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                               AMERICAN
                              BOOKPLATES

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                         AMERICAN BOOK-PLATES

                              (EX-LIBRIS)

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                         American Book-Plates

                 A Guide to their Study with Examples

                        By Charles Dexter Allen

    Member Ex-Libris Society London · Member Grolier Club New York
            Member Connecticut Historical Society Hartford

               With a Bibliography by Eben Newell Hewins

                       Member Ex-Libris Society

Illustrated with many reproductions of rare and interesting book-plates
     and in the finer editions with many prints from the original
                      coppers both old and recent

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                 New York · Macmillan and Co. · London

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                           COPYRIGHT, 1894,
                         BY MACMILLAN AND CO.


                            Norwood Press:
                 J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith.
                         Boston, Mass., U.S.A.




PREFACE.


[Illustration: I]n a few years Book-plate literature will have a place
in the catalogues of the Libraries, as it now has in those of the
dealers in books. The works of the Hon. J. Leicester Warren (Lord de
Tabley), Mr. Egerton Castle, and Mr. W. J. Hardy on the English plates,
Mr. Walter Hamilton, M. Henri Bouchot, and M. Poulet-Malassis on the
French, Herr Warnecke on the German, and M. Carlander on the Swedish,
are all the work of master hands, and are recognized as authorities. In
our own country the lists and essays of Mr. Richard C. Lichtenstein and
Mr. Laurence Hutton have long been of invaluable service, and occupy a
position both at home and