. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. embossed withthe portrait-stamp of the queenhere reproduced, and no otherinstance of the use of the stampis recorded. The book is thePlantin Greek Testament of1583, an edition which the queenwould be very likely to whether this copy was everin her library we have no meansof deciding, the alternatives of presentation to and pre-sentation by, of ownership by the original of the portraitor by some loyal subject, being very equally stamp in this case is slightly raised, and is theearliest instance of a cameo stamp
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. embossed withthe portrait-stamp of the queenhere reproduced, and no otherinstance of the use of the stampis recorded. The book is thePlantin Greek Testament of1583, an edition which the queenwould be very likely to whether this copy was everin her library we have no meansof deciding, the alternatives of presentation to and pre-sentation by, of ownership by the original of the portraitor by some loyal subject, being very equally stamp in this case is slightly raised, and is theearliest instance of a cameo stamp on any Englishbinding. The only other sixteenth-century English armorialstamps in the collection are two examples of the stampused by William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, one in gold on acopy of the Greek Testament of Erasmus printed at Baselin 1570, the other in silver on a Hebrew Bible issued fromthe press of Plantin in 1583. It is certainly a very decora-tive stamp, but I must confess to preferring to it thesimple inscription William and Mildred Cicyll on a. ELIZABETHAN PORTRAIT-STAMP 248 OLD PICTURE BOOKS binding which entered the Museum with the old RoyalLibrary. In the present collection a little Lyons Virgilprinted by Gryphius in 1571, though with a decorativeinstead of an heraldic stamp, bears the initals, , ofan English owner, a book-plate of The Right Honble.
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