Mystery Bookplate Sketch
I was looking for something and opened one of many boxes we put into a closet about forty years ago.
It looks like something I might have purchased and just forgot about ..A quick Google search showed a Dr.
Lynval E. Davidson whose collection of fine press books was sold at auction in 1969.Perhaps this sketch was done for him. Any information you have about the bookplate or the artist would be appreciated
Larry Nix at the Library History Buff has written about the bookplate of Hiram Deats
http://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2013/05/bookplates-and-hiram-e-deats.html
Eleanor Sears, beautiful engraving by A,.J. Downey
I was looking for something and opened one of many boxes we put into a closet about forty years ago.
It looks like something I might have purchased and just forgot about ..A quick Google search showed a Dr.
Lynval E. Davidson whose collection of fine press books was sold at auction in 1969.Perhaps this sketch was done for him. Any information you have about the bookplate or the artist would be appreciated
Larry Nix at the Library History Buff has written about the bookplate of Hiram Deats
http://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2013/05/bookplates-and-hiram-e-deats.html
Eleanor Sears, beautiful engraving by A,.J. Downey
Lower right outside corner was torn and repaired
One of the items I put on Ebay
My seller name is bookplatemaven
One of the items I put on Ebay
My seller name is bookplatemaven
Walker, I don’t know
anything about the owner.
This is an interesting item I no longer have.
Someone took a trade card from the 1890’s cut it down to about 3 in.
square and pasted a pen and ink book drawing into the infants hand.
Perhaps it was done by Mr. Bare or perhaps it was done by someone named
Lang.
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