T. B. HAPGOOD, Jr.
Mr. Hapgood is a decorative designer in Boston, and his work on the covers of various periodicals and catalogs is well known. Plate No. 5 was submitted in competition and took second prize. It has never been reproduced. No. 1 was reproduced in “The Red Letter,” No. 2 in the book-plate number of “The Studio,” as was also No. 4. No. 14 has not been reproduced. No. 15 was originally made as a printer’s mark and was so used. It was later altered to serve as a book-plate.
1 Rev. George Fred Daniels, 1896
2 Norris Hastings Laughton, 1897
3 A. F. Skenkelberger, 1897
4 Theodore Brown Hapgood, Jr., 1897
5 Society of Mayflower Descendants in Mass., 1897
6 Rufus William Sprague, Jr., 1898
7 Frances Louise Allen, 1898
8 Andrew C. Wheelwright, 1898
9 Andrew C. Wheelwright, 1898
10 Richard Gorham Badger, 1898
11 Thursday Club, 1899
12 North Brookfield Free Public Library, 1900
13 Edwin Osgood Grover, 1900
14 Harriet Manning Whitcomb, 1900
15 Carl Heintzemann
HAROLD E. NELSON
Many of the figures in the book-plates by Harold Nelson are of the attenuated pre-Raphaelite type, but there are others one can believe really once lived. The frontispiece to the book-plate number of “The Studio” is a beautiful decorative bit by Mr. Nelson, and makes us quite willing to forgive him some of his more eccentric designs. The plate referred to is enhanced in beauty by a few lines of gold judiciously used. The musical plate on page 18 of this volume is a pleasing one.
Mary L. Oldfield
Edith A. Kingsford
Robert H. Smith
Fanny Nelson
Ellen Maguire
Edward Lomax
Ernest Scott Fardell, M.A.
Ernest Scott Fardell, M.A.
Geoffery Parkyn
A. Ludlow
James Wilmar
Bedford College Library
Horace Shaw
Harold Edward Hughes Nelson
Lady Literary Society
Mark Nelson
Evelyn Wynne Parton
A. A. Wood
Maude Burton
Marion H. Spielmann
Alfred Anteshed
Jane Nelson
Leopold d’Estreville Lenfestey
EDMUND H. NEW
The book-plate designs by Mr. New are in a class by themselves. No one else has worked quite the field occupied by this artist. Mr. New has used architecture for the motifs of a series of unusually pleasing plates. He has treated in a most decorative way whole buildings as well as details, doorways, and so forth. His plates are particularly adapted to the dignified old houses that contain the libraries for which they were made. Mr. New has not limited himself to this field, as he has done a number of designs with no architectural suggestion. His work in book illustration and decoration is of a most delightful quality, and is well known to all lovers of black and white. A number of his book-plate designs were reproduced and commented upon in Simpson’s “Book of Book-plates,” Vol. II., No. I. The book-plate number of “The Studio” also showed some of his designs. The list is in chronological order and complete.
Herbert New
Rev. Richard R. Philpots
Rees Price (wood cut)
Montague Fordham (wood cut)
C. Elkin Mathews
Dr. Edmundi Atkinson
Edward Morton
Frederic Chapman
William and Catherine Childs
Beatrice Alcock
Arthur Fowler
No. 1 Highbury Terrace
Julia Sharpe
Herbert B. Pollard
William Malin Roscoe (three sizes), 1897
Edward Evershed Dendy
J. G. Gardner-Brown
Phil. Norman
Edward Le Breton Martin
Roberti Saundby, M. D., LL. D. (two sizes), 1900
George Lewis Burton
George Cave, 1900
Alexander Millington Sing (two sizes)
Peter Jones
Edward Alfred Cockayne