PICTORIAL AND ALLEGORICAL BOOK-PLATES, AND PLATES OF COLLEGES LIBRARIES, AND SOCIETIES.,
BOOK-PLATES OF SPECIAL INTEREST
EARLY AMERICAN BOOK-PLATE ENGRAVERS
A LIST OF EARLY AMERICAN. BOOK-PLATES
A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE DATED PLATES UP TO 1800
AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE SIGNED PLATES
A LIST OF THE MOTTOES FOUND UPON THE EARLY AMERICAN BOOK-PLATES, WITH TRANSLATIONS
A FEW RECENT EXAMPLES
AMERICAN COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS
THE EX LIBRIS SOCIETIES
BIBLIOGRAPHY. AMERICAN, ENGLISH, AND FRENCH
CONCLUSION
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WE cannot venture to guess which was the first book-plate made in America, nor to say with absolute certainty whence came the first plate used in our country; but undoubtedly the latter came over already pasted into some book of a Dutch or English settler.
The larger part of our books came from England, and very few plates are found with arms of other nationalities. The colonists who came from England bringing books, brought also the home ideas concerning books, and the book-plate was a natural piece of property to acquire. Their descendants, who continued the connection with the mother-country, used plates more generally, and the fashion spread naturally. It never became very general, but was confined to those of gentle birth; the clergy, the lawyers, and men of education. We shall see that it was not confined to the men alone, but that the women of literary accomplishments also used plates.
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Instances of mottoes which are cleverly made to carry some meaning, or some word, which will be seen at a glance to be taken from the name of the owner, are found often.
On the plate of Harold Clarence Ernst this motto is given, Ernst ist das Leben.
