American book-plates
Subtitle: a guide to their study with examples ... With a bibliography by Eben Hewins ... Illustrated with many reproductions of rare and interesting book-plates and in the finer editions with many prints from the original coppers both old and recent.
Contributors: Hewins, Eben Newell.; Norwood Press.
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Published: 1905
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Subjects: Bookplates, American; Bookplates -- Bibliography
Table of contents: title: Name-labels and mottoes.; title: Armorial book-plates.; title: Pictorial and allegorical book-plates and plates of colleges, libraries and societies.; title: Book-plates of special interest.; title: Early American book-plate engravers, with lists of their work.; title: An alphabetical list of early American book-plates.; title: A chronological list of the dated plates.; title: An alphabetical list of the signed plates.; title: List of mottoes.; title: A few recent examples.; title: American collectors and collections.; title: Ex-libris societies.; title: Bibliography (American [by E.N. Hewins]; English [by H.W. Fincham and J.R. Brown; reprinted from the Journal of the Ex-libris society]; French [by W. Hamilton; reprinted from his "Handbook of French book-plates"])