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Excerpt from An Incomplete Genealogy of the Fowler FamilyI attributed the lack of interest in our family history upon the part of our ancestors to a lack of vanity and 'so I stand self-accused of the fault of Narcissus - I only trust that my glances into the placid mirror of the Past will disclose facts that will as thoroughly justify my vanity as his was justified.And now a word in regard to the vanity of a genealogy that term may be and has ...
Excerpt from An Incomplete Genealogy of the Fowler FamilyI attributed the lack of interest in our family history upon the part of our ancestors to a lack of vanity and 'so I stand self-accused of the fault of Narcissus - I only trust that my glances into the placid mirror of the Past will disclose facts that will as thoroughly justify my vanity as his was justified.And now a word in regard to the vanity of a genealogy that term may be and has ...
Excerpt from A Directory of Bookplate Artists: With Notes Concerning Their WorkOnly those artists are included who have sent answers to the questions.Should the publication be found sufficiently useful, revised editions of it will probably be issued. To this end additional information, changes, and corrections may be addressed to the editor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more ...
Excerpt from A Directory of Bookplate Artists: With Notes Concerning Their WorkOnly those artists are included who have sent answers to the questions.Should the publication be found sufficiently useful, revised editions of it will probably be issued. To this end additional information, changes, and corrections may be addressed to the editor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more ...
Excerpt from Bookplates for BeginnersAnd so I predict for you, gentle reader, many pleasant hours in the joyous and wholesome company of bookplates and books if, by my simple cunning, as Caxton would say, this unpretentious attempt to give you a brie¿y comprehensive survey of the subject should succeed in its object. And that object is simply to lead you to further research for yourself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of ...
Excerpt from The Bookplate Annual for 1921Of all living artists, Frank Brangwyn stands out as being of the widest range in the activities of the craftsman - he is a mas ter of crafts. No painter is less hampered by the parochial idea that a work of art must be a picture in a gold frame or that a painting in a gold frame thereby becomes a work of art. He will create for you a work of art whether you desire a fan, a jewel-case, decorations for t...
Excerpt from Radio for the BeginnerThe usefulness of radio to the average person has not been realized, its present popularity is merely a start in the right direction. It is easily conceivable that the next decade will see every home with a radio telephone, not replacing the regular telephone, but supplementing it by permitting the owner to hear broad cast concerts, news, special bulletins and such information, even from other cities. It will...
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Excerpt from The Ex Libran, 1912, Vol. 1Ocbic Book plates is also a late addition to our literature of book-plates, being -certain passages from 'che Nature of Gothie' by John Ruskin, certain book-plates (vii originals) by Bertha Gorst, H. R. At the brochure is uniform in paper and style of type with the 6x Libran but is large 4to., in size A? Ht the last moment the size of the 6x Libran has been reduced from the page size as originally set fo...
Excerpt from The Quarterly Notebook, Vol. 1: June, 1916The ambiguities of certain early parts of the play seem mainly due to the fact that the Princess Rokujo, the con crete figure on the stage, is a phantom or image of Awoi-no Uye's own jealousy. That is to say, Awoi is tormented by her own passion, and this passion obsesses her first in the form of a personal apparition of Rokujo, then in demonic form.This play was written centuries before I...
Excerpt from Lincolniana Book Plates and CollectionsThere has been no effort to cover the field of Lincolniana book-plates, the few illustrations ap pearing having been chosen simply with a View to appropriate decoration, which will account for the apparent, but thus not real neglect of many inter esting Lincolniana book-plates. H. A. F.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at w...
Excerpt from The Bookplate Annual: For 1922When Hilprand Brandenburg of Biberach hit upon the happy device of marking those books which he presented to the Carthusian monastery of Buxheim with a hand-colored, woodcut printed label bearing his arms he originated, or at least gave impetus to a fashion which has held the interest of booklovers for more than four hundred and fifty years, and it is quite unlikely that the time will ever come when t...
