. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. etime owned either by the Baroness Norreys or herfirst husband. The book-plate of the Countess of Car-narvon is here reproduced as presumably a rather earlyexample of a ladys plate in the heraldic style. Itcertainly does not deserve the honour for its artisticmerits, the design and engraving being as poor as theinscription is foolish. Copies of a Commelinus Tacitus (1595) and a Horace,Persius and Juvenal (London, 1614-15) bear the arms ofJohn Maitland, created Viscount Lauderdale in 1616;those of the Earl of Huntingdon are found on a
. Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects. etime owned either by the Baroness Norreys or herfirst husband. The book-plate of the Countess of Car-narvon is here reproduced as presumably a rather earlyexample of a ladys plate in the heraldic style. Itcertainly does not deserve the honour for its artisticmerits, the design and engraving being as poor as theinscription is foolish. Copies of a Commelinus Tacitus (1595) and a Horace,Persius and Juvenal (London, 1614-15) bear the arms ofJohn Maitland, created Viscount Lauderdale in 1616;those of the Earl of Huntingdon are found on a Camdens Britannica of 1627 ; those of William Covert of Sussex,on the 1615 edition of the works of Gervase Babington ; ARMORIAL BOOK-STAMPS 255 those of Chetwynd, on Matthew of Westminsters FloresHistoriarum (Frankfort, 1601) ; those of Wilmer onStowes * Survey of London, 1618. Further investigationwould no doubt yield a tale as to each of these volumes,but we may not linger over them. We must stop, how-ever, to note that the arms of Archbishop Laud, on a. BOOK-PLATE OF THE COUNTESS OF CARNARVON copy of his Relation of a conference with Fisher theJesuit, do not clearly indicate that this was his ownlibrary copy, since an inscription (apparently in Laudshandwriting) informs us that the book was presented byy^ author to S Jo. Bramston, Ch[ief] Ju[stice] of theK[ings] B[ench], a book-plate of one of whose descen- 2s6 OLD PICTURE BOOKS dants, Thomas Bramston, Esq., of Skreens, is found inthe volume. In the same way, in the next century, wefind Speaker Onslow possessed of a copy of Lockes Letters concerning Toleration, presented to him byThomas Hollis, and bearing some of the donors favouriteemblems, the cap of liberty, the owl of Minerva and a
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