“AU REVOIR.”

Having now rehearsed, I hope clearly and concisely, the various modes by which Ex Libris are and have been produced, and having revealed as many trade secrets as the limited space at command would allow, I beg to thank the Council of the Ex Libris Society for permission to reprint from the pages of the Journal the series of articles on the subject—now somewhat expanded—and for the use of the blocks by which they were illustrated. To Mr. W. H. K. Wright, F.R.Hist.Soc., the able Editor and Secretary of the Ex Libris Society (to whom all collectors are infinitely indebted), my thanks are due for his valued aid and counsel; and on whose shoulders I have now laid the further obligation of a preface. As a special favour I have requested his “library interior” plate to appear. A similar favour I have desired from Arthur Vicars, F.S.A., [Ulster King of Arms], to whom I dedicate this little book. With the exception of these two “library interiors” and the [crest plate of R. Day], F.S.A., by Sherborn, all the modern Ex Libris designs here printed have been made by, or under the superintendence of, the writer, and executed by Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, whom I beg to thank most heartily for their kind co-operation, particularly in printing the lithographed specimens, and the use of additional blocks. I have also to thank several personal friends who have been good enough to lend me their copper-plates and process blocks.

John Vinycomb, m.r.i.a.

Riverside, Holywood, co. Down, 1894.

THE

Journal

OF THE

Ex Libris Society,

PUBLISHED MONTHLY,

Price, 1s. 6d.  Post Free, 1s. 9d.

 ALSO,
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VOLUME II.—Out of Print
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Cases for the above Volumes—

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ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK,

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Dated Book-Plates

(Ex Libris),

With a Treatise on their Origin and Development.

BY
WALTER HAMILTON,

Chairman of Council of the Ex Libris Society; Vice-President
of the Société Française des Collectionneurs d’Ex Libris.

With Numerous Illustrations.

A list of Dated Plates prior to 1700 appears in Part I., with fac-similes of Ex Libris specially selected as typical examples of early work.

Part II. will contain Dated Plates of the 18th century.

Part III. will contain Dated Plates of the 19th century.

The work will be printed on paper of the same size as the Journal of the Ex Libris Society, so as to range with it.

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Part I. is now ready. Parts II. and III. will be issued very shortly, as all the materials are ready for the press.

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK,

SOHO SQUARE, LONDON.

Book-Plate Annual

AND

ARMORIAL YEAR BOOK,

1894.

Edited by JOHN LEIGHTON, F.S.A.
Price, 2s. 6d.   Post Free, 2s. 9d.

Contents—

1.—Half Title, the Author, the Printer, the Bookbinder, and the lover of Books.

2.—Memorandum Sheet for the entry of Loans and Exchanges.

3.—The Ex Libris of the Duke of York and Princess. (By gracious permission.)

4.—Description of the Royal Wedding Book-plate. By Arthur Jewers, F.S.A.

5.—Portrait of the Great Master of Symbolical Heraldry, Albert Dürer.

6.—Should Wales have a place on the Royal Standard of England.

7.—Suggestions for a Welsh Order of Knighthood. The Collar and Jewel of St. David.

8.—Cambria upon the Currency in the fourth quarter.

9.—The Library, Books and Bindings. Their Restoration and Preservation.

10.—How to keep Ex Libris under any classification or arrangement.

11.—The Process of Binding. A Book from the Sheets to the Volume.

12.—Taxes upon Vanity. Armorial, Servants, Horses, and Carriages.

13.—Arms of Participation. An Economy in a high Luxury.

14.—Rebinding Old Books of value; what should be done?

15.—The Find of the Year. The Virginian Book-plate confirmed in America.

16.—Cut and come again. The Trimming of Books and Cutting Down.

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON.

THE

DRYBURGH EDITION

OF THE

Waverley Novels.

With 250 Page Illustrations, specially Drawn for this Edition
by the well known Artists whose names are given below, and
engraved on wood by Mr. J. D. COOPER.
In Twenty-five Volumes.

Crown 8vo, Cloth. Price, 5s. each.

CHARLES GREEN WAVERLEY.
GORDON BROWNE GUY MANNERING.
PAUL HARDY THE ANTIQUARY.
LOCKHART BOGLE ROB ROY.
WALTER PAGET BLACK DWARF.
LOCKHART BOGLELEGEND OF MONTROSE.
FRANK DADD, R.I. OLD MORTALITY
WILLIAM HOLE, R.S.A. HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN.
JOHN WILLIAMSON BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR.
GORDON BROWNE IVANHOE.
JOHN WILLIAMSON THE MONASTERY
JOHN WILLIAMSON THE ABBOT.
H. M. PAGET KENILWORTH.
W. H. OVEREND THE PIRATE.
GODFREY C. HINDLEY FORTUNES OF NIGEL.
STANLEY BERKELEY PEVERIL OF THE PEAK.
H. M. PAGET QUENTIN DURWARD.
HUGH THOMSON ST. RONAN’S WELL.
GEORGE HAY, R.S.A. REDGAUNTLET.
GODFREY C. HINDLEY  THE BETROTHED.
HIGHLAND WIDOW.
GODFREY C. HINDLEY THE TALISMAN.
STANLEY BERKELEY WOODSTOCK.
C. M. HARDIE, A.R.S.A. FAIR MAID OF PERTH.
PAUL HARDY ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN.
GORDON BROWNE COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS.
PAUL HARDY THE SURGEON’S DAUGHTER.
WALTER PAGETCASTLE DANGEROUS.

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON.

Footnotes:

[1] Jackson’s “History and Practice of Wood Engraving”; Firmin Didot’s “Essai sur l’Histoire de la Gravure sur Bois”; “The Book, its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders,” by Henri Bouchot; “Wood Engraving: a Manual of Instruction,” by W. J. Linton.

[2] “The Art of Etching explained and illustrated, with remarks on the allied processes of Dry-point, Mezzotint, and Aquatint.” By H. R. Robertson, Fellow of the Society of Painter-Etchers; Author of “Life on the Upper Thames,” etc. Winsor and Newton, Limited, 38 Rathbone Place, London.

[3] “The Art of Pen and Ink Drawing, commonly called Etching.” By H. R. Robertson, Fellow of the Society of Painter-Etchers, Author of “The Art of Etching,” etc. Winsor & Newton, Limited, London.

Transcriber’s Notes:

Antiquated spellings were not preserved.

The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate.

Typographical errors have been silently corrected.