Catalogue of British and American Book Plates Bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, K. C. B., F. R. S., P. S. A., Litt. D, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
Author | : E. R. J. Gambier Howe |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2017-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 0260131571 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780260131577 |
Rating | : 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of British and American Book Plates Bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, K. C. B., F. R. S., P. S. A., Litt. D, Vol. 1 Borrer, and who mistook it for a mere collection of plates of arms cut from some old peerage. It contained in reality a series of 640 armorial engravings, of which 637 are unquestionably book plates, all of one period, most of them rare, some previously quite unknown. With two exceptions, Nos. 1 and 2, which are not book plates, and possibly a third - the plate of William Fitzgerald, Bishop of Clonfert, 1698 - they are all either the work, as Sir Wollaston Franks thought, of one hand, or, as seems more probable from internal evidence, of several hands employed in one and the same workshop. The album had been in Sir Wollaston's keeping for a long while before it became his proe on the death of its owner, Lord de Tabley, in 1895. Both collectors always referred to it by the name of its place of purchase. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.