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Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . raphed, etched, done in photogravure, halftone,woodcut, line cut, or photographed. Monotint no longer exercises its limitations but book-plates in polychrome come from many, if not all, of the vari-ous processes. 213 The book-plates of to-day serve the same purpose aswhen they were first produced to confound the book borrowerwho failed to return the volume he had borrowed. Nestlingunobtrusively in its proper place in the book when closed, abookplate nevertheless stares accusingly at the man whoopens it but who withholds it from its proper place in theowners library.
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . raphed, etched, done in photogravure, halftone,woodcut, line cut, or photographed. Monotint no longer exercises its limitations but book-plates in polychrome come from many, if not all, of the vari-ous processes. 213 The book-plates of to-day serve the same purpose aswhen they were first produced to confound the book borrowerwho failed to return the volume he had borrowed. Nestlingunobtrusively in its proper place in the book when closed, abookplate nevertheless stares accusingly at the man whoopens it but who withholds it from its proper place in theowners library. In 1820 a Miss Jenkins of Bath, England, became apioneer book-plate collector and in diverting them from theirplaces as badges of ownership, into collecting objects. Therolling of the ball, once started by her, she found many imi-tators and the tribe of book-plate collectors has to-day muchnumerical strength. A small collection of book-plates is easily kept in anenvelope or folder, but once it passes the envelope stage the. BOOK-PLATE USED IN THE LIBRARY OF THE S. S. OCEANICDesigned by LINLEY SAMBOURNE, one of the Artists of Punch. The original is in photogravure. 214
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