BOOK l'I 



lendo to Uke Titioaca, and for one in the east 

 from Santa t'r.. A inl ' r - 



national railroad letween Hoi i vim and the Argen- 



projected. 



,raph lines have a total length of -JJHHI 

 ile*. The ost offlce forwarded 1.532.1 



latrr the la!.- H.-n. .1.1. nl do 



v pul.li>luMl his "(Juidi- to the Slu.ly of 15, ...K- 



mile*. 



newspapers. aUx, in the in- 1 420,579 in UK 



lational serrioe in 1808. 



BOOK -I' I \ I I v we undoubted- 



ly owe the origination .f th M0UMI example >f 

 a book-plate with wlm-h t< mark ownership 'f 11 

 printed look tlmt raine from Cirrnmii tvjM-s and t> 

 which it in an untrained tequence. The earliest 

 book-plate known ha been assigned a prolmM. 

 of ali- ll-Vi. A* mi^ht be expected. thi.s was 

 nardmcly crude when oompand with more re- 

 wntly enftrnvnl pUtr.s l.y th<> IH-I at 

 emri/platen w. : :upli- in d^ii:n. IKMII^. in 



fa-t! ..iily what aiv n.w kimwn a. " naim* lalwl-." 

 Tbate early lal- jnlar slips <>n which 



appeared the owners' names, often bordered clab- 



KARI.T ramcH PLATK. PRRIOD PRIOR TO 1650. CHARGES ON 



KHIELO aCPRODCCKO OK MOSAIC PAVBMBMT. 



oratelr. Because of the limited education of tho 

 masses for a considerable time after the advent of 

 printing, it wit* found that something more than a 

 printed name wa needed, and a substitute was 

 sought and found in li.-raMry. -JIM-C a knowledge of 

 Ann- and cpats of arms was th<-n j.ra -tically uni- 

 versal. A widi-r flfld was at once oj.< -m-d to the 

 designer and the artist, which th.-y fjuickly im- 

 prored. and because of this fact and the present 

 decadence of a knowledge of heraldry the book- 

 plate collector of to-day is confronted with n oon- 

 stderable task by way of plate identification in the 



it ..f hi* h.,l.y. N.I fine finds the mastery of 

 book-plates to be an elementary or an easy matter. 

 as might at first appear. To become an authority 

 rat. jinres the labor of many years in 



many departments of research. 



*it Islanding tl,.- < ..mparativo antiquity of 

 book-plates, little attention was paid to them until a 

 Terr recent jeriod. It i true they were used hen: 

 and there, and people knew there were su-h 1 1 

 but almost no literature appears on the subjer-t 

 until in I*oi7 Kev. Daniel Parsons wrote some mag- 

 azine art icles on book-plates. More than forty years 



FRtNCH PLATK fNDKR NAPOLEON I. RAIfK INDICATED BT 

 TOVfK AM. PIA-ME8 INSTEAD OF HELMET. DESIGNED BY 

 LOUIS DAVID. 



platr-." followin.ir M. I'"iilet Mala^i< on Frem-h 



plates, whose monograph ajipi-an-i in is; ; 



ing. arranirintf. ami "fiu'inat in^ a nomenclature 

 that has since served ,-t^ a >taii(lafd. The ruli^ de- 

 scribed l.y NVarren. on \vhi<-h the comp<isition of 

 book-plates liad f>r the nn.-t jiart taken plaee. lia\e 

 been suliject to fn-cjuent mooification and oh 



CNOLI8H TRICKED PLATE. PERIOD PRIOR TO 1738. 



In the fifteenth century it was the name label fol- 

 lowed by the varying armorial and heraldie t\ j>e-. 

 exemplified among others by the famous AH 



