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Illustrated with reproductions of bookplates by Gleeson White, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, William Bell Scott, among others.
This work looks at bookplates on copper and wood, engraved and printed in Thomas Bewick's workshop over a period of 75 years, and uses many primary sources. It contains bibliographical information on the owners of the bookplates and contributes to the social history of northern England.
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Each plate has from three to nine bookplates reproduced in facsimile. Includes German, English, Hungarian, and French examples, chiefly in styles from ca. 1880-1919. Some have a date or illustrator's name within the bookplate.
Collection of 761 miniature works of art representing 500 years of the bookplate from the first known example -- ca. 1450 -- to a wide range of fascinating 20th-century designs. Introduction.