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Excerpt from A Directory of Bookplate Artists: With Notes Concerning Their WorkOnly those artists are included who have sent answers to the questions.Judging by the past, additional revisions of this work will be required and, to this end, additional information and corrections should be sent to the editor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book ...

Excerpt from Our Angel Friends in Ministry and Song: A Gift Book for Every Day in the YearWe answer at once in the affirmative. We may know them as very near and dear friends - helpers in every time of need and it is a good thing to sing and speak of them, and study what the master minds of the world have said upon the subject.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgott...

Excerpt from The Bookplate Booklet, 1919, Vol. 1Time and opportunity have been wanting for carrying the matter any further, but the questions naturally arise, was the original copper lost, and did Garrick have another made to take its place? If not, how did' the copper come into existence, and for what purpose was it made? These are questions of interest to the collector, and it is hoped that one among us may be able to supply an answer.About ...

Excerpt from The Bookplate Booklet, 1919, Vol. 1Time and opportunity have been wanting for carrying the matter any further, but the questions naturally arise, was the original copper lost, and did Garrick have another made to take its place? If not, how did' the copper come into existence, and for what purpose was it made? These are questions of interest to the collector, and it is hoped that one among us may be able to supply an answer.About ...

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Excerpt from The Bookplate Annual for 1921 Of 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...

Excerpt from The Ex Libran, 1912, Vol. 1 Ocdic Book-plates is also a late addition to our literature of book-plates, -certain passages from 'che Nature of Gothic' by John Ruskin, certain book-plates (vii originals) by Bertha Gorst, H. R. R the brochure is uniform in paper and style of type with the ex Libran but is large 4to., in size 29 Ht the last moment the size of the ex Libran has been reduced from the page size as originally set forth i...

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Excerpt from The Quarterly Notebook, Vol. 1: June, 1916 The 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 befo...

Excerpt from A Directory of Bookplate Artists: With Notes Concerning Their Work The enthusiasm with which the first edition of the Directory of Bookplate Artists was received, and the ensuing rapid exhaustion of the edition, justified the opinion that the project would meet a well-defined need in the bookplate world. A number of suggestions have been offered for illustrating the Directory, most of which resolve themselves into proposals for ...

Excerpt from Bookplates for Beginners And 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundre...

Excerpt from The Bookplate Annual: For 1922 When 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...

Excerpt from Radio for the Beginner The 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 broadcast concerts, news, special bulletins and such information, even from other cities. It wil...

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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...

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