Excerpt from Franks Bequest, Vol. 3: Catalogue of British and American Book Plates Bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum The present is the third and concluding volume of the Catalogue, compiled by Mr. E. R. J. Gambier Howe, of the English Book Plates bequeathed to the British Museum by the late Sir Wollaston Franks. Besides bringing down the main series to the close of the alphabet, this volume includes several minor and supplementary series, viz., one of about two hundred anonymous plates which it has not been ...
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Excerpt from Franks Bequest, Vol. 3: Catalogue of British and American Book Plates Bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum The present is the third and concluding volume of the Catalogue, compiled by Mr. E. R. J. Gambier Howe, of the English Book Plates bequeathed to the British Museum by the late Sir Wollaston Franks. Besides bringing down the main series to the close of the alphabet, this volume includes several minor and supplementary series, viz., one of about two hundred anonymous plates which it has not been found possible to identify; Royal plates; plates of Universities, Colleges and Schools;' Premium or school-prize plates; plates of Ecclesiastical, Parochial, and Public Libraries; Naval and Military and Legal and Medical plates; with those of City Companies and Public Offices, Booksellers, and Circulating Libraries. The volume also fumishes notes of a few family plates supplementary to the main series: these have for the most part been discovered in and transferred from the Foreign portion of the testator's collection. Last comes a Heraldic Index to all those plates which, although anonymous, have been identified and inserted in their proper alphabetical places in the main collection. The entire catalogued collection, including Brighton and supplements, is mounted in fifty-seven uniform albums and one of special size, containing in all plates. In addition a small duplicate selection of specimen plates, not catalogued, has been arranged in two separate albums, in order to illustrate for beginners the several styles of English book plate design and their evolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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