Dated Book-Plates (Ex Libris), with a Treatise on Their Origin and Development [Bookplates]

London: A. & C. Black, 1895. Large Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Loss to spine, spine panels loose but still holding, boards stained, hinges broken, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1895 Large Hardcover. 225 pp. With about 100 illustrations. CONTENTS: Introductory--How to Collect, Preserve, Identify, and Arrange Book-Plates - Apology for Collecting - Notes on Armorial Bearings and Tinctures in Heraldry; German Ex Libris; French Ex Libris--History, and Notes on French Heraldry; Styles of English Book-Plates: Early English, or Early Armorial - Jacobean - Chippendale - Allegorical - Wreath and Ribbon, Festoon - Urn. Landscape - Seal Book-Plates - Rebus, Canting Arms, and Mock Heraldry - Portrait Book-Plates - Book-Pile, Library Interior, and Literary Book-Plates; American Book-Plates; Hints on Selecting a Book-Plate; Early Mention of Book-Plates; Arbitrary Dates, and Doubtful Plates; Dated Book-Plates; Book-Plates of the Eighteenth Century: Engravers - Inscriptions - Styles - The Beaded Frame Design; French Ex Libris of the Eighteenth Century; A Few Notes on American Book-Plates of the Eighteenth Century: American Engravers of the Eighteenth Century; Book-Plates of the Nineteenth Century: Modern Designers and Engravers - Plates of Celebrities - Series of Book-Plates - To All Whom It May Concern - German and Swedish Book-Plates of the Nineteenth Century - Conclusion; Table of Dated Book-Plates before 1700; Table of Dated Book-Pates of the Eighteenth Century; Table of Dated Book-Plates of the Nineteenth Century, to 1895: Additions and Corrections - Index to Tables of Dated Book-Plates.