Buy this book on-line ALMACK,EDWARD** - General editor,CYRIL DAVENPORT: : BOOKPLATES: LITTLE BOOKS ON ART.**LONDON.METHUEN,1904.
UK, Demy 16mo HB, no dw/dj,as issued(?), 1st edn.VG+.No owner inscrptn but previous
owner's bookplate to front pastedown with bookseller label to bottom edge of same.
Publisher's original dark blue cloth bds with decorative, bright, stamped gilt art-nouveau design to upper bd+spine/
backstrip, plain rear bd with a partial cup-ring to same;otherwise generally clean
and bright.Minimal shelf-wear to edges, minisculely bumped corners with negligible
rubbing, minimally bumped/creased to head
of spine/backstrip.Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed and slightly aged, contents tight, bright and generally clean with some foxing throughout.Some off-set foxing from pastedowns affecting verso+ recto, respectively of both free eps.Approx 6.50" tall x 4.50" wide,vi-viii
+2-180pp includes title+half-title pages, b/w+part coloured illustrated Saint Benedict bookplate, frntis (believed to be the oldest in the world, but certainly 15thC.), contents+illustrations lists, 42 b/w illustrations (of bookplates) all called for, 12 chapters, biblio and an index.2nd of 12 titles/subjects in this series.
In Germany, a country where bookplates very early found a home, the word bibliothekseichen, or library label is used.Germans also use the name ex libris, and in France the Latin expression ex libris.Covering bookplates with all the different types of blocks or plates:the woodcut, wood-engraving, etchings, copper-plate line engravings, steel engraving, mezzotint engraving, aqua-tint engraving, armorial bookplates, baroque and Rococo styles, heraldic bookplates and modern bookplates (then 1904).Bookplates from Germany, France, England and America are also covered.
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