The Journal of the Ex-Libris Society. A. and C. Black, Soho Square, London. Quarto, illustrated, 1891-96. (In progress.)
A monthly journal containing numerous articles on French book-plates.
French Book-Plates. A Handbook for Ex-Libris Collectors. By Walter Hamilton, Hon. Treas. of the Ex-Libris Society. With numerous fac-similes. London: George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, 1892.
Catalogue des Incunables de la Bibliothèque Publique de Besançon. Par Auguste Castan, Conservateur de la Bibliothèque de Besançon. Publication Posthume faite sous les auspices de la Société d’Emulation du Doubs. Besançon, J. Dodivers, Grande Rue, 1893.
Mons. Castan was born in 1833; he died in June, 1892.
La Bibliothèque de Fontainebleau et les Livres des Derniers Valois à la Bibliothèque Nationale. (1515-1589.) Par Ernest Quentin-Bauchart. Paris, Em. Paul et Guillemin.
Les Relieurs Français (1500-1800). Biographie critique et anecdotique. Précedée de l’Histoire de la Communauté des Relieurs et Doreurs de Livres de la Ville de Paris et d’une étude sur les styles de reliure. Par Ernest Thoinan. Paris, Em. Paul et Guillemin.
This useful work on the subject of bookbinding gives biographical details of more than 1,700 French binders, with their signatures and notices of their principal works. The armorial stamps on French bindings are frequently of great assistance in identifying nameless plates.
Archives de la Société Française des Collectionneurs d’Ex-Libris. Paris, Emile Paul et Guillemin, Rue des Bons-Enfants. (In progress.)
The organ of the French Society of Collectors of Book-plates. The first part was published in December, 1893, and it has appeared monthly ever since. Many illustrations of great beauty and interest have been issued with the Archives, but specially printed on plate paper.