Collection of book-plates by Edwin Davis French and others.
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Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections South Hadley, MA
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collection
Lay, Helen Brainerd,
Biographical History for: Collection of book-plates by Edwin Davis French and others.
Biographical Note Helen Brainerd Lay, librarian. Sister-in-law of Edwin Davis French. Graduated Mount Holyoke Seminary and College in 1887.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The bulk of the book-plates were designed and engraved by Edwin Davis French and represent an almost complete collection of his work. In addition there is an almost complete collection of the work of Cleora Wheeler. Most of the rest of the book-plates are English and American although there are also examples from Italy, France (including the plate of Octave Uzanne) and Switzerland, along with plates of the Japanese designers K. Nakata and Yumimaro Ohmori probably from the 1930s. The American book-plates not by French have been identified using Allen's "Classified list of early American book-plates" whenever possible. The correspondence (<1896-1938>), both with Helen Brainerd Lay and with librarians at Mount Holyoke College, is from book-plate engravers and from other collectors.
Bookplates, American - Specimens.
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Bookplates.
Women's bookplates - Specimens.
Heraldic bookplates - Specimens.
Engravers.
Toys in bookplates.
French, Edwin Davis, 1851-1906.
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Wheeler, Cleora.
Allen, Charles Dexter, 1865-1926. Classified list of early American book-plates.
Bird, Elisha Brown.
Spenceley, J. Winfred, (Joseph Winfred), 1865-1908.
Hopson, William Fowler, 1849-1935.
Sherborn, C. W. (Charles William), 1831-1912.
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series
Book-plates Engraved by Edwin Davis French,, 1893-
This series consists of book-plates designed and engraved by French. The earliest plates, designed for his sister-in-law Helen Lay Brainerd, is dated 1893.
Unrestricted.
Book-plates Not by Edwin French,
This series consists of book-plates engraved by artists other than Edwin French Davis. Some are anonymous.
Anonymous - Plates of Colleges, Societies, Libraries.
Early American Book-plates, with citations to C. D. Allen
Plates by B. A. - Benrick
Plates by Elisha Brown Bird
Plates by F. C. Blank - George W. Eve
Plates by Geo. R. Halm - Hermann R. C. Hirzel
Plates by William F. Hopson
Plates by C. W. Sherborn
Plates by Irving Press - Rowell
Plates by B. E. S. - Sidney L. Smith
Plates by J. W. Spenceley
Plates by J. D. Stout - Harry F. Weyl
Plates by Cleora Wheeler
Periodicals, Catalogs, and Advertisements, 1894-1929
This series is comprised of 2 periodicals ("The Literary Review and Book Plate Collector" and "The Book-plate Booklet"), several catalogues of book-plate collections, and advertisements from Edwin Davis French, The Book Plate, Elisha Brown Bird, and others.
Periodicals: "The literary review and book plate collector" [v.1, no.1 (Nov. 1902)], "The book-plate booklet" [v.2, no.2 (May 1908)-v.2, no.4 (Nov. 1908) and v.3, no.3 (May 1910)-v.3, no.4 (Nov. 1910)]
Catalogues: "A classified list of early American book-plates ..." by Charles Dexter Allen (1894), "A list of book-plates engraved on copper by Mr. Edwin Davis French" (1899), Catalogue of a sale by the Anderson Auction Company of books and an extensive collection of bookplates (May 1908), "300 bookplates engraved by Edwin Davis French, 75 engraved by F. W. Spenceley ..." Heartman Auction (Feb. 1914), "A list of angling book-plates" by Daniel B. Fearing (1916), "A choice collection of modern and early American bookplates ..." Walpole Galleries (Feb. 1927) "Book-plates, books about bookplates, mainly American, including the work of Edwin Davis French ..." Walpole Galleries (Nov. 1927)
Advertisements: Edwin Davis French
Advertisements: The Book-Plate (E. L. Boyd)
Advertisements: Elisha Brown Bird
Advertisements: J. H. Elwell, Goodspeed's, etc.