Ladies' book-plates : an illustrated handbook for collectors and book-lovers / by Norna Labouchere.

  • Norma Susan Labouchere
Date:
1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Ladies' book-plates : an illustrated handbook for collectors and book-lovers / by Norna Labouchere. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    there is a different shield of arms and in the centre are two ovals containing vignette views of the owner’s residences, one on the Thames, and one at Birmingham. In the foreground of one picture two children, Margaret and Mary Edwards, are seen, their names being represented by appropriate flowers in the decoration. Emily Anna Gibbs, Barrow Court, Flax Bourton Co, Somerset is in- scribed on a plate intended for a collection of reli- gious books. The works of Thomas a Kempis and other divines are represented, and the eu- charist lily is introduced into the foliation. The circular floral design used by Lady Battersea is known in two varieties. In the first, dated 1885, the initials “ C. F.” [Constance Flower] are inter- twined in a conventional decoration composed of lilies of the valley. This plate was altered and the coronet added, after the creation of the title. Mr. Sherborn has also engraved many purely armorial plates. In these he seems especially to favour the Chippendale style for ladies ; but in Ma7^garet Scotts ex-libris the armorial lozenge has a Jacobean frame with a decoration of marguerites, and that of the Honble, Frances G, Wolseley is an adaptation of an old Wreath and Ribbon design. The fine Chippendale plate engraved for Dame Alice Ja7ie Chetwode is dated 1891. The Honble, Mrs, Meynell Ligram and the Comitess of Radnor have also adopted this style. Lady An^ie Dick- LaudeiF plate is a plain armorial lozenge sur- rounded by the widow’s knot arranged so as to form a decoration in the four corners of the square frame. Two little labels in Chippendale frames