light after darkness). Design 2jX3|- M Melvin H. Hapgood Hartford, Conn., U.S.A. Arm. Pict. ^- 1 liter folia fructus" (Fruit be- tween the leaves). Design i.}X3.J. See in Allen's " American Book-plates," p. 344. 1) Rev. H. W. T. Plowman .. Label No motto. '• Pratt Institute. Brooklyn. N.Y. Incorporated 1887. (U.S.A. View of Brooklyn.) Pict. " Be true to your work, and your work will be true to you." 3IX3J. " Putney Free Library .^.d. mdccclxxxvii Pict. label Very small view of Putney Bridge and Church, Surrey. 2jX3i. •• The Honble Mrs Meynell Ingram .. Arm. No motto. Loze ige in Rocaille cartouche. C.W.S. (Sherborn). " Richard Lloyd Arm. " Ynir Yale." C.W.D. (Demp- sey). Design 3|X2|. " Martha Sarah Macready's Library, left Aug 7, 18S7, to Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell. Printed label No motto. 1JX3. Geraldine Mayo. 1887 (Daughter of the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby. Married in 1885, Dermot, seventh Earl of Mayo.) Lt. General E. Newdigate-Newdegate, c.b. (Entered the Rifle Brigade in 1842, served in the Crimea, and was present at Alma, Inkermann, and the siege of Sebastopol. In the Zulu War in 1879, was second in command at the battle of Ulundi, and was created C.B. in the same year. After fifty years' service in the Army, retired in 1892.) Algernon George Duke of Northumberland. (The sixth duke, succeeded his father in 1867.) . Sir . Charles . Henry . Stuart . Rich . Bart. Claxton Abbey. Ano aet. suae 29 Ano Dm' 1887. (The fourth baronet, born 1859, succeeded his father i856 ; is a F.S.A. and Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Royal Statistical Society. Founded 1834 Ex libris F. N. J. Edouard Schutzenberger ancien batonnier de I'ordre des avocats de St. Die, 1887. Guy T. S. Sebright (Architectural device.) Coronet Arm. Early Jac. No motto. 1882, 18S8. 2iX2?. See also No motto. Design 2|X if. Al- tered from the earlier and dated plate of Richard Newdigate, Esq., on which there was a crescent for difference. See also 1709, 1894. Arm. Seal " Esperance en Dicu." C.W.S. (Sherborn). 3J dia. Arm. Pict. " Garde ta Foy " (Keep thy faith). C.W.D. (C. W. DempseyJ. De- sign 4jX3a. See 1890. Pict. Pict. Arm. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1887. C. Merves del. Imp. Lemercier & Cie "Servare mentem" (To preserve the mind). Harry Soane. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 179 1887 1888 Arthur Robinson Stone (Of Salem, Mass., U.S.A. Etching of an open folio volume of music of the second part of the '• Messiah '' by Handel, copied from the original score.) Joseph! R. Tanner A. W. Thibaudeau A. W. Thibaudeau a.d. 1887 (Smaller than above ; different design.) Andrew White Tuer (F.S.A., and Memb. Council Ex L. Soc.) Bibliothecae Collegii Sanct. et indiv. Trinitatis Cant. Legavit Coutts Trotter, a.m. Hujus Collegii socius et vice magister A. s. MDCCCLXXXVII. Monogram on a shield in an elaborate cartouche. (The Ex Libris of J. Clauzot a Niort.) The City of Belfast Free Public Library. City Charter 1888. J. Bonneton, president du tribunal (.Arms of the town of Gannat.) Henry Cadogan Thomas Clarke Sidney Colvin (Keeper of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.) Franciscus Darwin Fiiit t)ir libf;- libris (Let man become free by books). (Favier, a la Bibliotheque de Nancy.) H. W. F. Hys Boke. mdccclxxxviii. (H. W. Fincham, Memb. Council Ex L. Soc. Mr. Fincham has several other book-plates.) Robert Chellas Graham. Skipness Stewart Beauchamp Gwatkin Hamilton College Library. The Trask Addition. March i. 1888. (U.S.A.) Pict. Pict. Arm. Pict. Arm. Mono. Arm. Arm. Crest Arm. Literary Arm. Books Initial letter Arm. Arm. Pict, Printed label No motto. Geo. M. White del. Plate mark 35X3|. See Allen's " American Book - plates," pp. 362, 364. J. D. Batten. " Ars longa vita brcvis" (Art is long, life is short). C. W. Sher- born fecit. Design 2JX2. " Alors iiiihi est lucrum " (To me ... to die is gain. — Phil. i. 21). C.W.S.(Sherborn). Design ifxij " Fiat lux " (Let there be light. — Gen. i. 3.1 O. de Roc: fee inv. ler Avril 1888 (O. de Rochebrune). 3iX3. There is also a smaller size. " Pro tanto quid ntribu'amus " (What return can we make for so much ? — See Psalm cxvi. 12.). Marcus Ward & Co., Ltd. (By John Vinycomb.) Two sizes, 5|X4j, and4f X4:J. See also i88g. A library interior, scul. 1888. J. Bonneton "Qui invidet minor est" (He who envies is less). C.W.S. (By C. W. Sherborn). Design 2jX2j. " Fortis in arduis " (Strong under trials). C. W. Sherborn ft. 2JX2A "Onhlicr ne puis" {1 cannot for- get). C. W. S. (Sherborn). De- sign 2JX1 J. See Castle, p. 170, ist edit. Harry Soane. "'Tis mi}ie and it is likewise yours — but an if this will not do, let it be mine good friend, for I am the poorer of the tino." De- sign 4 X2J. See Castle, 2nd edit., p. 29. See i8go, 1894. " Ne oublie " (Do not forget). Harry Soane, London 1888. 3^ X2S. " Industria." C.W.D. (C. W. Dempsey). Design 3JX3. No motto. i8o DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1888 Francis. T. Havergal, d.d. Vicar of Upton Bishop, Sub Treasurer Preb. de Cohvall. F.H. (Frederik Hendriksen) .. Charles Edward H. Chadwyck Healey Chas E. H. Chadwyck Healey of Lincoln's Inn, Esqre Andrew K. Hichens Edmund Huntley Hooper .. George & Rosalind Howard (George James Howard, born Aug. 12, 1843, succeeded his uncle as ninth Earl of Carlisle in 1889; married in 1864 the Hon. Rosalind Frances, daughter of Lord Stanley of Alderley.) Walter . Henry . James E Libris Gualteri Henrici James, e dono Matris Thomae N. Dick-Lauder (Sir Thomas North Dick-Lauder, ninth baronet, succeeded his father in 1867.) K.M. (Karl Madsen) P.M. (Peter Magnussen. A Danish plate.) Marion. (Of the U.S.A.) Charles. T. Martin Dermot, Earl of Mayo (The seventh Earl of Mayo, born July 2, 1851 ; succeeded his father, the Governor-General of India, who was assassinated at the Andaman Islands, in r872.) Dermot, Earl of Mayo (Small fishing scene.) Madame la Comtesse de Noe Alice S. Northcote Frederick Pollock (Sir F. Pollock. M.A.. the third baronet, suc- ceeded his father in 18 Devon Association, etc.) Was President of the Gerald Ponsonby (The Honourable Gerald Henry Brabazon Pon- sonby, son of the late Earl of Bessboruugh. Is a weil-known collector of Ex Libris.) Pandeli Ralli, 1888 Rosalind (Altered to Elkin, 1892.) Arm. 3 Shields Mono. Arm. Arm. mantled Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Pict. Arm. Pict. Arm. Pict. Mono. Mono. Pict. Crest Arm. EarlyEng. Landscape Mono. Pict. Arm. Literary Arm. Arm. mantled Pict. " Dominus illuminotio men " (The Lord is my light. — Psalm xxvii. i). Harry Soane. " Crcde tnihi " (Believe me). C.W.S. ft. (Sherborn). Design 2iXii. "Credemihi." Sherborn ft. De- sign 3|X2j. No motto. Harry Soane. "Garde bien" (Keep well). Harry Soane. " Volo iwn valco" (I am willing, but not able). "Sans changer" (Without changing. — The Stanley motto). CW. Sherborn fecit 1888. Design 3iX2f. " y^aime a jantais^^ (I love for ever). T.E.H. (T. Erat Harrison). Design 4jX2|. " y'ayme a jamais." By T. Erat Harrison. " Ut migraturus habita " (Dwell as if about to depart). See 1889. " My never failing friends^ Sher- born fecit. " There is a place where book-thieves go. Where is it? Well, I'm sure you know." Design 2X2. " A crncc sains " (Salvation from the Cross). Curwen, Dublin. Re- produced in Castle, p. igS, and 2nd edit., p. 28S. Drawn by Geraldine, Countess of Mayo, engraved by Curwen, Dublin. In two states, one signed " G.M. del," the other not signed. Design 4X3. See 18S7. No motto. Aglaus Bouvenne inv. " Pages in wailing." Sherborn. "Audacter et strenuc " (Boldly and vigorously). C.W.S. (Sherborn). 2jxii. See in Castle, pp. 167, 233. ist edit. Nomotto. Curwen Dublin. Plate Book-pile' mark3iX2|. Two varieties. See Castle, ist edit., p. igg. and 2nd edit., p. 289. See also iSSo. " BAAIZE THN EY0EIAN" (Walk the straight way). (By C. W. Sherborn, not signed.) Design 3JX2}. " O nies livres cherts " (Oh, my be- loved books). C.W.S. (Sherborn). DATED BOOK-PLATES. i8i 1888 1889 Salem Public Library. (U.S.A.) In Memoriam Roberti Scott s.t.p. Ecclesiae Roffensis quondam Decani + Hoc annuum Praemium Literis Graecis Latinisque ex- colendis dicaverunt. Gives, Amici, CoUegae, A.D. MDCCCLXXXVIII. Julit A.D. A. Scruton His Book " He that borrows without return Shall in a warmer climate burn." (A pictorial plate, introducing the emblems of the owner's studies and sports — music, painting, books, etc.) Lionel Tillotson The Rt: Honble Sir John Warren Baron Tabley of Tabley, Co Chester. 1888. (The third baron, succeeded his father in 1S87. Author of the well-known " Guide to the Study of Book-plates" published in iSSo, a work highly prized by all collectors of Ex Libris. Lord de Tabley has also published some volumes of poetry.) G. Vicaire J. W. Gleeson White {Memb. Ex L. Soc. Mr. White has several other allegorical bookplates, not dated.) The City of Belfast Free Public Library. Pre- sented by Charles C. Connor Esq., m.a. F.c.s. Mayor of Belfast 17th Jany., 1889. E Libris Joseph Edgar Boehm (Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, h.a., the eminent sculptor, created baronet 18S9. died in 1890. Of Bohenii.in descent, as the name implies.) Willm Bolton, Addiscombe .. (Memb Ex L. Soc.) Boston Public Library Given by Mrs John G. Gilbert, Dec 13 i8Sg. (U.S.A.) Terence Theobald Bourke (The Hon. Terence Theobald Bourke, brother of the Earl of Mayo.) Rhoda Broughton (The well-known novelist.) Arthur Giraud Browning f.s.a. a.i.c.e. Civ: Lond: Sec . French . Hospital . Incorp: 1718. V. P. Huguenot Society . of . London. Spencer Lodge Wandsworth Common, 1889. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex libris A. C. (Portrait of an elderly gentleman.) Arm. Arm. Pict. Arm. Arm. with supporters Pict. Alleg. Arm. Arm. Pict. Arm. Pict. Pict. Arm. Pict. Arm. Portrait City appropriation. "Rcpariibit coniiia Phoebe" (Ovid, Met. I. II. — The moon again shall fill her horns). Design 5JX3I. ''Muck study is a ivcariiiess of the flesh, and of making tunny books there is no end" (Eccles. xii. 12). A.S. del. No motto. Harry Some. " Tcncbo" (I will hold). C. W Sherborn In et Sculpt. Design 34X2|. Reproduced in Castle's " English Book-plates," 2nd edit., p. 16. Lord de Tabley had an earlier plate by W. Bell Scott. •'/ sought peace cveyyicihere, and found it not, save in nooks with books" G. White. (Plate by Alan Wright.) " Pro fanto quid rctribiiamiis " (What can we return for so much ?). Marcus Ward & Co Ltd. Design 4JX3J. ••Sol niea testis" (The sun be my witness). T.E.H. (T. Erat Harri- son). 4iX3j. Reprinted in Ex L. y.. Vol. I., p. 139, and fully described on p. 150. No motto. A rebus, " Bolt in Ton." 3^X3. See 1894, 1895. " Siait patribns sit Dens nobis" (The Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. — I Kings viii. 57). No motto. (Designed by the Countess of Mayo.) "My never failing friends." C. W. Sherborn r.p.e. "Licht, Liebe. Leben" (Light, Love, Life). Design 3^x2. "Conventsi nepotis. Qinbitsdainqiie Amicis" {sic). J.B. 3IX2J. DATED BOOK-PLATES. Ex Libris Emmae C. Chamberlayne (Memb. Ex L. Soc. Miss Chamberlayne has a very fine collection of early British Ex Libris, which the author of this compilation has had the privilege of consulting during the progress of the work.) Ex Libris (F. B. Money Coutts) (A blank is left on the scroll for the owner's name to be inserted.) Ex libris Edwardi Cox de Cardean Meifrle J. W. Crombie Ex Libris Robt Day, f.s.a., m.r.i.a. Cork. (This gentleman has many plates of various dates, designs, and sizes.) Ex Libris Caroli. E. Doble .. (The stars are Charles' Wain, for Charles. The musical note E is on the bell, which, with the doe, makes Doe-bell = Doble.) Austin Dobson, His Book March i88g (The poet.) The Revd S' Leger Frederick Hope-Edwardes of Netley in the County of S.ilop. Rev. Edmund Farrer, f.s.a. William Ewart Gladstone 23 July 1839. 23 July 1889. Northbourne d: d: (This plate was presented to the veteran states- man by Lord Northbourne on the occasion of his golden wedding, 23 July, i8Sg. The kites and the stones form the rebus Gledstanes, the original form of the name, ghd meaning kite.) William Andrew I'Anson. Denton Hall, umberland. North- Pict. The Honble Mrs Meynell Ingram .. (Printed in brown ink.) E libris Charles Plumtre Johnson (A member of the Sette of Odd Volumes, London. Author of "The Early Writings of William M. Thackeray," " Hints to Collectors of Thackeray," etc.) Library interior. Allegory Arm. Circular design Crest and Books Pict. Rebus Pict. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Landscape Arm. Rebus Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Chip. Pict. "Proilcssc quam consfici" (Utility rather than ostentation), "Veritas. Fiat lux" (Truth. Let there be light.— Gen. i. 3). A.R.(A. Robert- son. Design 3|x ij. Miss Chamberlayne has also a small armorial plate, not dated, signed G.W. "Da niihi Domine scire quod scien- dum est " (Grant me, O Lord, to know what is to be known). J.D.B. A.D. 1889 (J. D. Batten). Design 3iX2j. See in Castle, 1st edit., p. 193, and 2nd edit , p. 246. "Pmmium virtiitis honor"[ Honour is the reward of virtue). Marcus Ward. (By Mr. J. Vinycomb. See p. 44, his work on the " Pro- duction of Ex Libris.") 2J dia. See also 1883, i88g. " Et paucos sed ut eligam Ubellos " (sic). C.W.S. (Sherborn). No motto. No motto. T.E.H.(T.Erat Harri- son). See Castle, ist edit, p. 176, and 2nd edit., p. 222. No motto. L. A. Abbey. This must not be confused with the plate by Mr. Alfred Parsons, not dated, which is reproduced in Castle, 1st edit., p. 182, and 2nd edit., p. 233. " Afyno Duw derfid " (God's will be done). Has two crests, the Edwardes and the Hope. Design 3JX2}. "Fctre va Ferme" (The shod horse goes surely). Not signed, but by C. J. W. Winter. Plate mark 3f X2f. "Fide et virtute" (By fidelity and valour). T.E.H. (T. Erat Harri- son). Design 4^X3. This interesting plate has been frequently reproduced. See the Library Review, March, 1893 ; Ex L. J., Vol. I., p. 112; Castle, istedit.,p.i63, and 2nd edit., p.2o8. " Fairc mon devoire^^ (To do my duty). Sherborn ft. Design 3I X2i. No motto. C.W.S. (Sherborn). "In lucent aspiro" (I aspire to the light). A.R. (A. Robertson). De- sign '3^X3 J- DATED BOOK-PLATES. 183 1889 Sir Thomas North Dick-Lauder of Grange and Arm. Fountain Hall, Bart. i8Sg. (The ninth baronet, born 1846, succeeded his father 1867.) Hon. W. F. Littleton g.m.c. .. .. Arm. (Son of the second Baron Hatherton.) Wilson Lloyd, Woodgreen, Wednesbury . . Arm. The Lockhart Gift. Presented by Dr Lockhart Printed From the Library of his Father, Samuel label Black Lockhart, of Liverpool. i88g. London County Council . . . . . . Arm. Sir Henry Longley. k.c.b. .. .. Arm. (Son of Dr. Longley, Archbishop of Canter- ~ Shields bury, born 1833, created C.B. 1887, K.C.B. 1889.) 1 Manchester Public Free Libraries. The John I Arm. Eglington Bailey Shorthand Collection. Presented by Henry Boddington, Esquire. June, iSSg. Ex libris Caroli Elkin Mathews . . . . Pict. " He that likes not the book should like the excellent picture of the trout." (The publisher, of Vigo Street, London. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Marchese di Montagliari .. .. .. Arm. Alfred Morrison . .. .. .. Floral (The well-known print collector.) Alfred von Neufville. Jahenberg. Villa Anna jArm.with Eppstein. supporters Smaller plate with same arms as above, without the Arm. name, inscribed only, "Jahenberg, Villa Anna, Eppstein." I Newcastle-upon-Tyne Public Libraries. Bequest of Label H. P. A. B. Riddell Esq. Wm Fredk Noel Noel, Esqr Major in the Royal Arm. Engineers. EarlyEng, Nottingham. Men's Sunday Morning Institute. 1 Pict. The Claude Cooper IVIemorial Library for Teachers. Presented by Claude Harold Cooper March igtt i8Sg. William Morton Phillips .. .. .. Arm. Ex Libris Bibliothecae Francisci Gulielmi Pixley. Arm. A.D. rSSg. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Winifred Portland . . . . . . Pict. (Winifred Dallas-Yorke, married i88g the sixth Duke of Portland.) Ex libris Mario Proth .. .. .. Pict. William Robinson. (Monogram W.R. in centre.) Pict. Literary " \Jl inigrntiiriis hnhitn " (Dwell as if about to depart). C. W. Sherborn. London. Design 4JX 3^. See 1888. " Uiig Dial, ling Roy " (One God, one iiing). Harry Soane. " Esto vigilnits" (Be vigilant). No motto. Moring Sc. Plate mark 4|X3|. Arms of the cities of London and Westminster. "Esse qiinm vlderi" (To be rather than to seem). C. W. Sherborn. "Coiicilio et taborc" (By wisdom and industry). 5X4. " Inter folia fructiis" (Fruit be- tween the leaves). A.R. (.'V.Robert- son). Several sizes. See in Castle, 2nd edit., p. 248. "Non pcndcr I'ora" (I depend not on occasion). C. W. Sherborn, fecit. No motto. C.W.S. (Sherborn). "Nevih vclis" (Incline to nothing base). A.H. 4X3. " Ne vile vclis." A.H. (A. Hilde- brandt). 2X1J. Andrew Reid, Newcastle. No motto. Design 3 X 2|. " Knock and it shall be opened unto you" (St. Matt. x. 7). "Ink- photo " London. " Simplex niiinditiis" (Hot., Carm. I. V. 5. — Simple in neat attire). C. W. Sherborn In & ft. Design 4iX3j- " Per vias rectas " (By right ways). Design 3jX2i. C.VV.D. (C. W. Dempsey). " Here may I reade all at my ease. Both of the newe and olde." C. W. Sherborn. " Scmpre vagarc" (Ever to rove). Date doubtful. " Iniparo ancora " (Still unequal). One of Mr. C. W. Sherborn's most brilliant plates. Design 3I X2J. Reprinted in Castle, 2nd edit., p. I. iS4 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1889 Sir Peyton d'Estoteville Skipwith, Bart. Arm. '• Sntts Dicu je ne ptih " (Without (A very ancient family, the baronetcy created God I cannot). Large size. See 1622. Sir Peyton, the tenth baronet, was born also 1704. 1857, succeeded his father 1S63, died i8gi.) i1 Frederick Stibbert .. Arm. " Pi-r ardiia ad astra " (Through mantled difficulties to the stars). C.W.'S. (Sherborn). Design 32x2^. M Surrey County Council Seal Harry Soane. ») Wemyss of Wemyss Arm. "Jf /xvisc" (I think). C.W.S. (The ninth Earl of Wemyss and March, born (Sherborn). 1818, succeeded Iiis father in 1883. As Lord Elcho he was well known as a politician, and is Hon. Col. of the London Scottish Volunteer Rifles.) ,, Henry B. Wheatley Library No motto. Has a portrait of the (F.S.A., Author, Memb. Ex L. Soc, and Member interior. owner in his library, signed by of the Sette of Odd Volumes, London.) J. P. Emslie. Plate mark 3jX2|. ,, J. W. Gleeson White Allegory *' Wind Instrument Chamber Music Society Pict. " It's an ill wind that blows no- body any good." (Designed by A. T. Young.) ij diameter. »» Samuel H. Zahm. Lancaster. Penna. (U.S.A.) Pict. No motto. D.M.N.S. (By Mr. S.H.Z. on D. Mc N. Stauffer). 2JX2J. cartouche 189- Oswald Barber Crest No motto. „ XL Johannis Cotton, Architectus Pict. (By the owner). " John Cotton, Architect, f.r.i.b.a. Pict. Several designs and mottoes. See 1875, 1886, i8gi. " New England Historic Genealogical Society Label "In memoriam majorum" (In remembrance of our ancestors). 3iX2l. »i Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Liverpool. Arm. Presented by , 189.. 4X2J. ,, Jane Patterson Pict. No motto. R.A.Bell. 5|X3|. (A lady playing on a guitar, ornamented border. J. P. above.) (Mr. R. Anning Bell also de- signed a circular book-plate, 4 inches diameter, inscribed "Jane Patterson Her Book," signed R.A.B., but not dated. This was reproduced in Castle, on p. 274, 2nd edit.) .. Alexander George Thynne Coll de Ball. Oxon. Arm. No motto. Harry Soane. " Toronto Public Library Central Circulating Library Arm. ^^Industry , Integrity ,IntelHgencC'^^ 4|X3i. ' tl Toronto Public Library Reference Department. Arm. "Industry. Integrity, Intelligence." This Book must not be taken out of the 44x3- Room. )) Library of the University of California . . Prin. label No motto. t» University College School. At the Examination Pict. "Paulatim" (By little and little). July i8g- This Book was awarded to, etc. View of the College. T.E.H. (See also 18 — .) (T. Erat Harrison), i8gi. Two sizes. 6|X3i, and 5^X3- DATED BOOK-PLATES. 185 1890 Ex Libris H. S. Ashbee. iSgo (An ash and a bee, with a portrait of Mr. Ash- bee, F.S.A., Memb. Council Ex L. Soc.) I Belfast Art Society mdcccxc. Bettine. (Lady Elizabeth Taylor) Edward Roden Bourke (The Hon. E. R. Bourke, uncle of the present Earl of Mayo.) Branca Ex Libris R. E. Brandt Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer g.c.m.g. Government House Cyprus. (Born 1836. Was High Commissioner in Cyprus, 1885 to 1892. Created G.C.M.G. 1883.) Francis William Buxton iSgo G.C. (Gerda Carlander. Swedish plate.) Cathed: Cicestr: (Chichester Cathedral Library). This book was presented by Mrs Crosse firom the Library of Canon Crosse d.c.l. by his desire. Library of Columbia College. The book-plate of the Avery Architectural Library of Columbia College, New York, bears this inscription : "In memory of Henry Ogden Avery, archi- tect, born thirty-first January, mdccclii., died thirtieth April, mdccclxxxx., his parents, Samuel P. Avery and Mary Ogden Avery, have founded this reference library of archi- tecture and decorative art." mdcccxc. Matthew Ridley Corbett (The name should be Corbet, aj later impressions.) it appeared on Ex Libris John Herbert Corning (Of Washington, U.S.A. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Bibliotheque du Docteur Felix Durosier (Arms on a rose-bush = rosier, word-play on the name.) Portrait rebus Pict. Pict. Arm. Pict. Arm. Pict. Arm. mantled Arm. Mono, on book Arm. Arm. Pict. No motto. Design 3X2|. (By Paul Avril). See Castle's " Eng- lish Book-plates," p. 279, 2nd edit. See also 1894. "Pro tanto quid ri-tribiiniiitis " (What can we return for so much ?) 3f X2j. See on p. 86, Vinycomb on the "Production of Ex Libris.'' " Mes amis fidelcs" (My faithful friends). C.W.S. (Sherborn). " A critce sniiis" (Salvation from the Cross). G.M. (By Geraldine, Countess of Mayo). (By Sherborn). "Persevere." C.W.S. 1890 (Sher- born). Design 2|xi|. Books and a violin. "Adversis major par secundis" (Superior to adversity, equal to prosperity). C.W.S. (Sherborn). Two crests, supporters ; collar, badge, and motto of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. "Do it with thy might." (Not signed, but by Mr. C.W. Sherborn.) Two states, one in a frame 2| x 2J, the other smaller. No motto, ijxij. No motto. n\X2\. Designed by Russell Sturgis. monumental tablet. 4JX2J. Pict. Arm. " Deus pascit corvos" (God feeds the ravens. — St. Luke xii. 24). T.E.H.(T.Erat Harrison). Design 4jX2|. Reproduced in Castle's "English Book-plates," p. 165, ist edit.; p. 2ti, 2nd edit. The angel is intended for St. Matthew, and the squirrels are introduced because the family formerly used one as a crest. " Littera." Hy. Sandham. De- sign 3 X 2j. See in Allen's " American Book-plates," p. 354. Nomotto. M.Duplais-Destouches, iSgo. i86 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1890 H. W. Fincham (Memb. Council Ex L. Soc.) Ex libris H. Morley Fletcher (" Fletcher," an obsolete term for a maker of arrows.) Ex Libris John J. Goulden (Of Dover. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Hamilton College (U.S.A.) Library of Political Science. John Heanley (Mr. Heanley had two other plates not dated. He died in Jamaica, April, 1895.) Arthur Fenton Herford. Macclesfield E Libris E. Granville Hogg (Not dated, but on my copy Mr. Warrington Hogg has written, " My first book-plate. W. H. 1890.") Maurice Howard Agnes Jekyll S. S. Joseph! (Never used as a book-plate ; only a few proofs taken.) Lancashire College Library. Purchased under Daniel Proctor's Benefaction of i8go. Wilson Lloyd. Wood Green. Wednesbury Sir Henry Longley k.c.b. (Created K.C.B. 1889.) M.A. (Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck.) Ex Libris Manoury. (French) Frederick John Methold j.p. f.s.a. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Charles William Mitchell . . Newcastle-upon-Tyne Public Libraries .. The Public Library of New London. (U.S.A.) . . All Souls College, Oxford. (Latin inscription) Ex Libris Margaret Louisa Pole mdccclxxxx. (Mrs. Margaret Louisa Pole, widow of the late Capt. Pole and sister of Sir Thomas North Dick- Lauder, Bart.) E Libris John Norcliffe Preston, of Flashy, Yorks. Eva \A/yndham Quin Daniel Ravenel. Charleston S.C. (U.S.A.) .. (Mr. Ravenel issued a printed description with his plate, from which it appears that, according to M. d'Hozier, he was entitled to bear the arms of an ancient Huguenot family. These he imposed upon some other fanciful arms he assumed, em- blematic of France, religious persecution, etc. Interesting as these allegories may be, they are contrary to the regulations of strict heraldry. Mr. Ravenel was a Memb. Ex L. Soc. He died in 1894. See memoir in Ex L. y.. Vol. IV., p. 165.) Arm. Pict. Arm. Allegory Library interior Label Landscape Arm. Pict. Crest Pict. Pict. Library interior Arm. Arm. Coronet Mono. Literary. Portrait Arm. Pict. Label j Pict. { Pict. Mono. Floral I emblems Arm. Pict. SmallPict. Arm. Alleg. No motto. A view of Shotteswell Church, Warwickshire. Design 3iX2j. See 1888, 1894. "True and sure." J.D.B. (Bat- ten), A.D. 1890. 3|X2^. No motto. 3|X2j. Monogram J.J.G. on red shield in centre. No motto. No motto. Design 2^X3. '* Repos aillcurs." "Would but some winged angel ere too late Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate." W. Hogg Des. Design 2JX3. " Non quo sed quo niodo" (Not by whom.buthow). C.W.S.(Sherborn) " Ne oublie" (Do not forget). C. W. Sherborn. 2jxi|. See Herbert Jekyll, i8gi. "Inter folio (sic) fructus." C.W.S. (Sherborn). Langton sc. "Esto vigilans " (Be watchful). See also 1889. " Esse quam videri " (To be rather than to seem). C.W. Sherborn. C.W. Sherborn ft. Ev. van Muyden inv. sc. (By C. W. Dempsey). T.E.H. (T. Erat Harrison). Presented by the British Museum. No motto. 3X2;*. Naval design. (By Culleton, not signed.) No motto. T.N.D.L. (Sir Thomas North Dick-Lauder, Bart.). No motto. Design 5 X 2j. No motto. No motto. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 187 1890 George Doane Rand (U.S.A.) E. lib. Domi Carol. Henric. Stuart. Rich. Baro- netti. Societ. Antiq. Lon. Socii . in . Cast. Devizes . in . Com. Wilts. Conservatis. Anno . Doni i8go. (The fourth baronet. F.S.A., Memb. Ex L. Soc.) William Oliver Roper Charles Rothschild John Wm. Ryland Ex libris Johanis Pauli Rylands de Medio Templo Arm & Mariae Isabellae uxoris ejus A.d. iSgo. (Mr. J. P. Rylands had a similar plate to the above, but smaller, 2|Xi|, and several other designs.) H. Sandham Arthur St George Sargeant. Anu. Doni. i8go. Ex Libris Caroli Davies Sherborn (Son of Mr. C. W. Sherborn, V.P. Ex L. Soc] Howard Sill (Of Washington, U.S.A. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) E. Libris Silvanus . P. Thompson. Anno . i8go. (Professor Thompson, f.r.s., Magnetiser to the Sette of Odd Volumes, London.) Octave Uzanne (French author. Vice-President Ex L. Soc.) Col. the Honble George P. H. Villiers (Col. the Hon. George Patrick Hyde Villiers, C.B., C.M.G., died i8g2.) Gleeson White (Memb. Ex L. Soc. Mr. White has a number of book-plates, mostly allegorical in style.) Gleeson White Public . Library . and . The . Whitechapel . Free Museum. i8go. Louisa Wolseley " But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain. Oppresses else with surieit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind." (Viscountess Wolseley has a smaller plate, not dated.) Arm. Library interior Arm. Landscape Crest Pict. Arm. Arm. Arm. Library interior Pict. floral Arm. Pict Mono. Arm. AUeg. Alleg. Alleg. Seal Pict. " Non mortnle qtiod oplo " (What I long for is not mortal. — Ovid, Met., II. 56). C. M. Jenckes. " Garde tafoy " (Hold thy faith). C.W.D ('C.VV. Dempsey). Design 4jX3i. See 1887. C.W.S. (Sherborn). No motto. (Sherborn). "Avornm lionori" (For the honour of our ancestors). C. W.; Sher- born i8go. 4IX3. " Des /licit quae vitlgiis siispicit" (He looks down on what the crowd looks up to). Many plates of various designs have been used by members of this family. See 1875, 1887. " Honore et labore " (By honour and industry). C.W.D. (C. W. Dempsey). Design 3|X2j. " Libri amici -f Deus natura '' (My books, my friends. God, Nature). C.W. Sherborn fecit. Design 3IX3. Emblematic of the owner's studies in botany, conchology, etc. A beautiful work. (By the owner.) "Industrie munus'" (The gift of industry). 2|X2i. Designed by the owner. No motto. See 1882. " Fidci coticula crux" (The Cross is the test of faith). C.W.S. (Sherborn). (By Alan Wright.) See Castle, p. 168, 1st edit., and p. 222, 2nd edit. " Igdrasil " (By Charles Ricketts). See Castle, p. 170, ist edit. ; p. 215, 2nd edit. " More Light. More Light." (By Walter Crane). 3J diameter. Cloud & Shapland, Holborn iSgo del. Plate mark 34X3. See 18S5, i8gi. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1891 Nameless plate. (Used by Mr. F. Litchfield to ornament his catalogues of china, etc.) Liber Coll. Omn. Anim. Fidel. Defunct in Oxon. (All Souls' College, Oxford. At the head of the plate is " 1437," the date of the foundation of the College by Henry Chichely, Archbishop of Can- terbury The motto is taken from Horace, Carm. I. ii. 39: — " Acer et Marsi peditts crueiitmn VuUics in hostem." All Souls' College has a smaller armorial plate, not dated, with flags, books, a mitre, etc.) Edward and Marianna Heron -Allen July, MD.CCC.XCI. (Mr. E. Heron-Allen, Author of "The Ballades of a Blase Man," of several works on Chiromancy, "A History of the Violin," etc. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex Libris Maud Ashford Thomas J. Barratt William Bartlett (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) L. Bauzon. (French) Alfred A. Bethune-Baker, of Lincolns Inn Barrister-at-Law. From his Books 1891. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex Libris Wm Edwd Bools (Designed by the owner, a Memb. Ex L. Soc.) From the Library of the late Charles Bradlaugh M.p. 1891. Sir Oswald Walter Brierly. Marine Painter to her Majesty. (Sir O. W. Brierly died in London on Dec. 14, 1894, aged 77 years. He was a Member of the Royal Water Colour Society, and was knighted in 1886.) Charles F. Burnard. Compton Gifford, Plymouth. 1S91. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Robert Burnard. Plymouth . . (Son of the preceding, and Memb. Ex L. Soc. Both gentlemen are Justices of the Peace.) Dame Alice Jane Chetwode (Wife of Sir George Chetwode, sixth baronet.) The gift of William Cooke m.a. to Selwyn College Eustace Kynaston Corbet .. Katharine Corbet (The Hon. Katharine Russell, daughter of Lord De Clifford ; married in iSgt Reginald Corbet, Esq., J. P. for Salop.) John Cotton, f.r.i.b.a. Architect and Artist, Bir- mingham. John Cotton. Architect, his book Edward Fenna Cross. Pict. Arm. Eccles. mantled Arm. 2 Crests Pict. Arm. Library interior Arm. Seal Library interior Arm. Arm. Literary Printed label Ship Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. PlainArm. Arm. Tablet Arm. Pict. Pict. Pict. Eng. label Arm. "A bit of blue and white." H. S.M. (Marks, r.a.). " Vnltus in hostem " (My face to the foe). C.W. Sherborn fecit Lond. i8gi. Two shields and crests surrounded by elaborate mantling. Design 5sX4j. This is one of the grandest book-plates produced this century. " Diligcntcr et fidelis." (This motto is incorrect ; it should read " Diligcntcr et fidelitcr," Dili- gently and faithfully). Design 3jX2i. No motto. H. Sill (of U.S.A.). 2jX2f. " Veritas et Caritas" (Truth and Charity). H.S.M. (Marks, R.A.). Two sizes, 5IX3J, and 3jX2|. "Deofavcntc cresco" (I thrive by the favour of God). Allan Wyon sc. 2j diameter. E. Van Muyden. " Ne cede nialis" (Virg., JE^i. vi. 95. — Yield not to misfortunes). Two sizes. See 1894. No motto. W.E.B. inv. Harry Soane sc. Design 2^X2j. No motto. 2IX4J. " Vouloir c'est pouvoir." J.L. (John Leighton). 3J X 2|. See Castle, p. r6i, ist edit., and p. 204, 2nd edit. ''Bear and forbear." Design 4iX2j. " Bear and forbear." Design 3iX2. " Corona men Christus " (Christ is my crown). C.W. Sherborn. Harry Soane. T.E.H. (T. Erat Harrison). "Che sara sara" (What will be will be). CW.S. ft. (Sherborn). Design 2;xrj. Several fanciful book-plates de- signed by the owner, with quaint devices and mottoes. No motto. See 1S75, 1886, and 189-. "Et cniccflores" (Flowers even on the Cross). MarcusWard & Co Ltl X3J and 5JX3. " Think and thank.'' (By A. T. Young.) Design 2|xii. "Animo ct fide" (With courage and faith). G. W. Eve. See Misc. Gen. et Her., Vol. V., 1S94. Plate mark 3^ X2f. " Lux abalto " (Light from above). Herbert Jones del. No motto. Alice Gair del, C.W. Sherborn sc. Design 4JX 3}. " Sapientiam verani pctimns" (We seek true wisdom). H. C. Brown 80 Fifth Av. N.Y. Three sizes, 4|X3f, 3jX2i. and 2ixii. This plate is very scarce now, as the owners suppressed it. "Semper paratus" (Always ready). ig2 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1892 Arnold- Arboretum. Harvard University. Presented by Charles Sprague Sargent. 1892. (U.S.A.) Everard W. Barton (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Constance Battersea. (Lady Battersea) (C.B. below tlie coronet.) Ex Libris A. G. and N. Bell (One large bell in centre, five smaller bells around ; on these are the initials of the owner, his wife, and children.) Ex Libris Francis Joseph Bigger. Belfast (See 1894.) James Duff Brown. 1892 (Of the Clerkenwell Library. Printed in brown ink.) James Roberts Brown June 25, 1892 (Mr. J. R. Brown is a Member of the Sette of Odd Volumes, London, in which select body his title is that of Alchymisl — hence the design on this plate. Mr. Brown was President of the Sette in 1885. From the first he took a leading part in the formation of the Ex Libris Society, and was for some time Chairman of the Council. He is now a Vice-President, and F.R.G.S.) Lieut. Colonel J. A. Bradney, Comms 3rd Vol. Batt. S.W.B. 2yi April, 1S92. Tal-y-Coed. Monmouthshire. (Memb. Ex L. Soc. See 1883.) William Bolitho Ex Libiis Stopford Augusti Brooke mdcccxch. Ex Biblio Dimicat Egerton Castle (F.S.A., and Author of " English Book-plates." The motto above the design " Nostniiii ih- armis quacrcre," is that of the Kernoozers' Cliib.) Ex Libris Egerton Castle m.a. Clare Castletown of Upper Ossory Cathed: Cicestr: (Chichester Cathedral). This Book was presented by C. L. Prince Esq., The Observatory, Crowborough. January 1892. Richard Copley Christie Henry Cock Charles Francis Cole, Treworgan Mawnan. Pict. Crest Mono. Floral Pict. AUeg. Arm. Pict Pict. Pict. Alleg. Crest of the Regiment Arm. Landscape Interior Arm. Library interior Label Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. '/u Memoriatn,' See Castle, No motto. G.W.E. (George Wharton Edwards). See Allen's " American Book-plates," p. 72. '■Ibydemytime" G.W.Eve. 2|X2 " Flores curat Detis." C.W.S. (Sherborn). 2j diameter. The 1885 plate altered. "Door teyd und vlcyd " (Through time and industry). " Ring out the false, Ring in the true." — Tennyson, W. Hogg, 4X2J. p. 273, 2nd edit. "Giving and forgiving." Marcus Ward. Design 4 X2j. See on p. 76, Vinycomb on the " Production of Ex Libris." No motto. Design, 4X2J, is copied from a vignette by W. H. Lizars, which appeared originally in " Beauties of Scottish Poets," Glasgow, 1823. No motto. H.S.M.(H. S.Marks, R.A.). Two sizes, design 4X3 and 2f X2. Reproduced in Castle, p. 186, ist edit., and p. 240, 2nd edit.; also described in the Ex L. J., Vol. II, p. 76. Mr. Brown had an earlier plate, not dated. "Gwcll angaii na gwarth" (Rather death than disgrace). Plate mark 4^X3^. (Engraved by Mr. Harry Soane). No motto. Harry Soane. " Ex fonte pcnnni" (From the ever -flowing fount). L. L. B. (Leslie L. Brooke). See Castle, p. 253, 2nd edit., and The Studio, July 15, 1893. " Qui parte ispee parte paise." A.C. (Mrs. Castlej. Design 4X3J. Reproduced in Castle, p. 208, I St edit., and p. 300, 2nd edit. No motto Agnes Castle, r892. (This plate exists in two states.) Design 4J X 2J. See Castle, p. 206, ist edit., and p. 269, 2nd edit. G.M. (Geraldine, Viscountess of Mayo). Curwen. No motto. 4JX3J. " Sic vircsco " (Thus I flourish). C.W.S. (Sherborn;. " Fide et fortitudine " (By good faith and bravery.) Harry Soane. " Deum cole regent scrva " (Wor- ship God, revere the King). C.W. Sherborn 1892. Design 3JX2I. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 193 1892 Margt Collins Col. Thomas Richard Crosse E. Libris . Johannis . Neville . Cross Ex Libris Euphemia Davidson ^Miss Davidson is a Memb. Ex L. See.) Ex . L. William . Douglas . Lenzie . N.B. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex libris Guillaume Douglas Benjamin & Amy Elkin (Altered from the " Rosalind " plate of 1888.) Sir Frederick Frankland, Bart (Of Thirkleby, Yorkshire. Baronetcy created 1660. Sir Frederick is the tenth baronet, suc- ceeded his father in 1883.) W. Gill. Tavistock (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Thomas Twanbrook Glazebrook 1892 (On p. 159 Mr. Castle prints the second Chris- tian name thus, Swanbrook, which is incorrect.) Sophia Grosvenor . . Gwendolen. (The Hon. Mrs. A. Bourke) This Book formerly belonging to the late Daniel Hanbury f.r.s. f.l.s. was presented to the Library of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, by his brother, Thomas Hanbury f.l.s. Corresponding Member of the Society. November, 1892. Hugh Brat Harrison Frances Mary Harvey Colonel Acton Chaplin Havelock Below the seal on a scroll : — '* Books yield a certain spell When you have read them thrice & study'd well." (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Arm Arm. Seal " Sub criice saliis " (Salvation under the Cross). Arm. Seal '-Et crucc /lores" (Even on the cross there are flowers). Marcus Ward & Co Ld. 2* dia. See J. Vinycomb on the " Pro- duction of Ex Libris," p. 57. Library " Viget in cincre virtus " (Virtue interior survives death). H.L.G. (Her- bert L. Gardiner). Design 4 X3|. Reproduced in Griggs' 2nd Series, pi. g8. Arm. "Meliora spero scquorqiic" (I AUeg. hope and strive for better things). J.L. (John Leighton). Emblems of Telegraphy. Design 5gX3|. Arm. Same design as the above, but AUeg. only3jX2. Below design : — 'Far as the breeze can bear the billows' foam, Survey our Empire, and behold our home." Floral " U vies livrcs cheris "' (Oh ! my beloved books). C.W S. (Sher- born). Design 2Xii. Arm. " Franke-lande Franke-mynde " (The family motto is "Libera terra libcrquc animus," A free land, and a free mind). Literary (A priest carrying books). Dia- 1 mond-shaped plate, 5 X 3I Mr. Gill has another plate not dated. Arm. \ " Diim spiro spero" {While 1 have mantled breath I have hope). C.W.S. (Sherborn). Design 3JX2J. In Castle's " English Book-plates," p. 24, and 159, 2nd edit. Pict. " Of making many books there is Literary tw end." Harry Soane, sc. Floral " Un livrc est iiii ami qui ne trompe jamais '' (A Book is a friend who never deceives). C.'W.S.(Sherborn) Pict. Portrait of Daniel Hanbury, F.R.S. , F.L.S., 1825-1875. Arm. " Amicitia permanens et incor- mantled rupta " (Friendship lastmg and incorruptible). T.E.H. (Harrison). Plate mark 4^X3^. Arm. " N'oublieray jamais" (I shall never forget). Arms in " Auspicio Grimsbye municipii" a over arms, "Fidelity" below. Seal C. W. Sherborn, London, 1892. Design 4X2.^. Described in the ExL.y.^Vol II., p. 76. Colonel Havelock had three other plates, one dated 1885, and two not dated. 194 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1892 ' P. C. Hiller. Conestoga Centre, Pa. (U.S.A.) Robert Hilton Typographe .. Ipswich Public Library. Sold by order of the Pro- prietors May 25th. 1892. Sir Henry Mather Jackson Baronet of Llantilio Crossenny in the County of Monmouth. (Baronetcy created i86g. Sir Henry M. Jack- son married a daughter of General Somerset — hence the escutcheon of pretence bearing the arms of Somerset, Duke of Beaufort.) Edward Jenkins of the Grove in the County of Radnor Esq. Aubrey Heywood Jones H.J. (Herbert Jones) Herbert Oakes Jones L-J Reginald Kelly Lloyd, Lord Kenyon, Baron of Gredington (Lloyd Kenyon, the fouilh baron, born 1S64, succeeded his grandfather m 1S69.) George Lambert f.s.a. (Memb. E.\ L. Soc.) Ex Libris Sir Edward Levy Lawson Bart (Part proprietor of the Daily Telegraph news- paper. Created a baronet in 1892. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) George D. Leslie Frederic James Libbie (Of Dorchester, U.S.A. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex Libris John T. Lowe Pict. Pict. Literary Label Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Pict. Library interior Arm. Pict. Pict. Arm. Arm. mantled Arm. Pict Arm. AUeg. Arm. Pict Pict. Type in a border Mathew Mackey Junr (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Pict. Design, a flint arrow-head. No motto. 2JX2J. "Semper paratiis" (Always ready). T. Stevens. " Fortiter Fidelitcy Ftliciter " (Boldly, faithfully, successfully). Designed by Col. J. A. Bradney, engraved by Culleton ; not signed, 3SX3. *' Byw a gadael byw "' (Live and let live). Plate mark 3jX2§. (Designed by Col. J. A. Bradney). (By Herbert Jones). Friend, plague not the great ones and clever For the " Best Hundred Books" they may know. But be faithful, unchangeable ever, To the Books that you loved long ago. H.J. (By Herbert Jones.) '* Through Life to two tirm friends I look, In war my sword, in peace my book." Herbert Jones. Plate mark 4|X3i " Lux ab alto " (Light from above). Herbert Jones, del et fecit. Plate mark 7^X4!. No motto. W. H. Foster, Plym. Plate mark 4IX3J. " Magnanimiter erucem siistine*^ (Bear the cross with magnanimity) C.W. Sherborn, 1892. Design 3sX2j. " Deo et principe " (For God and my prince). C.W.S. (Sherborn). Design 2ixi|. Lt.-Colonel Lambert, v.D., has two other armorial plates not dated. "0/ old I hold." J.L. (John Leighton). Three sizes, largest 5fX3i- H.S.M. (H. S. P. Simonds, jr. No motto. Marks, r.a.). No motto. J. Design 3 X 2J. " Oh for a booke and a shadie nooke, Eyther in a-doore or out; With the grene leaves whispering over- head Or the streete cryes all about. Where I maie reade all at my ease. Both of the newe and olde ; For a jollie goode booke whereon to looke. Is better to me than golde." J.T.L., Typ., 1892. No motto. (A view of Newcastle- on-Tyne). H. L. Stock. Plate mark 6X4J. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 195 1892 Ex Libris \A/illiam Manning Aug 1892 (Mr. William Manning. Fellow Roy.il Micro- scopical Society, Member of the Sette of Odd Volumes, London.) Walter D. Marks (Son of the artist of the plate.) Ex libris L. T. Meade mdcccxcii. (Editress of Atahiiitn. Date doubtful, whether iSgi or i!i92.) Wolfg: Friedrich V. Miilinen (Of Berne, Switzerland.) William Neish (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Dudley Perceval Pict. Library interior Pict. Alleg. Arm. Head. Arm. Ascelin Sp. Perceval .. .. Arm. Edward Uvedale Augustus Price . . . . , Arm. (Has forty-two quarterings elaborately engraved.) D. R. (A lady in a garden reading) .. .. Arm. Pict. Helen Matilda, Countess of Radnor .. Arm (Daughter of the late Rev. Henry Chaplin; married in 1S66, William, fifth Earl of Radnor.) David E. Reeves . . . . . . : Pict. Ex Libris Arthur Robertson r.p.e. .. Arm. (Portrait of Mrs. Robertson.) Portrait. C. S. Sargent. (See Arnold-Arboretum 1892.) .. Leveson Scarth, Keverstone Library . . ■ • I Arm. " No book is worth anything that is not worth I Library much." — RusKIN. interior (Mr. Scarth is a Memb. Ex L. Soc. The Scarth motto alludes to the crest, which is an eagle rising from the stump of a tree round which a serpent is entwined.) Margaret Scott . . . . . . . . Arm. P. M. Sener. Germany 1749 Penna 1892. (U.S.A.) Arm. Pict, Ada Stewart Shelton 1892. (U.S.A.) .. A Pansy Mary Lothrop Sheridan .. .. .. Arm. E Libris Henrici B. Tait .. .. .. Alleg Georgius Benson Tatum .. .. .. Arm. Eccles. No motto. Designed by Mr. C. Holme, o.v. Two sizes, 5X3!, and3^X2j. See in Castle 2nd edit., p. 263. No motto. H.S.M. (H. S. Marks, R.A.). See Castle, p. 188, and 242, 2nd edit. " Toujonrs prcst" (Ever ready). A. W. (Alan Wright). Design 3X2J. See Castle's "English Book-plates," p. 174, ist edit.; p. 218, 2nd edit. " Pitra me movent " (What is pure attracts me). Chr. Biihler, 1S92. Canting arms, with coronet and mantling within a square frame. 4X3- No motto. Harry Soane. " Sub crnce Candida " (Under the white cross). See Ex L. J., Vol. III., p. 160. " Snb crnce Candida " " Vive ut vivas " (Live that you may have life). Imperial Sta: Co. Old Bond St. Design 51x3^. No motto. Crest, helmet, and arms facing sinister-ways. 4JX 2| " Patria cara carjor libertas " (My country is dear, liberty is dearer). C.W.S. (Sherborn). (By Herbert Jones). " Virtntis gloria merces" (Glory the reward of virtue). A.R. (A. Robertson). Dawson sc. Design 4X2f. Reproduced in £.»• L. y.. Vol. II., Part 4. " ,S/i/ et amicis." " Volando reptilia sperno" (P'lying myself, I despise creeping things). War- rington Hogg. Three sizes, 6x 3l. 4iX3, and3iX2|. See Castle's " English Book- plates," p. 271, 2nd edit. No motto. C.W.S. (Sherborn). " Mann-Forti." Also dated 1855. Design 2| x 2. (By D. McN. Staufifer.) " Plus penser que dire " (To think more than to talk). 3|X2j. ■'Cervus lacessitus /ee Archives cle la Soci£t€Fran- fn/sc, Vol. I., p. 23. " Nil despcrandum " (Never de- spair). C.W.S. (Sherborn). Plate mark 4JX3J. '^Ne obliviscaris" (Do not forget), Geo. W. Eve. Plate mark 4JX4I. design 3J diameter. Has the in- signia of"the Orders of the Garter and of the Thistle, with the baton of the Master of the Household in Scotland, and the sword of the Shrievalty of Argyll in saltire behind the shield. See Castle, pp. 160 and 173, 2nd edit. No motto. F. C. Tilney. "Far more seemely were it for thee to have thy study full of Bookes than thy purses full of niony." — Lilly. C. W. Sherborn fecit. London. Design 2|xi J. " The wise return that they as;ain may borrow." W. E. Home. Design 3jX2'. No motto. Name on a sci oiled shield affixed to an architectural tablet. C.W.D. (Dempsey). Design 3JX2;. "Per Dcum meumtransilio muriim" (By my God have I leaped over a wall. — 2 Sam. xxii. 30). A.V.P. igS DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1893 Kathleen F. T. Balfour (Library of Townley Hall, Drogheda.) Mary Townley Balfour (Sketch of Fairy Hill, Rostrevor.) Lord Battersea . . . . ■ • ■ ■ (Cyril Flower, first baron, born Aug. 30, 1S43, created Baron Battersea i8g2 ; married Constance, daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild, Bart.) Ex Libris A. G. and N. Bell (Mr. Arthur G. Bell, the artist, and Mrs. Bell, with the initials of their three children.) L.B. Ex Libris Louis Bihn (Of Paris.) Henry Blackwell (Of New York. Memb. Ex L. Soc. This plate was intended by its owner for his collection of books relating to Wales, and was designed by H. T. Sears.) Ex Libris E. M. B. (Mr. E. M. Borrajo, of the Guildhall Library of the City of London.) Ex Libris du Docteur Ludovic Bouland (President de la Societe Fran^aise des Collec- tionneurs d'Ex-Libris, and a Vice-President Ex Libris Society. Dr. Bouland was practically the founder of the French Society ; he is an enthusi- astic collector, and a frequent contributor to the Archives published by the French Society.) Ex Libris Helen Elvira Brainerd (Of Columbia College Library, New York. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex libris Frederick Brown Arthur W. W. Brown, 1893 H. W. Bryant, Portland. Me (U.S.A.) The Burlington Fine Arts Club Library . . James Cock J. Wm Cockrill, a.r.i.b.a. Assoc Mem LC.E. (Borough Surveyor of Great Yarmouth.) Arm. Pict. " Suscifiiant inontes paccm " (The mountains shall bring peace. — Psalm Ixxii. 3). E.A.G. (Miss Greene. Design 3JX3. Arm. Library interior No motto. Designed by the owner. Design 4^X34. Arm. Alleg. Pict. Pict. Pict. Arm. Pict. Alleg. Library interior Pict. Literary Pict. " Florcs curat dens " (God takes care of the flowers). C.W. Sher- born ft. 1893. Helmet, crest, and supporters. Design 4X3. See plate of Cyril Flower, under 1S85. " Ring out the false, Ring in the true." — Tennyson, " In Memoriam." W. Hogg. Date uncertain, may be 1892, which see. See The Studio, July 15, 1893. " Parmi Ics plus belles Ic meiileur " (Amongst the most beautiful the best). Henry Andru inv. 1893. Design 3^X3- " Cared doeth yr encilion " — (The learned ever love bestow Upon the things of long ago). Reproduced in Allen's " Ameri- can Book-plates," p. 33. See £a:L.7.,Vo1. III., p. 163. 3iX2j " Beauty and Wisdom Hand in Hand. Than these what more can man de- mand." H. J. (Herbert Jones). Plate mark 59X31. No motto. Henry Andre invt Printed in colours. 4X2SJ. See also 1877. No motto. E.D.F. sc. (Mr. E. D. French). (In several colours). Plate mark 3gX2|. See 1894. Figures representing Prose and Poetry. R. A. Bell. 4JX3. See in The Studio, Jan. 15, 1894. " Ut prosim " (That I may be of use). C. W. Sherborn r.p.e. fecit. Design 3^ X2j. " Omnc boiium desiiper" (All good comes from above). Design 4X 2f . Greek motto signifying : " We cultivate the beautiful without effeminacy." S. S. Joseph D. D. C. W. Sherborn ft. London. Design 6X3J. Arm. " Fide et fortitudine " (With faith and fortitude). Harry Soane. Book-case "Ruskiii. Carlylc. Fergusson." Design 4JX3. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 199 1893 John Corner. He revered the Great Navigator, i Seal Captain Cook, and owned the Manuscript ' which is now for the first time Published. Ex Libris of* George Washington Cram, Nor- Library walk, Connecticut. interior (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) * In later copies the of was erased. A. D. (French plate, of M. Duriez) .. .. Landscape E Libris Robert Day j.p. f.s.a. m.r.i.a. High Arm. Sheriff of Cork, with numerous other titles. (Vice-President Ex L. Soc.) John T. Dickinson . . . . . . Arm. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Literary Ex Libris Edward Greenfield Doggett and Hugh Pict. Greenfield Doggett. Ex Libris Agnes J. Dudd .. .. .. Alleg. Ex Libris Adolf Drucker . . . . Pict. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Herbert Edlmann .. .. .. .. Pict. Mary Edmunds . . Arm. Pict (Arms of Titherington, Fluitt, Wrench, and Handfield.) Philip Oliver Ellard. Newtown Ellard, Co Arm. Limerick. Lord Emly. (See Tervoe.) Ex Bibliotheca Edmundi Engelmaiii e stirpe Arm. Pict. Mulhusini. (M. Edmond Engelmann, of Mulhouse, an ardent collector of Alsatian book-plates, and Archiviste of the Societe Franc^aise des Collectionneurs d'Ex Libris.) Fred H. Evans .. .. .. .. Library interior Rev. George Eyre Evans, born at the Parsonage, Book-pile Colyton, Devon on 8 September 1857. (With pedigree. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Howard . Riley . Felkin. Anno . Dom . mdcccxciii. Arm. Charles Arthur Wynne Finch .. .. Arm. Ex Libris Edward Onslow Ford .. .. Alleg. (The famous sculptor.) Ex Libris Mary Brainerd French. (U.S.A.) .. Pict. Mono. " Marte ct arte" (By valour and skill). J.E.S. del. " Everyone to his taste." Geo; R. Halm invt Design 3|X2j. See 1894. Engraved by Dumont. "Sic itiir ad astra." J.V. del. Marcus Ward & Co Ltd. 6^x3. "A la bonne heiire " (Well-timed). C. W. Sherborn 1893. Design 39X2^. No motto. A view of St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol. C. Bird . 1893. Plate mark 3x4. " The ever zveleotne company of Books." — Wordsworth. Warrington Hogg. Design4^X2j "Libra." (By Th: Van. Hoytema). Plate mark 4JX3J. (A printing press, type, etc., in allusion to the name Drucker, which signifies " printer.") "His Line His Hook His Fish His Book." J. Williams. Design shows sporting tackle. " O nies chers livres. Je Us ai tons ekoisis nn d un et je les aime tant." C. W. Sherborn 1893. Design 3^X2^. " Vi et virttitc " (By strength and valour). R.S.M. (Etched by Mr. R. S. Mansergh). Design 3JX2. No motto. Fornet lith R. Engel- mann Imp. 3JX3. Printed in fourteen different colours. See Archives de la Society Frajifaise, No. 8. "Reading inakyth a full man" — Bacon. F. C. Tilney inv. et del. Design 31x3. " Here^s what you want if you're in a calm frame of mind." Design 2JX3J. "Ut cunquc placucrit Deo" (How- ever God pleases). C.W.D. (C. W. Dempsey). Design 3^x2^. " Aperto vivere voto" (To live without a wish concealed). Harry Soane. Greek motto. T.E.H. (Harrison) Design 3J x 2J. See Castle's " English Book-plates," p. 223, 2nd edit. No motto. E.D.F. sc. (French). Plate mark 3JX3. 200 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1893 Lonol al Edwin Davis French Floral Mottoes in Volapuk : "SeBiiks (Belonging to the well-known artist in book- volnpi'ikik e vapiikik " (Ex Libris plates, of New York, U.S.A. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) in volapiik and philology), " Mc- nad. Bill. Piik, Bal " (Mankind one: Language one). E.D.F. sc. 1893. (E. D. French.) Plate mark 3^X3. l» Ex Libris E. D. F. (French) Floral Literary E.D.F. sc. Design 3jX2f. J' A.G. (Monogram of Alexandre Geoffrey, Redac- AUeg. " A tons vents jc seine " (I sow in teur en Chef de la Curiositi Universelle, all winds). Henry Andre', inv. Paris.) del. sc. 4x2}. J» Alfred & Alice Gilbert Literary Titles on the backs of the books. C.W.S. (Sherborn). Design 2jxig. »J Collection Dr. Guilmot Label No motto. n Matt. Gosset hys boke Arm. Pict. " Probitas vents honos " (Honesty is true honour). Robert Anning Bell. Reproduced in The Yellow Book 1894. 11 Carleton Greene (Revd ) Olim hujus Collegii Arm. No motto. E.A.G. (E. A. Greene). Scholaris. Landscape Design 3X4. (View of the great quad, of Trinity College, Cambridge.) „ Ex Libris Edith Anne Greene Arm. Pict. " Non sine numitie" (Not without (Miss E. A. Greene has designed many book- the Deity); ''Book opencth Book." plates, and is a Memb. Ex L. Soc.) E. A. Greene f. Designs 4} x 3^, and 3 X 2 J. M T. H. Grose, m.a. Oxon. Floral "Niitrices tune reginae crunt" (A view of Queen's College, with emblems of Pict. (Queens shall be thy nursing studies and sports.) mothers. — Isaiah xlix. 23). C. W. Sherborn. In. 1893. Design 3! X2J »» Ex Libris Warrington Hogg Alleg. '* A passing gode lityll boke neces- (Mr. H. W. Hogg died in October, 1893. See sayre and behowefull.'' VV. Hogg memoir in Ex L. J., Vol. HI., p. ig8. His first 1893. Design 5J x af. See book-plate was for Mr. E. Granville Hogg, in iSgo.) Castle, p. 275, 2nd edit., and The Studio, July 15, 1893. »I Library of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore ■ Arm. " Veritas vos liberabit " (The truth shall make you free. — St. John viii. 32). »l Ex Libris W. F. Hopson, Ne% Haven Pict. " Old Books to read. Old Prints (Mr. W. F. Hopson is a designer and wood Literary to scan. Old Wood to carve. Old engraver in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A., Friends to greet." W.F.H. 1893 and Memb. Ex L. Soc.) (By the owner). Plate mark 4X2J. See in Allen's "Ameri- can Book-plates," p. 104. *> Dr. Robert Jones, Liverpool Library interior K. M. Skeaping. f) Edith Joseph Pict. ''My never failing Friends.^' (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Literary C.W.S. (Sherborn). (Fruit, flowers, books, music, china, a pet dog, and small vignette of Richmond Castle, Yorks.) Design 3X2J. 11 Laura Joseph Pict. No motto. CW.S. (Sherborn). (Musical instruments and flowers). Design 2^X3. n Nellie Joseph Pict. C.W.S. (Sherborn). Same design as above. " Ex Libris George Kitchin Pict. F. C. Tilney, inv et del. Design 3|X3- DATED BOOK-PLATES. Mary Beatrice (Greene) Lake Ex Libris Paul Lemperly (Of Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. Mr. Lemperly has another plate, not dated, with the motto, " All the while this eternal Court is open to you." Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex Libris Richard C. Lichtenstein. Boston. Mass. (Vice-President Ex L. Soc.) Baron de Mackau Vimer 1893 .. Robert Southcote Mansergh, Tipperary John S. Martin (Memb. Ex L. Soc. View of Edinburgh Castle, bust of Shakespeare, books, etc.) Ex Libris A. Marzolff Ex Libris Margaret M. Miller Ex Libris Francis Edwin Murray (Publisher of the Moray Library, the Regent Liijrary, and Notts and Derby Notes and Queries Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Pict. Pict. Library interior Arm. Arm. Pict. Literary Pict. Arm. Portrait Literary Free Public Library of New Haven (U.S.A.) SigiU. Civitat. Novi. Port, in Repub Con- necticutensi 17S4. New York State Board of Women Managers for the World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Ex libris Arthur Trevethin Nowell Constance O'Brien Kathleen O'Brien (Canadian scene.) Ex Libris Mildred Constance O'Brien (View of St. John's Church, Toronto.) T. M. B. Bulkeley Owen. Tedsmore. Co. Salop Ex Libris Dr Geo. L. Parmele, Hartford (Connecticut, U.S.A.) Arm. Pict, Pict. Pict. Arm. Library interior. Arm. Pict Arm. Pict. Arm. Arm. Pict " Non sine numine" (Not without the Deity). E. A. Greene. Design 35X3iJ. No motto. An open book, sur- rounded by stars, and a serpent. Two sizes, 2JX2J, and 2Xij. No motto. L. Y. Van Tiffelen & George Moore. Plate mark 7X4J. Design 4X2J. See in Allen's " American Book-plates," pp. 160, 346. No motto. Shield in oval frame. Design 2^x ij. " Tout jour prct " (ever ready). Marcus Ward & Co Ld Reproduced on p. 42, Vinycomb on the " Production of Ex Libris." See 1894, 1895. No motto. J. D. Michie, del' Edinburgh. Designs, 3|X3j and 2|X2a. No motto. 2Xi|. "Homer Dante," etc. A child writmg on a tablet, ijx i. "But go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves." W.R.K. (W. R. Kean). 4^x2^. (This Ex Libris has the ownel-'s portrait in a costume of the Cax- ton period, and the arms of the three towns in which he carries on his business. Also a portrait of James Stuart, Earl of Moray and Regent of Scotland, which is Mr. Murray's printer's mark). Design 4|X2i. "Mare Liberum " (The sea is free). W. F. Hopson, sc. 1893. Design 4JX2J. No motto. No motto. R. A. Bell dt. See The Studio, Jan. 15, 1894. 3i X 1 J *' Who draw comforting curtains knit of fancy's yarn nightly be- tween them and the Jrosty world." E. A. Greene. 4X3!. No motto. (Not signed or dated, but designed by Miss E. A. Greene in 1893.) 3^X2^. No motto. E.A.G. (Not dated, but designed by Miss E. A. Greene in 1893.) 3iX2|. Welsh motto. C.W.S. (Sherborn) " Vcrloren ! Verloren ! ein Buck.'' The date is in an ingeniously contrived scroll in left-hand cor- ner. See in Allen's " American Book-plates," p. 355. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1893 Sum Aluredi Vaughan Paton. Liverpool (Mr. Castle justly protests against the "utterly lax treatment of heraldry in this plate. Blazonry should never be allowed to look insignificant and slovenly ; it loses all raisoii d'etre in decorative composition if it be not dealt with with both correctness and dignity.") Johannis Piatt Ex Libris W. H. Pollock (Walter Herries Pollock, m.a. Editor of the Saturday Review, poet, and playwright.) Ex Libris John Lumsden Probert Arm. Pict. Portrait. Crest Pict. Redwood Library ( U. S. A.) Gift ol Fairman Rogers. Nov. rSgj. Ex Libris Winson Ramsay m.d. (Symbols of Esculapius. Surgery, Botany, Medicine, etc.) Saint George Hanover Square. W. (For the Public Library.) St Martin in the Fields Free Public Library (Mr. Thomas Mason, the Librarian, is a Memb. Ex L. Soc.) English Fabulist. Ex Libris. H. Berkeley Score, F.R.G.S., F.R.Hist.S. 1893. (Memb. Ex L. Soc. See also iSg4.) English Fabulist. Ex Libris H. Berkeley Score, F.R.G.S. F.R.Hist.S. 1893. Sellers Printed label Alleg. Literary Pict. Pict. Pict. Printed label Arm. Floral George Dudley Seymour. His Book. (U.S.A.) ] Pict. Ex Libris C. E. Stewart. 1893 .. .. Arm. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Tervoe. (The plate of Lord Emly, whose seat is Arm. Tervoe, Co. Limerick.) Ex Libris Johannis Tinkler m.a. .. .. Arm. " Non caret c nostris nlliis honore titer" (No book of ours lacks honour). C. M. Gere, del. 1893. See in Castle, p. 25S, 2nd edit. J. D. Batten. No motto. A. C. 18 . I . 93. (Mrs. Agnes Castle). See in Castle, p. 2S0, 2nd edit. Plate mark 4JX3. See 1882. No motto. (By Mr. Aubrey Beardsley). It is difiicult to decide under what category to place this extra- ordinary design ; admirers of Mr. Beardsley's style might call it " Allegorical." No motto. 2X3^. "Ease for heart and mind" W. Hogg 1893. Design 4JX3. See The Studio, July 15, 1893. St. George and the Dragon. No motto. C.R.B.B. Design 4jX3i St. Martin dividing his cloak with a beggar. No motto. Harry Soane. 1893. Design 3JX2J. The saint and the beggar are copied from Van Dyck's famous picture. " Conare magna fades magna " (Attempt great things and you will do great things). J. David del. Choubard sculp. Design, 5^X3 J, copied from one by David which appeared in La Fontaine's " Fables," pub- lished in 1820. Reproduced in Ex L. y., Vol. in., p. 193. " Conare Magna Fades Magna." (The whole surrounded by typo- graphical ornaments.) 3jX2|. " Celer et fidclis " (Swift and faithful). W. H. Foster, Plym. Plate mark 4IX3J. " A VAmy fidel pour jamais." W.F.H. (W. F. Hopson). 2Xif. See 1894. " A book's a book although there's nothing iit't." " Never unpre- pared." F.N. (Forbes Nixon). Design 3! X 2 J. See £a: L. y., Vol. IV. " Mone sale " (Advise with wit. A punning allusion to the family name Monsell). E.A.G. (Miss E. A. Greene). " Collegissejuvat'' (It is pleasant to have been a collector). DATED BOOK-PLATES. 203 1893 1894 Rev. B. W. J. Trevaldwyn Rector of St Martin by Looe. Cornwall. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) U.S. Bureau of Education A.L.A. Columbian Lib- rary. Chicago 1893. E. Libris . Arthuri . E. Vicars . f.s.a. (Ulster King of Arms. Vice-President Ex L. Soc.) Ex Libris F. G. Waller Amsterdam 1893 (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) E Libris Glmi: Georg: Waters Robert Crawford Walker f.s.a. scot. .. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) John Maurice Watkins {Memb. Ex L. Soc. In the centre of the design is Buddha preaching, surrounded by Buddhist symbols.) Ex Libris Joseph H. Wheeler 1893 (Monogram J.H.W. in the centre of a scrolled cartouche. U.S.A.) Georgina White T.J.W. (Thomas Jeston White) (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Willock Ex Libris W. H. K. Wright F. R. Hist Soc. Plymouth England. 1893. (Hon. Sec. Ex L. Soc.) Oswald Pryor Wardell-Yerburgh. Hoole Hall, Chester. Ex Libris Johannis Cour Albrecht. (Swiss) .. Ex Libris Meis (Henry Andre, formerly Secretary of the Societe Fran9aise. See 1893.) Arm. Floral Printed label Arm. Library interior Arm. supporters Pict. Arm. Seal Allegory Pict. Prin. label Mono. Arm. Literary Arm. Arm. Portrait plate. Ex Libris William Loring Andrews. Nieuw Literary. Amsterdam. (U.S.A.) Landscape H. S. Ashbee . . . . . . Portrait (F.S.A. Memb. Council Ex L. Soc.) Rebus " Paticntia ei Lahore " (By pa- tience and industry). W. H. Foster del et scul. Plymouth. No motto. No motto (Designed by the Rev. William Fitzgerald). 43X3. See Castle, p. 267, 2nd edit. "■Fortior Voluntas" (The will is stronger). C.W.S. In. ft. (Sherborn). Design in two sizes, 3jX2i, and 2jX2. E. R. Hughes del. " Sapcre aiide" (Dare to be wise). Harry Soane, 1893. 2| diameter. " Peace to all beings." " Of all things proceciiing from cause, the cause is the Tathagata." Design 5X3i- " Arte . et . laborc " (By skill and industry). E.H.G. (By E. H. Garrett). Design 3^ X2|. See in Allen 's ' ' American Book- plates," p. 361. No motto. 3|X5^. No motto. Adapted from the press mark of Morin of Rouen, 15th century. i|xij. " Fear not." Hadlow. Brighton 1893. Plate mark4f X3i. "Infinite riches in a little room." "Books are friends." W. H. Foster Plym. del et so. 3jX2f. See in Castle, p. 330, 2nd edit. See 1S83, 1885. 1S92. No motto. C.W.S. 1893. (C. W. Sherborn). 2gXi|. No motto. A. Walter, Basel. 3iX2i. No motto. Henry Andre invt Ch. Courtry aqua forti 1894. Plate mark 7X5. A very handsome plate. See Ex L. y.. Vol. V. " Victrix fortunes sapicntia " (Wisdom the conqueror of For- tune). E. D. French sc. 2|xi|. No motto. An ash and a bee, with portrait of the owner. C. W. Sherborn. Design 3JX2I. This plate exists in three states. See also i8go. 204 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1894 L. B. (Madame Baillieu. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex Libris W. E. Baillie (Formerly of Edinburgh, now of Bridgeport, U.S.A. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex libris A Benoit Berthelmingen Denis Robert Pack Beresford. e.a. William Bethell Ex Libris William Bethell 1S94 E Libris Alfred! Armitage Bethune-Baker (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex Libris Edward Hale Bierstadt (Of New York, U.S.A. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex . Libris . Francis . Joseph . Bigger, m.r.i.a. Ardrie. Belfast. 1894. Portrait Library interior Arm. Landscape Pict. Ex Libris A. Bilbrough Ex libris Caroli J. Billson " T)ic Sii!;c his Petition puts up every day for a House full of Books and a Garden of Flowers." Henry Blackwell Charles Christopher Blore . . (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Arm. Seal Arm. Literary Library interior. Arm. Pict. Literary Allegory Pict. Library interior Arm. Library interior Pict. Pict. " De vies livres " F. Vernon del Emile Sulpis sculp. Plate mark 6JX4. This interesting plate was re- produced in the Ex L. jf.. Vol. IV. ''Major virtus quam splendor^' (Virtue is preferable to splendour) E. D. French fee. Plate mark The design is a combination of the armorial, pictorial, and literary ; the owner's arms occupy the upper portion of the plate; in the centre is a view of Edinburgh Castle, and on an open book is a portrait of Mary Stuart. Mr. William Elliot Baillie has two other plates, not dated, one a library interior, by his wife, the other a plain armorial. A naked figure of Truth standing on a well, holding a mirror in her right hand, and a pen in her left. Church of St. Jean de Bassel in background. Signed H. Chris- tophe lith Nancy. G. Save sc. 4JX3I, and3jX2f. 8661846. " Nil nisi cruee " (Nothing, save by the Cross). " Fidus confi to " (Trustful, I trust). J. L. (John Leighton, f.s.a.). No motto. W. H. Foster fecit. Design 3jX2|. No motto. Crest above design. W. H. Foster del et scul. Design 3IX2J. "Knowledge is now no more a fountain seal'd." H. Isabel Baker fecit 1S94. Design 4J' X 3J. "Nunc tnihi mox aliis" (Now mine, soon others'). E. D. French sc. 1894. Design 2JX2. See in Allen's "American Book- plates," p. go. No motto. A view of the Market House in High Street, Belfast, in 1793. Marcus Ward & Co. Ld. (Designed by J. Vinycomb. See p. 70, his " Production of Ex Libris.") 3f X2|. See 1892. "Vigilate," "In Deo spes mea." " Come and take a choice of all my Library.'' — Shakspeare. F.C.T. (F. C. Tilney.) Design 4J X 2j. Reproduced \nEx L. jf.. Vol. IV., p. 183. "Vieux livres jfeuncsjlenrs " (Old books, young flowers). Design 4X3. E. D. French. " Librorum dulce leninien" (The sweet solace of books). DATED BOOK-PLATES. 205 1894 Ex Libris W. Bolton (Memb. Ex L. See.) E Libris A. H. F. Boughey a.m. Coll. SS. Trin. Cant. See. (Memb. Ex L. See.) Ex Libris Helen Elvira Brainerd (Of Columbia College Library, New York City. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex Libris John H. Buck. New York (Memb. Ex L. Sod Ex libris William George Benjamin Bullock- Barker. Shipdham Hall: Norfolk. Ex Libris William Archer Butterfield mdcccxciv. (Of Boston, U.S.A. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Earl of Carysfort. Elton Hall 1894 .. (View of Elton Hall, Peterborough. William Proby, K.P., the fifth Earl of Carysfort, born 1S36, succeeded his brother in 1872. On the plate are two shields, with the motto and date, 1783, of the Order of St. Patrick.) Earl of Carysfort Elton Hall 1894 Ex Libris Beverly Chew (Of New York, President of the Grolier Club.) Ex Libris Charles E. Clark, m.d. (Of U.S.A. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex Libris Charles E. Clark m.d. (Of U.S.A.) Ex Libris Robert Cochrane c.E. f.r.i.b.a. f.s.a. M.R.I. A. (Of Dublin. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Adela H. Codrington E. Libris Colonial Dames of America Ex Libris Richard B. Coutant (Dr. R. B. Coutant, of New York, U.S.A. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex Libris George Washington Cram. Norwalk Connecticut mdcccxciiii. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Robert Day f.s.a., etc. (Vice-President Ex L. Soc. Mr. Day has many other book-plates.) No motto. (After Bartolozzi). 3^X3*. See 1889, 1895. No motto. View of great Quad., Trinity College, Cambridge. Plate mark 4JX2|. No motto. E. D. F. sc. (E. D. French). Plate mark 3jX2f. No motto. View of a mansion. J. Gill sc. 2x3. "Pro me si mereor in me" (For me, if I deserve it in myself). (By R. Anning Bell.) Design 5iX3j. No motto. Max Bachmann del. xciv. Design 4X3. •'Maims haec inimica iyr/iitnis" supporters' (This hand is hostile to tyrants). C. W. Sherborn r.p.e. ft. 4jX2| Pict. Arm. Pict. Arm. Arm. Pict Pict. Arm. Crest Pict. Arm. Pict Literary, Floral Floral Arm. Masonic Literary Pict. Arm. Literary Library interior Prin. label No motto. View of Elton Hall. C.W.S. fecit. (Sherborn). 2jXii " Esto quod esse videyis " (Be what you seem to be). E.D.F. sc.(E. D. French). Design 2|xiJ. No motto. E.D.F. sc. (French). 2fX2. No motto. E.D.F. (French). " Concordia Viiicit " (Concord conquers). Marcus Ward & Co Ltd. 1894. J. V. (J. Vinycomb). Design 3I x 2J. See Vinycomb on the " Production of Ex Libris," p. 81. " Remnants of things that have passed away, Fragments of stone raised by children oi clay." K. M. Skeaping, '94. An open fan. E. D. French Sc. See Ex L. y.. Vol. V., p. 69. " Forte ct fidele " (Strong and faithful). E. D. French. Design 3X2J. " Everyone to his taste." George Wharton Edwards des. Plate mark 4X3 J. Old Times, old Friends, old Boots, old Clothes Must change for new ones— I suppose: But my old cherished Books, 1 say. I'll never 1 never ! cast away ! Should then this book be found astray, Just send it back to Robert Day ; So shall he never grieve to lend His valued books to honest friend. (But mncti I fear the thouglitless bor- rower Will matie my trusting lieart a sorrower) Cork, 1894. 206 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1894 Robert Day, f.s.a. m.r.i.a. President of the Cork Library No motto. Marcus Ward & Co. Historical and Archaeological Association. interior Design 3^X2*. Reproduced by Mr. Vinycomb, in his " Production of Ex Libris," p. 61. "Sic itiir ad astrn." C.W.S. ft. Ex Libris Robert Day j.p. f.s.a. m.r.i.a. Arm. Pict. (Sherborn). Design 3iX2j. »» Ex Libris Hiram Edmund Deals. Flemington, Literary No motto. E. D. French sc. N.J. (U.S.A.) 3X2|. (Mr. H. E. Deats had (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) also a pictorial plate, not dated.) " Ex libris Maurice Dumont Pict. "£ libra lux" (Light from a book). 3,' X 4. ■» Ex Libris Gertrude H. Edlmann: Literary " Persevere." John Williams. Design emblematical of the owner's tastes for Botany, Art, Poetry, Music, etc. Design 5JX 34 »> Ex Libris G. I. Ellis Pict. No motto. C.W.S. (Sherborn). (Hon. Treasurer Ex L. Soc.) Plate mark 2JX2J. „ Ex Libris H. W. Fincham . . Arm. " The World forgetting in a (Memb. Council Ex L. Soc. Mr. Fincham took Library brown old book." John Williams. an active share in the recent re-opening of the interior Design suggestive of the owner's ancient crypt of St. John's Priory, Clerkenwell — tastes for heraldry and antiquities. hence the view on this book-plate.) 4X2J. In this plate the motto is above, and the name below, the design. n Ex Libris H. W. Fincham .. Arm. Same motto as on the above Library plate, but it is below the design. interior Manning sc. John Williams. 31.12.94. Design 4x3. See also 188S, 1890. ,, Ex Lihris W. A. Fincham Arm. " Un ban livre est iin bon ami " (Resembles the plate of his brother, Mr. H. W. Library (A good book is a good friend). Fincham, but music takes the place of heraldry interior John Williams 1894. 3iX2j. as the owner's favourite study.) )» Ex Libris Charles B. Foote Literary A portrait of Nathaniel Haw- thorne. E. D. French Sc. 1894. See Ex L. J., Vol. V., p. 67. ,, Charles Richard Franklen. Clemenstone. ^ Arm. " Rhydd a ffyddlawn " (Free and (Colonel C. R. Franklen, of Clemenstone, Co. faithful). Glamorgan.) It H. G. (Mrs. Gallaudet, of Washington, U.S.A.) (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Pict. „ Edmund . H. Garrett, mdcccxciv. Pict. "Honoratus qui virttttem honorat." (In centre a monogram, E.H.G. Mr. E. H. Design 3^X2^. Garrett, of Winchester, Mass., U.S.A., is an See in Allen's " American Book- engraver of book-plates.) plates," pp. 138, 376. J, Hardinge F. Giffard Arm. Two crests, two mottoes: — " Ne (Nephew of Lord Halsbury. Copies of this mantled vile velis," " Fui que fort." plate exist without the date.) Design 3iX2j. ,, Ex Libris Jonathan Godfrey. Fairfield, Conn Library " Deus ct libertas " (God and (U.S.A.) interior liberty). E. D. French sc. Design 2jX2f. M The Grolier Club. New York. Founded 1884 .. Arm. No motto. E. D. French sc. (.■\n elaborate design representing the arts of Literary 1894. Design 5IX3. This hand- paper-making, printing, and book-binding. The some plate forms the frontis- arms are those of Jean Grolier, but the tinctures piece to Mr. Allen's " American are incorrect.) Book-plates." See 1884. J, An Exhibition of American Book Plates at the Literary S. H. Horgan sc. This is not Grolier Club No 29 East 32n(i St. a book-plate, but is of great inte- Monthly Meeting and Private View October rest to collectors. 4tli 1894 at 9 P.M. Plate mark 4JX3J. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 207 1894 Dora Grosvenor 1 Arm. Pict "7« good hooks you have mail's (Wife of Lord Henr>' George Grosvenor.) Literary labour and God's truths." C.W.S. 1894. (Sherborn). 3fX2j. " Ex-libris Ch. Guinot Pict. A skull on a book ; motto : *^ Baste .' ^' Henry Andre invt Design 3JX3. )) Ex Libris Sophia Elizabeth Hall Pict. Above design, " For Wisdom is more precious than Rubies"; below, "Persevere." John Williams. Design 4! X3S- .. Ex Libris Hugh R. Headlam Arm. " IntcUectu et innocentia " (By (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) brains and innocence). 3JX2. (Designed by the owner). •• Ralph Hodgson, his Book Pict. No motto. R.H. .. Alice C. Holden Pict. E. D. French. Edwin B. Holden .. .. Pict. Three varieties by E. D. French. »i Ex Libris Blanche Hoskyns. North Perrott Literary " Book openeth Book." Manor. Chip. W. Monk R.p.E. Sept 5th 1894. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Etching 4jX3- „ Ex Libris Frank Howell Pict. No motto. An open book on a (Memb. Ex L. Soc, and one of the Auditors.) willow pattern plate. 2j dia. „ Ex Libris Howland. a.d. 1S94 Arm. Pict. *' Piscator nou solum Piscatur " (Of U.S.A.) (The fisher does not fish only). Fish as supporters, with fishing tackle. Design 3jX3j. By the owner. ,, John Arthur Iliffe . . Arm. Pict. " Via trita via tuta " (The beaten (In two sizes. Was exhibited at the Koyal road is the safe road). T.E.H. Academy, 1895.) (T. E. Harrison). Design 6x4. 1) Ex Lib. Aliciae Mariae Jackson View of No motto. T.G.J. (Mr. T. G. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) House, Flowers, and Books Jackson). Design 3|X2i. it Ex Libris Thomae Graham Jackson . .'Vrchitecti. Arm. Pict. " Chi si eonteiita gode" (He who A.D. 1894. is contented rejoices). (Designed by the owner, showing schools and Design 3^X2 J. other buildings in Oxford of which he was the architect.) „ Edith Joseph Pict. C. W. Sherborn. " Charles Conover Kalbfleisch Pict. E. D. French. .. The Earl of Lathom, G.c.i!. The Lathom Park 2 Crests No motto. 3JX2J. Schools. Free Library. ») Wyndham, Baron Leconfield Arm. with " Au bou droit." C. W. Sher- supporters born sc. Two sizes, large and medium, 6JX4i, ^'"^ 34X2J. Ex Libris Frederic Leighton. (P.R.A.) Allegory "Belles Lettres. History. Science." R.A.Bell. 7X4. (Mr. R. A. Bell also designed a smaller book-plate, 3JX3, for Sir Frederic Leighton, not dated. Both the above were reproduced in The Studio, July, 1894). tl Ex Libris Marshall Clifford Lefferts Arm. Pict. " Nulla vestigia retrorsum " (No (Of New York City, U.S.A. He also uses a steps backward. — Hor., Ep. i.i 74). small leather label.) E. D. French sc. Design 2f X2. See in Allen's "American Book- plates," p. 352. 208 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1894 Cora Artemisia Leggett (Of U.S.A.) Ex Libris Claud Lonsdale. Carlisle. (Memb. Ex L. Soc. Printed in black and red.' Ex Libris George Lorimer (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Lyon . Office . Library. " The . Gray . Bequest." (Mr. J. M. Gray died in Edinburgh on March 22, 1894. See his plate under 1S80.) C: Lewis : W: Mansergh. Wynberg, South Africa. (Mr. Cornewall Lewis Warwickshire Mansergh was born in Cape Town, Nov. 25, 1S63.) Richard Southcote Mansergh Richard Southcote Mansergh (Mr. R. S. Mansergh, of Tipperary, has several other armorial plates not dated.) Richard Southcote Mansergh Geraldine Countess of Mayo Thomas Mercer, b..\., and Isabella Crosfield Mercer, gtli May, 1894. Ex Libris Nathaniel Micklem Coll. Nov. Oxon. A.M. Univ. Coll. Lond. Soc. Ernest J. Mocatta .. Ex libris J. E. Monk 1894 (Fac-simile of owner's autograph.) Ex Libris W. Monk May 22. 1894 Ex Librib John Morgan Rubislaw House Aber- deen N.B. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex Libris William Neish (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Sr Edward N. Newdegate of Arbury in the County of Warwick L' Gen' k.c.b. 1894. (There is a similar plate to the above, not dated, inscription only '* Edward Newdigate-Newdegate." The 1S87 plate, and the two above-named are printed from the old coppers, slightly altered, engraved for the ancestors of General Sir E. N. Newdegate.) Ex Libris Henry W. Nurce (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Floral Mono. Crest Arm. Literary Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Pict. Literary Literary Library interior Pict. Pict. Pict. Arm. EarlyEng. Library interior "Oliiim si tic Uteris mors est" (Lei- sure without literature Is death). E.D.F. sc. 1894 (E. D. French). 2^ dia. *' The great consulting room of a wise man is a Library." — George Dawson. Charles de Flandre F.s. A. Scot, fecit Edinburgh i8.x.g4. Hudson Scott & Sons Sculp & litho. Carlisle. 1894. 4JX3I. " Virtutis Gloria Merces " (Glory is the reward of valour). Design 3|X2|. " Finis coronal opus " (The end crowns the work). Design 3|X2J. " Tout jour pret' Harry Soane 1894 Design 3JX2J. (Ever ready). " Tout jour fret." C. W. S. ft. 1894 (Sherborn). Design 3iX2|. " Tout jour fret " (Ever ready). J.V. Marcus Ward & Co. Ld. Elaborately emblazoned in me- tals and tinctures. Design 5^X2^. Reproduced by Mr. Vinycomb in his " Production of Ex Libris." T. E. Harrison. R. Anning Bell. Two sizes. See 1887, 1888. No motto. John Williams 1894. Design 2jX3i- C. W. Sherborn. No motto. J. E. Wood. A monk reading. Design 3JX15. No motto. W. Monk del. (An etching.) Plate mark 4^X3^. " Read . mark . learn."' Design 3|X2i. See 1879. Mr. Morgan has another plate not dated. "/ pray you let me be at peace." G. C. France 16.V.94. Design : A good boy reading, a girl (as usual) trying to tempt him to play with her. 3f X2J. No motto. 3jX2if. The 1709 plate of Sr Richard Newdigate of Arbury In the County of Warwick, Baronet, altered — the Ulster hand having been ob- literated. No motto. W. H.Foster del. 1S94. Design 4|X3j. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 2og 1894 Florence O'Brien Arm. Pict. Greek motto signifying; "Ex- cept ye . . . bceome as little child- ren,^'' — St. Matt, xviii. 3. E. A. Greene. A boy reading, sea washing against the rocks at Kilkee, Co. Clare. Design 4JX 3. n Hugh Owen, r.s.A. October 1894 Portrait " In my youths Books were my (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) block pastime : noiv, in my Sy'J' year, they are my consolation^ 5|X4j. i» The Oxford Club. Lynn. (U.S.A.) Mono. No motto. E.D.F. sc. (French). Design 2| X ij. 11 Ex Libris Emily Augusta Peake Pict. No motto. C.W.S. (Sherborn). Plate mark 2|X2j. 11 Ex Libris Thurstan C. Peter. Redruth Cornwall Landscape " Indocti discant et ament memi- {A view of Cam Brea Castle, in Cornwall.) nisse periti " (Let the unlearned leain, and let the experts love to remember). Design 3^x2^. )> Plymouth Free Public Library. Presented by Arm. " Tiirris fortissima est nomen Library Jchova " (The name of the Lord interior is a strong tower. — Prov. xviii. 10) W. H. Foster del et sculp. Design 44 X3f. »» Ex Libris George Potter, Collector of Literature Portrait. " Golden Volumes Richest Trea- of the Northern Heights of London. Born Arm. Pict. sures:' Fredk Smith. Jany 1894. at Highgate 1S37. Literary The plate shows the owner as (Memb. Council Ex L. Soc.) a "Potter"; Highgate Archway ; swearing on the horns at High- gate ; Francis Bacon, who died at Highgate, 1626 ; the Bridgman arms ; a portrait of Coleridge ; books, etc. Only three hundred copies were printed,when the block was destroyed. Design 5 X 3 J. »i Howel J. J. Price .. Arm. " Innoccntcs sicut pueri sagaces mantled sicut scrpcntcs" (Innocent as boys, wise as serpents). G. W. Eve. Design 3f X2J. »i Colonel William Francis Prideaux. Indian Arm. ''Deus Providcbit" (God will Staff Corps, 1894. provide. — Gen. xxii. 8). W. H. (C.S.I. Memb. Ex L. Soc, and a frequent Foster scul. Plate mark 6X4. contributor to Notes and Queries.) A few impressions were taken before letters. See 1895. »» L.Q. (Monogram on shield) . . Seal The legend: " Scavant .ne.puis. (Leon Quantin. The learned and courteous curieulx.suis. mdcccxciiii." Henry secretary of the French Society of book-plate Andre 1894. 2^ diameter. collectors.) 25 copies only, printed in red, for special collections. ,^ Ex Libris John Henry Quinn m.d.ccc.xc.iv. Library No motto. A. Louis Duthie. interior Design 3^X2|. »i Ex Libris Whitelaw Reid. (U.S.A.) .. Pict. ^' Per ardua ad alta" (Through Literary difficulties to eminence). - E. D. French sc. 2JX1J. ->) E. Libris . Reg. Inst; Liv: Ad Univ: Coll; Translatis. Pict. No motto. R.A.B. (R. Anning A.D. MDCCCXCIV. Bell). Two sizes, 6^X3 j, 3jX 2.- ,, Ex Libris William Oliver Roughton. Of Wilby, Pict. Compositor and printers at work. CO. Northampton. Motto, " Ye Penne, wyihe ye (Born at Wilby in 1859, now resident in Pryntere's Inke, Is myghtycre than Plymouth.) ye Sworde." Plymouth 1894. Design 4jX2|. See 1895. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1894 Ex Libris Henry Sherburne Rowe (Of Boston. U.S.A., Memb. Ex L. Soc. Mr. Rowe has also a pretty little monogram plate, but it is not dated.) J. Brooking Rowe. Plympton (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) E. Lib. Bibl. Arth. J. Schomberg . de . Seend in . com . Wilts . .\rmig. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex Libris H. Berkeley Score, f.r.g.s., f.r.h.s., etc. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex Libris George Dudley Seymour. (U.S.A.) W. A. Slater. (U.S.A.) Rupert Oswald Smith. His Book Curt & Lilli Sobernheim (Of Breslau.) Bibliothek Heinrich Eduard Stiebel. Frankfurt A/M. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Raphael Tuck and Sons' Amateurs Literary and Painting Prize Competition. This Prize is awarded to (Signed) Grant Allen. Ex Libris Martha Turner Ex Libris Jean F. Verster (Of Amsterdam.) Ex Libris Philip B. Warburton Ex Libris Beverley Warner, m.a. (Of U.S.A.) Margaret White Charles J. Wilson .. Arm. Library interior Arm. Pict Arm. Library interior Library interior Pict. Pict. Arm. Pict. Pict. Literary Arm. Library interior Pict. Pict. Arm. Library interior Arm. Literary Pict. Literary Pict. " Lahore et constaniia " (By labour and perseverance). E. D. French 1894. Plate mark 4X3, design 3|X2| A charming little plate. The arms of the Grolier Club, printers' devices, and the badge of the Ex L. Soc, surround a view of part of Mr. Rowe's library. " Deo juvanU " (By God's assist- ance). J. E. Wood, Plymouth. Design 4X2I. Some copies are not dated. " Persevere." Edw. Kite del. 1894. Harry Soane sc. London. Design 4.JX4. (Mr. Schomberg has courteously afforded much valuable informa- tion to this w'ork). Book Rhyme dedieated to nil Borrowers. Good books that are penned for the weal ol mankind Take long years to write; so bear this in mind : "That if you should borrow, keep clean and return To the owners thereof, and you'll honesty learn. "" *^Lenitas, Bonitas, Magnnuimitns^'' above design ; in another example it reads, " Pluck, Patience., Per- severance."' Design 4X3. No motto. W. F. Hopson N.H. 1 894. Plate mark 5X3}. View of an old house at Wethersfield, Connecticut. See in Allen's "American Book- plates," p. 369. See 1893. K.M. (Kate Morse). " Tenax in fide " (Steadfast in faith). F.C.T. (F. C. Tilney). SeefiArZ,. J., VoL V., p. 100. "Biicher Vereinigen gedanken." C.W.S. 1894 (Sherborn). 3x2. No motto. Design 4JX3J. Design 7JX4.}. No motto. (A lady in a garden.) H. A. Headlam sculp. 3jX2|. "Be Just but don't trust every one." E. W. Schottelndreier fecit Amst; 33X3. " Non sibi" (Not for himself). (? By Hugh R. Headlam.) No motto. E. D. French fee. Design 3 X 2J. " Plaisir et Sagessc." C. W. Sher- born fecit. (Two states.) T. Erat Harrison. Two sizes. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1894 1895 Ex Libris Thomas Winter Wood. Hareston Library, Plymouth, a.d. mdcccxciv. (A well-known West Country poet, who writes over the signature "Vanguard.") Ex Libris Thomas Winter Wood Hareston Library, Plymouth, a.d. mdcccxciv. Ex Libris John Page Woodbury (Of Boston, U.S.A. President of the Boston Club of Odd Volumes. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Worcester Club Charles B. Alexander Ex Libris H. B. and R. L. Ayres Ex libris F. Bargallo (Pharmacien de ire Classe, Ex Interne des Hopitaux de Paris.) Lord Belhaven and Stenton 1895 . . Frederick Bennett, m.a. Canon of Salisbury, Vicar of Shrewton cum Maddington, Wilts. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex Libris William Bolton. Addiscombe, 1895. (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) A. C. Bernheim Ex Libris Jacobi Bruce. Edinburgh. 1895 Ex Libris Septimus Castle. Birkenhead Emily Countess of Charleville Ex Libris George Collett (Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex libris P. Dor (Of Marseilles. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Arm. Arm. Library interior Allegory Floral Library interior AUeg. Literary Arm. with supporters Arm. " Esto quod nudes ' dare). 3JX2|. (Be what you Printed label Pict. Crest and Mono. Library interior Arm., Books Arm. Floral Arm. Literary No motto. 3iX2f. Distinct design from the above. No motto. Titles on books, and portrait of George Cruikshank. E. D. French sc. Design 3^X2j. No motto. C.S.H. 5X3J. E. D. French. " Read not to contradict and re- fute ; or to believe, and take for granted; but to weigh and con- sider." John Williams 1895. Design 4JX2J. " Omnis homo metidax " (.All men are liars. — Psalm cxvi. 11). Henry-Andre 1895. Plate mark 4X3J. " Ride ill rough." C.W.S. (Sherborn). 35x3. " De bon vouloir servir le roi " (With right good will to serve the king). I.S.P. 22. III. 95. (This plate was presented to the owner by his daughter, Mrs. Isobel S. Pearson, on his seventy- third birthday.) B 00k of mine, tho' worn and old, O 11 as I peruse thy pages, L o I find some jewel rare T rusted to thy guardian care ; O r some precept of the Sages N ow become transmuted gold. E. D. French sc. 1895. " Fuimus." Charles de Flandre F.s. A.Scot, fecit. 1.3.95. 3jX2i. "Praesto et presto." Hamel Lister. 1895. Design 4 X3i. See Ex L. J., Vol. V., p. 98. H. R. Headlam fecit. No motto. W. H. Foster del et Scul. Plate mark 5|x 3?. Design 3^X2 J. " Otium cum libcllis " (Leisure in the company of my little books). H. Pellissier sc a Marseille. 1895. Design i|X2j. 212 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1895 Frederick W. French (Of Boston, U.S.A.) Arm. Pict. „ One of ye Bokes of Mary Annette Harael Arm. ^^Loyale Fidele et Droit en avant " AUeg. (By Miss Lister ) Plate mark 3fx 3 See Ex L. J., Vol. V., p. 98. »> Ex Libris Alex: Waldemar . Lawrence An: JEt: Landscape No motto. T.G.J (T.G.Jackson). 21 iS Mail 1895. Design 3^ X 2. It represents the owner playing golf on Wimble- don Common. John Grainge Leonard Arm. " Virtide omnia." \V. H. Foster, Literary del et scul. Design 3^x25. „ J. B. Louvenstein E. D. French. „ A. V. Montgomery .. Arm. " Garde bicn." Two varieties. Richard Southcote Mansergh. Friarsfield, Arm. " Tout jour pret." Tipperary. E. D. French Sc 1S95. •' Richard Southcote Mansergh Seize Quartiers. Arm. '• Tout jour pret:' G.W.E. 1895. (Eve). Design 4|x 3- The names of the sixteen quar- ters are given. Richard Southcote Mansergh Friarsfield Crest "Tout jour pret." G.W.E. 1895 Tipperary. (Eve). Design 2|X2. 0. (James Orrock, R.i. Connohsntr in the Sette Pict. No motto. (C.W.S. (Sherborn). of Odd Volumes, London.) Plate mark 2| X i J. Design i x J. Ex Libris Frank Evans Marshall mdcccxcv. Library No motto. Albert Rosenthal, after (Of Philadelphia, U.S.A. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) interior Maclise. (A reproduction of the portrait ofCharles Lamb contained in the Maclise Portrait Gallery.) Design 3} X2j. f* Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York Pict. E. D. French. Ex Libris May Peabody. Oakend (U.S.A.) 1895. Arm. " Ne quid nimis '" (Not too much ^' Book bri}igs books.^' Literary of anything). W. F. Hopson N.H. Design 3 X 2j. (This inscription on an open book.) See in Ex L. j., Vol. V., p. 115. Ex Libris Josephine E. S. Porter Pict. " Practerit enini figura hujus (The plate represents a lady in a handsome costume of the First Empire, d V huperatricc fnundi " (For the fashion of this world passeth away. — i Cor. vii. yosefliine, accompanied by a peacock in his pride.) • 31). W. F. Hopson. Design 3J X 2 J. Plate mark 5 J X 3 4 ■ Colonel William Francis Prideaux. c.s.i. Indian Arm. " Dens Provi debit." W. H. Foster ti Staff Corps. 1895. scul. Plate mark 6X4. The 1S94 plate altered, badge of the Star of India being added below the arms. Boverton Redwood . . Arm. ^^ Lumen sevimus antique" (We " (Portrait of the owner, an analytical chemist. Portrait sowed light of old). J. P. Emslie. represented in his laboratory, performing an 1S95. Plate mark 4fX3j. experiment. Through a window is seen a view Design 3iX2f of his house, and above are his arms with crest (Mr. J. P. Emslie is a Memb. and motto surrounded by handsome mantling.) Ex L. Soc, and has recently de- signed a portrait book-plate for himself, which, however, is not dated.) See Ex L. J., Vol. V , p. 131. This Book belongs to . William . Oliver . Roughton . Pict. An open Bible and a text from (Printer). Isaiah. Printed at the Frankfort Press Plymouth, tSgs. Ex Libris E. G. Stoddard Arm. " Festina lente" (Hasten slowly). " (Of U.S.A.) Library W. F. Hopson. Design 4^X3. interior See in Ex L. jf., Vol. V., p. 114. DATED BOOK-PLATES. 213 1895 Ex Libris George Washington Bain, 1895 Charles J. Else, Bull Bridge (Ambergate Station, M.R.) Derbyshire. Eugene Monteuuis .. (The owner was born in France, but is a natu- ralised Englishman.) Ex Libris Rev. Carl E. Petersen (U.S.A. For a collection of books on the Devil, Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Magic.) Sallie Singer (Mrs. Singer, of Frome, Somerset. Memb. Ex L. Soc.) Ex Libris F. J. Thairlwall. 1895. (Memb. Council Ex L. Soc. See also 1892). Ex . Libris . E. Symes Thompson, m.d. 33 Cavendish Square. Ex Libris George Alexander Touch. 1895 Andrew double u Tuer hys (Engraved on an open book.) (Mr. A. W. Tuer, f.s.a., is a Memb. Council Ex L. Soc. He has several other book-plates. See 1881.) Andrew Tuer thought it out. Ambrose Dudley drew it out. Ex Libris Collectanea. 1895. E Libris Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates Pict. Landscape Arm. Pict. Pict. Pict. Mono. Book-pile Arm. Pict. Library interior Pict. Pict. Arm. Landscape Hebrew motto. Marcus Ward & Co. Ld Design 4x3. No motto. H.T.W. invt. H. Soane sc. Design 3 X3J. '' Espoir siipportc." J. P. Emslie 1895. Design 3f X2J. " Bibliothcca Diabolica'^ B.C. P.J. Co. Plate mark 3iX3i. (Designed by B. C. Pease.) "L'Amltie c'cst ramoiir sansailcs." Design 3JX2. Bust of Shakespeare ; titles on backs of books. Two varieties, one printed in black ink, the other in brown ink. Plate mark 3JX3I "Lux in luce." J.L. 1895. (Mr. John Leighton, f.s.a.) A hand- some design, in two sizes, 6x4 and4X2j. On four shields are shown the arms of Watkins, Sydenham, Symes, and Thomp- son, with books and emblems of ^sculapius. See Ex L. J., Vol. v., p. 132. "Books are not seldom Talismans and Spells." W. H. Foster del et scul. Design 3IX2J. No motto. An open book on a willow pattern plate. " Andrew Tuer thought it out. Ambrose Dudley drew it out." 2| diameter. "Bookplates." 2JX5J. " Study is like the glorious sun." C. W. Sherborn 1S95. (Arms of Thompson and Yates.) Design 2JX2J. -1 a*ff ' -,, , 181X ,t,m S< A .*» £ — CMfifl^A 215 ADDITIONS AND COEEECTIONS. During the progress of this work a number of Dated Book-plates have been discovered too late to be inserted in their proper order. This was inevitable, and it is hoped that the Alphabetical Index will enable the reader easily to find any particular plate he desires. Comparatively few of these additional entries are British ; the majority of them are French plates, for information regarding which I am indebted to the courtesy of Mens. Leon Quantin, Secretary of the Societe Fran^aise des Collectionneurs d'Ex Libris, and to Mons. Pierre Dor, of Marseilles, who is a member of the Ex Libris Society. Of the remainder the greater portion belong to the United States, for which I have to thank Mr. W. E. Baillie, of Bridgeport, U.S.A., a Memb. Ex L. Soc, and several other correspondents who have, from the first, evinced the greatest interest in the subject. Other collectors have, with equal courtesy, sent me valuable information, and though some of it has arrived rather late in the day, it has enabled me to make the tables all the more complete and reliable. A gentleman in Switzerland went to great pains to describe a large number of plates engraved in his country, which would have formed an exceedingly interesting supplement, but unfortunately neither myself, nor the printers, could read the writing sufiiciently to print from it. As the gentleman had not sent his name and address, the only thing I could do was to return the MS., with thankful regrets, to Monsieur Grellet, the President of the Societe Suisse d'Heialdique, who was probably acquainted with the sender. Mons. Grellet himself has also sent me some valuable notes about Swiss Book-plates, a topic which he ably dealt with in his work entitled " Les Ex-Libris Neuchatelois," Neuchatel, 1894. It will be remarked that a large proportion of French armorial plates engraved before the Revolutionary period did not carry the owners' names. This is, in itself, sufficient to show that all fairly educated people were then expected to be sufiiciently familiar with heraldry to recognise all the principal families of France by their coat armour. In the Alphabetical Index all the entries in the following list of additions will be found marked thus — (*). 1513 1574 1595 1597 Clarke Ex Bibliotheca Caroli Albosij, E. Eduensis (This name represents Charles d' Ailleboust, Bishop of Autun, Procureur-General of the Pro- vince of Lyons. He died at Autun, December 2g, 1585. See p. 4, Tables. M. Poulet-Malassis incorrectly gives the name as Charles d'Alboise.) Reverendiss. in Christo Pater S. T. Professor F. Fcelicianus Niguarda Morbinien. Ord. Praed. qui obijt Episcopus Comi die 5. Jan. 1595. donavit me Conventui S. Mariae Gratiarum Mediolani, cuius erat bene- meritus filius. Anna Vander (Mr. J. P. Rylands has obligingly pointed out an error in this entry. He says it should read thus : — Anna Vander Aa " You will find a description of it in my little book, p. 5, note f, which I will copy here for your convenience : ' It is printed in moveable types, and has the name and date Anna Vander Aa — Ci3.i3.iiic. (i.e., 1597) within a woodcut border of renaissance design, with wyverns, bears, fruit, and flowers among the heavy scroll work.' " I suppose the lady's name was Anna van der Aa, Ann of the Aa.") Arm. Label Printed label Pict. " Miinus et moniunementum Vic- toria: Spurs 15 13." 3f X2j. This is an arbitrary date. " Ex labore quicsS^ This is the first known dated French book-plate. A facsimile of it was given in the Archives de la Societe Franfaise for June, 1895, p. 85. Label 1x6 wide. Inscription in three lines italic type, within a typo, border. See p. 5, Tables, under 1597. 2l6 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1599 1606 1613 1634 1630 1639 1641 1654 1657 1658 1659 1661 1664 1667 1676 1679 1684 1687 H. Hornkens (In the collection of Mr. W. H. K. Wright.] Niclaus von Preroman Ritter und Schuldtheiss in Friburg, etc. (Swiss) J. Philipp vo Steffis (d'Estavayer of Friburg. Swiss.) G. G. G. above the crest and arms ; below, Johannes (blank, covered with an- other plate) de Farmach in Neide . Monasterium et Abbas Honoratus in Seon Ex libris nobilis Francisci Josephi Marin, etc. This Book appertaineth to me Maister John Abercrombie. The 6. of February Anno Dom, 1639. The Arms of the Family of Price. Descendants of Sr Rd Price of Gogerthan in the County of Cardigan Knt & Bart, g Aug. 1641. (The present Sir Pryse Pryse of Goderddan is descended from the above Sir R. Price.) D. Melchior Nicolai Artium et Philosophiae Magister : Venerabilis CapituU Surlacensis Juratus Parochus in Escholt Zmat. A. 1654. (Swiss) Ex dono Dom. Guillelmi Marlot, Doct. Theologi, ac regalis Monasterii S. Nicasii Rem. prioris Majoris, 1657. Antonio Grimani Nameless plate. (Philippe. Two varieties.) Sigillum Decani et Capituli Laonensis A. D. Linglois P:M: lo: Bap: Phil: Luti Leop: P: Invictis Imp: P: Cone; Italus Anno. D. 1667. Jean Renauld Gueldlin de Tieffenau (Of Lucerne.) D.D. Antonius B. G. Liber Baro a Monte Lilio- rum. Castro Alto, & Haiden, & pro sua Caesarea Majestate Cons. Regens Superio- ris Austriae Provinciarum, olimq: Auditor Generalis Nunciaturarum Apostolic rum. Heluet & Venetae, nee non in Helvetia Visitator Apostolicus. Venetiis autem pri- marius S. Inquisitionis Officii Consultor. (Swiss) Chanoines reguliers de St Jean ordre des Pre- montres, Province d'Amiens. Ex Bibliotheca M. Joannis Petite, etc. Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. " Qua fata sinent " 1599. Woodcut. Arms in an oval frame, motto and date around. Name on a label below. No tinctures. 2ixiJ. No motto. 4JX3J. See also Mr de Praroman, 17S2. No motto. 2|X2. A fine plate, 8Jx6. See next entry. Arm. j ii X 2j. This plate was fixed Eccles. ' right in the centre of the inscrip- tion on the above 1613 plate. Prin. label Label Arm. Jac. Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Pict. Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. Prin. label No motto. Printed within a typo, border 2JX2. (In August, 1894, Mr. Hugh Owen, F.S.A., Memb. Ex L. Soc, had fac- similes made of this curious old book-plate for his friends.) " Virtutc ct circumspcctii.' mark 3jX2|. An arbitrary date. Plate No motto. Arms and crest, a goat holding a feather, with mant- ling ; inscription on an oval frame ; the whole within a square scrolled border. 5IX4. No motto. Two shields. 6X7j. Has been employed as a book-plate, but was originally intended for a dedication plate. Joannes de Loysi fecit, 1659. No motto. 2jX2|. •' Lahore et studio." " Moil Printemps doit estre Estcr- nel." Design 3|X2|. See 1698. No motto. Design 4JX2J. De sable (?) frctt£ d' argent de six pieces et seme de Jietirs de lis d-or (?). See i6go. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 217 1689 1690 1691 1695 1698 1699 17- Bibliothecae Capucinorum Conventus Borbonij- Lancsei (Bourbon-Lancy). Ex Bibliotheca M. Joannis Petite, etc. John Abernethie o{ Mayen. August i. i6gi Ex libris Dni Caroli Henrici Clerc, etc. Nameless armorial plate, with profuse mantling Franciscus Badoux Sr William Brownlowe, of Belton in the County of Lincoln Baronet. i6gS. (This Sir William Brownlowe, of Belton and London, was the fourth Baronet of Humby. He was succeeded by his son, John, the fifth and last baronet, who was created Viscount Tyrconnel, in Ireland. He died in 1746, when both titles became extinct.) Thomas Cartwright, of Aynho in the County of Northampton, Esq. Rennhardus Goldli a Thieffenau SS. Apocus Ci. Prothonous Ecclesiarii Basilisis et Beronsis Canonicus — 98. (Swiss) Sir John Pole of Shute in the County of Devon Baronet 1699. (See p. 17.) Claudius Franciscus Baulard presbiter canoni- cus et curatus eclesiae colegiatae et parochialis sanctae Mariie Magdalens Bisontinas 17.. Ex bibliotheca J. F. Faure in suprema Sequanorum curia Senator, anno 17. . Ex libris A. B. L. Grimed de la Reyniere, etc. Ex Libris Antonii Mariane Carcassi, Anno 17 No Catalogo inscript. Sub regimine Reverendiss. domini Martini Abbatis. Prin. label Prin. label Label Prin. label Arm. Arm. supporters Arm. EarlyEng. Joseph Pocklington Muskham Nottinghamshire Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. Arm. Arm. Eccles. Arm. supporters Prin. label Arm. Arm. Eccles. Arm. See 16S7. (Mayne in the north of Scotland.) No motto. J. Berterham Sculps. 1698. Plate mark 4J x 2|. (In the collection of Mr. H. Nazeby Harrington.) "Fax ac dccus orbis." No motto. Design 5 X4j. Shield quarterly of six, with an ines- cutcheon. The peculiarity of this plate is that the helmet faces dexter, and is not set iiffroiitiv. This plate was reproduced in the Ex L. J. for June, 1S93. It is, I believe, not the same as that described on p. 16, under 1698. No motto. See p. 16. No motto. Shield surmounted by two crests, in an oval cartouche. Four small shields in the corners, square frame. 4jX3|. The arms on the principal shield are quarterly, the first and fourth being the same as on the shield of the Tieffenau plate of 1676. A very old Devonshire family, baronetcy created 1628. This Sir John was M.P. during the reigns of William III. and Queen Anne; died March 13, 1707. No motto. ' Studio et labor c." Two states. No motto. Two shields. Coronet, cross, and mitre. No motto. There is another plate of the same owner with one shield only. The inscription reads : " Sub Re- gimine Reverendmi Domini Dni Martini Abbatis Anno I." Signed: Dorflinger Beron delin. Clausner Sc. in Zug. The figure I. which follows the word Anno may refer to the first year of the rule of the Abbot Martin, or it may have been intended as the first figure for the ordinary date. "Spcro meliora." Plate mark 2 J X if See p. 22 for a different plate of same owner. 2l8 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 17— Ignatius Zanardi Sac. Rom. Imp. Co. a Virgiliana. (1700) 1700 1702 1703 1704 1706 1707 1708 1709 1711 Abbaye de Homblieres Bibliothecce Frickianse. Ann. cnncc (A tree from which hangs a much-mantled shield, on which is the motto ; two flying cupids act as supporters. The names of owner and engraver are at foot. A helmet and coronet sur- mount the shield; no arms are shown.) Christoforus Roux du Rognon, Rerum Capitalium Praetor Laedone, anno mdcc. Alexander Otto Buschman Eminentissimi Prin- cipis et Electoris IVIoguntini Regiminis Aulici Consiliarius Anno Domini 1702. New England Library, collected by Thomas Prince July 6, 1703. Thomas Vernon of Hanbury in the County of Worcester Esq. The Right Honble Thomas Lord Viscount Weymouth Baron Thynne of Warminster 1704. (I am indebted to Mr. Arthur Schomberg for this plate, which is probably earlier than the one named by Lord De Tabley on p. 85 of his " Guide," and is very scarce.) Nameless plate. (Froissard-Broissia) Elizabeth Whitfeld (Similar to Temple Whitfeld Esq 1704.) Monsieur Courlet de Boulot, 1706 .. James Hamilton, Earl of Abercorn, etc. (See entry on p. 36.) The Honble and Reverend Henry Moore, a:m: 1708. Ludovicus Camusat, in Supremo Comitatus Bur- gundiie Senatu causarum patronus. Albertus D.G. Prc-epositus Santc-e crucis PoUingze. Ao 1709 — on an oval band around the arms; on frame below, "Ad Bibliothecam ibidem." Nob. Ant. Jos. Hyac. Borrey Grangier de Baume, 171 1 Arm. Arm. Early Jac, Pict. Arm. supporters Arm. Label Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. with supporters Arm. Arm. Arm. Arm. EarlyEng. Arm. EarlyEng, Arm. Arm. Arm. No motto. A shield quarterly surmounted by a large crown, over which a small coronet, above which is a crest. 4X3. No motto. Plate mark 3JX2J. The book-plate is not dated, but is in a volume belonging once to the Abbey, and now in posses- sion of Rev. John Tinkler, m.a.. Vicar of Caunton, namely, " Ser- mons pour Le Caresme par feu Monsieur Maimbourg. A Paris. i6go." On the title-page is written, "Ex libris Monasterii Beatse Marias de humberiis. 1700." " Non tu radicmi porias sed radix te." J. A. Fridrich Sculpsit A.V. Design 3IX2J. No motto. " Noil infcriora Secutus.' On p. 30 it is erroneously given as y antes Prince. No motto. Description incomplete on p. 31. Motto scroll, but no motto. 3^ X 2J. This is the same size as the plate already named on p. 34, but there are several differences. The supporting reindeer on the dexter side has no collar, and the sinister supporter is a dragon sable, ducally gorged. In the second and third quarters the tails of the lions are not nowed. Two shields and supporters. " Quis ut Dais." Ogier fe Lug- duni, 1704. "Virtutis gloria optima hcreditas." See p. 34. No motto. The arms have supporters, and the motto is " Sola nobilitat virtus." " Le Bone Temps Viendra." 3iX2j. No motto. No motto. Two small oval shields surmounted by a mitre, within an oval band. Square frame. Plate mark 2^X2^. No motto. Arm. No motto. ADDITIONS AND COREECTIONS. 2ig 1714 1715 (1716) 1720 1721- 22 1722 1723 1725 1727 1728 1729 1730 » 1732 Annesley, 1714 Ex libris Ludovici Boyat, etc. Steph. Ign. et Joan. Jac. Mi'chelet fratres, Capellani Sti Petri Bisontini, mdccxiv. Ex Bibliotheca D.D. de Nesmond, episcopi Baio- censis. Jos. Tausier, Patr., 1716 ,. .. .. E. F. J. Caseau, civitatis Bisuntins vice comes maior, 1720. Ex bibliothecae Leonardi Michon equitis Regia Consiliis in Lugdunensi Thesaurariorum Francise Curia Regis advocati Lugduni Consulis Anno 1721-1722. Similar plate, slightly different inscription, and without motto. De la Bibliotheque de M. Boutillier de S'e Quentin ^gidius Vacher, Chirurgicus major Bisontinus 1723- Peter Butcher (Motto incorrectly printed on p. 49.) Ex bibliotheca D.D. Andreae Petri Marini Curty, etc. Nameless French plate. This is the plate of Meyran de Lagoy. The Honble Sir James Carmichael of Bonning- toun Bar' Ex Libris D. G. De Loinville Ex libris Jean Gabriel Peltier de Cholet Ex dono Clar. V. D.D. Francisci Masclef, Eccl. Amb. Presb. et Canon — Ex libris Regal. Abb. S. Richarii Centulensis. Nameless Armorial plate. (Ex libris de Suarez) . . James Hustler of Acklam in Cleveland in the North Riding of the County of Yorke Esqr I730- (On the other 1730 plate the county is spelt York.) Joannes Franciscus Bouchet, Presbyter canoni- cus insignis ecclesiae S. Maris Magdalenae Bisuntinae civitatis, 1730. Mr le Marquis des Essars, 1730 Ex lib. nobilis Petri Fr. Clement curiae prsesidialis consiliarius ad honores, 1732. Arm. Jac. Prin. label Arm. " Virtutis ainore." The arms are " Wray " Azure, on a chief, or, three martlets gules. The motto is that of the Annes- ley family. 3^X25. Two varieties. No motto. Bouchy sculp. Arm. , No motto. Eccles. Arm. ! " Veritas." supporters Arm. I No motto. Arm. Arm. Arm. supporters Arm. Printed label Arm. Arm. Eng. label Label " Fidesque Caiidorque." With supporters, helmet, and mantling. No motto. No motto. " Opiferque per orbem dicor " (I am called a bringer of help through- out the world. Motto of the Company of Apothecaries.) See p. 51, first entry under 1727. Incorrectly printed on p. 5r as Binningtonn. No motto. Michel fecit Arelate. B. Picart del. s. 1728. Arm. Supporters, two eagles. Coronet of Marquis. " Unicuiquesuares.'' J.Michel inven. et incidit. Avenione Arm. , No motto or motto scroll. Plate ,EarlyEng.j mark3|X3. This is the plate of Sr William Hustler 1702, altered. This is a different plate from that named on p. 55, which has a Jac. frame. The arms on all three are the same, namely. Argent, on a fess azure three fieurs de lys or, between two martlets sable, one in chief, one in base. Arm. Eccles. No motto. Arm. 1 No motto, supporters' Arm. I Crest. No motto. 220 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1732 Ant. Ign. de Camus de Filain Prssbiter abbas commendatarius Clarifontis, nee non ecclesi^ metropolitanas Bisuntinae canonicus, anno 1729. Arm. Eccles. with supporters Bouchy scul. Vesontione 1732. n Ludovicus Gulinelli S. Theol: Doc. Archipres: Butrii 1732. Arm. No motto. Oval design 3X2J. Arms on a scrolled cartouche, inscription on a band around. " Ex libris Antonii Lengroingnet in suprema Sequanorum curia Senatoris. Arm. supporters Bouchy sculpsit Vesuntione 1732. Two varieties. »J Villeneuve de Martignan Arm. Supporters, two lions; coronet of Marquis. J. Michel Genevensis inv. deli, et incidit. Avenine (sic). No motto. n Ex Libris D. De Pellissier Arm. Supporters, two lions. " Virtute non dolo." Michel Sculp. 1733 Madame la Marquise des Armoises et Des- pincour. 1733. Arm. No motto. An oval book-stamp, ifxii. )» Ex Libris Andres Barthel. Lanau. Senesch. Consiliar. Regius in Arelat. Arm. Coronet of Marquis. J. Michel In. et Sculp. No motto. 1734 Ex bibliotheca Joannis De Combles Lugdunensis. Anno 1734. No en volume. Arm. supporters Coronet of Count. No motto. „ Domini Berbis de Rancy Prin. label yy Johannes Petrus Wagner Arm. No motto. 1735 Francis Massy Esq of Rixton (See p. 59.) Arm. Jac. See 1739. Mr. Rylands says there was no 1735 plate. 1736 Floridus Praspositus et .\rchidiaconus Natus Chie- menisis 1736. Label " DomiiiHs solicitiis est met " Ps. 39. Inscription in oval border. Plate mark 2jxif. »> Ex bibliotheca Michaelis de Rioult d'Estouy, Abbatis Beatae Maris De Morimonte. An. D. MDCCXXXVi. Arm. supporters Coronet of Marquis, cross, and mitre. No motto. 1737 J. B. de Champflour, eveque de Mirepoix 1737. Arm. Eccles. ,, F. Durant de S' Cirgues Arm. No motto. " Nameless French plate, second entry, p. 6i, should be : Bernard de la Vernette, not Blancey. Arm. supporters Louise du Vivier 1737. 1738 Fus Bo Xus Rians Consiliarius Arm. Coronet of Marquis. No motto. 1739 Ce livre appartient a Mr de Villemorien Coner au Parlement en I'an 1739. Label R.B. 2JX1J. 1740 M= francj'ois Bastian, procureur ez Cours de Lyon, Capitaine Lieutenant du Quartier de Rue des trois Maries. Arm. supporters No motto. )» Nicolaus Menin (With seven lines of inscription.) Arm. Pict. " Crescit eundo." 1741 Sr Le Loutrel Pict. Name within a woodcut floral border, hand coloured. Design 3X3i. J) Temple Lawes Esq Arm. EarlyChip No motto. J. Skinr sculp. ») De la Bibliotheque de Mr Le Cat, Docteur en Medec. Chirurg. en chef de I'Hotel Dieu de Roiien, Demonstrateur Royal et des Academies Royalles de Paris, Londres, Madrid. An. atat. et seculi 42. Pict. Allegory No motto. Herisset sculp. The five letters of the owner's name interlaced, on a shield. Doctor Le Cat was a famous French surgeon, born in 1700, hence his age and the year in the century coincide as above. 1742 CI. Henr. Richard, etc. Prin. label 1 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 1745 Stemma Madernae Arm. No motto. Cajet Bianchi Inven et fecit. Design 4|X4i- ,, De la Bibliotecque de Franrois Morel de Rambion, Arm. Pict. No motto. Ecuier, ConseiUer en la Cour des Monnoies, Senechaussee et Siege Presidial de la ville de Lion, 1745. 1746 Exlibris L. T. J. Bonnier .. Arm. " Supere mincnl" 1746. '» Ex libris J. J. Isambert Arm. Pict. N. Le Mire 1746. 1750 Nameless plate Arm. Pict. Cross and mitre. Coronet of Eccles. Marquis ; supporters, two lions. Nicole a Nancy. 1) Nameless plate, (la Croix de Chevrieres) Arm. supporters D. Colin fecit 1750. " Monsieur Bourlier VAini Arm. Differs from the other in inscrip- tion, size, and ornaments. No motto. See p. 71. 11 B. Caseau, civitatis BisuntinjE vice comes 1750. Arm. No motto. JT Sir Joseph Mawbey. Bart Chip. „ James Westwood, Hampton. December i. 1750 Printed This was found below William (Hampton is in Virginia, U.S.A.) label A. Bayley of 1783. 1751 Forbin Ste Croix Arm. Coronet of Marquis. No motto. Veyrier fecit. n Duboix de Fosseux . . Prin. label ji Mre C. G. Mariette, Conser Correctr Re9U le 24 Mai 1751. Arm. Coronet of Marquis. No motto. >) Ex Libris Stephani Guillelmi Perrichon de Van- Arm. Coronet of Marquis. No motto. deuil equitis. supporters 1752 M. Antonius de Fressanges Presbyter Leraovir, S.T.P. Doctor Theologus. An. 1752. Arm. No motto. l» J. B. Gastaldy. D.Med. Arm. Veyrier fecit, not Neyrier. See P- 73- t) Ex Libris J. Mars. Canonici Regul. Ord. SS^s Trinitatis. Label 1754 Madame La Comtesse de Langeac Arm. Coronet of Marquis. No motto. 1756 Rd Bayley 1756 (Probably American.) Label Red leather label, gilt border. M Nameless French plate. (Millet de Chevers) Arm. Collin a Nancy, 1756. tl Ex Libris Joannis BaplistcE Alexandri Savary Engraved presbiteri Ambiani Sacra; facultatis Parisi- label ensis Doctoris Theologi. 1757 Ex Libris Antonii Marias Dumas Rectoris de Chauffaille DicEcesis Matisconensis. Arm. " Fortuna diice." It Petro Bartho Millo Jacobi Card. Millo Patrui Arm. Inscription in a cartouche ; above Optimi Repentino Interitu Merentissimo are the arms of the Pope, below BENtDicTus XIV. P.M. Bibliothccam Suam those of a Cardinal (? Card. Millo). done dedit Doloris Remedium Benevolentiae 2jX2i. Argumentum Anno 1757. 1758 Nobilis A. S. Grangier in suprema Sequanorum curia prcognitor {sic) regius, 1758. Arm. No motto. 176- George Cayley, Junr Lyon's-Inn, 176- Prin. label lJX2i. It de la Bibliotheque de M. Pierre I'Aine. 176- .. Arm. Coronet of Count. No motto. 1760 Ex Libris Antonii Ludovici Tellus. ad\ Aven. Arm. Coronet of Count. No motto. Vejrier f. Antoine de la Falloize, seigneur du Ban de Arm. Grae de Jeanne Bourcier, Bar le Chaumont. Due, 1760. 222 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1762 Ex libris Chappron . . Arm. Coronet of Count. No motto. P. H. Chappron Meusnier, inv. et sculp. 1763 Bibliotheque de Mr le President Gallois, Consr Arm. Coronet of Count. No motto. d'Etat. supporters Nicole a Nancy, 1763. 17(64) Ex museo Jacobi Piou, architectonis, anno 1764. Prin. label 1764 Ex libris Hedouin Arm. De Semeuze sculp. Flags, can- nons, etc. 1765 E Musaso advocati Delamothe, 1765 (Inscription in manuscript.) Arm. No motto. n Ex libris Nic. Gat. Hamarc de Laborde, equitis, Arm. CI. Roy inv et fee. nee non et in supremo Galliarum senatu supporters patroni, Anno 1765. 1766 William Nathaniel French mdcclxvi. Label No motto. 1767 MDC.c.LXVii. Ingenuus et optimae spei puer in classe scholae Grammaticorum Glas- guensis auditor, etc. Label Jac. Barr. Design 2,1^X34. ,, Nameless plate. (Grimaldi) Arm. Pict. "Deo juvantc." Deunel, sculp. Eccles. 1767. 1768 Mr Demorey Arm. Helman 1768. 1769 Nameless French plate. (Choiseul) Arm. No motto. Ch. de Mehel Basil, Eccles. dir. 1769. " Mr. Le Cher de Palys Montrepos .. Arm. Coronet of Marquis. No motto. Merche a Lille. 1770 In Blanckstetten Dominicus Abbt Arm. Eccles. 1771 William Rogers's Book 1771 Label An American plate. 1773 Thos Palmer. Bromley, Kent Pict. No motto. A woodcut. 1775 Bibliotheque de A. H. Dampmartin Commencee en 1775. Label No motto. iiX3. »» Jacques Margueritte Baron de Jarsaillon, Cher Arm. No motto. Military trophy. Seigr de Brion, S' Siagre, Fontete et Aupont, offer d'Artillerie, 1775. 1776 De la Bibliotheque de Mr de Thilorieur Conseil- Arm. No motto. Coronet of Count. leur au Parlement de Bordeaux 1765 Me A. Lavau sculp, a Bordeaux. des Requetes 1776. 3iX2i. »> Du Cabinet des Livres de Monsieur I'Abbe Arm. " Qiiadrati semper cequales iin- Quarre de Monay Chanoine de I'Eglise supporters dique reeti." Coronet of Marquis. Cathedralle (sic) d'Autun 1776. Plate mark 3^X2 J. Guyot de St. Michel, Membre honoraire de Label No motto. TAcademie de Dijon. 1777 The Literary Society in Barbados commenced Pict. " Aei oceiiieiitcm." " Artibns A.D. MDCCLXXVII. W. & R. ingeniiis, religione, fide." Trotter sc. Design, a ship in full sail. Plate mark 4jx 3 J. )1 Nameless plate. (L'Abbe Beurard de Toul) Nameless Armorial plate, signed Zapouraph. Arm. No motto. Z. 1777. ,, Ex libris Alex. Berthelemy, professoris Label ,, Ex libris He'rambourg Arm. Gouel 1777. ») Ce livre appartient a Jean Francois Vally, etc. Label 1778 Mr le Comte d'Angerville Arm. No motto. Ludovicus Can. Reg. S. Aug. ad S. Crucem Aug. Arm. Two shields surmounted by the Propositus et Abbas Later. Eccles. motto : " Factns est mihi Dominus ill Refitgium. Psl. 93. v. 22." J» Nameless French plate. (Thiroux) Arm. supporters No motto. Gouel, 1778. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 223 1781 Massachusetts Medical Society AUeg. See p. loi. Motto should be " Natura duce." Design 4J X 3 J. 1782 D.P. (de Prony) Floral Jombertinv. Milliere sculp. 1782. (1783) Hawes (Name above shield, motto below.) Arm. Floral " Toujoiirs le mane." Plate mark 3f X2J. 1783 William A. Bayley Norfolk Virginia July gth 1783. Prin. label This was found over James West- wood of Hampton, 1750. 178(4) The Property of Robert Rogers a.m. 178(4) (This plate was found in a book published in Boston, 1757, and is undoubtedly American.) Label 1784 Gregorius Chnstianus Comes ab Haxthausen . . Arm. " Ctmdide et eonstniiter." O. T. Weyse fecit 1784. 1785 1* Nameless Armorial plate. (Joseph Froment, sieur de Champ-Lagarde, originaire de Tulle, re^u en 1766 conseiller - auditeur en la Chambre des Comptes.) (This plate exists in two states.) Nameless Armorial plate Arm. Canting arms, azure, a garb or, supporters, a male and female reaper resting on ivlieat. Motto: " Dns ineremeittimi dat." P. C. J. inv. et sc r785. See Arehives de la Society Fran(;aise for 1895, p. log. Dessine et grave par Le Blond. 1786 Bibhotheque de Jean Benjamin de Laborde, premier Valet de Chambre du Roi : Gouver- neur du Louvre et fermier general. Et de Adelaide Suzanne de Vismes son epouse. Pict. Inscription on an oval shield sur- rounded by branches and wreaths of flowers. »» De la Bibliotheque de Mr Lejourdan Coner en I'Amiraute. Arm. No motto. E.D. Coronet of Count. Design 5^X3^. Same arms as on Lejourdan fils, 1785. 1787 Nameless Armorial plate. (Orival) Arm. Eccles. Poisson D. sc. 1787. *» Ferd. Hyp. Barberot d' Autet, Grayacensis, Eccles. metrop. Bis. Canonicus, prior de Velleron. Anno 1787. Arm. Eccles. No motto. 11 a Mr Leferon de L'Hermite Arm. supporters Coronet of Marquis. No motto. Fecerunt Tardiveau et le feron Redon. 1787 (perhaps 1767). ,, De la Bibliotheque de Mr Milange de S< Genez. Arm. Dapsol fecit 1787. '• Denis Gilbert Rouher Abbe du Chapitre d'Ar- tonne Cure de Chaptuzat. Arm. Eccles. No motto. Dapsol Fecit 17S7. 3,'X2j. „ Robert Watkinson. 1787 Label No motto. |X2-J. 1788 Andr: de Salis Arm. 5iX3l- 1790 Margaret Edwards, Me jnri; tout Anno Domini 1790. Charles Saladin - Egerton des Livres de son Oncle Mr Charles De Lubieres. Label Label Two inches dia. No motto. 2JX3J. 1791 Ex Munificentia Ferdinand! III. M.E.D. Die 9. Junii 1791. (M.E.D. probably stands for Magni Etruriae Ducio.) Label Type printed in scrolled border. lJX2j. »» A Mr Barre depute a I'assemblie Nale lygi Mono. 1792 Biblioteque de Mr de la Cepede I'aine Label 1795 Mrs HaskoU 1795. (Probably American) Label Red leather label, gilt border. 18— C. M. Gariel, Paris 18— Bibliotheque de M. O. de Caix de Saint-Aymour Mono. Prin. label (A well-known numismatist). »» J. N. Starin (U.S.A.) Label 1802 Associated Library Society Charleston 1S02 (U.S.A.) Label 1803 R & L Hough. 1S03 Arm. No motto. Plate mark 3JX2J. 224 DATED BOOK-PLATES. 1806 180(9) 1807 1814 1818 182(1) 1823 1827 1830 1832 1833 The Property of John Harvey. New York i8o6. The Revd James Hook l.l.d., f.s.a. .. (Dean of Worcester.) The Property of Cyrus Stebbins (U.S.A.) Le Chr Durant, 1S07. (Manuscript) . . Masham Book Society. Established, Aug' 9. 1814. Days. N9 . Ann Marlow 1818. Wm A. F. Sproat. Monogram, T.T.E. (U.S.A.) R. S. Bancroft 1827. (U.S.A.) W. Ashburner, 1830 William Carey d.d. Bishop of S' Asaph, 1830. d. 1S30. John Marshall Guion mdcccxxx. (A clergyman of New York, U.S.A.) Mrs. Wm Wood 1832 (Mrs. Wood was the wife of the President of the Board of Education in New York. He had an armorial plate signed J. Gray Sc.) John H. Hyde. New York Jany 23, 1833 Charles Smith Solr London. 1833 (1835) Lewis Mackenzie 1839 Georgia Historical Society Library. Founded 1839. Savannah Ga. 1852 Charles Thoroton .. 1857 ' Conservators of the River Tliames » mdccclvii. 1867 I Katharine Greene 1870 Ex Libris Victor Hugo (The above is shown on a flash of lightning which illuminates the facade of Notre Dame of Paris, on which, in a monogram, is V. Hugo. Date small and indistinct.) 1870 Arthur T. & Magdalen F. Bevan .. 1871 Second Baptist Sabbath School. Danbury. Conn- (U.S.A.) 1872 E. Libris . Caroli . Francisci . Fellows Label Arm. Pict. Label Label Crest Label Arm. Eccles. Label Label Label Arm. Plain Arm. Label Arm. Arm. Lozenge label Pict. 1880 Alwyne Compton (The Rt. Rev. Lord Alwyne Compton, d.d., consecrated Bishop of Ely 1886.) Arm. Label Arm. Seal Arm. Typographical label. No motto. No motto. Inscription in a cir- cular band around two clasped hands. 2J diameter. Gold letters on red leather label. 3iXii. No motto. W. Standidge del' 1823 R. Williamson sculpt Plate mark 4X2I. Red leather label. No motto. i5X2j. No motto. Design 3X1}. No motto. Printed on olive-green leather. No motto. Spade shield, helmet, and crest within a circular band, 2| diameter. The plate named on p. 136 has the crest only, a stag trippant, within a band. li diameter. "Sine macula" (Without spot). A. Hoen & Co Lith Balto "Dens scutum et cornu saliitis." No motto. On two shields the arms of the City of London, and of the Trinity House. " Of the Two hundred vols Be- queathed to Katharine Greene by her dear husband's last will, MDCCCLXVII." No motto. Aglaiis Bouvenne del et sculp '70. Plate mark 3|x 2 J. Reproduced in the Archives de la Sociite Fraufaisc for June, 1895. It is also given by Poulet- Malassis. " Noil sine industria." " Confide recte agctis " (Doing rightly, be confident). Harry Soane sc. 1872. 2J diameter. " E Libris Alwyni Compton et Amicorum mdccclxxx." ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 225 1893 Mansergh.— See page 201. This should read: Richard Southcote Mansergh. Tipperary. J) George Ravenscroft Dennis Pict. R. A. Bell. In three sizes. 1894 Henry Edward John Browne Pict. "Art Letters Music." R. A. Bell 94. Design 5^X3- See in Ex L. jf.. Vol. V., p. 145. M Ethel Selina Clulow Pict. Designed and Etched by E. Slocombe. 1» Mabel de Grey Pict. R. A. Bell. »J Ex Libris Walter E. Lloyd .. Pict. No motto. R. A. Bell 94. Design See in Ex L. J., Vol. V., p. 142. n Sigill. Bibl. Pequot . ad . Port. Austr. Conn. MDCCCLxxxxiiii. Presented by Mrs. Elbert B. Monroe. (Mr. Monroe died in 1S94, leaving valuable property to the Southport Library, U.S.A.) Portrait " Christo ct gencri hiiuuiito.^^ Design 3 X2j. Three varieties. »> Rennell Rodd Pict. R. A. Bell. 1895 Ex Libris Mollie Derbyshire Label Poetical advice to borrowers. »» Ex Libris Agatha Royds Greene Arm. Pict. No motto. E.A.G. 1895. J.£WOOD PLYM" INDEX The names of the owners of the book-plates are arranged in alphabetical order ; the figures indicate the years under which they will be found described. When an asterisk (*) follows a date it signifies that the book-plate will be found in the Addenda. This Index refers exclusively to the chronological Tables of Dated Book-plates. A. L., G. B., 1587 Aa, Anna Vander, 1597 Aa, Anna Vander, 1597* Abadam, Edith, 1861 Abadam, Edward, 1865 Abadam, F. W. Middleton, 1865 Abbaye de Homblieres, (1700)* Abbott, J. T., i860 Abercorn, Earl of, 1707 Abercorn, Earl of, 1707* Abercrombie, John, 1639* Abercrombie, Alexander, 1707 Abercrombie, Honble Alexander, 1792 Abergavenny, George Ld, 1750 Abergavenny Library, 17(85) Abernethie, John, 1691* Abingdon, Montagu, Earl of, 1701 Ablaing Van Giessenburg, 1845 Aboyne, John, Earl of, 1719 Acheson, Sr Arthur, 1711 Acland, Thomas Palmer, 1844 Acton, Arthur, 1893 Adeane, Jane H., 1883 Adnitt, H. W., 18— Adalbertus et Ockarius, 1574 Adamson, Benja:, 1746 Adderley Library, 1848 Adderley, Tho, 1774 Addison, J., 1797 Agar, Lydia, i8o5 Ailleboust, Charles a, 1574* Aitken, James Heugh, 1892 Albany Society Library, 1759 D'Albedyhll, G., 1799 Alberti, Regis Karoli, 1841 Albertus, Praepositus, 1709' Albosii, Caroli, 1574, 1574' Albrecht, J. C, 1894 d'Albret, Henry, (1617), p. 19 Aldenham Grammar School, 1800 Aldersey of Aldersey, 1755 Aldom, William, 1718 Aldrich, Rev. F. J., 1856 Alexandra House, 1884 Alexander, C. B., 1895 Alexander, Henry, 1840 Alexander, Johannes, 1790 Alexander, Michael S., 1841 All Souls Coll., Oxford, 1890, 1891 Allan, George, 17 — Allan, Geo., 1780 Allen, Ant., 1728 Allen, Antonius, 1710 Allen, Charles Dexter, 1893 Allen, Edward Heron, i8gi Allen, F. L. and Charles D., 1892 Allen, Frances Louise, 1893 Allen, James, 1822 Allen, Rev. John Taylor, 1846 Allen, John, of Eastwick, 1765 Allen, J. T., 1846 D'Allennes, Louis Charles Delauer- dure, 1720 Allison, Wni, 1791 Alloa House, 18 — AUwood, Ann Rocke, 1836 Alston College, 1870 American Academy of Arts, 1770, 1780 American Antiq. Soc, 1883 American Catholic Hist. Soc, 1885 Ames Library, 18 — Amicable Reading Soc, 1807 Anderson, Sr Edmund, 1708 Anderson, 18 — , 1803, 1839 Anderson, Francis, 1633 Andover Institute, 1S07 Andreae, Caroli, i588 Andre, Henry, 1893, 1894 Andre, J. Lewis, 1880 Andrews, John, 1774, 1779 Andrews, Lancelotus, 1589 Andrews, William L., 1894 Andrewes, Gerr., 17 — Andry, Caroli Ludovici, 1770 Anger, Gregorius, 1521 Angerville, Comte d', 177S* Annesley, 1714* Anthon, Charles, 1868 Soc. Antiq. Lond., 1866, 1869 Antonius (EpiscopusI, 1534 Antonius, D. D., 1679* Anson, William Reynell, 1893 Anstruther, Sir John, 1683 Apothecaries' Company, 1856 Appleton, Thomas Gold, 1869 Apprentices Library Co., 1820 Apprentices Library, Phila., 1842 Apthorp, East, 1741, 1761 Arbaud, F. A., 1836 Soc. Archael. Oxon., 1835 Societas: Architect: Bristol, 1841 Architect. Soc. Bedford, 1847 d'Archambault, D. D., 1773, 1778 Archdall, Mervyn, 17 — , 1746 Archer, Edward, 1742 Archer, Nicholas, 1742 Areskine, S\ John, 1707 Argyll, Duke of, 1893 Armitage, Eleonora, 1892 Armoises, Marquise des, 1733* Armorer, William, 1769 Armour, G. A., 1880 Armstrong, W., 18 — Armstrong, William, 18(52) Armyne, Evers, 1636 Arnold, Caroli T., 1880 Arnold, George, 1806 Arnold, W., 1S02 Arts, Soc. for promoting, 1753 Arundell, F., 1783 Ash, Francisci, 1651 Ashbee, H. S., 1876, i8go, 1894 Ashburner, W., 1830* Ashford, Maud, 1891 Ashley, Jeconiah, 1721 Ashpitel, Arthur, 1S69 Ashley Library, 1893 Assheton, William, 1718 Ashton, Abdias, 1633 Ashmole, Elias, 1635 Ashurst, Sr Henry, p. 116, 1703 Ashurst, Sir Henry, 1703 Astley, 1747 Astley, M. D., 1774 Astley, Edward, 1826 Aston, Hen., 1740 Astell, William, 1807 Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, 1792 Athenasum, the, 188- Atholl, James, Duke of, 1737 Atholl, John, Duke of, 1711, 1764 Atkins, E. M., 1803 Atkinson, Thomas, 1781 Attwood, Ricardus, 1734 Aubrey, Sr John, 1698, 1717, 1718 Audley, Edward, 1633 D'Auvergne, Philip, 1793 Augustus, Clemens, 1760 Austin, Daniel, 1739 Au.ver, Samuel, 1881 Avery, Architectural Lib., 1890 Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1893 Aylesbury Old Bank, 185- Aylward, Frederick Graham, 1893 Ayres, Adin, 1799 Ayres, H. B. and R. L., 1895 B., A.B., 1758 B., L.W.M., 1676 Backhouse, John, 1718 Backhouse, J. E., 1878 Backhouse, Richard, 1755 Bacon, N., 1752 Bacon, Nathaniel A. Franciscus, 1635 Bacon, Nicholas, 1574 INDEX. Baddeley, Thomas, 1750 Badoux, Franciscus, i6g8* Baker, Ann, 1824 Baillie, 18 — Bailey, Gulielmi, 1823 Bailey, John, 1761 Bailey, Sarah, lySg Bailev, Thos. J., 1893 Baillie of Culler Allers, 18(69), 187° Baillie, W. E., 1894 Baillie, Honb'c George, 1724 Baillieu, Madame, 1894 Baily, W., 1816 Bain, George W., 1895 Baldrey, Andrew, 1761 Baldwin, Alfred, 1893 Baldwin, jno., 1772 Balfour, Kathleen F. T., 1893 Balfour, Mary T., 1S93 Ballard, Robert, 1762 Balmanno, Robert, 1828 Balthasar, Abbas, 1573 Baltimore. Baronis de, 1751 Bamford, John, 1758 Bancks, John, 1740 Bancroft, R. S., 1827* Bangor Library (U.S.A.), 18— ,1883 Bankson, Jacob, 1769 Baptist Institution, 1810 Baptist Library, London, 1844 Bar, Marie L. B. Cte de, 1776 Barbados Literary Soc, 1777* Barbavilla House, 1837 Barber, Miss Eliz., 1765 Barber, Joseph, 1756 Barber, Oswald, 189- Barberot dWutet, 17S7* Barclay, David, 1796 Barcock, Mrs. Mary, 1700 Bargallo, F., 1895 Barker, John, 18(07), ^8°? Barlow, Charles, 173- Barnard, H. G., 1817 Barnard, Henry Gee, 1839 Barnardiston. Sr Samuel, 1704, 1728 Barnes, Josua, 1700 Barnstaple Library, 1826 Baron, M. H. Theodori, 1720 Barratt, Thomas J., 1891 Barroll, William, 1795 Barre, 1791* Barre, Mmjosephi, 1757 Barretto, Joseph, 1824 Barrington, John, 1738 Barritt, Thomas, 1794 Barrow, Revd W., 1789 Barry, H., 17 — Basset, T. H., 1796 Bassett, Thomas, 1724 Barter, G., 18— Barthel, Andrae, 1733* Barthez, J. de, 1806 Bartlett, Martha, 1729 Bartlett, William, 1S91 Barton, Philips 1755 Barton, Everard W., 1892 Bastard, Chs 1885 Bastian, Francois, 1740* Batcheler, Thos John, 1750 Bate, Jo:, 16S7 Bath Literary Inst., 1S24 Bath, Marquess of, 18S6 Bath, Rachel Countess of, 1671 Battis, Josephus J. H. De, 1769 Battersea, Lord, 1893 Battersea, Lady Constance, 1892 Baulard, Claudius F., 17 — * Bauzon, L., 1891 Bavariae Ducum, 1618, 1746 Bayard, C, 1879 Baylie, Dr. Rich., 1668 Bayley, Rd., 1756* Bayly, Samuel, 1770 Bayley, William A., 17S3' Bayly, Thomas, 1707 Bazot, 1848 Beale, F. A., 1884 Beales, William, 1754 Bealey, Ralph, 1807 Beatson, B. W., 1874 Beaufort, Henry, Duke of, 1705, 1706 Beaufort, Rachel Dutchess of, 1706 Beauminy, Ch. de, 1852 Beaumont, Robert Jehannot de, 1742 Beavis, Rev. P., 1768 Beccles Book Society, 1787 Beckett, Wm, 1769 Bedford, John Duke of, 1736 Bedford, Duke of, 1703, 1S07, 1S65, 1873 Begon, Michael! , 1702 Beham der Elter, Andreas, 1595 Beham, Seboldt, p. iS, 1544 Beilby, R., 18—, 1S17 Belfast Academy, 1848 Belfast Art Society, i8go Belfast Free Library, 1888 Belfast Institution, 1833 Belfast Library, 1765 Belfast Library (U.S.A.), 188- Belfast Public Library, 1889 Belhaven and Stenton, Lord, 1895 Bell, A. G. and N., 1892, 1893 Bell, Mr. Montgomery, 1710 Bell, Thomas, 1644, 1797 Bellaers, 1560 Bellehache, Le Cher De, 1771 Beltner, Frank Peter, 1755 Belton House, 1867 Benedictines du Calvaire, 188- Benett, John, 1841, 1843 Eengough, James, 1702 Bennet, John, 1703 Bennet, Sr William, 1707 Bennett, Frederick, 1895 Bennett, John, 1S04 Benlowes, Edovaidus, 1631 Benoit, 1883 Benoit, A., 1894 Benoit, A. L., 1846 Bentham, George, 1854 Bentham, James, 1740 Bentinck, W. J. Bn., 1781 Beraudi, D. Philippi Dominici, 1734 Berbis de Rancy, 1734* Berdmore, Scrope, 1790 Beresford, Denis R. P., 1894 Beresford, Richard, 1772, 1774 Berglint, A., 1771 Bernardos (Praepo.), 1670 Bernard de la Vernette, 1737* Bernheim, A. C, 1895 Berkshire, the Earl of, 1720 Bertie, Charles, 1704 Bertie, HonWe James, 1702 Bertie, HonWe Robert, 1702 Berry, Thomas Sterling, 1790 Berthelemy, Alex, 1777* Bertrand, P., 1723 Bessborough, H. F., 1796 Best, George, iSoi Bethell, William, 1894 Bethune-Baker, A. A., i8gi, 1894 Beurard de Toul, 1777* Beurdeley, A., 1S76 Beuther, Johann Conrad, 1760 Beuzeville, Samuel, 1782 Bevan, A. T. ijc M. F., 1770* Bever, Thomas, 1781 Bettine, iSgo Biblical Archaeological Soc, 188- Biddle, T., 1776 Biderman, Antonius, 1654 Biddulph, F'r., 1794 Bielke, Thure, 1595 Bierstadt, E. H., 1894 Bieswal, Benoit, 1769 Bigarne, Caroli, 1868 Bigger, P'rancis Joseph, 1892, 1894 Biggs, G. Hesketh, 1854 Bihn, Louis, 1893 Bilbrough, A., 1894 Billiet, Alexis, 1808 Billingsley. Johannes, 1693 Billson, Caroli J., 1S94 Bingham, J. Moody, 1751 Bingham, Ri:, 1794 Birch, Thomas, 1710 Birkbeck Literary Inst., 1823 Birmingham Town Council, 1880 Bizemont Prunele, Cor.ite de, 1781 Bizemont, M., 1794 Blackburn Free Library, i860 Blackburne, J. J., 1874 Blackburne, John, 17S0 Blackett, Thomas, 1766 Blackstone, C, 1753 Blackwell, Henry, 1893, 1894 Bladen, Johannis, 1637 Biakeston, William, 1684 Blamont, N. R. Frizon de, 1694 Blamont, Nicolas Remy Frizon de, 1704 Blanchard, Petri, 1770 Blanckstetten, 1770' Bland, John, 179-, 1795 Blandy, John, 1791 Blatt. James, 1662 Blommendal, Wilhelm, 161 1 INDEX. Blore, Charles C, 1894 Blount, Sir Harry Pope, 1734, 1735 Blount, Walter, 1757 Blomfeild, John, 1714, 1715, 1717 Blomefield, Francis, 1736 Bloomfield, Robert, 1813, 1815 Bloxam, John, iSio Blundeli School, 1790 Boehm, Sir Joseph E., 1S89 Boisot, Claud, 1749 Bolitho, J. B and E., 1874 Bolitho, William, 1892 Boll. James. 17S4 BoUand. Sir Wm., 1834 Bibl: BoUandiana, 1842 Bolton, William, 1889, 1894, 1895 Bond. Sophia, 1S64 Bond, Thomas, 18S4 Bonner, T., 1769 Bonneton, J.. 18S8 Bonsall, Sir Thomas, 1797 Bonnejoy, Docteur, 187-, 1875 Bonnier, L. T. J., 1746* Bonnyrigi; Library, 1825 Bools, Wm. Edward, 1891 Borrajo, E. M., 1893 Borthon, Edmond, 1S76 Bordier, Geneve. 1874 Borowsky, Ludwig Ernst von, 1765 Borrey, ."^nt. Jos. H., 1711* Borrow, Isaac, 1702 Bosanquet. David, 1739 Boscheron, J. G. R., 1777 Bosville, A., 1714 Boston Historical See, 1790 Barton Library, Boston, 1873 Theological Library, Boston, i860 Boston Public Library, 1822, 1838, 1852, i860, 1863, 1870, 1871, 1877, 1S81 Boston Public Library.U.S.A., 1889 Bouchart, .\lexandre, i6ii Bouchet, J. F., 1730* Boughey, A. H. F., 1894 Bouju, 17S0 Boula, 1778 Bouland, Dr. L., 1877, 1893 Boulot, C. de, 1706* Boughton, Christopher, 1713 Bourbon Lancy, 16S9* Bourchier, Jno., 1739 Bourgeois, Ar., 18 13 Bourgeois, Jules, 1883 Bourke, Hon. Mrs. A., 1892 Bourke, Terence T., 1889 Bourke, Hon. E. R., 1890 Bourlier, I'Aine, 1750. 1750* Boutillier de St. Quentin, 1722* Bouton, J. W., 1871 Bowater, Maj. Gen., 1800 Bowditch Fund, 1S38 Bowdoin College, 1815 Bowdoin College Library, 1S37 Bowen, J., 182S Bowens, J., 1772 Bousfield, Gulielmi. 1S79 Bouvenne, .\glaus, 1875 Bowles, G. Downing, 1854 Bowles, St. George, 1773 Boyat, Ludovici, 1714* Boycott, Thos., 1761 Boyd, J. P., 1800 Boyd, Julianae, 1677 Boyd, Juliane, 1877 Boyle, John Lord, 1725 Boyle, Edmund M., 1883 Boyne, William, 1851, i860 Bozman, John Leeds, 1S23 Brace, Fr incis, 1717 Bracebridge, Saml., 1733 Brachley, VV., 185 1 Brackstone, James, 1751 Bradlaugh, Charles, 1891 Bradney, Joseph A., 1883 Bradney, Lt.-Col. J. A., 1892 Bradshaw, Hennci, 1846 Bradshaw, R. S., 1800 Brady, Henry, 18(55) Bragg, Philippa, 1634 Brainerd, Helen Elvira, 1893, 1894 Bramond, Paul Francois, 1755 Bramston, Thomas, (1707) Branca, 1890 Brand, Jane. 1754 Brand, Jno., 1769 Brand, Sir Thos., 1735 Brandon, David, 1850 Brandt, Marie, 1559,* p. 18 Brandt, R. E., 1890 Bray, William, 1794 Brayshaw, Thos., 1881 Brasenose Coll., 1650 Breedon, John Symonds, 1789 Breton, Tho, 1734 Breton, Phil le, 18 — Bridgeman, Hen. Toye, 1746 Bridgman, Hen. Toye, 1781 Bridgmin, Sr Orlando, 1704 Bridges, David, 1793 Bridgwater, Earl of, 1703 Brierlv, Oswald Walter, 1615 Brierly, Sir O. W., i8gi Bristol Infirmary, 1820 Inst. British Architects, 1834 Inst. British Architects, 1837 British Assoc, Montreal, 1884 British Bible Soc, 18— Brock, Gulielmus, 1713 Brodrick, 8' John, 1703 Brooke, Stopford A., 1892 Broughton, A., 1796 Broughton, Rhoda, i88g Bromhead, Sir E. F., 1S55 Bromley, William, 1703 Brooklyn Bible Soc, 1S61 Brosamer, Johannes Augustinus de, 1706 " Brown Library," Glasgow, 1862 Brown, .Arthur W. W., 1893 Brown, Edward, 1701 Brown, Frederick, 1893 Brown, J.imes Duff, 1892 Brown, James Roberts, 1892 Brown, J. W., 1S53 Brown, Patk 1742 Brown, Samuel, 1755 Browne, Henry E. J., 1894* Browne, John M., 1863 Browne, Patk, 1740,* p. 116 Browne, Thomas, 1874 Browning, Arthur G., 1889 Browning, Oscar, 1S70 Brownlow, John Earl, 1866 Brownlowe, Sir John, 1698 Brownlowe, Sir William 1698, i6g8* Brownlowe, Dame Alice, 1698 ; 1698,* p. 19 Bruce, Chas., 1710 Bruce. Mrs. Charles, 1850 Bruce, J. A., 18 — Bruce, Jacobi, 1895 Bruce, Charles Viscount, 1712 Bruff, J. G., 183- Bryant, H. W., 1893 Brydges, Augusta Anna, 1766 Brydges, Kempe, 1773 Brydges, William, 1704 Buck, Petri Jos: de, 1796 Buck, John H., 1894 Buckby, Richard, 1703 Buckingham, Owen, 1709 Buissy, de, 1759 Buisseret, Joseph de, 1856 Bulkeley, Lord Viscount, 17S5, 1818 BuUer, Sir George, 1S53 Bull, Robert, 1740 Bullock-Barker, W., 1894 Bulman, J. A., 1823 Bulwer, Sir Henry E. G., 1890 Burchell, Robert, 1817 Burckhard, Job. Heinr., 1715 Burd, Robert, 1848 Burdon, Miss Sarah, 1747 Burford, John, 1S14 Burganet, Taverne de, 1771 Burges, Wilhelmi, 1853 Burgess, Thomas, 1837 Burghley, Elizabeth Lady, 1700 Burghesiae, N. P., 1825 Burk, M. Joh. Albrecht, 1719 Burke, Henry Farnham, 1887 Burkhart, Christoph, 1624 Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1893 Burnard, Charles F., iSgi Burnard, Robert, i8gi Burndred, T., 18 — Burndred, Thomas, 1S35 Burnet, John, 1754 Burnett, James, 1S83 Burnett, Swan M., 1887 Burrard, G., 1802 Burroughs, Mrs Frances, 1767 Bursard, Costaid de, 1774 Burton, C, 1755 Burton, Christ., 1740 Burton, J., 1826, 1828, 1833 Bury, Honble Sr Thomas, 1703 Bury Library, 1818, 18(24) Busbey, Edw. Wills, 1774 Buschman, A. Otto, 1702* Bush, Carolus, 1734 INDEX. Busset, Vte de Bourbon, 1788 Busset, Louis A. P. Bourbon, 1793 Butcher, Peter, 1723, 1723* Butler, Marv, 1703 Butler, H. M., 1800 Butler, Richard, 1703 Butler, Walter, 1816 Butter, Dr. D., 1820 Butterfield, W. A., 1894 Buxton, Francis William, 1890 Byerley, Robert, 1702 c. '., A.E., 1826 C.,B.C. (Monogram), 1760 C, E.T., 1817 C, Harriet, 1886 Cabre, 1775 Cadogan, Henry, 1888 Cadore, Due de, 1S27, 1882 Cadoux, Matthew, 1772 Cairnes, Lady Elizabeth, 1710 Caix de St. Aymour, 18 — * Caldwell, John, 1797 Caldwell, Ponsonby, 1787 Caledonian Literary Soc, 1805 Calland, B. A., 1875 Gallon, W., 1782 Cambridge Free Library, 1862 Camell, Willi, 17(25) Cameroniarii, 1585 Camp de Sathonay, 1871 Campbell, S"; Alexr 1707 Campbell, Mr Alexr 1708 Campbell, Honble. Archibald, 1708 Campbell, Mr Archibald, 1722 Campbell, Sr James, 1707 Campbell, James, 1768 Campbell, Revd Jas 1844 Campbell, Sr James. 1757 Campbell, John, 1739. 1774, 1777 Campbell, T., r756 Camus de F'ilam, 1732* Camusat, Ludovicus, 1708' Cannon, Ann, 1767 Carbery, George Evans Lord, 1715 Carbury, Lord, 1S29 Cardigan, Elizabeth Countess of, 1715 Card, W., 179S Carey, Jacobi. 1729 Carew, Nicholas, 1707 Carey, William, 1830* Carington, Francis, 1738 Carlander. Gerda. 1890 Carleton, Jos.. 1707 Carmichael, The Honble Sir James, 1727, 1727* Caroli \'I., 1719 Carpenters Compy., Philadelphia, 1724.* p. 116 Carpenter, John Philipps, 1779 Carpenter, Joannes, 1770 Carr, Henry, 1874 Carr-Lloyd. James M., 1881 Carr, Caroli, 1716 Carr, John, 1741 Carroll, Charles, 1702 Carter. Ann, 1795 Carter, George, 1792 Carter, Thomas. 1722 Carteret de Hawnes, 1841 Cartwright, Thomas. i6gS ; 1698,* pp. 19. 217 Carver, Chas 1756 Carysfort. Earl of, 1894 Casberd, Josephus, 1710 Caseau, B., 1750* Caseau, E. F. J., 1720* Cassan, Stephen Hyde, 1836 Castle Ashby. 1865 Castle FreUe Library, 1807, 1817 Castle, Egerton, 1892 Castle, Septimus, 1895 Castleknock School, 180(7) Castlemoron, Belsunce de, 1747 Castelyne, Neville, 1660 Le Cat, Docteur, 1742* Cathcart, Charles Schaw Lord. 1750 Cathcart, Charles Shaw Lord, 1763 Catton. Thomas. 1838 Caulfeild, Rev. John, 1776 Caulfield, Richard, 1820 Caumartin, 1750 Cavata. Martini, 1750 Cavendish, Lord Henry, i6g8 Cavendish family, 166S Cayley, George, 176-* Cavers, 1786 Cazenave, Alphei, 1835 Cazenove, Raoul de, 1859 Cellarii, F., r8i6 Cepede I'aine. 1792* Chadwick, John, 1791 Chalmers, Alexr., 1773 Chambaudoin, Comte de, 1S80 Chamberlayne, Emma C, 1889 Chamberlayne, John. 1702 Champfleury. 1S74 Champflour, J. B., 1737* Champante, Willm., 1790 Champante, John, r703 Chancel, Gu-stave, 1S76 Chandos, James Duke of 1777 Chandler, Samuel, 1755 Channing, W. F.. 1870 Chapman, Lady, t849 Chapman, Rich:, 1755 Chaponay, 1627 Chappron, 1762* Chard Choir. rS23 Charleston Library Soc, 1S02* Chartered Accountants, 1880, 1S93 Charleville, Countess, 1895 Chassel, J. G. F., 1792 Chatham, Mary, 1760 Chauncy, .Ann, 1748 Cheltenham College, 1841, i86i Chepmell, Dr. J. D., 1885 Chermside, T.. iSoo Chester Law Library, 1S59 Chesterfield, Earl of, 1731 Chetwode, Dame .-Mice J., 1891 Chevalier, D. CI. Antonii, 1730 Chevalier, Charles, 1S60 Chevrier, Jules, 1876 Chew, Beverly, 1894 Chichester Library Soc, 1794 Chichester Cath. Library, 1890 Chichester Cathedral, rSga Chilcot, Thomas, 1757 Chilton, Edward, 1697 Choiseul, I7f9* Cholmeley, Sir M., 1826 Cholmley, Rogeri, 1565 Christ Ch. Library, 18 — Christian Religion Assoc, 1800 Christie, David, 1762 Christie, Richard C, 1892 Christoph, 1543 Christophorus (Praepositus), 1678 Christoph, Wolfgang, 1758 Chute Lodge, 1S16 Cideville, P. R, Le Cornier de, 1768 Cittadella Boarding School, 1791 Clanricardc, Deburgh Earl of, 1750, I759> I7«3 Clap, John, 1791 Clare Castletown, 1892 Clare, Jbi, 1S44 Clarence Club, 183- Clark, Charles, of Essex, 1861 Clark, Charles, 1863, 1866 Clark, Charles E., 1894 Clark, John, 18—, 1S08 Clark, Susan, 1824 Clarke, 1513* Clarke's Enfield, 181- Clarke, Botsford R., r88i Clarke, Carver, 1868 Clarke, Edward, 1664 Clarke, L., 1765 Clarke, T., iS — Clarke,Thomas, 18(14), 18(15), 1888 Clarke, Z., 1765 Clavering, Robt., 1748 Claviere, L.. 1769 Clayton, Sr. Robert, 1679 Clayton, William, 1732 Clauzot. J., 1888 Clement, Petri F., 1732* Cleoburey, J., 1771 Clerc, Caroli Henrici, 1695* Le Clerc, C. G., 1806 Clifton, M. W., 1815 Close, Rev. F., 1S39 Closter, Weihen-Stephen, 1646 Cloth Workers Company, 1838 Clulow, Ethel Selina, 1894* Coape, Henry, 17 — Cobbe, Ric Chal., 1753 Cochrane, Robert, 1894 Cock, Alfred, 1887 Cock, Henrj', r892 Cock, James, 1893 Cockrill, J. Wm., rS93 Codrington, .\dela H., 1894 Coetlogon, C. de, 1833 Coffin, John, 1771 Cokayne, George E.. 1882 Coke, Cary, 1701 Coke, Edward, 1701 INDEX. Colbourne, J., 185- Colchester Library, 1750 Coll: St. Augustins, 1769 Collegium d. Catharine, etc., 1701 Collegium, etc.. Clare, I70t Coll: Corp: Christi, 17(69) Coll: Christi, etc., 1701 Coll: Theol: Cices-t:, 1S39 Coll: Harvard, 1873 Coll: Inst: London, 1865 Collegium Jesu Cantab, 1700 Collegium S. Johannis, 1700 Collegium Mariae de V., 1700 Coll: Novum Oxon, 1702 Coll: Owens iManc:, 1869 Coll: Pemb: Cant:, 1847 Coll: Sid: Sussex, 1701 Coll: Theol: Wellens, 1840 Collegium S. Trinitatis, 1700 Coll: Lincoln, Oxon, 1703 Coll: Jesu Oxon., 1712 Colleg: Jesu Cantab:. 18 — Cole, Charles Francis, 1892 Cole, Wm, 1749 Colerane, Henry Lord, 1702 Colesworthy, D. C, 1825, 1827 College of Arms, 1768 Collet, Johannes, 1633 CoUett, George, 1895 Collins, J., 1800 Collins, Margaret, 1892 Collins, Joannes, 1634 Collins, Joseph, 1738 CoUis, Joseph, 1S07 Colman, Francis, 1757 Coloma, Messire Pierre, 1657 Colonial Dames of America, 1894 Colquitt, John Scrope, 1797 Colthurst, John, 1773 Columbian College, New York, 1754 Columbia College, 1890 Columbian Exposition, 1893 Columbian Library, 1893 Columbine, Francis, 1708 Colvin, Sidney, 1888 Combles, J. de, 1734* Combridge, Mrs. Margaret, 1701,* p. 116 Comins, J., 1777 Comitis, J. B., 1765 Comley, Thomas. t795 Compton, Henry, 1701 Compton, Honble George, 1703 Compton, Lord AKvyne, r8So* Comragh Lending Library, 1849 Comtesse, a I'Hospital, 1753 Comyn, Lau., 1794 Congalton, Andrew, 1761 Conkling, Nathl VV., 1S82 Connecticut Theological Inst., 1833 Conservando Cresco, 1636 Conservators. River Thames, 1857* Convictus Friburgensis, 18 — Conyers, John, 1737 Cooke, Sr George, 1727 Cooke, E. H., 1840 Cooke, John, 1701, 1712 Cooke, Wm, 1783 Cooke, William, 1838, 1891 Cookesley, W. G., 1840, 1842 - Cooper, Bristowe, 1779 Cooper, Charles Purton, 1837 Cooper, George, 1794 Cooper, J. W., 1807 Cooper, William, 1778 Cooper, William Dodge, 1779 Cope, E. M., r863, 1873 Corbet, Andrew Vincent, 1835 Corbet, Eustace K., 1891 Corbet, Katharine, 1891 Corbet, Matthew Ridley, i8go Corbett, Charles, 17 — Corbett, Thos., 1S08 Corday d'Armont, C, (1790) Cordier, 1880 Cordwainers, South Shields, 1793 Cork High School, 1876 Cormainville, Vaucresson de, 1743 Cornelisen, Henry, 1720 Corner, C. C, iS — Corner, John, 1S93 Corning, John Herbert, i8go Cornwall, Duchy of, 1783 Cornwallis, Charles Lord, 1700 CorpusChristi Sunday School, 1844 Cory, Robert, r749 Cotton, Johannis, 189- Cotton,John,i88-, 1875,1886,1891 Cotton, Samuel, 1773 Cotes, Digby, 1755 Cotes, H., 1802 Coutant, Richard B., 1S94 Coutts, F. B. Money, iS8g Cowper. William, 1728 Cox. Edward, 1SS3, 1889 Cox, Richard, t743 Coxhead, Albert C, 1864 Coxhead, E. A.. 1887 Cram. George Washington, 1893, 1894 _ Cramer, Freiherr von, 1787 Cramond Library, 1815 Crampton, Samuel, 173- Crafton, Wm Bell, 1777 Cranitch, William, 1818 Crawford, Ann, 1S15 Crawfurd, Wm, 1769 Crayencour, Cleenewerek de, 1768 Cressener, Henrici, 1705 Crewe, Nathaniel, 1703 Croft, Herbert, 1871 Croix de Chevrieres, 1750* Croker, T. Crofton, t84i Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1848 Crombie, J. W., 1889 Cromwell, Richard, r82o Cronstern, Car: Frid: Schr: de, 1776 Cross, Edward Fenna, 1891 Cross, Johannis Neville, 1892 Crosse, Col. T. R., 1892 Cross-grove, Henricus, 1683 Crossinge, Ricardus, 1711 Crovee, Thiebauld de la, 1883 Crowder, T. M., 18 — Crowle, W71, 1748 Cullum, Sir John, 1760 Cumberland, Mr., 1.S27 Cunningham, James, 1794 Cunningham, James, 1871 Cunynghame. Sr David, 17 — , 1737 Cursay, Thomasseau De, 1756 Curtis, Thomas, 1667 Cushing, Jacob, 1746 Cust, Francis Cockayne, 1791 Cymmrodorion, 1S20 D. 'ABBS, Johannis, (1705) Dade, R., 1820 Dale, Anne, 1758 Dalison, Max. H., 1870 Daly, J., 18S7 Dalyson, Thos., 1729 Darner, Anna, 1793 Darner, Anne Seymour, 1793 Damer, John, 1793 Darner, Honble Lionel, 1793 Dampmartin, A. H.,' 1775 Danbury Sabbath School,* 1871 Danckelmann, E. L. de, 1745 Dangerfield, George, 1837 Daniel, Revd Wm, 17 — Danielis. (Archiepiscopi), 1558 Daniell, Frans 1799 Dapp, Raymundus. 1774 Dartmouth Coll: Library, 1770, 1819 Darwin, C, 17(73) Darwin, Erasmus, 1771 Darwin, Francis, 188S Darivin, Robert, 1737 Darwentwater, Earl of, 1702 Dassel, Margareta Von, 1769 Davidson, Euphemia, 1892 Davies, D. P., iS— Davies, Rowland, 1710, 1721 Davis, James, 1825 Dawes, Sr William, 1704 Dawson, 1841 Dawson, Francis, 1841 Dawson, L., 1754 Day, Robert; 1880, 1884, 18S5, 1889, 1891, 1893, 1894 Day, Steven, 1642 Dayrell, H., 1786 Deane, John, 1738 Deane, Samuel, 1795 Deanes-Dundas, C. F. W., 1891 Dearlove, Jane, 1796 Deats. Hiram Edmund, 1894 Debenham, M., 17S7 Deberdt, Dennis, 1S09 Debut, 1700 Dee, Franciscus, 1638 Delacour, Michael, 1727 Delafaye, Charles, 1743 Delaleu, 1754 Delamothe, 1765* Delatourrette, J acobi A. C, 1719,1740 Delavallee, Claude Rene, 1743 Demorey, 1768* Denbigh, Earl of, 1703 Denichii, Sebastiani, 1672 INDEX. Dennis, George R., 1893* Derancy, P. A., 1726 Derby, James, Earl of, 1702 Derbyshire, Mollie, 1895* Dering, Edoardus. 1630 Dering, Thomas, 1749 Despinchal, le Comte, 17 — Destoublon, Jac. de Grille, 1737 Deuchar, J., 1S06, 1817 Devey, John, 1783 Devine, J. C. Q. E. H., 1750 Dexter, Samuel, 1785 Dey, Bartholomew, 17 — Dick-Lauder, Sir T. North, 1882 Dick-Lauder, Sir T. N., 1889 Dickens, Charles, 1870 Dickins, Ambr., 1740 Dickins, G., 1739 Dickins, Fr., 1795 Dickinson, Marsh, 1755 Dickinson, Robert, 1791 Dickinson, Davidis, 1796 Dickinson, J. T., 1893 Didot, Firmin, 1850 Dieppe, College de, 1858 Diessen, Ad Bib. in, 1755 Dietrich, 1621 Dillon, Joan Talbot, 1767 Dirix, A., 176-, 1785 Discountenancing Vice Sec, 182(2) Ditchfield, m.d.. 1S57 Dix, James, 1850 Doble, Caroli E., 1889 Doble, John Medley, 1881 Dobree, Peter, 1745 Dobree, P. P., 1S26 Dobree, Thomas, 1752 Dobson, Austin, 1889 Dobson, Rev. J., 1753 Dodd, Georgius, 1S50 Dodson, N., 1815 Doggett, E. G., 1893 Dolbeare, Benjamin, 1739 Domvile, C. C. W., 18— Domvile, Sir C. C. W., 186- Domvile, Sir C. W., 1861 Donaldson, 1766 Dor, Pierre, 1S95 Doulton, Sir Henry, 1891 Douglas, William, 1892 Dowdeswell, E. R., 1S63, 1874 Dowglass, George, 1779 Downing, Dickson, 17(21) Downing, William, 1744 Drake, Arthurina M., 1861 Drapers Company, 1856 Draper, Josephus, 1610 Drayton family, 1733 Dredge, John, iSii Drew, B., 1841 Drexel, Joannis, 1525, 1625 Drogheda, Earl of, 1893 Dromore Reading Society, 1794 Driicker, Adolf, 1S93 Drummond, Adam, 1821 Drummond, Edgar, 1871 Drummond, G. S. H., 1870 Drummond, John Murray, 1849 Drury, Henry, 1794 Dubbs, Joseph Henry, t88o Dublin Grammar School, 1798 Dublin Y.M.C.A., i860 Dubois de Fosseux, 1751* Dubuisson, 1805 Dubut, 1782 Duchataux, V., 1887 Duche, 1779 Duck, W., 1809 Dudd, Agnes J., 1S93 Dudgeon, 1832 Dudley, Joseph, 1754 Dudley, Sr Wdliam, 1704 Dudley. Viscount, 17(88) Dufau, Bernardi, 17 — Duff, Admiral, 1858 Duffield, Richard, 1863 Dugan, Michaelis Ignatii, 1758 Dugdale family, 1729 Duke, Su:, 17S0 Dulcius, Johannes, 1573 Dulcius, Joannes, 1573,* p. 18 DuKvich Coll: Library, 1S36 Dumas, Antonii M., 1757* Dumercue, Anne, 1856 Dumont, Maurice, 1894 Dunbar, Sir William, 1742 Dundas, C. J. W. D., 1844 Dunse Library, 18 — Dupplin, Viscount, 1699 Dupuytrein, 1S84 Durant, 1807* Durant de St. Cirgues, 1737* Durham School Library, 1&59 Duriez, M., 1893 Durosier, Dr. Felix, 1890 Duval, 1772 Duvall, Gabrielis, 1778 Dwight, John, 1728 Dykes, Alexander, 1795 jlL., J., 1640 T.T.E. (Crest), 1823* Eades, Fra:, 1768 Eagar, Elizabeth, 1830 Earle, Anna Sutton, 1779 Earle, Erasmus, 1739 Easter, G., 18 — Ebner, Hieronimi, 1516 Eby, Simon P., i8gi Eccleston, Thomasi, 1791 Edinburgh Geological Soc, 1834 Edlmann, Gertrude H., 1894 Edlmann, H., 1893 Edlyne, Thomas, 1830 Edler, Anton, 1690 Edmence, Thomas d', 1873 Edmonton Sunday School, 1877 Edmunds, Mary, 1893 Edwards, George, 1703 Edwards, Jonathan, 1712 Edwards, Margaret, 1790* Egerton, John, 1707 Egerton, Sarah Fyge, 1705 Eggar, Mary A., 1858 Egkher, Oswald Ulrich, 1705 Egmont, Earl of, 1874 Egmont, John Percival Earl of, 1736 Egyptian Rly. Administration, 1858 Ehrnstain, T. Ernnst von, 1628 Eisengrein, Martinus, 1564, 1565 D'Elbhecq, Du Chambge, 1757 Electoralis Monacensis, Binl., 1779 Electrical Standard. Inst., 1891 Elgar, Elizabeth, 1714 Elgin Literary Assoc, 1818 Eliot, John, 1790 Elkin, Benjamin & Amy, 1892 EUay, William, 1706 Ellard, Philip O., 1893 EUice, Edward, 1823 Elliott, John C, i860 Ellis, Gilbert Ifold, 1891 Ellis, G. I., 1894 Elliston, Robert, 7725 Elmslie, Thomas, 1778 Elmslee, Thomas, 1779 Elmy, James, 1757 Else, Charles J., 1895 Elsley, C. H., 182- Elvey, B., 1803 Elvia, Anna G. Dotter, 1688 Elvin, Charles Norton, 1841 Elvin, Chas Norton, i860 Elvin, Jonathan, 1796 Embden, Johannes A. C. A., 1773 Ernes, William, 1798 Emly, Lord, 1893 Emmanuel College, Cantab., 1737 Emott, Jacobi, i885 Engelmann, Edmund, 1893 Englefield. Sr Charles, i6g8 English Grammar School, iS — Ennis School, iSoi D'Ercevilie, Barthelemy G. R., 1750 Erhardus a Muckhenthall, 1634 Ernestus, Joannis, 1601 Erskine, Honble George Lewis, 1760 d'Essalles, M. le Comte, 1771 Essars, Marquis des, 1730* Essex, Earl of, 1701 Este, Margaret, 1774 Etablissement Geographique, 1830 I'Etang, Abbaye de, 1727 Etevenon, Pauline, iSSo Ethelstone, Elizabeth, 1740 Eton College, 1801 Eton School, 1881 Eu, College d', 1729 Evans, David, 1797 Evans. Fred. H., 1S93 Evans, George Eyre, 1893 Evans, John, 1701 Evans, Rev. Thomas, 1768 Evans, R. Wilson, 1S35 Eveche de Lu^on, 1S29 Eventt, John, 1754 Ewer, Isaac, 1700 Ewing. Thomas, 1771 Ex Libris Society, 1891 Exeter Library, 17(85) Exeter Architectural Soc, 1841 INDEX. Exeter Cath. Library, 1749, 1822 Exshaw, A. J., 1810 d'Eyb, Gabriel, 1525 Eye VVorking Men's Club, 1S67 Eyre, D., 1780 Eyre, E. J., 179S Eyre, Robert, 1703 Eyre, Thos., 1792 r* ABRUM, Joannem, 1540 Fairholme, George, 1779 Fairholt, F. W., i856 Falconer, Mr., 1797 FalgairoUe, Prosper, I885 Fall, Margaret. 1777 Falloize, Antoine de la, 1760* Falmouth, Viscount, 1878 Fane, Hon. Spencer P., 1879 Farcy, Alfred de, r868 Farewell, Sam. 1778 Farnham, Lord, 1783 Farr, Charles, 1769 Farr, Samuel, 1769 Farrer, Rev. Edmund, 1889 Faultrieres, Michel Comte de, 1730 Faure, J. F., 17—* Fauveau, 1702 Favier, 1888 Fawcett, John, 1863 Fays, 1784 Felibien, Andre, 1650, 1669 Felkin, Howard Riley, 1893 Fellows, Caroli F., 1872* Fenizer, Johannes, 1629 Fenn, Jno., 1762 Fenton, Elizabeth, 1736 Fenton, R. H., 1S23 Fenwick, John, 1814 Fenwick, Thos., (1765), 17(70) Ferdinandi, r646 Ferdinandi III., Ex M., 1791* Ferrier, Louis, 1791 Fersfield Parish, 1736 Fetherston, Tho., 1783 Field, C. & M., (1S31) Filain, Ant. Ign.de Camusde,i729 Finch, C. A. W., 1878 Finch, C. A. Wynne, 18S3 Finch, Charles A. Wynne, 1893 Finch, George, 1707 Finch, John, 1723 Finch, Maud & Emily W., 1891 Fincham, H. W., 1S88, 1890, 1894 Fincham, W. A., 1894 Fine Arts Museum, Boston, 1870 Fiott, John, 1806 Firlei, Nicolaus, 1570 Fisher, of Dorchester, i8i8 FitzGerald, William, 1698 Fitzherbert, Thos., 1749 FitzRoy, Lord Henry, 1811 Fitz waiter, Charles MildmayLord, 1701 Flanagan, Rev. John, 1S43 De Flaghac, 1779 Fleming, Francis, 1750 Fleming, Mary. 1772 Fleming, Sr William, 1716 Flesher, Elizabeth, 1653 Fletcher, Sr Henry, 1702 Fletcher, H. Morley, 1890 Floncel, Alberto Francesco, 1731 Florisone, B. H., 1752, 1759 Flory, William, 1891 Floridus Praepositus, 1736* Flower, Constance, 1S85 Flower, Cyril, 1885 Floyd, Daniel, 1727 Floyde, J., 1772 Foley, Richard, 1703 Folkard, Henry T., 1S91 Fontenay, A. P. de, 1770 Fontenay, Preudhomme de, 1745 Eoote, Charles B., 1894 F'oote, Benjamin Hatley, 1743 Footner, Jane, 1836 Forbes, William Lord, 1709 Forbes, Sir William, 1760 Ford, (Mayor of London), 1671 Ford, Edward Onslow, 1893 Forrer, R. de, 1880 Forster family, 1674 Fort William, 18— Fort William College, 1832 Fortebcue, Earl, 1891 Fortescue, Hugh, 1703 Fortescue, John, 1703, 1713, 1749 Fothergill, Anna, 1737 Foulis, Robert, 1767 Foulkes, Peter, 1724 Foulkes, John, 1754 Foulkes, Willm, ly^^ Fowler, R., 1774 Fownes, Rev. Joseph, 1790 Fox, Charles, 1702 Fox, G. C, 1770 Fox, Si; Stephen, 1703 Foyelle. Joan. Lud., 1721 Frampton, Franciscus, 1631 Franci., Jo., 1695, i6g6 Franciscus, (Praepositus), 1668 Franciscus Praep., r744 Francke, Abrahamus, 1707, 1710, 1728 Francke, Mr Thos r7iS Franey, J. S., 1886 Frankland, Sir F., 1892 Franklen, C. R., 1894 Franks, Sir A. W., 1891 Frederick, Sr Charles, 1752 Freeman, Revd .Mr William, 1720 Freeman, Kem., 1706 Freeman, Strickland, 1810 Freer, Archdeacon, 1863 Freinhueber, John Joseph Antoni, 1736 French, Edwin Davis, 1893 French, F. W. , 1895 F'rench, Mary Brainerd, 1S93 French Protestant Hospital, i8 — ■ French, W. Nathaniel, 1766* Fressanges, Antonius de, 1752* Frewen, Thomas, 17—, 1711,17(38) Friburgensis, Collegii Pacis, 1756 Frickianae, Bibl., 1700* Friedeman, Jacob, 1779 Froissard-Broissia, 1704* Frome, T., 1766 Froment, Joseph, 1785* Froude, R. H., 1850 Fry, R., 1786 Fuhr, John Philip, 1741 Fulford, Francis, 1699 Furckheim, Edouard de, 1883 Furnell, Michael, 1842, 1845 Furstenberg, Theodorus a, 1605,* p. 18 Furness Schools, 1864 Fust, Francis, 1662 Cj.G.G., 1613* Gage, Sir Thomas, 1805 Gahan, Jas., 17(85) Gainsborough, Dorothy Countess of, 1707, 1710 Gainsborough, Earl of, 1700 Gainsborough, Baptist Earl of, 1710 Gaisford, C, 18— Gale, Frederick, 1853 Galfredus, M., 1804 Gallaudet, Mrs., 1894 Gallois, le President, 1763* Galloway. Margaret, 1S03 Gamble, Rev. Sam, 1818 Gamon, Sir Richard, 1796 Gandal, 1804 Gandell, J., 1802 Gardiner, H. K., 1773 Gardner, Capt. Robert, 1704 Gariel, C M., 18—' Garnet, William, 1699 Garraud, Stephen, 1842 Garrett, Caroli, 1748 Garrett, Edmund H., 1894 Garrick Club, 18—, 18(64) Gartland, William, 1S60 Gaskell, Charles G. M., i89r Gastaldy, J. B., 1732, 1752, 1752* Gatelier, E., 1745 Gaudy, 1665; 1665,' p. 19 Gaultier, Edgard, 1875 Gautier, Theophile, 1872 Geizkofler, Zacharias, 1603, 1605 GeoFfroy, Alexandre, 1893 Geographical Soc, Royal, 1830 George Prince of Wales, 1757 Georges, John, 1677 Georgia Historical Soc, 1839* Georgius, (Praepositus), 1567 Gent, Mr. Thomas, 1772 Gerard, S"; Thos., 1750 Gerning, Joannis Christiani, 1779 Gerning, J. C, i8o5 Ghiton, William R., 1718,* p. 116 Gibbon, Williams, 1758 Gibbs, Emily Anna, 1891 Gibbs, Henry Martin, 1891 Gibbs, Jacobus, 1736 Gibson, George, i860, 1863 Gibson, H. G., 1822 Gidley, Car., 1874 INDEX. Giffard, Hardinge F., 1894 Gilbert, Alfred and Alice, 1893 Gill, John, 1770 Gill, W., 1S92 Gillet, Jean Francois, 1778 Gimlett, Thos, 1841 Gintertaelen, G. Van, 1772 Girton College, 18— Gisinett, Carlotta, 1791 Gladstone, William Ewart, 1889 Glasgow Grammar School, 1789, 1767,* 1831. Glasgow High School, 1856 Glasgow College, 1813 Glazebrook, Thomas T., 1892 Glegg, Joanns, 1758 Glover, Mr. Tho., 1736 Glover, Richard, 1769 Gnoellinger, Anna, 1593 Godard, J. J. F., 1761 Godfrey, John, 1702 Godfrey, Jonathan, 1894 Goldesbrough, Edward, 1703, 1727 Goldney, S., 1861 Golding, Charles, 186= Goldli, Rennhardus, 1698* Goodford, Sam'. 1737 Goodrick, Sr Henry, 1682-3 Goodricke, John, 1779, 1780 Goodridge, A. G., 1823 Goodwyn, Henry, 1743 Goodwyn, Henry W., 1876 Goodwyn, Robert, 1743 Gonville, Wm., 1740 Gordon, James, 1784 Gordon, Robert, 1710 Gordon, Sr VVillm., 1732 Gore, Maria, 1854 Gore, Sir Thomas, 1675 Goschen, G. J , 1800 Goschen, Henry, 1865 Gospell Society, 1704 Gosse, Edmund William, 1883 Gosset, Matt, 1893 Gottrauv, Carolus, 1748 Gough, Richard, 1763 Goulden, John J., i8go Goulden, W. E., 1891 Gowland, Thomas, 1804 Grace of Gracefield, 1799 Grace, Gulielmi, 1759 Grace, Michael, 1712, 1767 Grace, O. J. Dowell, 1819 Grace, Richard, 1790 Grace, Sheffield, 1813, 1816, 1829, 1834, 1841 GrEeme, James, 1715 Grafton, Augs Henry Duke of, 1769 Graham, Rev. John, 1864 Graham, Robert C, 18S8 Gramantieri, Luigi, 1845 Grand Lodge, Quebec, 1847 Grangier, A. S., 1758* Grangier, Jac. Phillippi, 1785 Grangier de Baume, 1711* Grant, Alexander, 1706 Grant, Charles, 177- Grant, Col. F. R. C, 1877 Grant, Col. Frank, 1878 Grant, F., 1879 Grant, Frasci i88o Grant, James, 177- Grant, William, 1746 Graux, Charles, 1794 " Gray " Bequest, 1894 Gray's Inn Library, 1750 Gray, A., 1820 Gray, Allen, 1881 Gray, Henry Lee, 1881 Gray, John, 1816 Gray, Sr James, 1707 Gray, Joannis M., 1880 Gray, William, 1887 Greg, Thomas T., 1880 Gregorie, Francisci, 1635 Gregory, James, 1765 Greisley, Sophia K., 1837 Greisley de Drakelowe, 1835 Green Alcove, 1878 Green, Joannes, 1784 Greene, Rev. Carleton, 1893 Greene, Agatha R., 1895* Greene, Edith Anne, 1893 Greene, Benjamin, 1757 Greene, Katharine, 1867* Greenock Library, 1783 Greslie, Henri, 1880 Gresy, Hilarii, 1868 Grey, Mabel de. 1894* Gricourt, L'Abbe de, 1750 Griffith, John, 1811 Griffith, William, 1707 Grigg, Ann, 1835 Grimaldi, 1767* Grimaldi, H. B., 18— Grimaldi, Maria Anna, 1843, 1863 Grimaldi, Stacey, 1824 Grimaldis, S. S. de, 1823 Grimaldis, Stacei de, 1824 Grimaldi, W. Beaufort, i860 Grimani. Antonio. 1658* Grimod de la Reyniere, 17 — * Grimston, William, 17 14 Grolier Club, New York, 1884 Grolier Club, N.Y., 1894 Groom, Hugh Farmer, 1768 Grose, T. H., 1S93 Grosvenor Gallery Library, 18S0 Grosvenor, Lady Dora, 1894 Grosvenor, Sophia, 1892 Grote, George, 1862, 1871 Grote, Johannes, 1866 Grove Park School, 1823 Grylls, Gulielmus, 1S63 Gudenus, Val. Ferd. Freyherr Von, 1732 Gueldlin, L. R., 1676* Gugger, Franc: Philipp;, 1772 Guibal, N., 1775 Guilford, Baron of, 1703 Guillemeau, L., 1789 Guilmot, Dr., 1893 Guinness, T. A., i8gi Guinot, Ch. 1894 Guion, J. M., 1830* Guiraudi, P., 1880 Gulston. J., 1768 Gulinelli, Ludovicus, 1732* Gundry, Samuel, 1792 Gunicks, Hans Wolff, 1605 Gunning, Petrus, 1684 Gusthart, Robert, 1750 Guyot de St. Michel, 1776* Gwatkin, S. B., 1888 Gwendolen, 1892 Gwillym, Thos. Harct., 1760 Gwyn, Francis, 1698 Gwynnett, Charlotte, 1791 H. ., B., 1795 H., J., 1844 Hacket, Joannis, 1670 Hacket, Thomas, 1757 Hackam, Mrs Judith, 17^1 Hackwood, F. W., 18— Hagen, Thomas Philipp Von Der, 1764 Haggatt, Mr Othniel, 1723 Haigh, William, 1805 Haine, Leon H., 1578,* p. 18 Haistwell, Edward, 1718 Haldane, Honble John, 1707 Halifax, Charles Lord, 1702 Halifax, Viscount, 1887 Halkett, Sir Peter, 1824 Hall, Lady Margaret, 1887 Hall, Sophia E., 1894 Hall, Thomas, 1787 Hallot, Marie Catherine de, 1781 Hamarc de Laborde, 1765* Hamel, Mary A., 1895 Hamerill, Edw., 1793 Hamilton Palace Library, 1882 Hamilton College, U.S.A., 1890 Hamilton College Library, 1888 Hamilton, Sr James, 1710 Hamilton, Walter, 1S72 Hamilton, Walter Kerr, 1854 Hamlin, Chas. E., 1847 Hammatt, C. A., 1846 Hamme, Guilielmi Van, 1659 Hammond, Anthony, 1700 Hammond, T. D., 1828 Hammonius, Carolus Agricola,i553 Hampson, Robert, 1887 Hanbury, John, 1704 Banbury, Thomas, 1892 Hanby, E., 1825 Hanmer, Col: William, 1739 Hanmer, Sr Thomas, 1707 Hanmer, Sir John, 1834 Hanson, Mary, 1773 Hansy, De, 1768 Hapgood, Melvin H., 1887 Harbord, H., 1752 Harcourt, Jacobi, 17 — Harcourt, Lewis Vernon, 1879 Harcourt, Sr Simon, 1702 Hardinge, Viscount, 1853 Hardy, Ralph Price, 1883 Hardy, Thomae Duffus, 1853 INDEX. Hardy, William, 1845 Hare, Esther, 1855 Hare, Sr Thomas, 1734 Harford, Edward, 1741 Harford, Henrici, lyyg Harington, Gostlet. 1706 Harington. Sr James, 1741 Coll. Harleyana, 1741 Harley, the Lord, 1714 Harley, Edward Lord, 1717 Harley, John Pritt, 1S28 Harmer, J., 1800 Harper, Wmus, 1760 Harris, Robert. 1808 Harrison, Hugh Erat, 1892 Harrison, James H., 1S68 Harrison, Thomas, 1698 Harrold, Mary Countess of, 1718 Harold. Anthony Earl of, 1717 Hart, John Blackburn, 1791, 1794 Hartford Young Men's Inst., 1838 Hartington, Richard Bateman,i697 Hartstonge, Dr 1710 Harvard College, 1638, 1842, 188- Harvard University, 1892 Academiae Harvardianae, 1638 Harvey, Thomas, 1802, 180(8) Harvey, John, 1806* Harvey, Frances Mary, 1892 Harvey, Mr Robert, 1702 Haskell, Willm, 1745 Haskoll, Mrs., 1795* Hassell, Richard, 1745, 1768 Hassell, W., 1757 Hastings, Elizabeth, 1808 Hasty Pudding Library, 1808 Hatchard, Thomas G., 1869 Hatton, T., 1754 Hauser, Jo. Theodoric, 1682 Have, A. J., 1761 Havelock. Col. A. C, 1885, 1892 Haverfordwest School, 1865 Havergal, Francis T., 18S8 Haviland, Jacobus, 1807 Haviland, Jas., 1774 Haviland, Thos., 1742 Hawes, Francis, 1716 Havves, Thomas, 1716 Hawes, (1783)* Hawkes, J., 1S46 Haydon, George Henry, 1876 Hayes, M., 1814 Hayford, Wm, 1790 Hayman, Charles, iSig Haynensis, 1873 Hayter, Angelo C, 1S64 Haxthausen, Comes ab, 1772, 1784* Hazell, Elizabeth, 1788 Head, Sr Francis, 1709 Headlam, Hugh R., 1894 Heald, James, 1859 Healey, C. H. H. C, 1888 Heanley, John, 1890 Heathcote, Gilberti V., 1858 Hebbert, Charles, 1859 A.V.H. (? Hecht), 1596 Hecht, F. W., 1885 Hedges, Sr Charles, 1702 Hedouin, 1763 Hedouin, 1764* Heindelius, Jonas, 1605 Heller, Joannes, 1593 Helsby, Thomas, rS68, 1869 Hell, Franc. Jos. Ant., 1773 Henbury Library, 1808 Hendon, Edwardi, 1635 Hendriksen, F., 1888 Hendry, Thomas, 1777 Henniker, Lord, 1804 Henricus, (Episcopus), 1600 Henricus Exoniensis, 1846 Henslowe, W. H., 1802 Henslowe, F. H., 1836 Henville, Mrs. C. B., 1850 Hepburn, John, 1743 Herambourg, 1777' Herbert family, 1745 Herbert, Daniel, 1795 Herbert, R. G. W., 1874 Here, Mr 1752 Herford, Arthur Fenton, 1890 Heron, Patk 1748 Heremit, Petrus, 1791 Hervey, John, 169S Hervey, John Lord, 1702 Herwart, Johannes Christophorus, Ibi2 Herwarth, Heinrich von, 1674 Heseltine, J. Postle, 1873 Heseltine, Sarah, 1873 Hett, Anne, 1761 Hewer, Wni, 1699 Hewitson, Jane, 1800 Hewlett, Josiah, t820 Hichens, A. K., 18S8 Higginson, Nicholas, 1681 Higgs, W. S., 1S19 Highlord, John, 1698 Highmore, \V. R., 1779 Hill & Sons, tS84 Hill, Ann, 1825 Hill. E., 1817 Hill, Effingham, 1869 Hill, Francisci, 16(68) Hill, Margaret, 1769 Hilcock, Barnaby, 1751 Hillary, William, 1743 Hiller. P. C, 1892 Hillersdon family, 1736 Hilton, Robert, 1892 Hillemacher, Frederic, 1871 " Hisexe " Walter Douglas, 1711 Historical Soc.Trin. Coll., Dub., 1794 Historical Soc, Lancaster, 1881 Hoadby, John, 1752 Hoare, Edward, i860 Hoare, Henry, 1704, 1724 Hoare, R. I., 1800 Hobson, Rev93, 1894 Joseph, Laura, i.'^g3 Joseph, Nellie, i!^g3 Joseph, S. S., 1890 Joseph, Samuel S., 1891 Josephus, Bentham, 1778 Joy, George, r775 Jukes, (ieo. Morss, 1798 Junkersdorff, Johan, 1682 Junior United Service, 1S27 KaLBFLEISCH, C. C, 1894 Kay, Rogerus, 1732 Kaye, Richard, 1758 Keble, Johannis, 1870 Keen, 17 — Keene, Arthur, 1808 Keim, Jacobus, 1608 Keir, John, 1811, 1815, 1820, 1830 Kelly, Reginald, 1892 Kelly, Right Hon. Thomas, 1837 Kelsall, Henry, 1711 Kemp, George, 1752 Kempe, Charles Eamer, 1891 Kendal, Duchess of. 1798 Kendall. John, 1751 Kendrick, Dr., 1S55 Kendrick, Jacobi, 1853 Kendrick, James, 1865, 1878, 1879, 1880 Kendrick, John, 1877 Kenion, James, 1755 Kennedy, T., 1819 Kennett. Brackley, 1739, 1747 Kensington School, 183 1 Kent, Anthony Earle of, 1702 Kent, Henry Duke of, 1713, 1733 Kent, Jemima Dutchess of, 1710, 1712 Kenyon, Lloyd Lord, 1892 Ketchum, Silas, 1855 Ketelbey, Abel, 1702 Keyt, Richard, 16S2 Kidd, Houston. 1851 Kildare Archael. Sue, i8gi Killmorey, Lord Viscount, 1704 Kimmergham, HonWe Lord, 1718 Kimpton, Thomas Yale, 1849 King, James, 1794 King, Walter P., 1884 King Alfred College, 1S49 King William's College, 1668 Kings, J., 1794 Kingston, Canada. 1794 Kingston Public Library, 1882 King's School, Peterborough, 18(74) Kintyre Club, 1825 Kitchin. George, 1893 Knapp, Humbly, 1840 Knapp, T. George, 1843 Knatchbull, Thomas, 1702 Knight, Joseph, i.s.Si, 1S83 Knights of Square Table, 1809 Knoringen, Jo. Eg., 1565 Krannost, Theophilus, 1666 Kress, Christopliorus Hiero., 1640 Kress, Johannes Guilhelmus, 1619 Kress, Wilhelm, 1645 LaBORDE, Jean B. de, 1786* Laflize, D., 176S Lake. Mary Beatrice, 1893 Lamb, Eleanor, 1799 Lambert, Anthy., r775 Lambert, George, 1892 Lambesc. Prince de, 1761 Lamotte,Francois Grangierde,i779 Lampson, Locker-, 1874 Lancashire Historic Soc, 189- Lancashire Coll. Library, i8go Lancaster, Hannah D., 1857 Langeac, Comtesse de, 1754* Lane, Benjamin, 1723 Langslow, Robert, 1823 Langiish Place Chapel, 1873 Sigillum Laonensis, 1661* Larcher, Monsieur, 1741 Lardet, 1879 Larkham, Gulf 1752 Larkin, Louisa, 1790 Lathom, Earl of, i'~g4 Lauder, Sir T. N. Dick-, 1SS8 INDEX. Lauderdale, Earl of, 1716 Laudonensis, Petri Antonii, 1762 Laumonier, 1762 Lavaur, Comte de, 1874 Lawes, Edward, 1S51 Lavves, Temple, 1741* Lawrence, A. W., 1895 Lawrence, Eliz. S., 1^25, r826 Lawson, Sir Edward Levy, 1S92 Laxton Hall Library, 1X29 Leacroft, The, 1729 Leadam, Isaac S., 1875 Leathersellers Company, 18 — Lechmere, Nicholas, 1703 Leclerc, Emile, 1892 Leconfield, Wyndham Lord, 1894 Lee, Rev. Charles, 1836 Lee, Rev. Frederick, 183 1 Lee, J. Prince, 1869 Lee, Timothy Tripp, 1795 Leeds Library, is — Leeds, Thomas Duke of, 1701 Lees, Gulielmi, 18(45) Lees, Maria, 1825 Leferon de I'Hermite, 1787* Leflferts, Marshall C, 1894 Lefroy, C. E., i8ig Lefroy, Christ:, E., 1829 Legg, Thos., 1711, 1750 Leggett, Cora A., 1894 Legh, John, 1817, 1S24 Legillon, Aug., i8og Leicester, Earle of, 1704 Leigh, Marion L., i8gi Leigh, Wolleius, 1635 Leighton, Sir Frederic, 1894 Leiningen. F. M. G. Z., 1741 Leinster, Hermione Duchess of,i89i Lejourdan fils, 1785 Lejourdan, 1786* Leman, J., 1730, 1736 Leman, Revd Thos., r7g7 Lemmett, John, 1749 Lemperly, Paul, 1893 Lengroingnet, Antonii, 1732* Lentaigne, Johannis, 1875 Leonard, J. G., 1895 Leon, J. ^L, 1729 Leonor, Le Francois, 1673 Leopold, Joannis, 1700 Leroux, M. Victoris, 1731 Leslie, George D., 1892 Leslie, John, 1815 Lesueur, B. D. M., 1807 Leunckens, G., r748 Leutsch, August von, 1791 Lewis, J. D.. 1810 Ley, Jacob, 1S47 Libbie, Frederic James, 1892 Lichtenstein, R. C, 1893 Liddell, B., 1821 Light, W. C, 1832 Lightfoot, Edoardus, 1635 Lightfoot, William, 1750 Limerick School, 17(55) Limerick Grammar School, 1862 Lmarti, Filippo, 1760 Linden, James, 1784 Linglois, A. D., 1664* Linonian Library, 1802 Linonian Library, Yale, 1753 Lisiecki, Andreae, 1636 Liston, J., 1792 Litchfield, F., 1891 Littledale, Joseph, 1842 Littleton, S'' Thomas, 1702 Littleton, Hon. W. F., 18S9 Liverpool Institution, 1814 Livett, H. W., 1870 Llewelyn, Thos., 1783 Lloyd, Jo., 1730 Lloyd, Reverend John, 173- Lloyd, John, 1734, 1796 Lloyd, Mountagu, 1706 Lloyd, Richard. 1887 Lloyd, Walter E., 1894* Lloyd, Will., 1717 Lloyd, William, 1764 Lloyd, Wilson, i88g, iSgo Lobbes, Dn I. D. Des, 17 — Lock, M., 1758 Locke, G. J., 1800 Locker, Frederick, 1874 Lockhart, Dr., 1889 Lockyer, Elizabeth, 1768 Loelius, Johannes Laurentius,i62i, 1681, 1690 Loeniana, Bibliotheca, 1725 Loftie, 1877 Loinville, D. G. de, 1727* Lomax, Carolus, 1776 London Corporation, 1876 London Corporation Lib., 1873 London County Council, 18S9 London and Middlesex Archael. Society, 1855 Longley, Sir Henry, 1889, 1890 Longueville, Viscount, 1702 Longueville, Barbara Lady, 1702 Lonsdale, Claud, 1894 Lopi, Gio., 1766 Lorentz, Jo., 1607 Lcretlo Convent, Fermoy, 1865 Lorimer, George, 1894 Lorrain, Charles, 1873 Lorraine, Eglise de, 1767 Loubry, Johannes, 1780 Loutrel, Sr. le, 1741* Louvenstein, J. B., 1895 Louvres, Adr. Fr. Langlois de, 1731 Lovelace, Ann, 1687 Lovelace, John Lord, 1704 Lowe, John T., 1892 Lowndes, Robert, 1702 Lowndes, Honble William, 1702 Lubeschitz, Borch Comit de, 1790 Lucanische Bibliothec:, 1739 Luccensis, Christophorus Abbas, 1731 Ludewig, J. P. de, 1719 Ludford, John, 1780 Ludovici, Laurentii, 1714 Ludovicus, Can: Reg:, 1778* Lullin, Amadei, 1722 Lunde, Thomas, 1590 Lustio, Francisco, 1615 Luti Leop:, lo: Bap: Phil:, 1667* Luzarche, Victor, 1874 Luzignem, Le Comte de, 1769 Lycosthenis, Conradi, 1561 Lygon, W. B., iS— Lying-in Hospital, 1789, 1799 Lyon Office Library, 1894 Lyon. Bibliotheques de, 1871, 1872 Lynch, Phillipus, 1703 Lynn Public Library, 1862 Lynne, Lord, 1734 Lysons, Daniell, 1660 Lyte, Henry C. M., 1881 M., F. A., 1767 M. A. M., 1837 M. M., 1793 M., S. R., 1821, 1823 Macaulay, Hector, 1773 Macclesfield, Earl of, i860 MacDermot, Myles, 17 — Macdonald, W. R., 1882, 1885 Maceo, Ralph, 1713 Macfarlane, John, 1855 Mackarness, G. R., 1874 Mackau, Baron de, 1893 Mackenzie, Lewis, (1835)* Mackey, Matthew, 1892 Mackintosh, James, 1779 Mackmurdo, A. D., 1880 Maclear, G. F., 1880 Macleod, R. B., 1877 Macmillan, F., 1879 McDermott, G. A., 1826 McGeary, Thomae, 179(4) McGill Coll., 18— McFarlane, 172- Mclntosh, James, 1780 McKaill, John, iSi- McLaughlin, Domk 183- McLauchlan, 1893 McLean, Lauchlan, 1766 McNachtan, 1764 Macready's Library, 1887 Madocks, John, 181 1 Madsen, Karl, 1888 Magnussen, Peter, 1888 Maine Genealog. Soc, 1884 Maine Historical Soc, 1822 Mainwaring, J., 1807 Maister, Arthur, 1815 Maister, Henry. 1719 Maitland, Major Arthur, 1754 Maitland, Richard Lord, 1682 Maitland, Richard, 1769 Makins, G. T., 1874 Malcolm, Sir Charles, 1846, 1847 Maiden, H. C, 1870 Mallard, J., 1792 Maltby, Edward, 1818 Manaton, Henry, 1762 Manchester, Earl of, 1704 Manchester Public Lib., 1851, 1S89 Manchester Literary Club, 1862 Manet, M. A. de, 1881 INDEX. Mangles, James, 1849 Mann, A. O., 18 — Mann, Timothy, iSio Manning, Rev. C. R., 1SS3 Manning, Rev. C. W., 1884 Manning, William, 1892 Manoury, 1S90 Mansergh, C. Lewis, 1894 Mansergh, Richard Southcote, 1893, 1894, 1S95 Marchant, Josue le, 1752 Marchmont, Earl of, 1702 Marchmont, Alexander Earle of, 1725 Mare Chausse'e, 1779 Mareste, A. de, 1671 Mariane, Antonii, 17 — * Mariette, C. G., 1751* Marin, F. Joseph, 1630* Marindin, bamuel and J., 184S Marini, Curty, 1725* Marion (U.S.A.), 1SS8 Markham, Anne E. S., 1879 Markham, Thos., 1780 Markland, J. H., 18—, 1816 Marks, Alfred, 18S5 Marks, H. S., 1891 Marks, T., 1776 Marks, Walter D., 1892 Marlot, Guillelmi, 1657* Marlow, Ann, 1818* Marperger, Pauli Jacobi de, 1750, 1753 Mars, J., 1752* Marshall, F. Evans, 1895 Martigny, Nicholas, 1655, 1660 Martignan, V. de, 1732* Martin, .Mexis, 1S68 Martin, Charles T.. 1888 Martin, John S., 1893 Martin, Graf zu Oting, 1526,* p. 18 Martini, Abbatis, 17 — * Martini, Rev. Domi, 1786 Mary Adelaide, D. of Teck, 1890 Marylebone Free Library, 1854 Marzolff, A., 1893 Masbou, le Syndic, 1827 Masclef, Francisci, 1729* Masham Book Society, 1814' Maskell, Joseph, 1854 Mason, Dame Anna Margaretta, 1701 Masterman, H., 1794 Massachusetts Medical Soc, 17S1, 1781* Massingberd, Mrs Margret, 1704 Massy, Francis, 1735, 1735,* 1739 Mathews, Caroli Elkin, 1889 Mathison, Maria, 1870 Matthaeus, (Abbas), 1663 Matthews, John, 1761 Matthews, Theodosia, 1793 Mayenburg, Joseph Von, 1791 Mayers, H. A., (1X27) Mayo, Earl of, 1880, 1888 Mayo, Lady Geraldine, 1887 Mayo, Countess ot, 1894 Mayr, M. C, 1579,* p. 18 Mawbey, Sir Joseph, 1750* Maximiliani, F. L. B. de Lesch, 1712 Maximilianus, Jacobus, 177 1 Maximilian, Johann, 1790 Meade, L. T., 1891, 1892 Meade, Hon. R. H., 1879 Meetkerke, Robert, 1762 Meinradus, 1700 Meissier, 1782 Melchior a Valle, 1611 Melchior, Pater D., 1529 Melvin, Dr., 1856 Menagius, ^gidius, 1692 Mendes, Isaac, 1746 Menezes, D. Isabel de, 1798 Menin, Nicolaus, 1740* Menlough Castle, 1809 Mercer, Thomas & J. C, 1894 Meryfield, William, 1650 Messange, Pasquier de, 1792 Messenger, John, 169S Metcalfe, Henry C, i860 Metcalfe, Robertus, 1653 Methodist College, Belfast, 1865 Methold, Frederick J., 1882, i8go Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1895 Meyer, Johann Valentin, 1766 Meyran de Lagoy, 1727* Michael, Alex., 1883 Michaud, J. B., 1791 Michelet fratres, 1714* Michon, Leonardi, 1721* Micklem, Nathaniel, 1894 Rlickleton, Jacobi, 1718 Midford, Wdliam, 1696 Middleton, Arnold, 1776 Middleton, John Charles, 1777 Middleton, Nicho^, 1753 Middleton, William Shortgrave, 1780 Milange de St Genez, 1787* Mildmay, 1729 Mildmay, St. John, 18— Mildmay, Walter, 1692-3 Millbourn, M. J., 1848 Miller, Margaret M., 1893 Miller, Martha, 1746 Miller, M. L., 1778 Milles, Thomas, 1710 Millet de Chevers, 1756* Millett, George Bown, 1876 Millington, Thomas, 1703 Millner, Sebalt, 1570 Millo, Jacobi, 1757* Milne, John, 1786 Milton, Johannes, 1668 Bibl. F. F. Min. Recollect., 1791 Minchin, 1S32 Mitchell, 1700 Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 1874 Mitchell, Charles William, 1890 Mitchell, James W., 187S Mitchell, John W., 18S6 Mitford, A. F., 1886 Mitford, John, 1744 Mitford, Willm, 1769 Mitford, Wm, 1773 Mocatta, 1801 Mocatta, Ernest J., 1894 Meckel, Joan. Phi., 1658 Moehsen, J. C. V., 1757 Moehsen, Jo. Car. Vil., 1758 Moffat, William, 1797 Mohr, Louis, 1879 Mohr, Petri Alexandri de, 1757 Molinensis, Scholae, 181- Molinier, Jacobus, 1750 Monasterium in Seon, 1634* Monaghan Literary Society, 1845 Moncrieff, Gulielmi, 1812 Monk, J. E., 1894 Monk, W., 1894 Monroe, Mrs. E. B., 1894* Montagne, T. S., 1813 Montagliari, Marchese di, i88g Montagu, George, 1705 Montagu, Montagu, 1863 Montagu, F. C, 1857 Montagu, A. de, 1875 Montague, Lord Viscount, 1706 Montague, John Duke of, 1709 Montensis, R., 1794 Monteuuis, Eugene, 1895 Montgomery, A. V., 1895 Montgomery Bible Society, 1862 Mooney of Kildare, 1630 Moore, Arthur, 1707 Moore, Joseph, 1777 Moore, Robert, 17 — Moore, Rev. Henry, 1708* Morant, Edward, 1764 Morant, John, 1786 Morant, John, 1825, 1862 Morawitsky, Theod: C'e. 1760, 1770 Mordant, Elizabeth, 1761 Morden, W. E. & J., 1S80 Morel de Rambion, 1745* Morel, J., 1843 Morgan, John, 1782 Morgan, John, 1879, 1894 Morrell, Frederic, 1886 Morris, James, 1747 Morrison, Alfred, 1889 Morris, Samuel, 1712 Morse, Charles, 1853 Morse, Caroli, 1858, 1880, 1881 Morsse, Benjamin, 1684 Morshead, Johannis, 1764 Morton, John Pierce, 1778 Morton, Thos., 1628 Mouchard, Fran., 1732 Mouchy-Noailles, 1806, 1847 Moudon, Jean Elie Jaqueri de, 1732 Moynier, L., 1873 Muir, William, 1717 Miilinen, W. F., 1892 Mundy, Wrightson, 17 — Muniticentia Regia, 1715 Munn, M. A. & S., 1810 Munro, Sir Hugh, 1782 Munt, R. P., 1821 Muntz, Theobald, 1763 INDEX. Murphy, John, 1815 Murphy, Rev. P., 1824 Musgrave of Edenhall, 1732 Mussy, Gueneau de, 1S85 Murray, David, 1875 Murray, Sr David, 1709 Murray, Francis Edwin, 1893 Murray, John, 1710 Murray, John, 1802 Myllerus, Sebastianus, 1635 Mynshull, Ri., 1702 N. ., G. S. K. U., 1643 N., G. S. K. v., 1643', p. 18 Nack, Joannis Bernardi, 1759 Nancy, Academic de, 1751 Nanteuil, Ant. Franc. A. B. de, 1777 Napier, Revd Edwd, 1793 Nasmj'th, Thomas. 1729 Naval and Mihtary Lib;, 183 1 Navarrica, 1700 Neave, Josiah, 1803 Neish, William, 1892, 1894 Nencini, Joannis, 1S74 Neob, Cored:, 1732 Nesmond, de, 1715* Neufchateau, F. de, 1811 Neufville, Alfred von, 1889 Nevill, S. Tarratt, 1871 Nevins Library, 18 — Newcastle-upon-Tyne Library, 1889, 1890 Newcastle Waltonian Club, 1822 Newdegate, Gen. E. N., 1887 Newdegate, Sr. E. N., 1894 Newdigate, John, 1702 Newdigate, Richard, 1702 Newdigate, Sr Richard, 1709 New England Library, 1703* New England Historic Soc:, 188-, 1881, 1S9- New Haven Library, U.S.A., 1893 Newling, Edwardus, 1769 New London Library, U.S.A., 1S90 Newman, John, 1784 Newnham, Thos., 1750 New Sarum Church, 1817 Newson, J., 1790 New York Library, 1789, 1818 New York Bible Society, 1S61, 1865 New York Museum of Art, 1S95 New York Public School, 1845 New York School Library, 1827 New York Sunday School, 183(8) Nicholas, Charles, 1814 Nicholas, Edward, 1703, 1705 Nicholson, Gilbert, 1669 Nicholson, Robert, 1832 Nicholson, Thomas, 1610,* p. ig Nicholson, Thos., 1798 Nichols, Charles, 1814 Nichols, Capt. W., 1814 Nicolai, Melchior, 1654* Niederwerft'er, M. Wencesl:, 1720 Niguarda Faeliciamus, 1595* Nisbet, Hume, 1891 Nithsdaill, William Earl of, 1708 Nivardus, F., 1789, 1790 Nivardus, N., 1792 Nixon, F. Russell, 1842 Noble, Mark, 1802 Noe, Comtesse de, 188S Noel, Wm. F. Noel, 1889 Noinville, Jac-Bern. D. de, 1736 Noot, Charles B. Comte vander, 1723 Norbury, Booths Hall, 1S26 Norcliffe, Richard, 1745 Norcliffe, William, 1703 Norfolk Central Railway, 1874 Norfolk Literary Inst., 1822 Norris, G. 1782 North, The Honble, 17— North, Caroli Augusti, 1878 North, Honble Charles, 1705 North, William Lord, 1703 Northampton, George Earl of, 1703 Northcote, Alice S., 1888 Northey, Edward, 1703 Northey, Sr Edw:, 1703 Northey, William, 1703, 1708 Northumberland, Duchess of, 1864 Northumberland, Duke of, 1867, 1886, 1887 Northumbrian Social Soc. 1816 Notre Dame k Marche, 1891 Nott, Fettiplace, 1694 Nott, John Neale Pleydell, 1763 Nottingham Sunday Inst., 1889 Notting Hill Assoc, 1870 Novello, 187S Nowell, Arthur T., 1893 Nugent, Barbara, 1785 Nurce, Henry W., 1894 o. ., E. G. L., 1610 Oakes, James, 1769,* p. 116 Oberkamptii v. Dobrun, 1584 O'Brien, Constance, 1S93 O'Brien, Florence, 1894 O'Brien, Kathleen, 1S93 O'Brien, Mildred Constance, 1893 O'Connor, Charles, 1753 Oe, G. C, 1741 Oehme, C. D., 1779 Oetrichs, J. G. H., 1759 Office Library, 1846 Ogden, L. M., 1801 Ogilvie, C. Geo., 173- Ogilvie, Patrick, 1738 Okey, Thomas Tertius, 1697 Oliver, Gul., 7751 Ommaney, Edwd 1754 Oneida Historical Soc, 1876 Onondaga Bible Soc, 1861 Ord, John, 1761 Ordnance Medical Library, 1817 Orival, 1787* Ormonde, Marquess of, 1816 Orpen, Francis, 1798 Orpen, T. H., 1799 Orr, John, 1891 Orrock, James, 1895 Osbaldeston, Richardi, 1634 Osnaburgh, Bishop of, 1771 Ossory, John Lord Bishop of, 1709 Oting, Martin Graf zu, 1526,* p. 18 Otis, James, 1773 Otter, William, 1840 Ottley, Priscilla, 1755 Otway, Thomas, 1752 Ovendon, T., 1S13 Owen, E., 1792 Owen, Bulkeley, 1893 Owen, Hugh, 1894 Owens College, 1874 Owen's Grammar School, 1613 Oxford and Cambridge Club, 18 — Oxford Churchmen's Union, 1S60 Oxford Club, U.S.A., 1S94 P., G. C. G. v., 1695 Px, Rx, 1786 Page, Francis, 1703 Paget, Hon. Henry, 1700 Paget, J., 1734 Paine, Mr .Thos. and Mrs. Anne, 1737 Painter, Robert, 1779 Paisley Free Library, 1870 Palk, Lady E., 18— Palmerj Charles, 1783 Palmer, James, 17S9 Palmer, Joannes, 1840 Palmer, John Fyshe, 17 — Palmer, Thos. 1773* Palys, Montrepos, 1769* Park, 1778 Parker, Rev. Franke, 1883 Parker, George Viscount, 1725 Parker, R. Townley, 1858, 1861 Parker, Thomas, 1704 Parmele, Dr. G. L., 1893 Parr, Joseph, 1795 Parry, Gulielmus, 1724 Parry, Guiliel., 1725 Parry, Will., 1732 Parsons, Daniel, 1841 Pate, Thomas, 1703 Patersone, Sr Hugh, 1709 Paton, Noel, 1S79 Paton, Vaughan, 1893 Patterson, Jane, 189- Pattison, Thomas, 1744 Pauncfort, Edward, 1704 Pauncefort, Edward, 1738 Pauncefort, Robt., 1727,* p. 116 Pauperum Studiosorum, 1636 Payne, George, 1872 Payne, Robert Treat, 1885 Paynter, David, 1679 Paynton, Dorothy, 1626 Pasley's School Premium, 1S34 Peabody, May, 1895 Peccot, Claude-Antoine, 1876 Peachey, John, 1782 Peacock, Edward, 1850 Peacock, Thomas, 1759 Peake, Emily Augusta, 1894 Pedder, Edward, i8oo Peddie, J., 18— INDEX. Peers, Newsham, 1720 Peirse, Dorothy, 1763 PelHssier, D. de, 1732* Peltier de Cholet, 1728* Pemberton, E. Jas., 1865 Pembroke Coll:, Cantab:, 1879 Pender, DanK 183 1 Pendleton, Isaac, 1801 Penn, Thomas, 1783 Penn, William, 1703 Pennington, Isaac, 1817 Pennant, Henry, 1742 Penny, Edw., 1S22 Penny, Edward Lewton, 1885 Penny, Nicholas, 1700 Pensionnat de Mortagne, 18(35) Penson, P., 1805 Penwarne, Gul., 173-, 173(3) Pepys, Samuel, i65S Perard, Jacobi, 1735 Perceval, Ascelin, Sp., 1892 Perceval, Dudley, 1S92 Percival, Assheton, 1830 Percival, Elizabeth A., 1816 Percival, John Ld, 1715 Percival, Mary, 1804 Percivale, Sr John, 1702 Perkins, 1751 Perkins, B., 1751 Perkins, Ra., 1732 Perkins, Joannes, 1771 Perkins, Thomas, 1817 Perrault, Erancisci, 1764 Perrichon de Vandeuil, 1751* Perusa, Maximilian Graf zu, 1751 Perry, James, 1858 Peter, Thurstan C, 1894 Petersen, Carl E., 1895 Petite, Joannis, 1687,* i6go* Petri, Monasterii S., r636 Pettenkofer, Josephi de, 1759 Pettiward, Dan, 1833 (Pfalz) C. P. E. P., 1726 IPfinzing von Henfenfeld, 1569 Pfeil, Francz, 1564 Pharmaceutical Society, 1892 Phelps, Elizabeth, 1878 Philadelphia Library, 1801 Philippe, 1659* Piani, Philippi A., 1560 Philips, 1755 Philpotts, Henry, 1866 Philotechian Library, Yale, 1795 Phillips, Samuel, 1707 Phillips, Thomas, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850 Phillips, William Morton, 1889 Phillpotts, Bishop, 1878 Philpott, R. S., 1884 Phipps, Constantine, 1703 Phipps, George, 1705 Pichon, Baron Jerome, 1867 Pichon, Baron J., 1S74 Bibl. Pichoniana, 1831 Pierre I'aine, r76- Pierson, Eliz., 1764 Pigott, Charlotte, 1737 Pigott, Dowdall, 1744 Pigott, Edward, 1737 Pigott, Nathaniell, 1703 Pilbrow, J., 18— Pike, Nicholas, 1768 Du Pinet, Joan Jac. Baillard, 1759 Pindar, Elizabeth, 1608 Pion, Jacobi, 1764* Piraeus Reading Room, 18S-, 1882 Pirckheimer, Bilibald, 1524, 1529 Pitra, Guillielmi, 1742 Pixley, Francis W., i88g Place, F., 1805 Plat, Johannis, 1634 Piatt's Grammar School, 1875 Piatt, Johannis, 1893 Piatt, R., iS— Plowman, H. W. T., 1887 Plumptre, Edward Hayes, iSgi Plymouth Free Library, 1894 Plymouth School Board, 1879 Pocklington, Joseph, 17 — , 1753, 176-, r76i, 17 — ,* 177- Podevin, Demoiselles, 182-, 182(3) Podio, Joan Petri Ludovici de, 1750 Pole, Sir John, 1699, i6gg* Pole, Mrs. Margaret L., 1890 Poley, Henry, 1703 Poley, Edmund, 1707 Poley, William, 1705 Pollen, Revd George, r787 Pollock, Frederick, 1S82, 1888 Pollock, W. H., 1893 PoUok, Sr Robert, 1707 Pomer, D. Hector, r525 Pomfret, Earl of, 1733 Pomfret, George Farmor Earl of, 1756 Pomfret, Countess of, 1733 Ponsonby, Geraldine, r882 Ponsonby, Hon. Gerald, 1880,1887, 1888 Ponsonby, Theobald B., iSgr Polwarth, Alexander Lord, 172 1 Roi de Pologne, fondee par le, 1750 Poole, J., r762 Popham, Alexander, 1798 Porcellian Club, 1S03 Porteous, James, 1820 Porter, J. E. S., 1S95 Portland, William Earl of, 1704 Portland, Duchess of, 1889 Portora Royal School, 1862 Potter, George, 1894 Potter, Thomas, 1735, 1745 PouUain de la Forestrie, 1868 Poulletier, 1772 Powell, Edvvd. 1894 Powell, Rev. Joseph, 1790 Powell, Francis, 1726 Power, Richard, 1774 Powles, R. Cowley, 1841 Pownall, Thomas, t76o Powys, Sr Thomas, 1703 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1887 Prattinton, Peter, 1789 Prayer Book Society, 1812 Praroman, de, 1782 Prentise, 1801 Preroman, N. von, 1606* Preston, John Norcliffe, rSgo Preysing, Max Graf von, 1760 Preysing, Max Comte de, 1760 Pretyman, Baron, 1730, 1750 Price family, 1641* Price, Edward U. A., 1892 Price, Howell J. J., i8g4 Price, Honble Robert, 1703 Price, Thos., 1830 Price, William, 1718, 1755 Prideaux, Col. W. F., i8g4, 1895 Prince, Charles Leeson, 1882 Prince, Guillaume, 1696 Prince, Thomas, 1703* Prince, Thomae, 1704 Pringle, r753 Prior, Edward, 1721 Prinsep, J., 1800 Prise, Basilius, 1663 Probert, John L., 1893 Prony, de, 1782* Protestantisme Franfais, 1868 Proth, Mario, 1889 Prueschench, Johannes Christo- phorus, r593 Provencheres, Mr. de, 1762 Public Record Office, 186- Pugh, Elizabeth, 1785 Pijhelmair, Michaelis, 1567 Punter, Rachel, 1821 Purnell, Gul. O., 1760 Purse, George, 177-, 1772 Putnam, Aaron, 178- Putney Free Library, 1887 Pye, Sam'; 1747 Q. ;UAILE, George, 1873 Quantin, Leon, 1894 Quaritch, Bernard, 1881, 1882 Quarles, Guilhelmus, 1640 Quarre de Monay, 1776* Quebec Classical School, 1836 Queen to the Army, 1855 Queen's College, Galway, 1845 Queensberry, James Duke of, 1703 Quin, Eva Wyndham, i8go Quinn, John Henry, i8g4 R. W. Y. C, 1827 R. R., I78g, 1797 R., G. A. L., 1753 Raby, Thomas Wentworth Lord, i6g8, 1705, 1712 Racebergii, Joannis, 1562 Radnor, Helen Matilda Lady, 1892 Raigniauld, Riomi, 1644 Raine, Jonathan, 1831 Raisjn, F., 1S91 Ralli, Pandeli, 1886 Ramsay, Winson, 1893 Ramus, Charles, 1795 Rand, George Doane, 1890 Randall, Joshua, 1702 Randolph, John, 1742 INDEX. Rannie, Sophia, 1823 Rashleigh, Philip, 1764 Rate, John, 1783 Rate, Lucy, 1783 Ravenel, Daniel, 1890 Rawlins, Christopher, 1788 Raworth, Roberti, 1669 Ray, William, 1694 Raymond, George, 1669 Raymond, Robert, 1704 Reyniere, Grimod de la, 1780 Reynold, Philipe de, 1730 Scholae Readingensis, 1747,* p. 116 Reading Room, Old Change, 1835 Reaston. B., 1780 Recanati, Joannis Baptistae, 1715 Redwood Library, U.S.A., 1893 Redwood, Boverton, 1895 Reeve, Wm Napier, 1S75 Reeves, David E., 1892 Reg: Inst: Liv:, 1894 Rehen family, 1526 Reiber of Strasbourg, 1879 Reid, Capt. A. E., 1850 Reid, G. W., 1880 Reid, Whitelaw, 1894 Reinhardi, Jo. Jac, 1693 Reinh, Georg, 1604 Reis, J., 1755 Reitlinger, Ant von, 1735 Rem, W. Andreas, 1588 Rendlesham, Lord, 1810, 1832 Renton, Alex C, 1823 Renz, M. Joh. Baptista, 1697 Reresby, Johannis, 1752 Reresby, Thomas, 1708 Reuss, C. G., 1805 Reuss, Jerem David, 1779 Reuss, J. J., 1779 Revelles, Johannes, 1524 Revington, J. H., 1886 Rians, F. B., 1738* Ricardo, John Lewis. 1858 Rich, Sir Charles H. S., 18S7 Rich, Sir H. Stuart, i8go Richard, CI. Henr., 1742* Richards, John, 1836 Richards, Mrs. Sally, 1744, 1749 Richards, William, 1737 Richardson, 1731 Richardson, J., 1817 Richardson, W., 17 — Rickman, J. and S., 1806 Richmond, Thomas, 1703 Riddell, Ja:, 1639 Riddell, R. Brooke, 1830 Riddell, Sir Thomas, 1874 Rider, Thomas, 1737 Ridgway, John Clare, 1871 Rigby, S., 18— Rippley, R. and A., 1801 Riland, J., 1754 Rilliet, 1775 Rioult d'Estouy, 1736* Ri.x, Joseph, 1857 Robb, Andrew, 1758 Robbins, Philemon, 1755 Robert, F. des, 1878 Roberti, Abbatis, 17(46) Roberts, G. C. M., 18— Roberts, John, 1703 Robertson, Arthur, 1892 Robillard, Nicolas, 1724 RobiUard, T. L., 1640 Robinson, Dorothea, 1746 Robinson, Johannis, 1723 Robinson, John, 1732, 1742 Robinson, Johnson, 1744 Robinson, Matthew, 171 1 Robinson, Robert, 1742 Robinson, Sr William, 1702, 1704 Robinson, Sr William, 1762 Robinson, William, 1758 Robinson, William, 1889 Robson, John, 1865 Robson, Wm., 1S24 Rochebrune, Octave de, 1867 Rocher, Claudii, 1747 Rodd, Rennell, 1894* Rodes, Mary, 1729 Rodt, Cardinale F. de, 1756 Rodwell, William, 18(29) Rogers, Hugh, 1753 Rogers, Francis, 1745, 1764 Rogers, J. J. Colin, 185-, 185(4) Rogers, William, 1771* Rogers, Robert, 17 — , 1756, 178(4)* Rogers, William, 1700 Rognes, Marquis de, 1777 Rolland, Barthelemy Gabriel, 1751, 1761 Romaine, Rev. W., 1805 Rooke, George, 1822 Roos, John Mannors Lord, 1700 Roos, Rachel Mannors Lady, 1700 Rosalind, 1888 Rosee, Aloys Com de la, 1769 C.R. (Convent of Roth), 1672 Rostaing, Charles Marquis de, 1650 Rosslyn, Earl of, iSoi Roper, Franciscus, 1719 Roper, John, 1707 Rnper, William CJliver, 1S90 Rothes, John Earl of, 1708 Rothschild, Charles, 1890 Rothschild, Lionel W., i885 Rouchefoucault, F. de la, 1763 Roughton, William O., 1894 Roughton, W. Oliver, 1895 Rouher, Denis Gilbert, 1787* RouUiere, A. Bened. de la, 1748 Rouse, G. Gaskell, 1S59 Roussel, Carolus, 1760 Routh, David, 1762 Roux de Rognon, 1700* Rowe, Henry S., 1894 Rowe, J. Brooking, 1894 Rowney, Tho., 1713 Roxburghe, John Earl of, 1703 Roxby, H., 1814 Roy, Docteur Le. 1S35 Royal Academy, Gosport, 18(35) Royal Artillery Library, 1824 Royal Gardens, Kevv, 1854 Royal Inst. Brit. Architects, 1868 Royal Kensington Literary Inst., 1837 Royal Literary Fund, 1S18 Royal Naval School, 1833 Royal Phoenix Building Soc, 1881 Royal Society of Literature, 1820, 1825 Royal Statistical Soc, 1887 Rudd, Edwardus, 1712, 1717 Ruffier, D. Claudii, 1690 Rugby School, 1870 Rugby Public Library, 1892 Ruille, Comte de, 1874 Rumney, Robert, r732 Rupertus (Praepositus), 1654 Rupzecht, Michael, 1678 Russell, Odonis, 1872 Russell, Sir William, 1878 Rymon, Philibertus de. r73o, 1740 Rylands, J. Paul, 1871, 1S75, 1877 Rylands, Johannis Pauli, 1890 Ryland, John Wm., 1890 Ryton Church Library, 1822 O., H., 1772 S., M. R. A. I. H., etc., 1536 S., W. (Streatfield), 1822 S. M. P. V. I. D., 1554 S. S. C. G. B. L. B. S. S., 1661 Sabine, Frances, 1748 Sachs, Johannis, 1S81 Sacy, Antoine I. S. de, 17S1 Sagnier, G., 1881 St. Andrew's House, 1817, 1847 St. Asaph, Bishop of, 1830* St. Catherine's Convent, 1831 St. Colman's College, i860 St. Croix, Forbin, 1751* St. Elphin's Clergy School, 1844 St. George, Arthur, 1717 St. George, Hanover Sq., 18 — St. George, Hanover Square, 1893 Sainthill of Sainthill, 1825 St. Jean, Chanomes de, 1684* St. John, Wm Lord, 1714 St. John's Coll:, 1792 St. Leonards School, 1877 St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 1893 St. Paul, Horatius, 1759 St. Petri, W. H. de Burgo, 1720 St. Petri Montis Majoris, 1765 St. Quintin, William, 1641 St. Stephen's Club, iS — St. Thomas Coll:, Colombo, 1851 Saisseval, Marquis de, 1772 Saladm-Egerton, Charles, 1790* Salem Library, U.S.A., i888 Sails, Andr de, 1788* Salisbury, 1783 Salisbury, J. C. Earle of, 1704 Salm-Kyrburg, F. de, 1827 Salomons Bequest, 1873, 1876 Salter, Elizabeth, 1797 Salter's Hall Chapel, 1859 Salton, Alexander Lord, 17 — Saltoun, Lord A., 18 — INDEX. Salzburg, Bishop of, 1526 Sanden's Library, Dr., 1840 Sanders, Samuel, 1702 Sandham, H., iSgo Sanger Library, 1839 Sargeant, Arthur St. G., iSgo Sargeant, Jacob, 17S9 Sargent, C. S., 1S92 Sars, Sr William de, 1S58 Saunders's Charity, Dr., 1829 Saunders, Martha, 1777 Savage, G. H., 1877 Savary, J. B. A., 1756* Savill, Martha, 1767 Savoy, Chapel Royal, 18(80) Sawverpuram Missionary Inst., 1844 Sayer, John, 1700 Scadding, Henry, 1867 Scarth, Leveson, 1892 Scheiring, Joannes, 1534 Schellenberg, Job. Frider a, i6g8 Scheurli, Christophori, 1541 Schinz, C. S., 1792 Schlaigh, Alfred C, 1891 Schlaigh, Fred C, i8gi Schlusselberger, Gabriel, 1575,* p 18 Schmid, G. E., 1803 Schoepfliniana, 1762 Scholae Buriensis, 1800 Scholae Reg: Edin.. 1S44, 1856 Scholtzii, Aug., 1762 Schomberg, Arth. J., 1894 Schonthal Convent, 1516 Schrunder, Hanns, 1598 Schumacher, J. B. ^L, 1777 Schutzenberger, E., r8S7 Schwegerle, Joannes, 1656 Schwendt, F. J., 1761 Schwindt, Adam, 1605 Scoti, Floriany, 1648 Scotland, Thomas J., 1826 Scott, of Kent, 1825 Scott, Margaret, 1882, 1892 Scott, Robert, 18S8 Scott, Thos., 1777 Scottish Naval and Military Acad., 18(40) Scrope, Simon, 1698 Scrope, Simon T., i88i Score, H. Berkeley, 1893, 1894 Scruton, A., 18S8 Seaforth, Comitis de, 1684,* p. 19 Sebright, Guy T. S., 1887 Seccombe, Joseph, 1729 Secousse, Dionys Franc, 17—, 17(17) . ^ Secousse, Denis Francois, 17 19 Secousse, D. F., 1723 Seeker, Thomas, 1666 ■ Secombe, John, 1729 Sedley, Sr Charles, 17 — , 1718 Sedgwick, Joseph, 172(1), 1721, 172(6) Seichamps, L'Abbe de, 1747 Seiffi, Johannis Christophori, 1743 Selfridge, Thomas O., 1799 Selby, James, 1703 Sellers, 1893 Selsey, Lord, 1816 Selwyn College, 1891 Seminarium Sanctae Crucis, 1859 Sellentin, Frederic Guillaume de, 1768 Sener, P. M., 1855, 1892 Serrani, Jo., 1575 Settle, Stackhouse, 1881 Seymour, George Dudley, 1893, 1894 Seyringer, Joan Caroli, 1697 Shackleton, Richard, 1S20 Sharp, F., 1785 Sheehan, C. H., 1868 Sheepshanks, John, 1852 Shelburne, Henry Lord Baron, 1707 Shelley, Tho., 1748 Shelton, Ada Stewart, 1892 Shenston, John B., 1S44 Shepherd, Rev. W., 1S03 Shepherd, W., 1808 Shepton Mallett, 1803 Sherborn, Caroli D., 1S90 Sherborn, C. W., 1873 Sherborn, Carolus Gulielmus, 1878 Sheridan, Mary Lothrop, 1892 Sherlock, Thomae, 1761 Shiell, John, 1884 Shorte, Martha, 1774, 1783, 1788 Shower, John, 1701 Shrewsbury, Earl of, 17S8 Shrubsole, Mrs. John, 1882 Shuttleworth, Richard, 1707 Sigmundt, Johann, 1630 Sill, George Imbrie, 1891 Sill, Howard, 1890 Simcox. Martha, 1670 Sime, William, 18(28) Simpson, Daniel, 1771 Simpson, Edwin, 1853 Simpson, Robert, 1754 Sinclair, Gulielmi, 176(3) Singer, Mrs. Sallie, 1895 Sirejean fils, 1754, 1764 Sisson, Thomas, 1667 Sixty-seventh Regiment, 1763 Skinner, Matthew, 1716 Skinner, Math:, 1729, 1735 Skinner, Mr., 1713 Skipp, Joann, 1765 Skipwith, Sr FuKvar, 1704 Skipwith, Sir Peyton, i88g Slacke, J., 18 — Sladen, Douglas B., 1881 Slater, W. A., 1894 Sligo Library, 1832 Small, Rev. E. S., 1868 Smedley, J. & Caroline, 1867 Smelt, Leond, 1747 Smith, Charles, 1833, 1833*, 1835 Smith, Ed. 1772 Erasmus Smith's School, 1870 Smith, J., 1794 Smith, James, 17 — Smith, Jonathan, 1760 Smith, Johannes, 1716 Smith, Jno, 1744 Smith, John Spencer, 1826 Smith, Rachel, 1825 Smith, Robertus, 1768 Smith, Rupert O., 1894 Smith, Thomas, 1790 Smyth, John, 1732 Sober Society, 1747 Sobernheim, C. and L., 1894 Sobolevskyana, 1821 Social Law Library, 1804 Socie'te de la Fosse, 1760 Soc. Propagating Gospel, 1701 Societe du Protestantisme, 1852 Socin, J. R. Merian, 179- Somerset: Archaeol: Soc:, 1849 Somerset, Lady Heniretta(s/f),i7i2 Somerset, Lord Charles, 1703 Somerset, Lord Charles Noel, 1725 Sommerville Hall, 1885 Sopwith, Thomas, 1803 Souchay, 1776 Southampton, Ann Duchessof,i704 South Shields Library, 1850 Southesque, James Earl of, 1710 Southey, Robert, 1802 Southwell, Honble Robert H., 1767 Southwell, Colonel William, 1708 Southwell, William, 1749 Sowtheby, Thomas, 1673 Spagnuolo, Abate, 1844 Spaldmg Soc: Gen:, 1710 Spalding Institute, 1746 Spelman, William, 1708 Spiers, Richard James, 1590 Spicer, J., 1736 Spoerlin, Ant., 1807 Spoerlin, Joh., 1771 Spottiswoode Society, 1843 Spreti, Sigismundus Comes, 1732 Sproat, W. A. F., 182(1)* Squire, Tho., 1716 Stagg, Thomas, 1756 Stamford, H., 179- Stanford, D., 1S60 Stanley Library, King's Lynn, 1854 Stannard, Christopher, 1851 Staples, Alexander, 1761, 1763 Stapylton, Martin, 1816, 1817 Starck, Zacharias, 1582 Starck, Zach, 1582,* p. 18 Starin, J. N., 18—* Statham, Eliz., 1S16 Stauffer, David McN., 1880, 1884 Stearne, Joh., 1717 Stebbins, Cyrus, iSo(g)* Stebbing, Henricus, I76g Steen de Lehay, 1S50 Steffis, J. Philipp vo, 1606* Steele, Richard, 1768 Stein-Haig, C. E., 1882 Stemma Madernae, 1745* Stelenburg, Baro, 1781 Stepney College, 1810 Stephenson, J. A., i8og Stevens, Henry, 1882 Stevenson, Edward I., 1891 INDEX. Steward, David, iSgi Stewart of Ardvorlich, 1726 Stewart, Alice E. S., 1S86 Stewart, Anna Helena, 1766 Stewart, C. E., 1893 Stewart, Selkirk, 17 — , 17(70) Stewartstown School, 1814 Stibbert, Frederick, i88g Stiebel, H. E., 1894 Stigero, Joanni, 1602,* p. 18 Stillington, Joseph, 1700 Stirling Fraternity, 1733 Stockton Library, 18(15) Stoddard, E. G., 1895 Stoess, J. M., 1807 Stokes, Anthony, 1760 Stoke Newingtnn Library, 18 — Stolberg, E. Graf zu, 1721 Stone, Arthur R., 1887 Stonor, Thomas, 17 — Stonyhurst College, 1810 Stopford, Rev. Dr., 1809 Stopford, Edward Adderly, 1850 Storri, J. P., 1697 Stowbridge Grammar School, i860 Strafford, Thomas Earl of, 1712 Strafford, William Earl of, 1740 Strangford, Viscount, 1628 Stralsburg, Hochschule zu, 1891 Stratford, Eusebv, 1745 Straton, G. W., 183- Straub, Georg., 1600 Strickland, William, 1789 Strickland, Sir William, 1808 Strickland, H. E., 1825 Strode, Saml:, 1723, 1741 Strode, Willm, 1730, 1741 Stuber, Joh:, 1740 Stubs, Phillippus, 1700 Studholme, 18 — Sturt, Charles, 1787 Suarez, 1730* Suffolk Public Library, 1789 Suffolk and Berkshire, Earl of, 1750 Suger, Zach., 17 — Sulzerus, Johan Casparus, 1618, 1681 Sumner, Caroline S., 1827 Sunday School Inst:, 1843 Sunderland Library, 1881, 1882, 1883 Surrey County Council, 1889 Surtees Library, 1849 Surtees, William E., i856 Sutclifte, John. 1793 Sutherland. Robert, 1859 Sutthery, Arthur M., 189- Sutton, C. Manners, 1805 Swaffham Library, 1737 Swayne, James, 1776 Swedenborg Society, 1810 Swinton, Sir John, 1707 Sydenham, Sr Philip, 1699, 1701, 1727. 1735, 1738 Sydney Sussex College, 1613 Sydney Exhibition, 1879 Symes, Richard, 1703 Symonds, H. Percy, i885 Symmons, Johannes, 1824 Syringus, Justus, 1539 1 ., C, 1762 Tabernensis, 1885 Tabley, Baron Tabley of, 1888 Tadcaster Library, 1710 Tait, Henrici B., 1892 Talbot of Gonvile's Hall, 1584 Talbot, William, 1702 Tanckred, Thomas, 1700 Tancred, Jordan, 1701 Tanner, Joseph R., 1887 Tarn, W. .ind F., 1874 Tarn, William and F., 1868 Tatum, George Benson, 1S77 Tatum, Georgius Benson, 1892 Tausier, Jos., 17(16)* Taylor, Lady Elizabeth. 1890 Taylor, H., 1805 Taylor, Henrici, 1805 Taylor, J. Oakes, 1833 Taylor, Joannes, 1672 Taylor, Joseph, 1710, 1759 Taylor, Joseph, 1836 Taylor, Robert, 17 — Tegernsee, Monasterium, etc., 1700 Tekell, John. 1785 Tellus, Antonii L., 1760* Tempest, Sr George, 1702 Tempest, William, 1702, 1722 Temple, Sir Richard, 1705 Tennyson, J. F., 1814 Tenterden, Lord, 1883 Tenterden, Lady, 1883 Terray, 1772 Terry, Mr. Alderman, 1831 Tervoe, 1893 Teynham, Baron of, 1703 Thackara, W., 1805 Thairlwall, F. J., 1892, 1895 Thames Frost plate, 1814 Thaxter, Thomas, 1791 Thayer, Eliza Mary, 1877 Thayne, John, 1731 Thelluson, r782 Thibaudeau, A. W., 1887 Thibault, 1756 Thicknesse, George, 1748 Thicknesse, Philip, 1753, 1755, 1782 Closter Thierhaupten, 1667 Thiery, C. E., 1872, 1875 Thilorieur, de, 1776* Thiroux, 177S* Thiville, B. de, 1814 Thomas, Daniel, 1765 Thomas, Geo., 1798 Thomasi, Godefridi Jac. F., 1695 Thomas, R., 1773 Thomas, R. D., 1771 Thomond, Henry Earl of, 1703 Thompson, C. E., 1816 Thompson, E. Symes, 1895 Thompson, Silvanus P., 1890 Thompson, William, 1708, 1751 Thoresby Park, 1871 Thoreux, 1872 Thorigny, Comte de, 1708 (1712) Thornberg, Thomas, 1745 Thornton, Augusta, 1848 Thornton, Cavendish de, 1857 Thornton, Gen: W., 1814 Thoroton, Charles, 1852* Thoroton, Thomas, 1703 Thorp, Charles. 1822 Thorp, Robertas, 1823 Thorpe, Anthony, 1774 Thouvenin, M.. 1769 Thresher, Daniel, 1713 Thurlin, Thomae. 1714 Thurtell. Walter, 1S20 Thumb, M. Melchior, r689 Thummenberg, Dilkerren von, 1592 Thynne, Alexander G.. 189- Thynne, Johannes, 183S Tibbs, William, 1675 Tiffany, i860 Tillotson, Lionel, 1888 Tindall, Hannah, 1771 Tinkler, Johannis, 1892, 1893 Tippet, James Vivian, (1795)- Tissot, J. B., 1735 Tite Donation, 1868 Toke, N.. 1763 Tomlins, Elizabeth, 1830 Toppen a Rimbourg, 1838 Toronto Public Library, 188-, iSg- Torphichen, Baron, 1892 Torres, Domenico, 1775 Touch, George A., 1895 Tourner, John, 1750 Towneley, Richardi, 1702 Townsend, George, 1777 Townshend, HonWe Charles, 1734 Toynbee ilall Library. 1S84 Tralage, Jean Nicolas de, 1646 Traquair, Charles Earle of, 1708 Trenchard, Henry, 1705 Tresame, Sr^Thos., 1585 Trevaldwyn, Rev. B. W. J., 1893 Trevelyan, Sir Charles E., 1857-8 Trevelyan, Sir Walter C, 1857-8 Trevor, Honble Sr Thomas. 1702 Trevor, Thomas Lord, 173S Tribourdet, Jacobus Hcnricus,i737 Trinder, Jane, 1713 Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1724 Trin: Coll: Cant:, 1855, 1870 Trin: Coll: Cantab:, 1S73 Trinity Coll:, Camb:, 1887 Trinity Coll., Dublin 18(07) Trinity College, Hartford, 1870 Trinity Coll:, Toronto, 1853 Trin: Coll: Union, 1853 TroUap, Robert, 1657 Tronchin, Jean Armand, 1779 Trotman, Fiennes, 1750 Trotman, Samuel, 1702, 1757 Trott, Herr Adolf von, 1766 Trott, Edmund, 1743 Trotter, Alexr. 17S6 Trotter, Coutts, 1887 INDEX. Tuck, Raphael, 1894 Tuer, Andrew White, 1881, 1S87, 1S95 Tufnell, George, 1818 Tunney, J. R.. 1792 Tupper, J. Stewart, 1884 Turgot, Dominicus Barnabas, 1716, 1717 Tumour, Sr Edward, 1705 Turner, Martha, 1894 Turnor, Sr Edmund, 1702 Tuthsenhauser, Vitus, 1542 Tuttle, Hugh, 1822 Tweady, T., 1707 Twemlove, W., 1730 Twemlowe, WilUam, 1686 Twigg, John, 1758 Twichell, Ginery, 1883 Tylston, J., 1756 Tynte, James, 1704 Tyrrell, Charles, 1766 Tyrrell, William, 1847 Ui J DNY, Alexander, 1726 Ulrich Herzog yn Mecklenburgh, 1575 Undrill, William, 1633 Ungelter, Wolff. Jacob, 1638 " Uiii vcro" 1718 Uniacke, R. J., 1801 Uniacke, N. F. G., 1805 Union League Club, 1863 Unwin, E. W., 1848 Universitatis Aberdonensis, 1880 University of California, 189- University Club, Boston, 1892 University Club, Washington, iSgr University College, Liverpool, iSSi University College School, 18—, 189-, 1891 University Extension Soc., 1&81 University of London. 1862, rS7i United Service Club, 1815 United Service Institution, 183 1 D'Urban, J. G., 1823 Urquhart, William, 1724 Uttenheim, J. C. von, 1559,' p. 18 Uvedale, Mrs. Sophia, 1794 Uzanne, Octave, 1882, 1890, 1892 V ACHER, Ludovico, 1768 Vacher, ^gidius. r723* Valkend, CoUegii, I595.* P- iS Vallee, D. Jacobi Olivarii. 1730 Vallier, Francois Bernard de, 1777 Vally, Jean Francois, 1777* Vander, Anna, 1597, 1597' Vandebergue, Roberti, 1782 Van Hulthem, C, 1806 Vardon, William, 1856 Varnier, G., 1866 Vaudoncoui, Du Mars de, 1753 Vaudreuil, Comte de, 1780 Vaughan, J., 1800 Vaughan, Henry Cardinal, 1892 Vaus of Barnbairoch, 1815 Vauvert, 1885 Vaux, le Grand de, 1875 Vechelde, Georg. von, 1575 Vennitzer, Johannes, 1618 Vennitzer, Johannes, 1618,* p. 18 Vendelstorf, Ursus Josephus de, 1715 Verdussen, Petro Antonn, 1752 Vere, James, 1760 Vernon, Thomas, 1703. 1703* Vernon, Henry, 1633, 17 — Verster, Jean F., 1894 Vervliet, J. B., 18S0 Vesey, Richard, 17 — , 17(19). '7(49) Vevers, Richard, 1753 Vicaire, G., 188S Vicars, Arthur E., 1892, 1893 Vickers, Joseph, 1792 Villemonen, de, 1739* Ville de Paris, 1800 Villeplaine, Boscary de, 1881 Villiers, Col. the Hon. G., 1890 Vincent, 1771 Vines, Wm, 183-, 1831 Vines, William, 1844 Virdun, Theodorus R. S., 1721 Vizetelly, J. H., tSio Voight, Erhardus, 1587 Vok, Petri, i6og Vulliamy, Mrs. F., 1844 W., B. A. J., 1786 Waddington, Edw., 1731 Wade, Ann Sutton, 1779 Wadman, Francis and Mary, 1775 Wagner, G. E., 1810 Wagner, J. Petrus, 1734* Wagstaffe, Tho., 1712 Wainwright, Mr. Humphrey, 1716 Wake, C. H. Middleton, 1880 Wakefield, Emily Mary, 1S82 Waldegrave, James Lord," 1707, 1728 Wales, Prince of, and Osnaburgh, Bishop of, 1771 Walford, John, 1754 Walker, Frederick, 1871 Walker, Robert Crawford, 1893 Walker, Thomas, 1760 Walkey, Samuel, 1804 Wall, M., 17-, 17(71), 1772, 17(75), 17(76) Wall, A. B., 1777 Wall, Rev. R., (1821) Wallace, Hugh, 1710 Waller, F. G., 1893 Waller, Thos. Goodridge, 1752 Walhs, George, 1838 Wallis, William, 182 1 Wallier, Franz Bernard, 1777 Wallier, de, 1792 Walmsley, J., 1792 Walpole, Horace, 1800 Walter, Rev. Henry, 1859 Walters, Henry, 1747 Waple, Edwardi, 1712 Warburton, Philip B., 1894 Ward, Franciscus D., 1S82 Ward, Humphry and Mary, 1891 Ward, John, 1704 Ward, Marcus J. B., 1882 Warden, John William, 1S64 Warnecke, Friderici, 1883 Warner, Beverley, 1894 Warren, William, 1726 Warriner, John, 1795 Warrington Free Museum, 1879 Warrington Museum, 1875, 1878, 1880 Washington Public Schools, 1859 Waterford, Marquis of, 1875 Waters, Glmi: Georg:, 1893 Watkins, John, 1778 Watkins, John M., 1893 Watkinson Library, 1858 Watkinson, Robert, 1787* Watson, Thomas, 1815 Watts, Elizabeth, 1698 Wavrans, Felix de, 1762 Wayland, William, 1750, 1754 Webb of Rodbourne Cheney, 1703 Webb, Allan Becher, 1883 Webb, W., 1831 Webber, J., 1731 Webster, Sr Thomas, 1705 Weems, Earle of, 1706 Wemyss, Earl of, i8Sg Weinland, Erhardi Frid, 1745 Weissenau Abtei, 1568 Weldon, William Henry, 1892 Welland, T. J., 1892 Welles, Samuel, 1808 Wells Theol. Coll., 1840, iSgr Wells, Harriet. 1816 Wentworth, Mrs. Juliana, 1707, 1709 Wentworth,Thos., 1771, 1789,1796 Werdenstein, Job Georgii a, 1592 Wernker, Philipp Jacob, 1572 Wesleyan Theol. Inst., 1859 W'est, Daniel, 1838 West, L., 1876 West, T., 1775 West, Thomas, 1838 Westby, Nicholas, 1811 Westcott, Mary, 1795 Western Literary Inst., 182- Westmmster, Duke of, 1884 Westmorland, Earl of, 1857 Westwood, James, 1750* Weymouth, Thomas Viscount, 1704 Weymouth, Viscount, 1704' Whalley, J., 1779 Wharton, Lord Thomas, 1705 Whatley, T., 1780 Wheatley, Henry B., 1889 Wheeler, Henry Walter, 1885 Wheeler, John, 1791 Wheeler, Joseph H., 1893 Wheler, Granville, 1752 Whewell, William, 1S66 Whitby, Mrs., 1827, 1828, 1831, 1832 White, Benjamin, 1777 White, Georgina, 1893 INDEX. White, Gleeson, 1880, 1888, 1889, iSgo White, Edward Arthur, 1878 White, Margaret, 1894 White, Thomas Jeston, 1891 White, Thomas J., 1893 Whitechapel Library, 1890 Whitfeld, Elizabeth, r704* Whitfeld, Temple, 1704 Whitelock, Peter, 1772 Whittingham, Jno., 17(66), 17(73), 1773 Whytehead, R. Yates, 1846 Whytehead, Thomas, 1843 Whywall, W., 1761 Widnman, Baro de, 1754 Wigan Library, 17S7 Wight, M., 1803 Wightwick, 1S72 Wilberforce, William, (1832) Wilder, G. C, 1779 Wilding, Richard, 1768 Wilkins, Joseph, 1767 Wille, J. E. B., 1811 Williams, Lawrance, 1874 Williams, Joannes, 1783 Williams, Johannes, 1679 Williamoz, David L., 1735 Willis, Sherlock, 1756 Willmer, Willielmi, 1613 Willock, William. 1752 Vv'illock, 1893 WiUoughby, Rbts 1773 Willows, The, 1872 Wimpheling, 1568,* p. 18 Winchelsea, Earle of, 1704 Windey, James, 1788 Windhaag, Joachim L. Baro in, 1654, 1656, 1661 Windham, George, 1634,* p. 19 Windham, Sr Wm, 1703 Windle, Johannes, 1725 Windlesham House, 1S70 Winfield, Robert, 1742 Winford, Sf Thomas, 1702 Winford, Sr Tho. Cookes, 1702 Wingfield, William W., 1838 Winnington, Edward, 1703, 17(87) Winnington, Francis, 1732 Winstanley, Anne, r8ii Winterbotham, J. B., 1886 Winthrop, B., 1870 Wither, W. H. W. Bigg, 1828 Withers, Revd J., 1748 Wilson, Charles J., 1894 Wilson, John, 17S4 Wilson, Joseph B., 1S92 Wilson, J. Forsythe, iSSi Wilson, J., 1722 Wilson, Richard, 1785 Wiltshire, John, 1740, 1746 Woburn Abbey, 1873 Wolckhenstain, Christophorus a, 1594. 1595 Wolf Haller, 1551,* p. 18 Wolfius. Christoferus ab Enzestorf, 1570 Wollaston, William, 1703 Wolseley, General Viscount, 1783 Wolseley, Viscount, 1885 Wolseley, Hon. Frances G., 1891 Wolseley, Lady Louisa, 1890 Wood, Alexr. 1880 Wood, Jacob, 1839 Wood, John Brook, 1S35 Wood, John, 1744 Wood, Percival, 1789 Wood, Rev. R., 1822 Wood, Thomas Winter, 1894 Wood, Mrs. Wm, i832« Woodbury, John Page, 1894 Woodcock, Henry, 1840 Woodham, H. A., 1852 Woodroffe, John, 1747, 1807 Woodward, Godfrey, 1702 Woollcombe, Robert L., 1892 Woolwich Public Library, 1S24 Worcester Club, 1894 Worcester, Dean of, 1S06* Worcester Library, 1790 Worcester, Society Antiq., 1875 Wordsworth, Christ., 1S30 Workmen's Library, Egypt, 1S5S Worsley, Thos., 1750, 1751 Worsop, Batty, 1733 Wotton, Anne, 1710 Wraight, Tho., 1748 Wrangham, Francis, 1842 Wratten, George, 1820 Wright, .\rthur G., 1SS6 Wright, Henry, iSiS Wright, Joseph, 1861 Wright, Thomas, 17 — , 1767 Wright, W. H. K., 186-, 1883, 1885, 1892, 1S93 Wyatt, A., 1805 Wyatt, Thomas Henry, 1S48 Wylde. Revd Sidenham Teast,i77g Wynants, V., 1876, 1878 Wynn, Rowland, 1719 Wynyard, W. C, 1803 X AUPI, Josephi, 1750, 1765 ALE College Library, 188- Yardley, Edvardus, 1721 Yardley, Edwd 1739 Yates, S. A. Thompson, 1895 Yerburgh, Oswald P. W., 1S93 Young, Ben, 1750 Young, Sidney, 1891 ZaHM, Saml. H., 1881, i88g Zahnii, Bened. Guil., 1780 Zanardi. Ignatius, 17 — * Zear, Eug. 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