French Book-Plates A Handbook For
by Hamilton, Walter
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Cotuit, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
GEORGE BELL & SONS. Very Good. 1892. Hardcover. No. XI of 35 on Japanese vellum. 3/4 leather, 5 raised bands gilt, 5 elaborate gilt panels, all a little edge worn and rubbed. Large foxed bookplate of John and Evelyn Dudley-Scott inside front cover, with 14 lines in pencil with scholarly description of the heraldry of the family bookplate. Also on next free marbled (clouded blue sky) end paper is foxed bookplate of Ada M. Hopson, 1910, engraved by W. F. (william Fowler) Hopson, with two small ink lines on bottom left of plate: Merrybrook / 1930. Plate itself has scene noted as Brookside 1898. End papers showing a little edge browning from turn-ins. No binder's name evident. Hopson, resident of CT, (1849-1935) famous for his engravings: member Grolier Society, Club of Odd Volumes, CA Bookplate Society. Appears to have notes of rare book dealer Peter Keisoglof from 1948. .
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- Bookseller
- Isaiah Thomas Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1007000
- Title
- French Book-Plates A Handbook For
- Author
- Hamilton, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- GEORGE BELL & SONS
- Date Published
- 1892
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About the Seller
Isaiah Thomas Books
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Cotuit, Massachusetts
About Isaiah Thomas Books
Member: Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, Massachusetts and Rhode Island Antiquarian Booksellers. "One of the finest in N.E. (&) the premier used book shop on Cape Cod" - Used Book Lovers Guide. We have about 70,000 booksv Located half way between Falmouth and Hyannis, we are named in honor of the famous colonial era printer and philantrophist, founder (1812) of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, where we in 1969. There we were stewards and renewers of a decorative Queen Anne Victorian. On Cape Cod since 1969, we take care of the newest (1860) Crocker family home in Barnstable's village of Cotuit: a tall peaked Italianate now painted pink and four other colors. The owner's training has included work in four libraries and apprenticeship with the Irving Ephraim (1908) - 1989) who began his own career during the depression. Assistants have always known the meaning of "book person." Remembering with fondness Mr. E. and the enormous influence of our home town librarians, we try to continue their tradition of service. Open Tues. - Sat. 10 - 5, Sun. 12 - 5. Open Monday in the summer.
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...