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BOOKPLATES THE WORLD OF EX-LIBRIS |
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A historical retrospective 4 EX-LIBRIS: A THEMATIC APPROACH |
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4c PROFESSIONS IN EX-LIBRIS 1680-1930
In earlier sections, we have seen a number of ex-libris for superiors
of religious institutions and members of aristocratic families
who have enumerated their titles and honours on their book-plates.
Apart from such cases, there have always been ex-libris
where the person through an inscription or later through the
choice of image, has indicated his profession. Such plates are
invariably interesting, as they show the scope of persons having a
library and wanting to decorate their books with an ex-libris.
Some were also used as visiting cards.
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4c/1. ? (GB)  CHARLES PINFOLD, C2, 100 x 73, c.1756.
F 23645. There is a later version of this ex-libris without the inscription ‘Governor of Barbados’ which the owner (1708-1788) probably had removed after he left this post, having occupied it from 1756 to 1766. |
4c/2. ? (F) MR. POULLETIER, C2, 77 x 49, 1772.
The inscription states that Mr. Poulletier was a policeman in the Ordinary Guard of the King at Compiègne. |
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4c/3. ? (ROS) PRINCE BELOSELSKY, C2, 46 x 72, c.1790.
A diplomat’s bookplate, as Beloselsky was Minister (head of Legation) of Russia in Dresden. |
4c/4. W. Darling (GB, fl. 1760-1790) CAPTAIN WILLIAM
LOCKER, C2, 111 x 76, c.1790, F 18560.
Viz. BNL # 84.
Locker (1731-1800) was a close friend of Admiral Nelson and after 1792 Lieutenant-General of Greenwich Hospital. |
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4c/5. ? (GB) JOHN WILSON, C1, 48 x 85, c.1820. F 32087.
Viz . Castle p. 115 ill.
It can be difficult to tell if this sort of plate was originally conceived as an ex-libris or a visiting card. It was certainly used as an ex-libris. |
4c/6. W. Williams (GB) WILLIAM BURNEY, C1, 83 x 79,
c.1830. F 4486.
Interesting astronomical and mathematical tools decorate this mathematician’s bookplate. |
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4c/7. Georges Hantz (CH, 1846-1920) FRÉDÉRIC BOISSONAS,
C2, 54 x 32, c.1910.
Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts of Geneva and a fine engraver, Hantz made close to 100 bookplates. This one is for the famous photographer Boissonas, whose works on the Parthenon are still prized today. |
4c/8. W. F. Hopson (USA, 1849-1935) JOSEPHINE PORTER,
C1, 96 x 57, 1895.
Viz. Labouchère p. 64, ill.
Mrs Porter was a well-known writer on costumes. Her plate shows a lady in full court dress and – perhaps appropriately – a peacock. |
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4c/9. A. Croissant (F) LUDWIG REHN, P7, 118 x 76, 1910.
Croissant was a painter, and he made this Art Nouveau image for a jeweller in Spandau. |
4c/10. Otto Golder (CH, 1903-1979) H. C. RYSER, C3,
123 x 88, c.1930.
Ryser was an engineer and town planner from Berne, and the ex-libris shows a view of the city in the background. |
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