The rise of the book-plate : being an exemplification of the art, signified by various book-plates, from its earliest to its most recent practice. / Illustrated by reproductions in miniature and otherwise / text by W.G. Bowdoin, with an introduction and chapter on the study and arrangement of book-plates by Henry Blackwell
1 preliminary leaf, 207 pages including plates frontispiece, plates : illustrations ; 24 x 19 cm.
General Note
Pages 49-207 are plates.
Bibliography of book-plate literature: pages 27-44.
Includes 2 engravings and 80 plates of process illustrations.
Provenance
Tipped-in before the title page is a page carrying the engraved bookplate of the Mark Skinner Library, Manchester Vermont. It includes a portrait of American politician, attorney, and philanthropist Mark Skinner who donated the library to his birthplace, Manchester, Vermont. The bookplate carries the date MDCCCXCVII (1897), the year in which the library was founded.