3 preliminary leaves, iii, 238 pages including frontispiece, 15 plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Contents
Introduction -- Phrases of book possession -- Leading styles of English book-plates. The Jacobean style -- The Chippendale stye -- Allegoric book-plates -- The landscape of 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 the praise of study -- Engravers of foreign bookplates -- 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