The home library . ally for his use, and in-tended solely to honor his books. So many book-lovershave had their book-plates made, and so many artists havedesigned them, during the past three centuries that thereare now collectors of book-plates; nay, more, there areeven two guide-books for the collector of French call a book-plate an ex-liiris (from the booksof), and so the first treatise on the topic is the enter-taining little book of M. Poulet-Malassis, ^Les Ex-LibrisFrangais, depuis leur origine jusqua nos jours (Paris,1874). The second book is by an Englishman; it is
The home library . ally for his use, and in-tended solely to honor his books. So many book-lovershave had their book-plates made, and so many artists havedesigned them, during the past three centuries that thereare now collectors of book-plates; nay, more, there areeven two guide-books for the collector of French call a book-plate an ex-liiris (from the booksof), and so the first treatise on the topic is the enter-taining little book of M. Poulet-Malassis, ^Les Ex-LibrisFrangais, depuis leur origine jusqua nos jours (Paris,1874). The second book is by an Englishman; it is Leicester Warrens ^^ Guide to the Study of Book-Plates (London, 1880). From these works it appearsthat the earlier form of book-plate was heraldic, and thatthis form is perhaps still most in favor in England, whilein France a freer and more artistic impulse is to be ob- ON THE LENDING AND MARKING OF BOOKS, 109 seryed. As specimens of the English school may betaken the book-plate of the late J. K. Planche, the his-. FiG. 20. torian of costume and Eougecroix Pursuivant of Arms(Fig. 20), and the book-plate of the library of Eton Col-lege (Fig. 21). Planche carried out the idea of a seal of 110 THE HOME LIBRARY. wax, eyen to the representation of the silken cord whichsustains and pierces it. The Eton College book-plate isa fair type of the book-plate most in fayor in England ; itis rectangular in shape, heraldic in design, and fully let- ^gjREglE^SCHOIE
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