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Collection of book-plates by Edwin Davis French and others.
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Contents List
Book-plates Engraved by Edwin Davis French,,
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1893-
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Arrangement:
Numerical by catalog number.
Restrictions on access: Scope and content:
This series consists of book-plates designed and engraved by French. The earliest plates, designed for his sister-in-law Helen Lay Brainerd, is dated 1893.
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Book-plates Not by Edwin French,
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Arrangement: Restrictions on access: Scope and content:
This series consists of book-plates engraved by artists other than Edwin French Davis. Some are anonymous.
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Anonymous - Plates of Colleges, Societies, Libraries.
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Box 2: folder 1
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Early American Book-plates, with citations to C. D. Allen
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Box 2: folder 2
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Plates by B. A. - Benrick
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Box 2: folder 3
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Plates by Elisha Brown Bird
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Box 2: folder 4
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Plates by F. C. Blank - George W. Eve
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Box 2: folder 5
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Plates by Geo. R. Halm - Hermann R. C. Hirzel
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Box 2: folder 6
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Plates by William F. Hopson
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Box 2: folder 7
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Plates by C. W. Sherborn
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Box 2: folder 8
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Plates by Irving Press - Rowell
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Box 2: folder 9
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Plates by B. E. S. - Sidney L. Smith
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Box 2: folder 10
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Plates by J. W. Spenceley
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Box 2: folder 11
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Plates by J. D. Stout - Harry F. Weyl
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Box 2: folder 12
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Plates by Cleora Wheeler
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Box 2: folder 13
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Periodicals, Catalogs, and Advertisements,
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1894-1929
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circa 50 items
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Arrangement: Restrictions on access: Scope and content:
This series is comprised of 2 periodicals ("The Literary Review and Book Plate Collector" and "The Book-plate Booklet"), several catalogues of book-plate collections, and advertisements from Edwin Davis French, The Book Plate, Elisha Brown Bird, and others.
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Periodicals: "The literary review and book plate collector" [v.1, no.1 (Nov. 1902)], "The book-plate booklet" [v.2, no.2 (May 1908)-v.2, no.4 (Nov. 1908) and v.3, no.3 (May 1910)-v.3, no.4 (Nov. 1910)]
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Box 4: folder 1
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Catalogues: "A classified list of early American book-plates ..." by Charles Dexter Allen (1894), "A list of book-plates engraved on copper by Mr. Edwin Davis French" (1899), Catalogue of a sale by the Anderson Auction Company of books and an extensive collection of bookplates (May 1908), "300 bookplates engraved by Edwin Davis French, 75 engraved by F. W. Spenceley ..." Heartman Auction (Feb. 1914), "A list of angling book-plates" by Daniel B. Fearing (1916), "A choice collection of modern and early American bookplates ..." Walpole Galleries (Feb. 1927) "Book-plates, books about bookplates, mainly American, including the work of Edwin Davis French ..." Walpole Galleries (Nov. 1927)
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Box 4: folder 2
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Advertisements: Edwin Davis French
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Box 4: folder 3
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Advertisements: The Book-Plate (E. L. Boyd)
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Box 4: folder 4
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Advertisements: Elisha Brown Bird
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Box 4: folder 5
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Advertisements: J. H. Elwell, Goodspeed's, etc.
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Box 4: folder 6
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