The home library . Fia. 23. clever sketch (Fig. 23). Still more striking and uncon-ventional is the book-plate of Victor Hugo, designed byM. Aglalis Bouvenne (Fig. 24). It represents the towerof Notre Dame de Paris, marked with four gigantic let-ters, H V G 0, and illumined by a brilliant flash of light-ning on which we can read the legend ^^Ex-Libris, VictorHugo. Quite as peculiar, although less characteristic, is ON THE LENDING AND MARKING OF BOOKS. 113 MANET the etching of M. Bracquemonds, which serves as thebook-plate of M. Edouard Manet, the impressionist paint-er. It is an outline bust o
The home library . Fia. 23. clever sketch (Fig. 23). Still more striking and uncon-ventional is the book-plate of Victor Hugo, designed byM. Aglalis Bouvenne (Fig. 24). It represents the towerof Notre Dame de Paris, marked with four gigantic let-ters, H V G 0, and illumined by a brilliant flash of light-ning on which we can read the legend ^^Ex-Libris, VictorHugo. Quite as peculiar, although less characteristic, is ON THE LENDING AND MARKING OF BOOKS. 113 MANET the etching of M. Bracquemonds, which serves as thebook-plate of M. Edouard Manet, the impressionist paint-er. It is an outline bust of rising from a pedestal, re-lieved by a few ferns (Fig. 25).There are not many Ameri-can book-plates, although thetaste for them is growing rapid-ly. They will increase in num-ber as the number of book-loversincreases. The only Americanbook-plate which we are at lib-.
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