A treasury of bookplates from the Renaissance to the present / selected and with an introd. by Fridolf Johnson.

New York : Dover Publications, 1977.

vii, 151 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm.

Dover pictorial archive series

Miniature works of art representing 500 years of the bookplate from the first known example (ca. 1450) to a wide range of fascinating 20th-century designs. Most comprehensive collection available. -- From publisher's description.
"This collection of 761 outstanding bookplate designs by 331 noted artists, illustrators and engravers spans six centuries, from the first known printed bookplate (ca. 1450) to a wide range of twentieth-century designs. There are bookplates by such noted artists and illustrators as Jost Amman, Dürer, Paul Revere, Thomas Bewick, Walter Crane, Hugh Thomson, Robert Anning Bell, Beardsley, Kate Greenaway, Max Klinger, Mucha, Gordon Craig, Thomas Cleland, Howard Pyle, Georges Auriol, Leonard Baskin, Rockwell Kent, and many others. Also included are designers known specifically for their work in bookplates, men like Alexander Anderson, Charles William Sherborn, George W. Eve, Edwin Davis French, Sidney Smith, J. Winfred Spenceley. We see the designs of artists specializing in calligraphy and typography, and contemporary designers from Eastern Europe and the Orient. Produced by woodcut, wood engraving, linoleum cut, steel or copper engraving, etching, aquatint, lithography, decorative typography or any of the modern methods of photographic reproduction, these bookplates come in every conceivable style and subject."--back cover.

0486234851
9780486234854

Bookplates.
Ex-libris.
bookplates.
Ex-librissen.

Printed books 20th century United States New York New York Specimens.
bookplates.
Bookplates.
Bookplates (Provenance)
Authors' autographs (Provenance)
Ex-libris.

Johnson, Fridolf.
Dover pictorial archive series.

Location: Library main 33636
Call No.: ID:88-B5172
Status: Available