Ex-Libris Ana, et Ex-Libris Imaginaires et supposés de Personnages célébres, anciens et modernes. Paris, L. Joly, Editeur, 19, Quai Saint-Michel, 1893-1894.
This little publication contained some valuable historical articles and reproductions of old plates. The Ex-Libris Imaginaires were grimly humorous and satirical, especially those of Rabelais, La Fontaine, Rollin, Marat, Danton, E. A. Poe, Dumas fils, Charcot, and Ernest Renan.
Les Bibliophiles Rémois leurs ex-libris et fers de reliure suivis de ceux de la Bibliothèque de Reims. Ouvrage illustré de 70 gravures. Par Henri Jadart Conservateur adjoint de la Bibliothèque de Reims Secretaire général de l’Académie. Reims F. Michaud, Rue du Cadran-Saint-Pierre. 1894.
This work is extracted from the proceedings of the Académie de Reims, and only 150 copies were printed.
It contains biographical notices of the principal book collectors of Reims, and its vicinity, with their armorial bearings, descriptions of their book-plates, and the stamps on their bindings. It also gives an alphabetical collection of mottoes with the families to whom they belong, and a bibliography of the Catalogues Rémois.
The information contained in this delightful volume is of the greatest value to collectors of French Book-plates, and the facsimiles are executed in the most artistic manner.
Dated Book-Plates (Ex-Libris), with a Treatise on their Origin and Development. By Walter Hamilton. London, A. and C. Black, Soho Square, 1895. Illustrated.
This volume contains a list of all the known French dated plates from 1574 to 1895, with descriptions of their styles, their mottoes, artists, and engravers, and biographical notes about their owners.
Ladies’ Book-plates. By Norna Labouchere. With numerous illustrations. London, George Bell and Sons, 1895.