A Guide to The Study of Book-Plates (Ex-Libris)

Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Light foxing. A nice copy of this title.; With a handwritten note from the author's sister on letterhead paper "Tabley House, Knutsford" pasted to front endpaper. The notes reads: "To Rev. W. Truss from the writer's sister Shaun Leighton-Warren July 18 1901". [1-2 (recto: Press Notices on the First Edition; verso: blank)] (viii), 228 pages + frontispiece. 15 plates within the pagination. Brown cloth boards with printed title label on spine. Page dimensions: 225 x 140mm. Contents: Introduction; Phrases of Book Possession; Leading Styles of English Book-Plates. The Jacobean Style; The Chippendale Style; Allegoric Book-Plates; The Landscape on English Book-Plates; English Dated Book-Plates. Seventeenth Century; English Dated Book-Plates. Eighteenth Century; Mottoes Directed Against Borrowers; Book-Plates of Historic Interest; Mottoes Concerning Books or In Praise of Study; Engravers of Foreign Book-Plates; Tabulated List of Foreign Engravers; Engravers of English Book-Plates. First Period; Tabulated List of English Engravers. (First Period); Engravers of English Book-Plates. Second Period; Tabulated List of English Engravers. (Second Period); Foreign Dated Book-Plates; A List of Foreign Dated Book-Plates Anterior to 1700; Conclusion. .