American book-plates a guide to their study with examples ... With a bibliography by Eben Hewins ... 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. by Charles Dexter Allen Published in 1905, The Macmillan Company (New York) American book-plates Charles Dexter Allen Change Cover Read Online Contributions: Hewins, Eben Newell., Norwood Press. works: American book-plates Source records: Internet Archive: plat00alleamericanbookrich Language: English Pagination: xiv, 437 p. Subject: Bookplates, American Bookplates — Bibliography

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	Name-labels and mottoes.
	Armorial book-plates.
	Pictorial and allegorical book-plates and plates of colleges, libraries and societies.
	Book-plates of special interest.
	Early American book-plate engravers, with lists of their work.
	An alphabetical list of early American book-plates.
	A chronological list of the dated plates.
	An alphabetical list of the signed plates.
	List of mottoes.
	A few recent examples.
	American collectors and collections.
	Ex-libris societies.
	Bibliography (American [by E.N. Hewins]; English [by H.W. Fincham and J.R. Brown; reprinted from the Journal of the Ex-libris society]; French [by W. Hamilton; reprinted from his "Handbook of French book-plates"])