American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with Examples

by Charles Dexter Allen

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Contents

1. Preface
2. Introductory
3. Name-Labels and Mottoes
4. Armorial Book-Plates
5. Pictorial and Allegorical Book-Plates, and Plates of Colleges Libraries, and Societies.,
6. Book-Plates of Special Interest
7. Early American Book-Plate Engravers
8. A List of Early American Book-Plates
9. A Chronological List of the Dated Plates Up to 1800
10. An Alphabetical List of the Signed Plates
11. A List of the Mottoes Found Upon the Early American Book-Plates, with Translations
12. A Few Recent Examples
13. American Collectors and Collections
14. The Ex Libris Societies
15. Bibliography. American, English, and French
16. Conclusion

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