Author: HOWE, E.R.J. GAMBIER F.S.A.; COLVIN, SIDNEY (PREFACE)
Title: Catalogue of British and American Book Plates (Bookplates) Bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks - Franks Bequest: Volume III (Three/3) Only, S-Z, Supplements
Description: London: Printed By Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate of V.M. Turnbull inside front board suggests this copy may have belonged to the owner of the famous collection now held by the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. Bookplate of Hugh John McLean upon front free endpaper. [6], 387 pages. All six plates present. "Includes several minor and supplementary series, viz, one of about two hundred anonymous plates which it has not been found possible to identify; Royal plates; plates of Universities, Colleges and Schools; Premium or school-prize plates; plates of Ecclesiastical, Parochial, and Public Libraries; Naval and Military and Legal and Medical plates; with those of City Companies and Public Offices, Booksellers, and Circulating Libraries. The volume also furnishes notes of a few family plates supplementary to the main series: these have for the most part been discovered in and transferred from the Foreign portion of the testator's collection. Last comes a Heraldic Index to all those plates which, although anonymous, have been identified and inserted in their proper alphabetical places in the main collection." - from Preface. The entire catalogued Franks bequest contained 35,098 plates. Above-average wear to publisher's black cloth. Binding intact. Innumerable small light pencil marginal tick marks beside items of interest. Intriguing light pencil annotation beside item 32550A, a reproduction of a James Worsley plate, on page 319 reads "a copy of the original is in my collection", possibly adding further weight to the suggested provenance of this volume. Volume III only of this renowned three volume reference.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Catalogue of British and American Book Plates (Bookplates) Bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum - Franks Bequest: Volume III (Three/3) V.M. Turnbull Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge University Collections Collectors Reference Hugh John McLean S-. Fair .

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