Book-Plates

List of Illustrations of Book-Plates

Richard Towneley, 1702,		[Frontispiece]
		PAGE
Everard Green, Rouge Dragon. By G. W. Eve,		[x]
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I.	Sir Thomas Isham. By Loggan,	[9]
II.	Francis de Malherbe,	[25]
III.	Sir Nicholas Bacon,	[27]
IV.	Sir Thomas Tresham, 1585,	[29]
V.	Gore. By Burghers,	[35]
VI.	Marriott. By Faithorne,	[37]
VII.	St. Albans Grammar School,	[41]
VIII.	Charles James Fox,	[45]
IX.	Thomas Knatchbull, 1702,	[51]
X.	Sir Thomas Hare, 1734,	[61]
XI.	James Brackstone, 1751,	[63]
XII.	Bishop of Kilmore, 1774,	[67]
XIII.	Birnie of Broomhill,	[71]
XIV.	Gift by George i. to Cambridge, 1715,	[77]
XV.	George Lambart. By Hogarth,	[80]
XVI.	John Wiltshire,	[83]
XVII.	Dr. William Oliver,	[85]
XVIII.	Dr. Thomas Drummond. By Sir R. Strange,	[89]
XIX.	Lady Bessborough. By Bartolozzi,	[93]
XX.	William Hewer, 1699,	[101]
XXI.	The Record Office in the Tower of London,	[105]
XXII.	Southey. By Bewick,	[111]
XXIII.	Gift-Plate to Buxheim Monastery,	[115]
XXIV.	Ebner. By Albert Dürer. 1516,	[119]
XXV.	Paulus Speratus,	[123]
XXVI.	'È Bibliotheca Woogiana,'	[129]
XXVII.	Electoral Library of Bavaria, 1618,	[133]
XXVIII.	Charles de Sales,	[139]
XXIX.	Amadeus Lulin. By B. Picart, 1722,	[145]
XXX.	Michael Lilienthal,	[165]
XXXI.	David Garrick,	[169]
XXXII.	Lady Bath, 1671,	[187]
XXXIII.	Countess of Oxford and Mortimer. By Vertue,	[191]
XXXIV.	Frances Anne Hoare,	[197]
XXXV.	Bishop Hacket. By Faithorne (Portrait),	[201]
XXXVI.	Sir Christopher Musgrave,	[205]
XXXVII.	Francis Carington, 1738,	[207]
XXXVIII.	Benjamin Adamson, 1746,	[209]
XXXIX.	William Oliver, 1751,	[211]
XL.	Samuel Pepys. By R. White (Portrait),	[217]
XLI.	Francis Perrault (Portrait),	[219]
XLII.	Robert Bloomfield, 1815,	[229]

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY

Book-plate collecting, at least in this country, is a thing of yesterday. On the Continent, particularly in France, it attracted attention sufficiently serious to induce the publication, in 1874, of a monograph on French book-plates by M. Poulet Malassis, which in the next year obtained the honours of a second edition. In England, prior to 1880, we had no work devoted to the study; but, in that year, the Honourable J. Leicester Warren—afterwards Lord De Tabley—published A Guide to the Study of Book-Plates (Ex Libris). How little was then generally known about these marks of ownership is shown by the allusions to them—very few in number—that find place in the pages of such publications as The Gentleman's Magazine or Notes and Queries: for that reason, the skilful handling of the subject by the late Lord De Tabley, and his zeal in compiling the treatise, are all the more conspicuous.

One of the most useful works which has yet appeared in the journal of the Ex Libris Society—a society intended to promote the study of book-plates—is a compilation by Mr. H. W. Fincham and Mr. J. Roberts Brown, A Bibliography of Book-Plates, arranged chronologically. A glance at this compilation emphasises the truth of the statement, just made, as to the scantiness of recorded information on book-plates prior to the year 1880; it also shows what a great deal about them has been written since.