Bookplates

by Edward Almack

(see page [11])

BOOKPLATES

BY
EDWARD ALMACK, F.S.A.
WITH FORTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS
METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
1904

CONTENTS

[CHAPTER I] INTRODUCTORY
General remarks—Various modes of engraving—Styles in bookplates	page [1]
[CHAPTER II] BOOKPLATES CHRONOLOGICALLY
Very early plates—Albrecht Dürer—Other German artists—Early English	[11]
[CHAPTER III] BOOKPLATES CHRONOLOGICALLY
Lucas Cranach—Charles V.—Hans Holbein—Early French and English bookplates—Sir Nicholas Bacon—Queen Elizabeth—Bookplates that are not armorial—Bookplates in Switzerland, Sweden, and Italy	[20]
[CHAPTER IV] BOOKPLATES CHRONOLOGICALLY
The seventeenth century begins—German plates—William Marshall—Lord Littleton—Huet, Bishop of Avranches	[30]
[CHAPTER V] BOOKPLATES CHRONOLOGICALLY
Some French and some German plates—The cap of liberty—Buonaparte—Alsace and Lorraine	[38]
[CHAPTER VI] BOOKPLATES WITH MANTLING
Viscount Cholmondeley—James Loch of Drylaw—William Pitt ofBinfield	[44]
[CHAPTER VII] SOME SPECIMENS INSERTED IN A BOOK KEPT IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM FOR THAT PURPOSE
Some bookplates kindly lent by Mr. G. F. Barwick—Wrest Park plates—Sir John Lubbock	[53]
[CHAPTER VIII] CHIPPENDALE AND CRESTPLATES
William Sharp the engraver—The Rev. John Watson—Edward Trotter—Patrick Colquhoun	[62]
[CHAPTER IX] MODERN BOOKPLATES
Remarks on examples given in The Studio, special winter number, 1898-9	[69]
[CHAPTER X] VARIOUS BRITISH BOOKPLATES
The proper place for a bookplate is in a book—Gordon of Buthlaw—Spencer Perceval—William Wilberforce—A bookplate for a special purpose—George Ormerod—Robert Surtees—Cathedral plates	[76]
[CHAPTER XI] BOOKPLATES IN AMERICA	[121]
[CHAPTER XII] INSCRIPTIONS IN BOOKS
John Collet of Little Gidding—A book that was in the Battle of Corunna—Henry Howard—Sir Percivall Hart—John Crane and the Battle of Naseby	[155]
BIBLIOGRAPHY	[172]
INDEX:[A],[B],[C],[D],[E],[F],[G],[H],[I],[J],[K],[L],[M],[N],[O],[P],[Q],[R],[S],[T],[V],[W],[Z]	[175]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[SAINT BENEDICT]	[Frontispiece]
	PAGE
[NOVACELLA]	[16]
[MARIDAT, P.]	[38]
[MALDEN, PAUL DE]	[40]
[MERCATOR, NICHOLAS]	[44]
[PEPPER, PRESCOTT]	[46]
[VAUGHAN, FRA.]	[48]
[THROCKMORTON, SIR ROBERT]	[50]
[MORS, SOLA RESOLVIT]	[51]
[BECKWITH, THOMAS]	[52]
[BUNSEN, C. C.]	[56]
[EARL DE GREY]	[57]
[LUBBOCK, SIR J. W.]	[58]
[CARRUTHERS, WILLIAM]	[60]
[SHARP, WILLIAM]	[62]
[WATSON, THE REV. JOHN]	[63]
[TROTTER, EDWARD]	[64]
[GORDON OF BUTHLAW]	[76]
[PERCEVAL, THE HONBLE. SPENCER]	[77]
[EARL OF GUILDFORD]	[78]
[WILBERFORCE, WILLIAM]	[80]
[CONSTABLE, THE REV. JOHN]	[86]
[BATEMAN, WILLIAM]	[88]
[DUKE OF BEAUFORT]	[90]
[CONDUITT, JOHN]	[91]
[WHEATLEY, HENRY B.]	[92]
[RAINE, JAMES]	[93]
[FIOTT, JOHN]	[96]
[DUKE OF SUSSEX]	[98]
[CAMPBELL, THE HONBLE. ARCHIBALD]	[100]
[CAMPBELL OF SHAWFIELD]	[102]
[GURNEY, HUDSON]	[104]
[CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL]	[105]
[NEWCOME, THE REV. T.]	[106]
[WOOD, THE REV. MANLEY]	[107]
[PRINCESS SOPHIA]	[109]
[BANDINEL, BULKELEY]	[109]
[BLISS, PHILIP]	[110]
[DENHOLM, SIR JAMES STEWART]	[112]
[OUSELEY, SIR GORE]	[116]
[HEATHCOTE, GEORGE PARKER]	[118]
[JARVIS, SAMUEL FARMAR]	[146]