Another Excellent Link, Amy Sacker plus World War One Bookplates

Mark Schumacher at the University of North Carolina has  an excellent site about Amy Sacker.
It includes biographical information plus many illustrations of her  bookplates and decorative bindings

http://www.amysacker.net/documents/sacker.htm

Mystery Bookplate

Barry D. Maurer's bookplate for his world War 1 book collection was designed by K.
Do any of you know who that artist might be?

I have a small collection of World War 1 bookplates and the Maurer plate is a welcome addition.
This is my collection

Additional information about the American Library Association's World War One bookplates can be found here
http://sentra.ischool.utexas.edu/~lcr/archive/bookplates/14_2_WWIALA.htm

If you would like me to add images to this posting  of WW1 bookplates from your collection send Jpeg scans to    Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com

See You again on Sunday.

A Useful Angling Link, Daniel B. Fearing Collection

Fellow collector David Kolstad  sent me this link with images of  Angling bookplates in the Daniel B. Fearing  Collection  at the Houghton Library.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/houghtonmodern/sets/72157633442389057/

 When you click on the link you may be surprised to find that you  currently have some of the plates but never realized they related to fishing.
Here is an an example ( In my mind it is still a boxing plate ).
The description  in
A Catalogue of The Angling Bookates forming the collection of Daniel B. Fearing
Newport, R.I is as follows :

141 Harry , Arthur James
"Process,Signed J.T. W.  3 15/16 x3
Welsh.Pictorial.A disjointed rod, landing net and creel.
Motto:Pawb yn ei arfau( (everyone to his taste)
a Black, on cream-colored paper
b Rose, on white paper  "

10/23/2013

Anthony Pincott just sent the following information:

Dear Lew

Tom Lloyd identifies the artist of your boxing bookplate as James Thomas Watts RCA, RBSA  (British, Birmingham 1850-1930 Liverpool). It seems that as a painter he confined himself to woodland scenes. He was not born in 1853 as given in several places on the internet. Add to this that Harry A. James wrote  A Professional Pugilist (illustrated by Kenneth M Skeaping who did a few bookplates) Leadenhall Press, 1894, and you have a bit more to add to your blog

I'll be back  tomorrow with another excellent link. This one will keep you occupied until I return.

The Bookplates of Edward Leighton. Doty

This is the second in a series  about bookplate artists who have not left much of a published trail.
Edward L. Doty worked in Boston in the 1930's
If you have any bookplates by him which are not shown below please send a scan to
Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com
Over time, working together we may be able to build a checklist along with some biographical information for future generations.

In my attempt to find some background information I unearthed the following:
In 1939 Mary E. Doty of Lynn, Mass. donated bookplates engraved by Edward Leighton Doty to the Museum Of Fine Arts in Boston.

None of the bookplates were illustrated but these are the ones for which I will try to obtain images.
   
Roger Amory
Andrew De Coppet
General William Franklin Draper
Tudor Gardiner
S.M.Incedo Super Ignes
Dennis King 
Mission House, Stockbridge- 10/15/2013, Image found and added below
Perth Amboy High School ,The James Chapman Prize
 Henry Parrish Roosevelt

 I plan to contact the museum in order  to obtain more information and hopefully some additional scans.

11/13/2013    Within hours of yesterday's posting about Edward L. Doty I received the following information:

Hi--

Just some background on Edward Doty:

Edward Leighton Doty was born in Brockton, MA  on 05 Aug 1895, the son of Edward L. and Mary E. (Dowey) Doty.  Edward had a poem entitled “Thankfully Received” published in Breezy Stories, v. 5, #5, January 1918, p. 74.    In 1918, he was employed as a copper plate engraver for J. P. Ogdin?, 7 West St., Boston.  In the 1920 census for Cambridge, MA, he is listed as an engraver in a stationery store, and in 1930 as an engraver.   It is likely that he never married, and seems to have resided with his mother until his death in 1939.    The Boston City Directories of 1916-26 list him as an engraver at various addresses, along with his brother, Kenneth R. Doty.  In 1927, he is listed at 651 Boylston, with the notation “Doty Studio.”    In the 1930-31 Boston City Directory, he is listed as a “steel and copper plate engraver, with his brother, Kenneth R. Doty also listed as an engraver at the same address.  The 1937 Cambridge, MA city directory lists Edward without this brother, as an engraver at 49 Dana.

Enjoy!

Suzanne   

The Boston Public Library Bookplate was designed by Mr. Doty in 1939 and engraved by A.J. Downey

The Cabot Fund Bookplate was engraved by Mr. Doty in 1937

 No you don't need new eyeglasses  In 1933  Mr. James D. Henderson a resident of Brookline , Mass. had Mr. Doty engrave a ridiculously small  bookplate .It is one sixteenth of an inch wide and two sixteenth inches high .It is nicely mounted in a presentation folder,If you click on the image it will enlarge slightly. ..

Leonora  Blanche Kimball's plate was engraved in 1938

The George Burgess Magrath  Library plate was engraved in 1934

In Mission House bookplate Mr. Doty used the initials ELD

Stewart Mitchell's plate was designed by Richard Andrew in 1937 and engraved by Mr. Doty in 1938

Horton Winter Reed's plate was engraved by Mr. Doty in 1937

Charlotte B. Webber's plate was also engraved by Mr. Doty in 1937

That about wraps it up for today. See you next week.

The Bookplates of Fridolf Johnson

For the next few weeks I plan to focus on bookplate artists about whom very little has been written.
Fridolf Johnson ( 1904-1988) was a collector , author and designer. His book A Treasury of Bookplates from the Renaissance to the Present was published in 1977 and is still one of the best starter books for  collectors . Is is readily available and inexpensive.
With your help I hope to seed a fairly complete check list. If you have bookplates he designed which  are not shown please send me a scan(s) and they will be added to this posting.
Send your scans to
 Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com

*Biographical Note

"Author, illustrator and calligrapher Fridolf Johnson (1905-1988) studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then remained in Illinois for nine years as art director for the Frankel-Rose Agency. He moved to California in 1942, free- lancing in San Francisco and operating Contempo Art Service in Hollywood. After ten years on the West Coast, Johnson left for New York in 1952 where he worked as a designer and professional calligrapher. From the 1950s into the 1960s, Johnson became increasingly interested in printing and typography. He established his own private press, the Mermaid Press, and became an active member of the Typophiles, Junkateers, Zamorano Club, and New York Chappel of Private Presses. From 1962 until 1970 Johnson was the executive editor of American Artist and contributed myriad book reviews and articles for the periodical. He wrote on topics ranging from contemporary graphic art, lithography, and printmaking to book illustrations, bookplates, and the artists Rockwell Kent and William Morris. Johnson also wrote A Treasury of Bookplates from the Renaissance to the Present, co-authored 200 Years of American Graphic Art, and edited Rockwell Kent: An Anthology of His Work. Examples of his calligraphy and print specimens can be found in the collections of several museums, galleries, and public libraries, including the New York Public Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Johnson resided in Woodstock, New York, until his death in July 1988".

http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/jhnsn_f.htm

*Extracted from The University of Delaware Library  website where his papers (1950-1985)  are housed.

On the back of the Robert E. Hill plate Fridolf Johnson wrote "A trial run printed on my own Mermaid Press
before sending the drawing to Dr. Hill"

I have a two page letter by Fridolf Johnson dated June 19, 1930 in which he explains that his friend
Herman C. Johnson was
"an an inveterate elbow-bender. When I made up the rough sketch I had no idea that he would ask me to complete it for I meant it only as a sly commentary on his habits."

Mystery Bookplate

Does anyone out there know anything about the owner/artist Margery Rand?

See You Next Sunday

Email From England

 I Received the following  message this morning from Anthony Pincott in England

Dear Lew,
     I  was cursing earlier this week at UK post offices going on strike for a day.  Now there is a large republic in chaos, resulting in this sort of nonsense:

So will you wish to reassure readers of your blog by something comforting along the following lines ?

Moving on, I see at www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine_books_blog/2013/08/the-first-american-bookplate-reconsidered.phtml

That argument continues about early American book labels, so maybe Samuel Phillips deserves mention in your blog if not already covered.

Or at least a link. He doesn’t appear in Appendix A to Brian North  Lee’s Early Printed Book Labels.

Here is the cover image and table of contents for the next issue of The Bookplate Journal (currently with the printer, for mailing end-October).

 Non-members of The Bookplate Society in the US will from

November be able to obtain copies of the latest issue of The Bookplate Journal from The Colophon Book Shop of Exeter, NH, www.colophonbooks.com
Regards,
Anthony

Note From Lew : For those of you who wish to join The Bookplate Society follow this link:
http://www.bookplatesociety.org/

See You on Sunday.

Lots Of Links

Last week I attended the Rittenhouse Art Show and purchased this bee bookplate from Marina  Terauds.

She is a very talented print maker whose bookplates are worthy of your consideration , if you are finally going to bite the bullet and have a bookplate designed for yourself '

Here is a link to her website

http://marinaterauds.com/

Here are two European dealer websites :

www.antiquariat-rieger.de/neueexlibris.htm  

Dr. Wolfgang Rieger deals primarily in German bookplates.This is one of the items (subject to prior sale) from his website

Soder, Alfred (1880-1957) : Ernst Rippmann. Wooden cross in rose-trees, behind houses in countryside.In 1909. 115 x 57 mm, Etching (green on white)  

back small mounting remnants - Witte, Bibliography 3, 94 f, 31 Thieme-Becker, Vollmer 4; Gutenberg 10,621 - signed and dated in the print order number / order number: 36879 20.00 € (architectural landscapes Basel Switzerland and Ireland United States)

Jacques Laget deals primarily in French bookplates but he does have a few items from other countries

http://www.ex-libris-jacques-laget.fr/

Here is one of the items (subject to prior sale)  from his website:

RHEBERGEN (Jan)	Ref: 00327510.00€
bois gravé en couleurs , 20° , HOLLANDE - JAPON  Seimiya (Hitoshi) 188-1969

Okay , I slipped this one in because it makes me feel good.
Grandson Harrison walking with me yesterday.

Here is a thoughtful well written blog about medieval manuscripts;

http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/09/28/manuscript-road-trip-on-the-road-to-niagara/

                                                 The Flight into Egypt, Walter Art Museum, MS W.188, f.112r

One Last Thing

Next weekend (October 5th &6th ) is the Allentown Paper show

http://www.allentownpapershow.com/

See you again soon .

Edith A. Rights

Edith A. Rights wrote The Bookplates of Arthur Nelson Macdonald in 1986 and that's when I first met her..Although I did not know her very well she was someone I trusted and admired.
She loved to do research and went out of her way to assist new bookplate collectors.
Sadly, I have to write that she passed away on September 20th.

http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/starledger/obituary.aspx?n=edith-maria-rights&pid=167133077&fhid=17142#fbLoggedOut

This Week in Bookplates 9/23/20013 - Bookplates For Exchange

I just found this database and it looks like it might take  more than a few minutes to poke into all the nooks and crannies.. The bookplate portion is overwhelming.
http://www.lunacommons.org/luna/servlet/view/search?Search=Search&q=bookplate&res=2

Mystery Bookplate

Can anyone out there identify the owner of this plate ?

Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com

Magician's bookplates for possible exchange

A Quirky Bookplate for possible exchange

It was designed by Fred B. Schlachter in 1944

Collector Profiles

 Collector profiles are always welcome. The collector profiles are are not very structured. You just write a few paragraphs about yourself and your bookplate collection.

Jpeg scans of your favorite bookplates increase the readership along with a picture of yourself, if possible.

If English is not your primary language don't be concerned.

If any editing is needed I will advise you of suggested changes before publishing.

A few randomly selected profiles are attached.

http://bookplatejunkie.blogspot.com/2012/05/collector-profile-john-blatchly.html

http://bookplatejunkie.blogspot.com/2012/08/collector-profile-thomas-c-s-wixon.html

http://bookplatejunkie.blogspot.com/2011/10/collector-profile-luigi-bergomi.html

http://bookplatejunkie.blogspot.com/2012/03/collector-profile-wally-jansen.html

http://bookplatejunkie.blogspot.com/2010/06/collector-profile-michele-behan.html

Send your collector profiles to

Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com

See you next week

This Week in bookplates 9/16/2013

I purchased this bookplate last week  and assumed it was English. I was wrong.
It turns out it was designed by May and Grace Greenleaf of Indianapolis, Indiana,
It is the only bookplate I own by these artists.

In searching through my reference books I found a partial checklist of other bookplates they designed,
Isaac Bildersee
Earlham Alumni, Illustrated P.98 Some American College Bookplates by Harry Parker Ward

Hettie Elliott
Harry Irving Miller
Carolyn Louise Salter
Edward L.Stevens
If you have any bookplates by these artists please send a scan and it will be added to this posting
Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com
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Boxing is not a common theme on bookplates so I was very pleased to obtain this bookplate by
 Dugald Stewart Walker.I also have a duplicate for possible exchange.
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Every morning I receive a newsletter called  Exlibris-L-Digest . 
More often than not I glance at it and then it is deleted. Yesterday and today there were very interesting topics discussed.

Dick Lowenstein asked this question:

I am looking for the names of successful second-hand book shops in public
libraries. Not, for example, the N. Y. Public Library, which sells only new
books at its main location. A real store where customers can browse and buy
second-hand books. Small to big shops, size doesn't matter. Combined gift and
book stores, too, as long as the books offered are not new books.

Here are  a few of the responses:

Try the Toronto Public Library:
Book Ends and Book Ends South
(http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/books-video-music/book-sale/)
Lots of choice and excellent prices. Many branches of this very large
library system also sell withdrawn and donated books.

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Dick, I am pretty sure there is such a shop in the main San
Francisco Public Library, just inside the entrance on Grove
Street. I do believe it is run by the library, so if you are
looking for shops which are independently run, by a private
individual, even though in a library, this shop likely does not
qualify. But it does sell used books.
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For a smaller town, the Newport Public library has a nice store run by its
Friends,

http://www.newportlibraryri.org/npl/support-your-library/friends-bookstore-2/

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To this list I would add my  favorite right here in Philadelphia.

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There was also an interesting link about 10 inspiring bookshops around the world.The ads on the site are both annoying and intrusive but it is still worth looking at.In fact I would love to visit each and every shop described.
http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/08/28/10-inspiring-bookshops-around-the-world/

See You next week.