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[BOOKPLATES]. A Large Archive of Nearly 400 Bookplates. [Mainly England and The United States, ca. late 19th-20th century]. Bookplates generally 4 x 3”. Some rubbing, several with glue residue on versos, some with manuscript notations. Generally very good or better. Some duplicates. A wonderful collection, in the following categories: armorial (nearly 140 bookplates), institutional (nearly 55), bookplates by artists with printed signatures (nearly 70), and miscellaneous (nearly 135). Including armorial bookplates for Lord Halifax, Gordon, Richard Morgan Graves, Charles Living Green, George A. Hanson, Alba Boardman Johnson, Richard Langley, Langford (Summer Hill House), Charles Pearse, Richard Sterling Stockton, Mary Shakespeare, and more. Institutional bookplates include University of Chicago Libraries, Milton Public Library (Sara Vose Fund), Franklin Marshall College, Franklin Club Fund, Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, Dartmouth College Library, San Francisco Public Library and more. Bookplates by the following artists: William Phillips Barrett (Prince Albert George plate), Harry E. Goodhue, Mortimer Borne, William Edgar Fisher, Edwin Davis French, William F. Hopson, Ray Warren Irvin, Herb Sherlock, Thomas Bird Misher, Carl S. Junge, and more. The following miscellaneous bookplates include bookplates for A. Edward Newton, Theodore Roosevelt Library of Walter Merriam Pratt, The Epicurean Library of Hermine & Ija Adler, Dwight R. Meigs, R. S. Gray (designed by Roycrofters), Mary S. Lamberton and more.