Frances W. Delehanty

I want to thank fellow collector Richard Schimmelpfeng who did most of the research for this article .

About thirty five years ago a bookseller  offered  the Urling Sibley bookplate to me. I was immediately drawn to it  and added it to my collection.The artist's name Frances W. Delehanty  was  on the plate but I was unable to find any significant published material about her. As it turns out she was still alive at the time and living in Connecticut.
Two weeks ago Richard Schimmelfeng  asked me what I knew about her and we decided to collaborate .

 Here is what has been discovered thus far from our joint research.

If  you know of  any bookplates by Frances W. Delehanty which are not listed below please contact me.

Lew Jaffe          Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com

Bookplates By Frances Washington Delehanty

Hello Lew,

My name is David Hildt, and Frances W. Delehanty was my great aunt. I came across your blog after googling FWD, and I was amazed to see your collection of bookplates which she created. I am sending you a copy of the only one in my possession. It is one she made for her younger brother, Thornton Augustin Washington Delehanty, who was also the brother of my grandfather, John Bradley Delehanty.

 Our family history hasn't been kept up very well in that last few decades, so your collection has enriched our heritage.

Thank you!

David Hildt

Image of Daniel Delehanty bookplate from Special Collections Department University of Delaware Library

Jean Adams Gair

Louisa Wells Post (Proof)

Maud Powell- An Image is needed 
Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com

 “Bookplate for Robert Means Thompson, ” Digital Collections - Lake Forest College, , http://collections.lakeforest.edu/items/show/6720.

Two Unsigned bookplates  below  might have been done by Frances Delehanty but the jury is still out.

Carol Ann Brown,  Director of the Old Bethlehem Historical Society sent this image of

 Lauren Ford and Frances Delehanty

http://www.ci.bethlehem.ct.us/obhsi.htm

Lauren Ford on left, Frances Delehanty on right

Frances W. (Fanny) Delehanty, American artist, illustrator, 1879-1977. Born in San Francisco, lived in New York City area, possibly Washington D.C. area also.  Listed in New York City Social Register. She descended from both the Washington and Madison families.  She studied at Pratt Institute and had one woman shows in New York City.  In later years, circa 1940s, she lived in Bethlehem Connecticut with Lauren Ford (1891-1973), another artist, at “Sheepfold” on Crane Hollow Road.  She spent some years in France, served as a nurse in World War I, and after World War II she and Miss Ford brought nuns from Solesmes to Bethlehem where they started the present Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis.
She was an author and illustrator of several children’s books for young Catholics.

Check List of Known Bookplates

As an illustrator she used the name of F.W. Delehanty, or Frances W. Delehanty, and used a monogram of FD.  Apparently in later years she used the name of Fanny, rather than Frances.



               Adelrich Benziger                              (monogram ’01)

               Theodore E. Blake                             (monogram ’20)

               Edgar Howard Boles                           (F.W. Delehanty 1921)

               Cyris Townsend Brady                         (monogram ’07)

               Victor E. Brenner                                 (monogram)

               Daniel Delehanty, U.S. Navy

               Thornton Delehanty            

               Blanca Duncan                                      (Frances W. Delehanty)

               Thomas Butler Eastland                       (monogram)

               Louisine Waldron Ferrier                     (monogram)

               Francisca Club                                      (F.S. Delehanty 04)

               Alva B. Gimbel                                       (F.W. Delehanty)

               Herbert Ten Broeck Jacquelin               (monogram)

               Raphaelle Johnson

               Clarence H. Mackay                              (monogram ’07)

               Katherine Mackay                              (Frances W. Delehanty ’07)

               Ethel Louise McLean                              F.W. Delehanty ’09)

               Caroline Newhall                              (F.W. Delehanty)

               Sarah Thompson Pell                             (F.W. Delehanty ’05)

               Pratt Art Club                                             (monogram ’06)

               Constance Helen Pulitzer                          (F.W. Delehanty)
         
   
               Almira Rockefeller                              (monograpm ’20)

               Urline Sibley                                             (F.W. Delehanty ’10)

               Kate Cameron Simmons

               Nora E. Snow                                             (monogram)

               Robert Means Thompson, ,                          (monogram)

               Alice Kip van Vleck                                     (monogram)

               James H. Weeks Memorial Collection         (monogram)

Checklist of books written or illustrated by

Frances W. Delehanty  

               Canticle of the Three Children in the Fiery Furnace.  New York : Sheed & Ward, 1936.

               The Works of Jesus, by Edna S. Little.  San Francisco : Paul Elder Co., 1909.
               Cover by Frances W. Delehanty.

               Love in a Dutch Garden, by Nerth Boyce, illustrated by Frances W. Delehanty.  Harper’s          Weekly, Jan. 10, 1914.

               A Group of Recent Portraits by Frances W. Delehanty.  New York : Ferargil Galleries.  1927.

               Sunday Mass Set to Single Gregorian Formulae, by Justine Ward.  New ed.  Desclee.  1943.

               Heralds of the King : the story of the Nativity, by Gertrude Crownfield ;

pictures by Frances W. Delehanty.  New York : Dutton, 1931.

Reference Material

NEW YORK SOCIAL BLUE BOOK--1930

Delehanty,  Mrs. Daniel  439 E. 51
            Miss Bertha R. Delehanty
            Miss Frances W. Delehanty
            Mr. Thornton W. Delehanty

Journal of the Ex Libris Society, v. 15 (1904) p. 117.

Rights, Edith.  Women Bookplate Artists .(privately printed)

Obituary, Hartford Courant, Jan. 14, 1977.

Miscellaneous Background Information
Family Tombstone in Hawthorne New York

Odds and Ends

There are many "social media" addictions which puzzle me.
  Twitter for example seems like a waste of time in order  to save time.
 Having said that I have recently discovered something of interest on Pinterest, a website for keeping electronic scrapbooks.

I get a number of hits (referrals) from the readers of Pinterest and just found out that by following the link below you can  see hundreds of images which were pasted from my blog .Looking at the images was like a trip down memory lane for me.You may have to register to see the images but I encourage you to do so.

 Two or three bookplates seem to be very popular and appear in several scrapbooks. 

Cecil B. DeMille

A Dragon by Daniel Mitsui

A Rabbit by Andy English

http://www.pinterest.com/source/bookplatejunkie.blogspot.com/

I have a duplicate of Barry Goldwater's bookplate for possible exchange.

If all goes well I will be back before the week is over with a well researched article about Frances W. Delehanty.

This Week in Bookplates 10/3/2013

The  first entry for the new bookplate contest * was sent by Don Hobbs

This was submitted by Don Hobbs

I created this from: El perro de Baskerville [Translated by José Francés] Madrid: Editorial Prometo, 1920. 222 p. Illustrated by Rafael de Penagos.

Valencian translation: Houn.

From the Galactic Sherlock Holmes and the collection of Don Hobbs

Copyright 2013© Fairdale Press

TT

Don Hobbs has  over 11,000 foreign language versions of books and stories about Sherlock Holmes

The second entry came from Gordon Collett

Entry Number Three 

Submitted by James M. Goode

The giant Anteater is a wood engraving by Richard Wagener .

http://www.richardwagener.com/

The design is based on a bronze statue at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. by Edwin Springweiler.

Entry Number Four Submitted by Richard Schimmelpfeng

Smug Looking Dragon

\\

Entry Number Five Submitted by Tom Boss

Bookplate of Dr Leo Silberstern, an etching by Otto Siebert, Vienna, 1910,

Entry Number Six

Submitted by Michael Kunze

The bookplate  belonged to  Walther Spielmeyer, a German  Neurologist and Pain Researcher, 1879-1935;

The design & etching artist is Fritz Schwimbeck, Munich  (1899-1977);
The cruel design seems to symbolize  pain which should be defeated

Entry # 7  From James Keenan

  This is a fine example for a bookplate design   by Hristo Kerin  with the type style and layout used for my name thoughtfully worked into the Labyrinth

Entry # Eight Submitted by Debra A. Walker

Piggy go fetch my book

A Quote from Winston Churchill

 “I like pigs, 

Dogs look up to us. 

Cats look down on us.

Pigs treat us as equals.”

Entry # 9 from Craig Harris

I humbly submit from my collection, a bookplate of a Kappa* reading. Artist name (not read) - the kanji at the top read "Inegaki Zôshô" translation: Mr. Inegaki's Library.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_(folklore)

Entry # 10

Submitted by Michele Behan

The bookplate's owner was Maria Rebecca Audubon (1843-1925), granddaughter of John James Audubon, the famous naturalist and painter. 

The bookplate design was adapted from an original sketch by John James Audubon and inscribed with his favorite motto, "America, my country."

Entry # 11 from Keith Scheid

* I am having a new bookplate contest.

The contest is about the most interesting animal bookplate in your collection. 

The contest will end at midnight (Eastern Standard Time) on New Years Eve.

The judges are Lew and Mary Jaffe.

Only one entry per person and  the bookplate must be in your own collection.

All animals are eligible ( real and imaginary) including Unicorns .

Send a Jpeg scan with your entry to

Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com

Polar  Bookplates Recently  Received 

Sir Raymond Edward Priestley (20 July 1886 – 24 June 1974) was a British geologist and early Antarctic explorer.

..I currently have a duplicate of his bookplate for possible exchange.

 Biographical Information About John H. Roscoe

http://jhrmemories.blogspot.com/

 Links to more Polar Bookplates 

http://rs41.smugmug.com/Category/Antarctic-bookplates/25941089_tJgDsb#!i=2151142246&k=jXKBNzG

The link shown above was sent by Paul Davies of Kingsbridge Books and was compiled by Rob Stephenson

Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie: Polar Explorers ,Part One

Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie: Polar Explores, Part Two

Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie: Polar Explorers, Part Three

On November 16th I'll be attending both Boston book shows.

http://bostonbookfair.com/

http://www.bostonbookshow.com/


If you are near Boston and have bookplates for sale or trade please contact me.

See you next Sunday

A New Bookplate Contest- The Most Interesting Animal Bookplate in your Collection

Let's celebrate together 

2014 marks the beginning of my eighth year as a blog writer.

In blog years that is a long time.

To commemorate the occasion I am having a new bookplate contest.

The contest is about the most interesting animal bookplate in your collection. 

The contest will end at midnight (Eastern Standard Time) on New Years Eve.

The judges are Lew and Mary Jaffe.

Only one entry per person and  the bookplate must be in your own collection.

All animals are eligible ( real and imaginary) including Unicorns .

Send a Jpeg scan with your entry to

Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com

The winner will be sent a copy of

They Call Me Naughty Lola

 Personal Ads from the London Review Of Books
By David Rose

Ads placed by men:

Bald, fat, short, and ugly male, 53, seeks short-sighted woman with tremendous sexual appetite.

Mature gentleman, 62, aged well, noble grey looks, fit and active, sound mind and unfazed by the fickle demands of modern society … Damn it, I have to pee again.

Unashamed triumphalist male for the past 46 years. Will I bore you? Probably. Do I care? Probably not.

Bastard. Complete and utter. Whatever you do, don't reply — you'll only regret it.

I like my women the way I like my kebab. Found by surprise after a drunken night out, and covered in too much tahini. Before long I'll have discarded you on the pavement of life, but until then you're the perfect complement to a perfect evening. Man, 32. Rarely produces winning metaphors.

Romance is dead. So is my mother. Man, 42, inherited wealth.

Save it. Anything you've got to say can be said to my lawyer. But if you're not my ex-wife, why not write to box no. 5377? I enjoy vodka, canasta, evenings in, and cold, cold revenge.

To some, I am a world of temptation. To others, I'm just another cross-dressing pharmacist. Male, 41.

This ad may not be the best lonely heart in the world, nor its author the best-smelling. That's all I have to say. Man, 37.

My finger on the pulse of culture, my ear to the ground of philosophy, my hip in the medical waste bin of Glasgow Royal Infirmary. 14% plastic and counting — geriatric brainiac and compulsive NHS malingering fool (M, 81), looking for richer, older sex-starved woman on the brink of death to exploit and ruin every replacement operation I've had since 1974. Box no. 7648 (quickly, the clock's ticking, and so is this pacemaker).

7 million is good for me. Most days though I plateau at around 3 million. Any advances? Man with low sperm count (35 — that's my age) seeks woman in no hurry to see the zygotes divide.

Sinister-looking man with a face that only a mother would love: think of an ageing Portillo with a beard and you have my better-looking twin. Sweetie at heart, though. Nice conversation, great for dimly-lit romantic meals. Better in those Welsh villages where the electricity supply can't be guaranteed. Charitable women to 50 appreciated. Box no. 0364.

My other car is a bike. Eco-friendly bio-diverse M (29). Smells a bit like soil and eats too much soup, but otherwise friendly (you're not seriously going to put that burger in your mouth, are you?).

You're a brunette, 6', long legs, 25-30, intelligent, articulate and drop-dead gorgeous. I, on the other hand, am 4'10", have the looks of Herve Villechaize and carry an odour of wheat. No returns and no refunds at box no. 3321.

Ads Placed by Women:

Blah blah, whatever. Indifferent woman. Go ahead and write. Box no. 3253. Like I care.

Your stars for today: A pretty Cancerian, 35, will cook you a lovely meal, caress your hair softly, then squeeze every damn penny from your adulterous bank account before slashing the tyres of your Beamer. Let that serve as a warning. Now then, risotto?

Attention male London Review of Books readers: 'Greetings, earthling — I have come to infest your puny body with legions of my spawn' is no way to begin a reply. Female, 36 — suspicious of any men declaring themselves to be in possession of a 'great sense of humor.'

I'm just a girl who can't say 'no' (or 'anaesthetist'). Lisping Rodgers and Hammerstein fan, female lecturer in politics (37) WLTM man to 40 for thome enthanted eveningth.

Love is strange — wait 'til you see my feet. F, 34, wide-fitting Scholl's.

Excerpted from They Call Me Naughty Lola by David Rose. Copyright c 2006 by the London Review of Books. Reprinted by permission from Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Send a Jpeg scan with your entry to

Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com

The American Society of Bookplate Collectors & Designers

James P. Keenan is the director of The American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers (ASBC&D).  The bookplate collecting association for America ( Established 1922).  He sent me information about  his plans for the society. With his permission I have copied the  information.and I encourage you to to visit the newly revised and updated ASBC&D website

www.bookplate.org

I asked James to send me a few bookplate images from  the  100+   he has commissioned

. Here are a few examples:

(Birds)  CGD by Nurgül Arikan (Turkey)

 Calligraphy by Joke van den Brandt (Belgium)

Jazz Bookplate by Yuri Borovitsky

AUTUMN 2013  UPDATE: The 21st century of bookplate collecting

The Society's email address is still the most efficient means of communication.

That is:
  Info@bookplate.org  

 After many technical complications, ALL publications are underway (including finding a reliable digital press and tech support for the creation of printed and e-pubs).


ALL printed publications along with engraved keepsakes are near completion for our FULL PAID members.  So we still value the old traditions, but printing, engraving, even handling & postage cost more these days. It would be nice to have a publications committee, but we must find enthusiastic volunteers in North America to join us in advancing the interest in bookplates! 

Maybe some of your readers have the desire and the time to help.. 

 Our NEW interactive website is a major breakthrough.  It has taken more than 2 years to develop   At last, we are up and running!  On our site we offer a research “Library” with dozens of complete books scanned (and many more to come).  There is the online “Ex Libris Exchange” page where you can post your items for exchange.  An "Author/Artist" page where members & visitors can submit articles and images--it is not even necessary to go to the post office!  And the “Forum” page where you may be in contact with other collectors, ask questions, and post images.  We have the “Art of This Century Gallery” (out of respect for Peggy Guggenheim’s famous New York City gallery) with hundreds of bookplates by top international artists representing many nations! YOUR DAILY PARTICIPATION IS KEY TO THE SUCCESS OF OUR SITE.

Take a LOOK!!  I always eagerly await  suggestions for your society’s website.

ALL good things take time.   I found our talented webmaster from The  University of Connecticut at Storrs living in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico!  

 It has been a while since my last update.  From April through July, I took a scholarly excursion overseas.  Some part of this excursion I shared with my friend and colleague, Nurgül Arikan.
  I started in Stockholm and visited fine collections of North American bookplates in Sweden with the guidance of Lars Stolt and Per-Axel Wiktorsson .  Then visited Klaus Roedel's bookplate museum in Frederikshavn, Denmark.  Klaus is a pioneer and has been an active member of our society since 1968. He has one of the largest collections in the world. It covers all countries, all periods with a special focus on the contemporary art form.

Klaus Roedel

A Link to the Frederikshavn Museum

http://www.toppenafdanmark.com/ln-int/denmark/frederikshavn-kunstmuseum-og-exlibrissamling-gdk599564

In the UK I visited the British Museum collections and the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge.  Spent a few days at Oxford and a few more to see Cliff Parfit who is a regular contributor to the Chronicle.  

Cliff Parfit and Bian in the UK  

Then across the Channel to visit the International Ex Libris Centrum, the world's first bookplate museum at Sint-Niklaas in Belgium .

A link to The Sint-Niklaas Museum

http://musea.sint-niklaas.be/exlibris

 I spent nearly 2 weeks in Antwerp with engraver Frank-Ivo van Damme and his wife, Johanna “Joke” van den Brandt (she designed our logo We are developing a traveling exhibition of Frank-Ivo's bookplates accompanied by Spanish-English edition about his engravings.

Frank-Ivo van Damme at home in Belgium  

 Joke van den Brandt at home in Belgium

Our Logo Designed by Joke

This was followed by a week at the German ex libris congress at Wurzbach.

Patricia Nik-Dad and I Wurzbach DEG Congress Dinner

Nurgül Arikan (Turkey) and Maria Maddalena 

Through the generosity of the museums and individual collectors throughout our excursion we managed to replace nearly 1,500 books and  many bookplates (I think over 300++ kilos!). These had been previously donated  during  Audrey Spencer Arellane's regime (1968-2000), but were lost along the way. Of course, not having any past records makes my job a little harder although I suppose we must "start" somewhere.

 It is part of my life's mission to try to replace some of this material and I have gained unbelievable support and cooperation from our domestic and international colleagues. At least we do know that some part of the Society's original collection is "safe" at the Library of Congress and at Millikin University. We are only missing 32 years.

After the German meeting, I visited Istanbul for a over a month while I worked on my new book:  BOOKPLATES: The Art of This Century
 http://www.bookplate.org/node/176

   Book cover design by  Nurgül Arikan

 And now, with cooperation from our international ex libris friends, we have quality articles coming in—mostly from Germany, Austria, Australia, UK, Sweden, and a few from the USA.  I just need the time to assemble this excellent material or must delegate the responsibility. 

After Turkey, I took off for a continuation of this scholarly excursion by visiting bookplate enthusiasts in Italy. Many important bookplate connoisseurs and talented engravers come from Italy. I spent extra time with Mario de Filippis in Arezzo and Gian Carlo Torre in Genova (this was my second trip to visit them in less than a year).

There is no doubt that through multi-language publications and cooperation with our colleagues we will build a worldwide unity for bookplates.  Along with this will be a rediscovery and understanding of collecting through the traditional “exchange” process.

Oh yes, did you know that in 2022 the society will host the FISAE International Ex Libris Congress in San Francisco for our 100th anniversary!  This date is coming up quickly and I will be spending lots of time in the Bay Area. I certainly will benefit from my experiences with the Boston meeting. Fortunately, there is quite an active movement in the book arts in the SF region and we are already enlisting support for this event. Generally, year round Bay Area weather is the best of anywhere in the USA. 

So, I am making plans for international competitions, traveling exhibitions, new publications, and new studio tours to visit many of the finest engravers in the world. We are properly connected and I can coordinate, but I will need lots of support.  And now, I am planning Master Artist workshops in North America to teach the Americans the fine art of bookplate engraving (as you know, lost here about 1940).  In part, I am working with the Instituto Allende Fine Arts College (IA) on this project.  The IA is listening!  They are paying attention and are willing to support our ideas and have been kind enough to offer me the "space" to work in. 

The new book (an annual directory) is being introduced as an e-book with a small limited print edition coming later on.  Unlike the limited print editions, we will reach the widest possible international audience of libraries, museums, and new individual collectors.

BOOKPLATES: The Art of this Century is the first e-Book to introduce contemporary world ex libris      http://www.bookplate.org/node/176
                    Just one year ago, technology could not support an illustrated e-Book such as this.  In our first edition there are 130 artists with over 300 full color illustrations.  I am presenting quotes on the future of bookplates from more than 30 of the most distinguished international artists/collectors.  The Foreward is written by Cliff Parfit. I'm sure you will like it.  ANY profits will go to marketing, future exhibitions, publications, and expanding the public's awareness of ex libris art.

Within the next 2-weeks we will offer the book in an "iBook" format.  It is now introduced through Amazon Kindle because Kindle is the most widely used format worldwide.  I've downloaded about 6 versions of Kindle for FREE--this is so easy. There is no way that we could reach thousands of people with a small, limited print edition.

 I had the most fun dodging bombs and bullets during the riots in Istanbul--miraculously got out alive..

CHEERS!!

-- 

James P. Keenan

American Society of Bookplate
Collectors & Designers 

5802 Bullock Loop 

Suite C1 #84404 

Laredo, Texas 78041-8807            

www.bookplate.org 
 

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