car·toon
kärˈto͞on/
noun
plural noun: cartoons
- 1.a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, especially a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine.
- I've selected a number of cartoonish bookplates and several done by cartoonists.
- Very few (if any) are humorous. Many of them seem to reflect a style of drawing popularized in the 1920s and 1930s
This is the earliest cartoonish American bookplate I have found.It was designed by Henry L. Stephens around 1840
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Note From Lew
If you have any cartoon bookplates please send scans to Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com and I wiil try to include them in part two , next week..
1/23/2017
I received the following note from fellow bookplate collector Debra Walker .
Hi Lew,
I am enclosing a scan of
Walter J Wait (I believe the middle initial is a “J”) by the cartoonist
A D Condo.
Note the poke at Roycroft. I wonder why.
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