BOOK-PLATES. 



. that continued in use until the sixteenth een. 

 v gave way to the Jacobean, the popa- 

 of which r..iU!i'.'.-.i unitl i;r,. <* perhaps 

 rhal la- -,k-|.;ui.- urk f W 



lli wa 



plate original. 



i.y llir 



is 1 Hi: PROPERTY 



BENJAMIN CASE. 



SOUTHOLD, (L. I.) ill 



DAT* WO TO 1819. 



wful 



aii'l be furnitun- that wa 



too r roon, i 



-!::il. I!.'' 





jortc, the P- 



ami tli- V 



imooeadetl uidasthe 



i ami tli.- artist and designer 



OHMS Bewick did his best book-plat** <.rk. so 



i collectors, in tin 

 kndscapeat 



all are Ah that come to th<> m.-l.-rn ! 



rnllfl t! il. win. h 



i>|N>rtunity t> how, 



.. fur a- -u. -li thin..". - .n. ML- ta-t< . l\w '' in I1 1 



!lea- 

 initir-* (>r tin- intnNlm-i; 



'hr*. ami a thousand 

 .at ions that linger I 



* It wasonoe customar . 

 ommisftinn. selected examples of which 



txH nor sol) one 



Krd all, but .|- 



My Mend, should you thU hook 

 rfraw to protect it (Vom abuse : 



Tior Mmn. nor mark iu pafft, 



, aiuro old aff: 

 Ami tfr.t^l all. 



Plasse to return it err 1 call. 



If any one should borrow me, 



keep me clean ; 

 1 am not like linn eUh, 

 That can he 



The book-plate collector has since been frequently 



. - :- v. 



irarMms. and who ignore the 

 fatt that the record* on book-platas tlu 

 asrred by the indefatigable col 



Mail sjsj t . a.- )tothasM . . ... 

 , ,-. i Eta ..? - ! i" . -. 



ny booln for the sak* of tha 





d. when in* derivative) 



, . - .- 



1606. Hannah A.lai 



setiarate eJaas. fin* ap- 

 I5WL In Futgland th* 

 Dtaabeth I'ltMiar. dated 

 id the aariieat known 



The daptrtMBtef French book-pl^M it vvry m- 

 |.larr. the inflow* 4 



have come down to us, whic 

 any other country. The illu 

 |.lMf.,ftl <^irrn 



wrrrn 

 t, wherein the 



* /**n that 

 d BO parallel to 

 on of a Preneii 

 h ceotury shows 



. 



mosaic parrmrnt 

 are r. <>n 



k " tin- arm- !> u..!< aling the 



il of liy arlMirary dota aini In 



botqOBtly 



ilia. 



Hue ny. France, and tba United ! 



r j- libri* itocietiea, m 



turning more an ward 



plea, ami t li.-n- is an cmwcial interest for an Amen- 

 1 1 plates as those of George Washington. 

 W.lliaiii IVnn, Joseph Dudley. Dai. 



il 1890 did book-plate* begin to t 

 ami it wa a 

 inaugurated this i 



George Baocroft, and other*. 



*,h historical and other ascialionv The list of 

 known eoUacton of book-plates in thb country ts 

 not extMaitt, Probably foO would far exceed the 

 total number of those who hare more than SjOOO 

 apadmens. Thfa fa easy to tmderftand. beeasv 

 a subject that does not appeal to many. Among 



