American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with Examples

by Charles Dexter Allen

The larger part of our collectors are members of the Ex Libris Society, of England, while many have also joined the societies in France and Germany. No American Society has as yet been seriously proposed.

A LIST OF AMERICAN MEMBERS OF THE EX LIBRIS SOCIETY.
Charles Dexter Allen	Hartford, Conn.
G. A. Armour	Chicago, Ill.
S. P. Avery	New York City.
William E. Baillie	Bridgeport, Conn.
Mrs. Richard J. Barker	Warren, R.I.
Walter R. Benjamin	New York City.
E. H. Bierstadt	New York City.
Henry Blackwell	New York City.
E. W. Blatchford	Chicago, Ill.
Boston Athenæum	Boston, Mass.
Boston Public Library	Boston, Mass.
Helen E. Brainerd	New York City.
William George Brown	Lexington, Va.
J. H. Buck	New York City.
William A. Butterfield	Boston, Mass.
Dr. Charles E. Clark	Lynn, Mass.
J. H. Corning	Washington, D.C.
Hon. W. A. Courtenay	Charleston, S.C.
Dr. R. B. Coutant	Tarrytown, N.Y.
George W. Cram	Norwalk, Conn.
H. E. Deats	Flemington, N.J.
Pickering Dodge	Washington, D.C.
Dr. J. H. Dubbs	Lancaster, Pa.
Mrs. E. H. Duhme	Cincinnati, Ohio.
George Wharton Edwards	New York City.
Dr. Henry C. Eno	Saugatuck, Conn.
F. W. French	Boston, Mass.
E. H. Frost	Charleston, S.C.
Mrs. E. M. Gallaudet	Washington, D.C.
Christian Gerhardt	New York City.
Grolier Club	New York City.
E. N. Hewins	Boston, Mass.
A. L. Hollingsworth	Boston, Mass.
W. F. Hopson	New Haven, Conn.
Paul Lemperly	Cleveland, Ohio.
Fred J. Libbie	Boston, Mass.
Richard C. Lichtenstein	Boston, Mass.
George A. Macbeth	Pittsburg, Pa.
Montague Marks	New York City.
Charles T. Martin	Hartford, Conn.
Thomas L. Montgomery	Philadelphia, Pa.
Newberry Library	Chicago, Ill.
New York State Library	Albany, N.Y.
Nathaniel L. Paine	Worcester, Mass.
George B. Perry	Boston, Mass.
Daniel Ravenel	Charleston, S.C.
Henry S. Rowe	Boston, Mass.
Rowfant Club	Cleveland, Ohio.
J. Douglas Scott	Hyde Park, Mass.
Heromich Shugio	Washington, D.C.
Howard Sill	Glendale, Mass.
Fred Webber	Washington, D.C.
Horace W. Whayman	Newport, Ky.
John P. Woodbury	Boston, Mass.
Worcester Public Library	Worcester, Mass.

Others who have collections, or who are interested in book-plates, but are not members of the societies, are:—

Samuel Auxer	Lancaster, Pa.
Albert C. Bates	Hartford, Conn.
Arlo Bates	Boston, Mass.
Robert A. Brock	Richmond, Va.
Henry M. Brooks	Salem, Mass.
Henry B. Bult	New York City.
H. B. Bryant	Portland, Me.
Dr. Swan M. Burnett	Washington, D.C.
William J. Campbell	Philadelphia, Pa.
Beverly Chew	New York City.
Dartmouth College Library	Hanover, N.H.
Henri Pene Du Bois	New York City.
Howard Edwards	Philadelphia, Pa.
Paul Leicester Ford	Brooklyn, N.Y.
Frank B. Gay	Hartford, Conn.
Edward D. Harris	New York City.
Laurence Hutton	New York City.
Charles C. Moreau	New York City.
Edward W. Nash	New York City.
New York Historical Society	New York City.
Henry Thorpe	Brooklyn, N.Y.
Lyon G. Tyler	Williamsburg, Pa.
William H. Whitmore	Boston, Mass.

THE EX LIBRIS SOCIETIES.