The encyclopdia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . most notable are those of Samuel Pepys himselfand of John Gibbs, the architect; allegories, such as were en-graved, by Hogarth, Bartolozzi, John Pine and George Vertue;landscape-plates, by wood engravers of the Bewick school (seePlate), &c. In most of these the armorial element plays but asecondary part. The value attached to book-plates, otherwise than as an objectof purely personal interest, is comparatively .modern. The stiidyof and the taste for collecting these private tokens of book-ownership
The encyclopdia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . most notable are those of Samuel Pepys himselfand of John Gibbs, the architect; allegories, such as were en-graved, by Hogarth, Bartolozzi, John Pine and George Vertue;landscape-plates, by wood engravers of the Bewick school (seePlate), &c. In most of these the armorial element plays but asecondary part. The value attached to book-plates, otherwise than as an objectof purely personal interest, is comparatively .modern. The stiidyof and the taste for collecting these private tokens of book-ownership hardly date farther back than the year 1875. Thefirst real impetus was given by the appearance of the Guide tothe Study of Booh-Plates, by Lord de Tabley (then the Warren) in 1880. This work, highly interesting frommany points of view, established what is now accepted as thegeneral classification of styles: early armorial { previous toRestoration, exemplified by the Nicholas Bacon plate); Jacobean,a somewhat misleading term, but distinctly understood to inclucfe iC** ^. Fig. 6.—Book-plate of William Hewer, 1699. the heavy decorative manner of the Restoration, Queen Anneand early Georgian days (the Lansanor plate, fig. 5, is typicallyJacobean); Chippendale (the style above described as rococo,tolerably well represented by- the French plate of Convers);wreath and ribbon, belonging to the period described as that ofthe urn, &c. Since then the literature on the subject has grownconsiderably. Societies of collectors have been founded, firstin England, then in Germany and France, and in the UnitedStates, most of them issuing a journal or archives:The Journal of the Ex-libris Society (London), the Archivesde la societS frangaise de collectionneurs dex-libris (Paris)both of these monthlies; the Ex-libris Zeitschrift (Berlin), aquarterly. Much has been written for and against book-plate , on the one hand, the more enthusiastic ex-Ubrists (forsuch a word
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