Concerning Book-plates: A Handbook for CollectorsWisteria Cottage Press, 1903 - 217 páginas |
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Albrecht Dürer Alphabet 66 American artist Armorial Styles ARRANGED GENERAL EXCHANGES Artists 66 Aylward beautiful Berlin best known Book-piles book-plates Boston Castle celebrated Charles charming Chicago Chippendale Club COLLECTIONS BY DESIRED crest dainty Dates 66 decorative E. D. French Egerton Castle England engraver etcher etching Ex Libris Journal ex-libris EXCHANGES PLATES BEGUN famous Floral France Frederick George Germany Henry Mitchell Heraldic Hopson Horace Walpole illustrator Jacobean James John Jules de Goncourt known to collectors Library Interior London Louis mark Mary Mass modern monogram Munich Ohio owner Paris Pictorial PLATES BEGUN COLLECTIONS plates signed portraits printed proofs Public Library remarque plates Robert Sherborn shield specimens style of plate Styles 66 Styles Yes Swit Thomas Thomas Bray tion to-day well-known William William Byrd Winfred Spenceley WISTERIA WISTERIA COTTAGE PRESS Wyon York City ZELLA ALLEN DIXSON
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Página 44 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, . As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low- vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Página 44 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Página 6 - If thou art borrowed by a friend, Right welcome shall he be To read, to study, not to lend, But to return to me.
Página xv - And when they ask about my ail, 'tis " Burton," I reply. They still have made me slight returns, and thus my griefs divide : For oh ! they cured me of my " Burns," and eased my " Akenside." But all I think I shall not say, nor let my anger burn, For, as they never found me " Gay," they have not left me
Página 5 - Steal not this book, my honest friend. For fear the gallows will be your end.
Página xv - Spenser " quite bereft, Last winter sore was shaken ; Of " Lamb " I've but a quarter left, Nor could I save my " Bacon ;" And then I saw my " Crabbe " at last, Like Hamlet, backward go, And, as the tide was ebbing fast, Of course I lost my
Página xv - Locke," to me far more Than Bramah's patent worth, And now my losses I deplore, Without a " Home " on earth. If once a book you let them lift, Another they conceal, For though I caught them stealing "Swift," As swiftly went my
Página 44 - If you will look into Roget's Bridgewater Treatise, you will find a figure of one of these shells and a section of it. The last will show you the series of enlarging compartments successively dwelt in by the animal that inhabits the shell, which is built in a widening spiral.
Página 5 - But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you : but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
Página 38 - Knowledge and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Madras, Higginbotham and Co., 1881, pp.