Bookplates

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Six wood-engraved bookplates by Simon Brett, with a sheet explaining the wood engraving process. Includes bookplates for: Julian Berkely, The Folio Society, John Gartner, Barry T. Jackson, Richard Maurice Cameron Leach, and Liesel & Walter Schwab.

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Shirley Smith discusses revisions to his bookplate design. Moss approves Shirley Smith's latest design and asks for an estimate for 500 of each version of the bookplate.

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Moss sends the second half of the bookplate fee and lists the items in his Richard Shirley Smith collection.

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Shirley Smith thanks Moss for the "Rome" book and provides a printing estimate for the bookplates.

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Collection contains 614 ex libris (bookplates), entries into the 2020 FISAE international exlibris congress design competition. Original artworks, created using a wide variety of methods and processes, were submitted by artists from over 35 countries.

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This collection contains bookplates by William Edgar Fisher. Many of these bookplates, which were designed for both individual and institutional patrons, are prints signed and numbered by the artist; many are hand-colored as well. The collection also includes some correspondence by Fisher as well as letters exchanged by later collectors of his work.

Abstract: Collection includes correspondence, writings, and other materials by and relating to book collector, anthologist, writer, and insurance agent Earl E. Fisk. Correspondence contains letters to and from writers, publishers and others, including Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Warren Beck, John Chipman Farrar, Farrar, Straus and Company, Harry Hansen, Robert Cortes Holliday, H. L. Mencken, A. Edward Newton, Carl Van Vechten, and Eudora Welty. Many of the letters concern Haldane Macfall. Writings include...

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Inscribed in graphite: "Richard Shirley Smith 2001."

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This collection contains bookplates, original artwork, trial proofs, artist’s proofs, additional process materials, and correspondence related to the production and/or exchange of bookplates by Edwin Davis French.

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Inscribed in graphite: "Richard Shirley Smith."

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This collection was put together by Louis Ginsberg from the 1940s to 1983. The over 700 plates include examples of individual patrons as well as institutional and commercial patrons. There is also a section of bookplates by artist Leonard Baskin and Ismael Smith.

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The collection contains bookplates designed by Stephen Gooden (1892-1955). It also includes process materials—e.g., original sketches, trial proofs, and engraved plates—as well as correspondence and ephemera.

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Inscribed in graphite: "Richard Shirley Smith."

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The collection contains correspondence between Frank S. Hatch of Longmeadow, MA, and the bookplate designer Frederick Charles Blank of Boston.

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This collection comprises printed illustrations of German coats of arms, individually mounted and labeled, as well as reproductions of early German bookplates and other supporting reference material related to German heraldic devices.

Scope and Contents: The papers consist of correspondence, research files, photographs and engravings, original artwork, designs, and publication process materials documenting the many facets of Hornung’s artistic and writing career. Examples of his own illustrations, lettering, and type, binding, industrial and trademark design are in the collection, as are those of a number of designers Hornung admired and studied, including Walter Dorwin Teague, T. M. Cleland, and Frederic W. Goudy. While a large group of the...

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This collection contains early American bookplates designed and engraved by Nathaniel Hurd (1730-1777), a silversmith and engraver born in Boston. His armorial bookplate designs are in the Jacobean and Chippendale styles, following the English fashion.

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Bain no. 19. Inscribed in graphite: "35/60 Richard Shirley Smith. 1981."

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Bain no. 253. Inscribed in graphite: "83/100 Richard Shirley Smith '83."

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Inscribed in graphite: "R.S.S."