A CHECK-LIST of the WORK of TWENTY-THREE BOOK-PLATE DESIGNERS of PROMINENCE

Compiled by WILBUR MACEY STONE

IT WAS thought that interest and value would be added to this book by the inclusion of lists of the book-plates made by the more prominent artists whose work is reproduced here. These lists are the nearest complete of any that have ever been published, and as they have been verified in many instances by the artists themselves, and in others carefully collated from the actual book-plates, they may be relied upon as highly accurate. The sundry notes, bibliographical and otherwise, by which the individual lists are prefaced, are in no way exhaustive, but just a cursory gathering to relieve the bareness of the lists and to give some little additional assistance to the amateur. The lists are arranged alphabetically under the artists’ names as follows:

William Phillips Barrett Robert Anning Bell D. Y. Cameron Thomas Maitland Cleland Gordon Craig Julius Diez George Wharton Edwards Fritz Erler William Edgar Fisher Edwin Davis French Bertram G. Goodhue Harry E. Goodhue T. B. Hapgood, Jr. Harold E. Nelson Edmund H. New Henry Ospovat Armand Rassenfosse Louis Rhead Byam Shaw Joseph W. Simpson Hans Thoma Thomas Tryon Bernhard Wenig

WILLIAM PHILLIPS BARRETT

In Great Britain every family of rank has its arms suitably emblazoned on its harnesses, carriages, table-plate, dining-chairs, and, of course, in its library. When a new coach is ordered, or a new set of harnesses, the coach-builder or the harness-maker furnish the proper trimmings. So milord’s stationer fixes up the family letter-paper and the family book-plate. Somebody has to lick into some semblance of artistic unity the records of prowess of our medieval ancestors. In the workshops of Messrs. “Bumpus Limited,” Mr. William Phillips Barrett performs this more or less genial task. He has signed some ninety to one hundred designs, which were cut by the workmen in the Bumpus establishment. Mr. Barrett’s designs are not wholly without merit, but they so apparently lack the spark of vitality and their execution is in many cases so hard and mechanical that one is inclined more to pity than to praise. In the pages of the London Ex Libris Journal, that industrious encourager of the ordinary and banal in book-plate design, Mr. Barrett’s work is exploited at length. Vol. II., page 81, et seq.

1896 Lady Gerard Hon. E. Byng Mr. Jack Cummings Lord Manners Lady Sarah Wilson Lady Charles Bentinck H. Somers Somerset, Esq. Lady K. Somerset

1897 J. Watson Armstrong, Esq. Lady Angela Forbes Mrs. Panmure Gordon Hon. Mrs. Charles Harbord Miss Beatrice Dudley Smith The Marchioness of Headfort Miss Audrey Battye Lady Beatrix Taylour Miss Rachel Duncombe J. S. Forbes, Esq.

1898 Lady Maud Warrender Lady de Trafford Hon. Marie Hay The Countess Mar and Kellie Mrs. Brocklebank The Viscountess Wolseley Robertson Lawson, Esq. Baron Königswarter Baroness Königswarter Miss Van Wart Reginald Nicholson, Esq. Lady Sybil Carden The Countess of Lathom

1899 The Duchess of Bedford Miss Eadith Walker (Australia) The Countess of Wilton The Viscountess Chelsea Mrs. Duff J. E. Ballie, Esq. Lord Bolton Lady Margaret Levett Miss Howell Basil Levett, Esq. Mrs. Harcourt Powell Lady Ampthill J. & E. (Mr. and Mrs. Muller) Bishop Lefroy of Lahore Mrs. McCalmont Miss Gabrielle de Montgeon

1900 Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Great Britain The Earl of Lathom The Duke of Beaufort Hon. Mrs. Gervase Beckett The Countess of Gosford The Marchioness of Bath Mrs. Lee Pilkington Freda and Winifreda Armstrong Mrs. Wernher Miss Freda Villiers Miss Muriel Dudley Smith Lord Kenyon Lady Savile Crossley Hon. Hilda Chichester Lady Dickson-Poynder Sir John Dickson-Poynder Gervase Beckett, Esq. Canon Stanton The Duke of Portland Mrs. Alfred Harmsworth Mrs. Arthur Wilson J. Hutchinson, Esq. Hon. Mrs. G. Kenyon Captain Noble Edward Hubbuck, Esq. R. L. Foster, Esq. Royal Naval and Military Will Watson Armstrong Masonic Supreme Council, 33° (Large and small) The Earl of Shaftesbury Miss Barclay (Wood block Armorial) H. A. Harben, Esq.

1901 Ivor Fergusson, Esq. Harold Harmsworth, Esq. Lord Haddo Lady Mary Cayley Mrs. Sheridan (Frampton Court) The Marchioness Anglesey Sir Charles Cust The Countess of Derby Lady Hillingdon Lady Alice Stanley Lady Clementine Walsh R. C. Donaldson-Hudson, Esq.

ROBERT ANNING BELL

Robert Anning Bell, Director of the Art School of the Liverpool University, is the most prolific designer of artistic picture-plates in Great Britain. His work has long been the envy of amateurs, and no collection can claim to be representative without some examples of his work. His book-plates have been reproduced and commented on in almost all published articles on the general subject. The book-plate number of the “Studio,” Simpson’s “Book of Book-plates,” Bowdoin’s “Rise of the Book-plate,” Zur Westen’s “Ex Libris” (Leipzig, 1901), all show examples. His work is characterized by dignity and grace, is in good drawing, and has an average of excellence unsurpassed. The list is complete to July 1, 1902.

1 Walter George Bell 2 Rainald William Knightley Goddard 3 G. R. Dennis 4 Barry Eric Odell Pain 5 Jane Patterson (circular) 6 Jane Patterson (rectangular) 7 Christabel A. Frampton 8 Frederick Brown 9 Matt. Gossett 10 Arthur Trevithin Nowell 11 Edward Priolean Warren 12 Frederick Leighton (small) 13 Frederick Leighton (large) 14 Arthur Melbourne Sutthery 15 Juliet Caroline Fox Pym 16 Yolande Sylvia Mina Noble Pym 17 Florence and William Parkinson 18 Nora Beatrice Dicksee 19 Felsted School 20 Arthur E. Bartlett 21 The Hon. Mabel de Grey 22 Geraldine, Countess of Mayo 23 Walter E. Lloyd 24 George Benjamin Bullock-Barker 25 George Benjamin Bullock-Barker 26 Thomas Elsley 27 University College, Liverpool 28 Rowland Plumbe 29 Rennell Rodd 30 Alicia, Lady Glomis 31 H. E. John Browne 32 Barham House 33 Cecil Rhodes 34 Mander Bros. 35 Hon. Harriet Borthwick 36 Beatrice Patterson 37 Walter Drew 38 Walter Raleigh 39 Théodule, Comte de Grammont 40 Joshua Sing 41 Alice Emma Wilkinson 42 James Easterbrook 43 Theodore Mander 44 W. H. Booth 45 Hector Munro, 1897 46 Margaret Wilton 47 L. and M. S. 48 Gardner S. Bazley 49 Ex Libris Sodalium Academicorum Apud Lyrpul 50 Roberti A. S. Macfie 51 Richard T. Beckett 52 Edmund Rathbone, 1898 53 Croy Grammont, 1898 54 A. J. Stratton 55 John Duncan 56 Helen Woollgar de Gaudrion Verrall 57 C. Kohn 58 C. J. R. Armandale 59 Wm. Renton Prior 60 H. and O. Lewis 61 Herbert Lyndon 62 Johanna Birkenruth 63 Fanny Dove Harriet Lister 64 Mary Josephine Stratton 65 Louise Frances Foster 66 Caleb Margerison 67 Ellis Roberts 68 Marie Clay 69 Fanny Nicholson 70 L. and E. Stokes 71 Alfred Cecil Gathorne Hardy

D. Y. CAMERON

D. Y. Cameron is one of the most prominent artists in the so-called “Glasgow School of Designers.” His plates are nearly all etchings and are decidedly his own in subjects and treatment. They are most excellent productions. His work has been most fully exploited in Simpson’s “Book of Book-plates,” Vol. I., No. 4. There are eleven designs listed in Fincham, and the “Studio” Book-plate number reproduces four.

Donald & Grace Cameron Swan Robert M. Mann John Roberton John Maclaren Roberta Elliot S. Paterson Joanna Cameron Jeanie Ure MacLaurin Katherine Cameron J. Craig Annan James Arthur John Macartney Wilson James Henry Todd James J. Maclehose Robert G. Paterson R. Y. Pickering, 1895 R. Y. Pickering (another design) John A. Downie Beatrice H. MacLaurin Sir James Bell, Bart.

THOMAS MAITLAND CLELAND

Mr. Cleland is a young man who has an innate appreciation for decorative effect and, what is more to the purpose, an ability to apply it. For some years past his skill in typographic arrangement has added much to the products of several of our more advanced publishers; by more advanced I mean those with a knowledge and belief that it is good business to offer to the public books that delight the eye as well as the mind. Mr. Cleland has done many decorative bits by way of head- and tail-pieces and initials. There are also to his credit a baker’s dozen of book-plates. These last are intensely decorative, and to class them as pictorial really does them injustice. They are thoroughly conventional and quite medieval in feeling.

Sara Stockwell Clark Herbert Wood Adams Laura Gaston Finley Elmer Bragg Adams Lewis W. Hatch Angus Frederick Mackay Julian Pearce Smith Irving and Sissie Lehman Louis and Bertha Stillings Alice and Arthur Cahn Rubie La Lande de Ferrière Maurice M. Sternberger George Louis Beer

GORDON CRAIG

“The Page” has been so much exploited in the public press that it seems supererogation to write anything more about it or Gordon Craig, one the embodiment of the other. Mr. Craig is very much of an all-round young man; brought up in the atmosphere of the theater and of books and pictures, he has dabbled in all to some purpose. He has a clear-cut individuality that differentiates him and his—work, I was going say, but perhaps play would be better, for Mr. Craig is one of those inconsequential chaps that seem to take things as they come and be chipper and happy and youthful-hearted with all. His book-plate work is of the meat-ax variety and inspired by the rough wood-cuts of the early engravers. His work has the air of the poseur that is as balm to the heart of the dilettante.

James Pryde, 1898 M. P. (Margaret Palgrave) Ellen Terry (large), map Ellen Terry (small), map K. D. (Mrs. Kitty Downing), 1900 Katie Black E. T., 1899 (Ellen Terry) James Corbet V. C. (Vincent Corbet) R. C. (Robin Craig) H. F. (Helen Fox) C. M. (Carl Michaelis) Nina (Lady Corbet) B. (Beatrice Irwin) C. D. (Charles Dalmon) W. H. Downing M. M. (Maud Meredith) A. L. (Aimée Lowther) William Winter Roche (Charles E. Roche), 1900 S. B. B. (S. B. Brereton) C. (Christopher St. John) G. C. (Gordon Craig) Edy (Edith Craig) J. D. (John Drew) L. W., 1897 (Lucy Wilson) Oliver Bath, 1899 E. D. L. (monogram) (Edie Lane) G. C., 1898 (Gordon Craig) Martin Shaw Miss Norman Lucy Wilson E. C. (Edith Craig) Ellen Terry Ellen Terry Marion Terry Cissie Loftus Evelyn Smalley Edith Craig C. B. P. (Mrs. Brown-Potter) Tommy Norman Jess Dorynne Jess Dorynne Rosie Craig G. C. (Gordon Craig) Gordon Craig Gordon Craig Gordon Craig Mrs. Enthoven Audrey Campbell M. Tolemache G. Tolemache J. B. R. (Madam Bell-Rauche) M. Fox Anna Held Pamela Colman Smith Katie Dunham Haldone McFall N. F. D. (Mrs. Dryhurst)

JULIUS DIEZ

The work of Julius Diez is rich with the flavor of medievalism and full decorative effect. The example shown in this book, the plate for Max Ostenrieder, is a little masterpiece and an ideal book-plate. Mr. Diez has done others much more elaborate, and with well-drawn and well thought-out motifs, but none to excel the bit referred to.

Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe-Verein Gustav Euprius Max Ostenrieder Gustav Wolff Richard Hildebrandt August Drumm Luise Riggaur Joseph Flokmann Dr. Jul. Fekler Julie von Boschinger Georg Hirth Adolf Beermann Julius Diez Paul Scharff Elise Diez Georg Buchner Franz Langheinrich Paul Meyer

GEORGE WHARTON EDWARDS

Mr. Edwards has made a large number of very excellent book-cover designs and has decorated several volumes throughout. One of the most beautiful of the latter is Spenser’s Epithalamion, published by Dodd, Mead & Company. Mr. Edwards has done a few other book-plates in addition to those listed here, but these are all he wishes to stand sponsor for.

Harvard University, Arnold Arboretum, 1892 Grolier Club Author’s Club Library George Washington Cram Tudor Jenks G. W. Drake

FRITZ ERLER

Fritz Erler has been one of the leading contributors to that prince of German art periodicals, “Jugend,” since its beginning. His book-plates are characterized by the same imaginative spirit and weirdness that appear in all his work. His work is often reproduced in soft tints with excellent effect. In the third volume of “Jugend” there was a double page given to prints of Mr. Erler’s book-plates.

Carl Mayr Arthur Scott T. Neisser Hugo Wolf C. Schoenfield Sigmund Schott M. Souchon S. Fuld Albert Schott Ulrich Putze Max Mayr Toni Neisser M. von B. M. von B. E. Gerhäuser H. Marx Gustav Eberius Liebermann

WILLIAM EDGAR FISHER

Mr. Fisher’s work is fully described in the leading article in this book by Mr. Bowdoin. The list of plates is in chronological order and is complete to July 1, 1902.

1 William Edgar Fisher 2 William Edgar Fisher 3 William Edgar Fisher 4 Winifred Knight 5 William Lincoln Ballenger 6 Stanley Shepard 7 William A. Brodie 8 Silvanus Macy 9 Edna B. Stockhouse 10 Leila H. Cole 11 C. A. W. (C. A. Wheelock) 12 Lula Thomas Wear 13 Gertrude T. Wheeler 14 Guild of the Holy Child, Peekskill, N. Y. 15 Elizabeth Langdon 16 John Charles Gage 17 Sallie A. Richards 18 Albert Edgar Hodgkinson 19 Samuel N. Hudson 20 John Elliot Richards 21 Ellen E. Langdon 22 Maria Page Barnes 23 Maie Bruce Douglas 24 Sara Grace Bell 25 Edward A. Wilson 26 Peyton C. Crenshaw 27 Marion Maude Lindsey 28 Chauncey E. Wheeler 29 Bi Lauda (secret society) 30 Mary N. Lewis 31 Elizabeth Allen 32 The Studio Club 33 (Dr.) I. N. Wear 34 William Chauncey Langdon 35 Charles S. Young 36 Frederic H. Church 37 John M. Harrison 38 Les Chats Noirs 39 George H. Phelps 40 Mary Speer 41 Julia Locke Frame 42 John D. Farrand 43 Lucy P. Winton 44 Winifred Knight 45 Mary Cheney Elwood 46 Ernest Orchard 47 Reta L. Adams 48 Edward C. Brown 49 Adeline Cameron 50 T. Frank Fisher 51 Edna B. Stockhouse 52 John Le Droit Langdon 53 W. J. Awty 54 Henry McLallen 55 William Edward Ramsay 56 David S. Calhoun 57 Walter W. Wait

EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH

The book-plates of Edwin Davis French are the most esteemed of those of our present American engravers. His work is decidedly the vogue among those who can afford the best, and is much prized by collectors. There has rarely been an article on book-plates published in the past five years or more that has not contained a eulogy of his work, and there have been reproductions galore, both from the original coppers and by half-tone. There is no American designer whose work is so eagerly sought by the collector or for which larger returns are asked in exchanges. Mr. French usually designs the work he engraves, but in several instances he has cut plates from the designs of others. Such instances are noted in the list. Mr. French’s work is characterized by daintiness of design and great beauty of execution. He is unquestionably a master of the graver in decorative work. In the following list those numbered 133 and below are from Mr. Lemperly’s well-known list, and credit is hereby rendered him therefor. The rest of the list is made up from various sources and has been very carefully compared and is believed to be accurate and complete, with the few exceptions noted, to July 1, 1902.

174 Adams, Ruth 141 Allen, Charles Dexter, 1899 a with portrait b with book-case c with one club emblem changed 170 Alexander, Amy B. 187 Adams, Frances Amelia, 1901 199 Adams, Edward Dean, 1902 207 Adams, Ernest Kempton, 1902 44 Alexander, Charles B., 1895 11 Andrews, William Loring, 1894 76 Andrews, William Loring, Compliments of, 1896 195 Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie, 1902 111 Armour, George Allison, 1898 98 Author’s Club (designed by Geo. Wharton Edwards), 1897 10 Avery, In Memoriam, Ellen Walters, 1894 142 Bakewell, Allan C. 43 Bakewell, A. C., 1895 36 Bates, James Hale, 1894 53 Barger, Samuel F., 1895 17 Baillie, W. E., 1894 20 Blackwell, Henry, 1894 16 Bierstadt, Edward Hale, 1894 42 Bernheim, A. C., 1895 60 Biltmoris, Ex Libris (designed by owner, George W. Vanderbilt), 1895 67 Bar of the City of New York, Association of the (Chas. H. Woodbury’s library, 1895), 1896 118 Bar of the City of New York, Association of the (the John E. Burrill Fund, 1897), 1896 119 Bar of the City of New York, Association of the (Gift of James C. Carter) 69 Biltmoris, Ex Libris (like 60, but smaller), 1896 87 Bliss, Catherine A., 1896 104 Burke, Edward F., 1897 133 Bradshaw, Sidney Ernest, 1898 1 Brainerd, Helen Elvira, 1892 4 Brainerd, Helen Elvira, 1894 124 Brown, Georgette (adapted from Parisian trade-card 18th century) a with border b without border 176 Borden, M. C. D. 177 Borden, M. C. D. (small) 139 Boas, Emil L. 80 Borland, Harriet Blair, 1896 166 Buck, John H. (designed by Miss Marion Buck) 171 Bullock, James Wilson, 1900 180 Barnes, John Sanford 65 Bull, William Lanman, 1895 147 Blackwell, Henry (monogram), 1899 150 Blackwell, Henry, Compliments of, 1900 91 Carnegie, Lucy Coleman, 1897 96 Candidati, 1897 7 Chew, Beverly, 1894 47 Chew, Beverly, 1895 41 Church, E. D., 1895 59 Champaign Public Library, 1895 8 Clark, Charles E., M. D., 1894 9 Clark, Charles E., M. D. (smaller), 1894 18 Colonial Dames of America 28 Coutant (Dr.), Richard B., 1894 66 Clough, Micajah Pratt, 1896 83 The John Crerar Library, Chicago, 1896 97 Connell, William, 1897 100 Child Memorial Library (Harvard), 1897 125 Cox, Jennings Stockton, 1898 51 Clough, Micajah P. 156 Cheney, Alice S., 1900 167 Chamberlain, Elizabeth (The Orchards), 1900 145 Cushing 22 Deats, Hiram Edmund, 1894 131 Dana, Charles A. (designed by A. Kay Womrath), 1898 70 Dows, Tracy, 1896 56 De Vinne, Theo. L. (designed by George Fletcher Babb), 1895 84 Denver Club, The (designed by Cora E. Sargent), 1896 143 Duryee, George Van Wagenen and Margaret Van Nest, 1899 46 Ellsworth, James William, 1895 88 Emmet, The Collection of Thos. Addis, M. D., New York Public Library, 1896 2 French, Mary Brainerd, 1893 3 French, Edwin Davis (Volapük), 1893 5 E. D. F. (French, Edwin Davis), 1893 a E. D. F., without enclosing frame b with frame c Edwin Davis French 19 Foote, Charles B., 1894 168 Foot, Margaret H., 1900 198 Furman, Dorothy, 1902 21 Grolier Club, The, 1894 29 Goodwin, James J., 1894 30 Goodwin, Francis, 1894 32 Godfrey, Jonathan, 1894 64 Goodrich, J. King, 1895 89 Gray, Adelle Webber, 1897 110 Goldsmith, Abraham, 1898 121 Goldsmith, James A., 1898 49 Goodwin, James J., 1895 136 Gale, Edward Courtland, 1899 185 Gage, Mabel Carleton (design by owner), 1901 202 Gray, John Chipman, 1902 181 Harvard, Society of the Signet (designed by B. G. Goodhue) 186 Harvard Union (designed by B. G. Goodhue), 1901 a 1901 b In Memoriam Henry Baldwin Hyde 184 Harbor Hill (Mrs. Clarence McKay) 38 Haber, Louis I, 1894 106 Hartshorn, Mary Minturn (designed by Miss E. Brown), 1897 55 Havemeyer, William Frederick (designed by Thomas Tryon), 1895 73 Herter, Christian Archibald, 1896 149 Horsford, Cornelia 155 Hopkins (Maj.), Robert Emmet 23 Holden, Edwin B., 1894 24 Holden, Edwin B. (smaller) 61 H(olden), E(mily), (Miss), 1895 25 Holden, Alice C., 1894 26 Holden, Edwin R., 1894 164 James, Walter B., M. D. 33 Kalbfleish, Charles Conover, 1894 90 O. A. K(ahn), 1897 94 Kingsbury, Edith Davies (designed by Lilian C. Westcott), 1897 113 Lambert, Samuel W., 1898 85 Lamson, Edwin Ruthven (designed by E. H. Garrett), 1896 173 Larner, John B. 35 Lawrence, Emily Hoe, 1894 6 Leggett, Cora Artemisia, 1894 15 Lefferts, Marshall Clifford, 1894 39 L. B. L(öwenstein), 1895 105 Lefferts, Mollie Cozine, 1897 102 Lemperly, Paul, 1897 169 Loveland, John W. and Lee Partridge 159 Livermore, John R. 172 Little, Arthur West 192 Long Island Historical Society, 1900 a Storrs Memorial Fund, 1900 b Ecclesiastical History 148 K. D. M. (Mackay, Mrs. Clarence) (small monogram with crest) 58 Marshall, Frank Evans, 1895 37 Mausergh, Richard Southcote, 1895 95 Marshall, Julian, 1897 188 Merriman, Roger Bigelow 40 Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1895 a Cruger mansion b new building 54 Messenger, Maria Gerard, 1895 85 Messenger, Maria Gerard, 1896 a gift-plate with book-pile b with view of Pleasantville library 74 Morgan, A. J., 1896 92 McCarter, Robert H., 1896 115 Medicis, Ex Libris (Cushing), 1898 45 McKee, Thomas Jefferson 151 Messenger, Maria Gerard and Elizabeth Chamberlain (The Orchards), 1899 68 V. E. M(acy) a V. E. M. b Macy, Valentine Everit and Edith Carpenter, 1896 140 Moore, Louise Taylor Hartshorne 128 Nimick, Florence Coleman, 1898 163 New York Yacht Club, The (after sketch by the late Walter B. Owen) 12 Oxford Club, The, Lynn, 1894 57 Osborne, Thomas Mott and Agnes Devens, 1895 62 Odd Volumes, The Club of, 1895 13 Players, The (designed by Howard Pyle), 1894 50 Pyne, M. Taylor, 1895 63 Pine, Percy Rivington, 1895 81 Plummer, Mary Emma, 1896 107 Pyne, M. Taylor, 1897 204 Pyne, R. Stockton, 1902 108 Princeton University, Library of, 1897 132 Prescott, Eva Snow Smith, 1898 160 Porter, Nathan T., 1900 189 Phillips, William (design arranged from 16th century armorial by P. de Chaignon la Rose), 1901 14 Reid, Whitelaw, 1894 34 Rowe, Henry Sherburne, 1894 103 Ranney, Henry Clay and Helen Burgess, 1897 191 Richards, Walter Davis, 1825-1877, 1901 158 Robinson, C. L. F. 99 Sabin, Ruth Mary, 1897 109 Sampson, Florence de Wolfe 1898 52 Sherwin, Henry A., 1895 77 Sedgwick, Robert, 1896 82 Sherwin, Henry A. (similar to 52, but smaller), 1896 117 Sherwood, Samuel Smith, 1898 129 Scripps, James Edmund, 1898 101 Skinner, Mark, Library 134 Stickney, Edward Swan (Chicago Historical Society), 1898 112 Stratton, A. Dwight, 1898 93 Stearns, John Lloyd, 1897 71 Sovereign (designed by Thomas Tryon) (crown), 1896 79 Sovereign (designed by Thomas Tryon) (eagle), 1896 193 Society of Colonial Wars, Connecticut, 1901 179 Sherman, William Watts (design by B. G. Goodhue), 1901 78 Taylor, Chas. H., Jr. (designed by E. B. Bird), 1896 135 Talmage, John F. 152 Treadwell Library (Mass. General Hospital) (designed by B. G. Goodhue) 127 Thorne, Katherine Cecil Sanford, 1898 122 Twentieth Century Club (designed by Mrs. Evelyn Rumsey Carey), 1898 157 Union League Club 154 University Club, Cleveland 48 Vail, Henry H., 1895 116 Vassar Alumnae Historical Association, 1898 196 Varnum (Gen.), James M. 128 Van Wagenen, Frederick W., 1898 31 Warner, Beverly, M. A., 1894 114 Wendell, Barrett, 1898 126 Williams, E. P., 1898 130 Wood, Arnold, 1898 137 Wood, Ethel Hartshorne 182 Worcester Art Museum, 1901 144 A. W. (Arnold Wood), 1899 146 Williams, John Skelton 161 Wodell, Silas 175 Woodward, S. Walter, 1900 178 Whitin, Sarah Elizabeth 120 Winthrop, Henry Rogers, 1898 75 Willets, Howard, 1896 27 Woodbury, John Page, 1894 72 (Yale) The Edward Tompkins McLaughlin Memorial Prize in English Composition, 1896

BERTRAM G. GOODHUE

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue is a Boston architect who has made several book-plates of merit. One made for a department of Harvard University is particularly rich in decorative effect, and a design of which one would not grow weary. Others of Mr. Goodhue’s designs are treated in broad line and might have been reproduced very effectively by wood engraving.

A. Squire Udolpho Snead Rachel Norton Harvard University Library, Lowell Memorial Library of Romance Literature H. I. K. (H. I. Kimball) Library of the Harvard Union Society of the Signet, Harvard Treadwell Library, Mass. General Hospital M. A. de Wolfe Howe William Watts Sherman

HARRY E. GOODHUE

The few book-plates designed by Harry E. Goodhue are mostly of the “girl and book” type. In the plate for Jessy McClellan the young woman appears to be sorry she “done it,” or else is quite discouraged at the idea of lifting her folio romance into her lap. Mr. Goodhue’s most pleasing design is that for Constance Alexander, shown on page 27.

Amy M. Sacker Constance Grosvenor Alexander Jessy Trumbull McClellan June Eldredge Juliet Armstrong Collins

T. B. HAPGOOD, Jr.

Mr. Hapgood is a decorative designer in Boston, and his work on the covers of various periodicals and catalogs is well known. Plate No. 5 was submitted in competition and took second prize. It has never been reproduced. No. 1 was reproduced in “The Red Letter,” No. 2 in the book-plate number of “The Studio,” as was also No. 4. No. 14 has not been reproduced. No. 15 was originally made as a printer’s mark and was so used. It was later altered to serve as a book-plate.

1 Rev. George Fred Daniels, 1896 2 Norris Hastings Laughton, 1897 3 A. F. Skenkelberger, 1897 4 Theodore Brown Hapgood, Jr., 1897 5 Society of Mayflower Descendants in Mass., 1897 6 Rufus William Sprague, Jr., 1898 7 Frances Louise Allen, 1898 8 Andrew C. Wheelwright, 1898 9 Andrew C. Wheelwright, 1898 10 Richard Gorham Badger, 1898 11 Thursday Club, 1899 12 North Brookfield Free Public Library, 1900 13 Edwin Osgood Grover, 1900 14 Harriet Manning Whitcomb, 1900 15 Carl Heintzemann

HAROLD E. NELSON

Many of the figures in the book-plates by Harold Nelson are of the attenuated pre-Raphaelite type, but there are others one can believe really once lived. The frontispiece to the book-plate number of “The Studio” is a beautiful decorative bit by Mr. Nelson, and makes us quite willing to forgive him some of his more eccentric designs. The plate referred to is enhanced in beauty by a few lines of gold judiciously used. The musical plate on page 18 of this volume is a pleasing one.

Mary L. Oldfield Edith A. Kingsford Robert H. Smith Fanny Nelson Ellen Maguire Edward Lomax Ernest Scott Fardell, M.A. Ernest Scott Fardell, M.A. Geoffery Parkyn A. Ludlow James Wilmar Bedford College Library Horace Shaw Harold Edward Hughes Nelson Lady Literary Society Mark Nelson Evelyn Wynne Parton A. A. Wood Maude Burton Marion H. Spielmann Alfred Anteshed Jane Nelson Leopold d’Estreville Lenfestey

EDMUND H. NEW

The book-plate designs by Mr. New are in a class by themselves. No one else has worked quite the field occupied by this artist. Mr. New has used architecture for the motifs of a series of unusually pleasing plates. He has treated in a most decorative way whole buildings as well as details, doorways, and so forth. His plates are particularly adapted to the dignified old houses that contain the libraries for which they were made. Mr. New has not limited himself to this field, as he has done a number of designs with no architectural suggestion. His work in book illustration and decoration is of a most delightful quality, and is well known to all lovers of black and white. A number of his book-plate designs were reproduced and commented upon in Simpson’s “Book of Book-plates,” Vol. II., No. I. The book-plate number of “The Studio” also showed some of his designs. The list is in chronological order and complete.

Herbert New Rev. Richard R. Philpots Rees Price (wood cut) Montague Fordham (wood cut) C. Elkin Mathews Dr. Edmundi Atkinson Edward Morton Frederic Chapman William and Catherine Childs Beatrice Alcock Arthur Fowler No. 1 Highbury Terrace Julia Sharpe Herbert B. Pollard William Malin Roscoe (three sizes), 1897 Edward Evershed Dendy J. G. Gardner-Brown Phil. Norman Edward Le Breton Martin Roberti Saundby, M. D., LL. D. (two sizes), 1900 George Lewis Burton George Cave, 1900 Alexander Millington Sing (two sizes) Peter Jones Edward Alfred Cockayne

HENRY OSPOVAT

Henry Ospovat is a young Russian artist residing in London. He has done some superb decorative work for the sonnets and poems of Shakespeare published by John Lane. His book-plates are precious bits of decoration worthy the adoration of all lovers of the beautiful. There have been only a few reproductions of them. The book-plate number of “The Studio” shows several and Fincham’s “Artists and Engravers” lists two.

Arthur and Jessie Guthrie, 1898 James and Maud Robertson, 1898 John and Jessie Hoy, 1898 Arthur Guthrie, 1898 Walter Crane Charles Rowley James Hoy James Hoy Frank Iliffe Hoy John and Jessie Hoy (second design) George Moore A. Emrys Jones Fred Beech J. H. Reynolds T. C. Abbott Frank and Marie Hoy

ARMAND RASSENFOSSE

Armand Rassenfosse is a resident of Liege, therefore, presumably, a Belgian and a subject of the German Empire. But as stone walls do not always a prison make, so frontiers do not always mark the nationality of art and letters. Mr. Rassenfosse is distinctly French in his feeling and artistic point of view. Perhaps I should rather say Parisian, for it is of the Latin Quartier and the Beaux Arts that his work breathes. His designs are almost entirely of nude femininity and his method of expression the etching. He has made some eight or ten charming bits, full of life and chic—I was going to say, frou-frou, but that would be a misnomer, for his models are innocent of gowns or lingerie. Their spirit and beauty of execution is high, but as book-plate designs—well, it’s a bit like champagne for breakfast.

Alex. von Winiwarter Alfred Lavachery, 1890 M. R. (Marie Rassenfosse) A. R. (Armand Rassenfosse) Alb. Mockel H. v. W. (Hans von Winiwarter) Three designs without names D’Alb. Neuville

LOUIS RHEAD

The illustrator of “Pilgrim’s Progress” and the “Idylls of the King” needs no introduction to the average book-lover, and the hearts of the poster-collectors throb at his name. Mr. Rhead is an American of English birth and a resident of one of the suburbs of greater Gotham. His decorative work has been long and favorably known, and his book-plates can but add to his reputation. He has done but fifteen, and two of these are yet to be reproduced, but some examples of his work are in most collections.

Gertrude Tozier Chisholm James Henry Darlington Samuel Moody Haskins Le Roy W. Kingman Frank J. Pool Louis Rhead (symbolic) Louis Rhead (fishing) Katharine Rhead W. H. Shir-Cliff, 1897 Jean Irvine Struthers Stephen S. Yates David Turnure Ivy Club (Princeton University) Rector Kerr Fox George Weed Barhydt

BYAM SHAW

The one or two book-plate designs by Mr. Shaw that have been published show a magnificent imaginative conception and makes the lover of the beautiful ardently wish for “more.” The one for Isabella Hunter, on page 216 of Vol. I. of the “International Studio,” is at the head of its class. Mr. Shaw’s other line-drawings and his paintings have a richness and weirdness of design that is very attractive.

C. E. Pyke-Nott Frank Lynn Jenkins Isabella R. Hunter Laurence Koe Mr. Claye

JOSEPH W. SIMPSON

Mr. Simpson, of Edinburgh, is a young Scotchman of infinite ambition and generous talent. He is not only a clever designer of book-plates, but he has a magazine to exploit his schemes and theories of art. This is reputed to be a quarterly, but it is erratic, like its sponsor, and issues “once in a while.” Mr. Simpson’s designs are full of feeling and rich in treatment. About twenty-five of these have seen the light and are prized by the lovers of modernity.

Robert Bateman, 1897 Kris Allsopp, 1897 Kris Allsopp, 1897 J. A. Whish, 1898 James Dick, 1898 F. N. and A. W. Hepworth, 1898 Cissie Allsopp, 1898 J. W. Simpson Charles Holme Julio Guardia K. E., Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg, 1898 Maud H. Scott, 1898 A. Gaston Masson Geo. May Elwood T. F. M. Williamson, 1899 (Gordon) Craig Mabel Waterson Fiffi Kuhn Maisie Phillips Samuel Linsley Pauline Stone T. N. Foulis Joseph W. Simpson W. M. Stone

HANS THOMA

Hans Thoma is a painter of national reputation in Germany who has thought it not beneath his dignity to do book-plate designs. This by way of recreation or to strengthen his line for more pretentious efforts. His designs are along classic and dignified lines. His own personal plate is a weird one; on it is a nude youth bearing the torch of knowledge and riding a gruesome dragon.

Dr. S. Herxheimer, 1898 Hans Thoma Adolph von Gross, 1896 Dr. Henry Thode August Rasor Martin Elersheim S. Herrheimer Sofie Küchler Hermann Levi Dr. Otto Fiser Luisa Countess Erdödy R. Spier J. A. Beringer Karl and Maria Grunelius

THOMAS TRYON

Mr. Tryon’s work has been described at length in another part of this book and a large part of his designs reproduced.

William Frederick Havemeyer (engraved by E. D. French), 1892 James Seymour Tryon, 1892 Arnold William Brunner, 1893 Frank Jean Pool, 1893 “Sovereign,” Crown design (engraved by E. D. French), 1896 “Sovereign,” Eagle design (engraved by E. D. French), 1896 Annah M. Fellowes, 1896 George Elder Marcus, 1897 Loyall Farragut, 1898 Mary Tryon Stone, 1900 } same Janet Tryon Stone, 1900 } design in Rachel Norton Tryon Stone, 1900 } different Mary Tryon Stone (2d), 1900 } sizes J. C. M. (Miss J. M. Cox), 1901 Library of the Boys’ Club, 1902 Willis Steell, 1902

BERNHARD WENIG

Bernhard Wenig is a comparatively newcomer in the field of book-plate design, but he has already established for himself an enviable reputation in Germany, and his work is meeting with a growing appreciation by collectors in this country. Mr. Wenig’s general manner is that of the old engraved wood block, bold and more or less crude of line, but full of virility. Most of his work is reproduced in black on white, but in a few instances he has used a color or two with good effect. His choice of subjects is varied, but the studious bookman of the middle ages seems to be uppermost in his heart and mind. Mr. Wenig has made one plate for a child, a small boy, that is among the best half-dozen of designs for children.

Baroness May v. Feilitzsch Bernhard Wenig, 1897 Anton Wenig, 1897 Joh. Nep. Eser, 1899 E. W. J. Gärtner, 1900 Richard Schulz, 1900 Mathilde Schulz Heinrich Stümcke Karl Emich, Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg, 1901 Günter Otto Schulz Gertrud Schulz Dr. Adolph Brenk Carl Selzer Lorenz Wenig Countess Sofie du Moulin Max H. Meyer Dr. Fr. Weinitz H. von Sicherer Hugo Schmid Julie Speyer Louis King Claire von Frerichs Franz Menter L. Frankenstein Dr. Hans Lichtenfelt Heinrich and Hedwig Brelauer Fr. Schade F. Schaffener G. Drobner H. R. C. Hirzee Wolfgang Quincke Alfred Misterck Ludwig Stivner Max Landmann Hans Jaeger Dr. Louis Merck Richard Jaeger Rosalie Eeginbrodt Georg Ortner Melaine Dorny Anna Furstin Ludwig Klug Doris von Heyl Frieherr Max Heyl Carl R. Peiner David von Flansemann Paulus Museum, Worms (Mrs.) Hedwig Smidt Wilhelm Karl Herams (Mrs.) Julie Wassermann Dr. C. Schonborn Maria von Ernst Wolfgang Quincke Walther Frieherr von Seckendorff Wilhelm von Schon

Transcriber’s Note

Minor punctuation errors have been repaired.

Printer errors and inconsistencies have been amended as follows:

Page 28—Bernard amended to Bernhard—By Bernhard Wenig

Page 36—Gerhaeuser amended to Gerhäuser—The design for Emil Gerhäuser is inoffensive ...

Page 43—portaits amended to portraits—The portraits and view are interwoven ...

The final chapter, the check-list of works, contained a number of errors and inconsistencies in the names. Where there were other mentions of the name in the book, the transcriber has made amendments for consistency, as follows:

Page 45—Bernard amended to Bernhard—Bernhard Wenig

Page 49—Pierce amended to Pearce—Julian Pearce Smith

Page 51—F. amended to E.—E. Gerhäuser

Page 51—Lulu amended to Lula—12 Lula Thomas Wear

Page 58—Jomes amended to James (second instance)—James Hoy

Page 61—Havermeyer amended to Havemeyer—William Frederick Havemeyer (engraved by E. D. French), 1892

Page 61—Fellows amended to Fellowes—Annah M. Fellowes, 1896

The following are likely to be errors, but as they appear only once in this book, they are preserved as printed. This list may not be exhaustive.

Page 58—Dr. Edmundi Atkinson should probably be Dr. Edmund Atkinson

Page 62—Rosalie Eeginbrodt should probably be Rosalie Eigenbrodt

Page 62—Melaine Dorny should probably be Melanie Dorny

Page 62—Frieherr Max Heyl should probably be Freiherr Max Heyl

Page 62—Carl R. Peiner should probably be Carl R. Reiner

Page 62—Dr. C. Schonborn should probably be Dr. C. Schönborn

Page 62—Walther Frieherr von Seckendorff should probably be Walther Freiherr von Seckendorff

Page 62—Wilhelm von Schon should probably be Wilhelm von Schön

The frontispiece illustration has been moved to follow the title page. Illustrations have been moved where necessary so that they are not in the middle of a paragraph.