If I’m fit and well in four years time I
shall be off to university at Cambridge. No, not Harvard, but to one of
England’s historic cities, where The Bookplate Society is proposing to hold the
38th International Exlibris Congress, commencing Wednesday, 12 August 2020.
Already some impressive groundwork is in place, which you can see by visiting
the website at
www.bookplatesociety.org/2020home.htm and linked pages.
The formula of taking over a college worked
very well in 1982 when the 19th congress took place at Keble College, Oxford.
Since then the quality of student rooms has greatly improved, and the intended
venue, Churchill College, offers good modern accommodation, including a
newly-opened bedroom block with elevator. The ancient aspects of Cambridge will
be appreciated through tours of colleges
and libraries, and by the formal dinner being held in the old dining hall of St
John’s College.
It appears that the organizers will be introducing
some innovations, and with good forward planning in evidence this promises to
be a busy and hugely enjoyable event. I can understand that there is intense
competition to hold conferences in Oxford & Cambridge colleges, hence the need
for very early booking.
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Of course this all presupposes that, when they meet on 26 August 2016, FISAE delegates will vote to adopt this proposal, but the present troubles in Turkey (which held a congress as recently as 2010) don’t make it an attractive alternative for me. So I plan to book my place at Cambridge as soon as registration opens, and thus to get a 10% reduction in the participation fee. However, don’t expect to see me on the river in a punt!
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Bookplate Exhibit Currently in Whittier California
George Washington Bookplates as well as other 18th century American bookplates are currently on display at The Whittier public Library located at 7344 Washington Ave. Whittier California 90602
Tel. # 562 567 9900
Among the other highlights in the exhibit are the very rare Gabriel Johnston bookplate as well as examples of plates by Nathaniel Hurd, Amos
Doolittle, and Paul Revere.
The bookplates were provided by fellow collector Jerry Peterson and new examples from his extensive collection will be added every few months.
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Bugs Beasts and Birds
I am sorting through a very fine collection of bookplates that were originally owned by a herpetologist, It contains lots of snake related plates along with insects and all sorts of critters. In addition many bookplates were from scientists and physicians at the University of Chicago.
So far I have selected about thirty bookplates for my own collection.
Here are some examples.
An article about the Emil August Goldi bookplate. *
Bookplate
of the week: Emil August Göldi
Jun
1st, 2012 by houghtonmodern
Dr. Hugo Kahl
Affiliated with
the Carnegie Museum
C. de Mello
Leitao
A zoologist considered the founder
of Arachnologyin South
America - who has published 198
articles on taxonomy of arachnids .
He was also an educator, writing books for college courses . He contributed
to biogeography , studies on the
distribution of members of the class Arachnida in the South American
continent.
Dr.Frank J.
Psota was an Insect
Collector
Can anyone out there assist me ?
Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com
Charles Edward Jones , The Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at The Pennsylvania State University Libraries.
quickly responded with this information:
"This is a really interesting bookplate. To tell you the truth, until your
message came, I thad never heard of the man. A little googling tells me
something about him, but not very much. This page
(https://earlysaskatchewanartinthenews.wordpress.com/category/art-history/),
for instance, tells us:
"He met his lifelong friend and frequent travelling
companion Otis Ellery Taylor in Vienna in 1928. There are indications that they
had an extensive correspondence, but apart from a couple of postcards none of it
survives as neither man left an archive behind. Otis Taylor is the only friend
Snelgrove ever made reference to in recorded public pronouncements, although you
can glean the names of other friends from the list of pallbearers at his
funeral, mainly professors and teachers.
Taylor, a first graduate of the College of Commerce at the University of Nebraska in 1915, was, on the surface, an unusual match for Snelgrove. He worked for the Oswald Stoll organization managing theatres in London from 1917 and into the mid 1920s and then seems to have spent the rest of his life studying and travelling. He was what can only be described as a bon vivant, frequently noted in various social columns as doing the rounds of Palm Springs, New York and Europe or Asia year after year. [vi] In 1931 he married a wealthy widow over 25 years his senior and eventually obtained a PHD in Art History from the University of Chicago in 1939, after making several trips to study Persian monuments. When his wife died in 1946, he was based in New York City, where he was involved for a brief time with The American Institute of Iranian Art & Archaeology and then the American Red Cross during the war. Domiciled in swank apartment hotels until he died in 1988, he doesn’t seem to have ever done paid work as an art historian.
There is no indication that Taylor had any interest in being an art historian until he met Snelgrove, whose thirst for more knowledge must have appealed to him. Both of them enrolled at the University of Chicago for art history courses in the summer of 1929.[vii] Moose Jaw then had railway connections which could get you directly to Chicago..."
Notes From Lew
* Here are more postings from Harvard's Bookplate of the week series:
8/7/2016- Note received from Gordon Collette
Hi again Lew,
Just a quick note to say
hello, and that thanks for putting up the UK Bookplate Society bid for FISAE
2020.
The image with the swans is
one of mine. Hopefully see you there!
Also I have a new look
website www.muralartist.co.uk
and you can see all new stuff
on my Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/Gordon.Collett.Artist
Keep up the good work!
Best wishes,
Gordon
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