Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . several lines in any auction catalogue in which it chances tobecome an item. Prior to 1438 no bookplates are known to have beenused and the earliest one of which collectors have presentknowledge is not older than 1470. With the advent ofprinted books the chained volumes quickly passed and thebookplate obtained instant popularity. Such marks ofownershijD were naturally influenced if not dominated byheraldry. Persons unable to read could nevertheless easilyrecognize coats of arms and the heraldic plate obtained aplace that it has never entirely lost, up to the present
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . several lines in any auction catalogue in which it chances tobecome an item. Prior to 1438 no bookplates are known to have beenused and the earliest one of which collectors have presentknowledge is not older than 1470. With the advent ofprinted books the chained volumes quickly passed and thebookplate obtained instant popularity. Such marks ofownershijD were naturally influenced if not dominated byheraldry. Persons unable to read could nevertheless easilyrecognize coats of arms and the heraldic plate obtained aplace that it has never entirely lost, up to the present minute. The identification of certain of the earlier book-plates,upon which the owners names do not appear, calls for someknowledge of heraldic emblems, charges, nomenclature, andthe like. Idealism in book-plates is, according to present notions,at least approached when they reflect the owners soul of the owner ought to shine through the to introduce personality into bookplates is however 211. .LIBR?lRy ( THE 5TUDI0 GLUB PICTORIAL BOOK-PLATE Designed by WILLIAM EDGAR FISHER attended with certain difficultiesand too often develops a tendencytoward overcrowding the fault is generally traceable tothe plate owner and not to the artistdesigner who works under instruc-tions, upon the execution of whichdepend approval and Byrne Leicester Warren(Lord de Tabley) in his Guide tothe Study of Book Plates, pub-hshed in 1880, worked out a book-plate nomenclature, that still servesas a safe and sure guide to book-plate enthusiasts. Early English,Jacobean, Chippendale, the Urn, Ribbon and Wreath, in-fluenced by the period fuiniture,came in sequence. There is to-day a strongtendency toward the crowning ofthe purely pictorial as a book-plate type, although of coursethe armorial, architectural, theportrait, the library interior orcorner, the landscape plate, thecanting plate, and the plate in-troducing the grotesque and thenude figure al
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