because Mark Schumacher has done extensive research about Amy M. Sacker over a long period of time.
You can visit his remarkable Amy Sacker website here:
The “second lives” of
two
Amy Sacker bookplates
Amy Sacker (1872-1965) created about
two dozen known bookplates during her career [see http://www.amysacker.net/documents/sackerbookplates.htm
]. Two of the bookplates that
appeared in the 1903 publication by Boston bookseller Charles Goodspeed, “The
Book Plates of Amy Sacker”, actually had a second usage in a different setting.
The Boston artist modified her work and employed it to serve a new, quite
different purpose.
Her bookplate for Waldo K. Chase
[figure 1]
became the colorful cover design for
the December, 1903, issue of the Boston monthly, The Literary World,
[figure 2]. While the background was reworked into a more festive, Christmas-time
look, the figure and the pose, while reversed, remain fundamentally the same.
Amy has also moved the monogram from under Waldo’s foot to a pile of earlier
issues of the magazine lying on the floor.
A second bookplate from this same
collection (and done in a similar bold style) was created for Harold Murdock
[figure 3], showing a young man in Renaissance attire standing at a desk.
This same fellow had already appeared,
dressed quite differently, in a more modern look, as the title character of
Edward William Thomson’s The Young Boss (1896) [Figure 4].
Whether Sacker had created the bookplate prior to that date, and reworked for
the cover, or vice versa, is not known.
There is another “bookplate
connection” involving Sacker’s work, though it is not one of her bookplates. The central design for
the cover of Robert Stephens’ Philip Winwood [figure 5] was
“appropriated” by the New York engravers Ames and Rollinson, about 1900, to
create a bookplate for Frank Earle Hayward [figure 6]
Mr. Hayward had considerable
connections to the revolutionary era-- he was a member of the Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution, and apparently of the Order of Washington,
where he was the Deputy Vice-Commander-General for the state of New York . He was also a member of the Bibliophile
Society of Boston.
I find the re-use generally of Amy Sacker's designs fascinating, especially when
they seem to head "off course. Here is an example.
My joke is that, unless they are sitting there reading "Fodor's Columbia River", they are going to be in deep trouble.
My joke is that, unless they are sitting there reading "Fodor's Columbia River", they are going to be in deep trouble.
This is the link to a few book covers with little connection to their
titles"
with my [mildly] witty comments at times
Here is the link to the "front page" of my Sacker bookplate section:
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