DOI Heft:
No. 36 (March, 1896)
DOI Artikel:White, Gleeson: Some recent book-plates
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0110
Some Recent Book-Plates
school. The trick of the enclosing white line to
detach a figure from a solid black background is
dangerous if overdone—just at present one grows a
little weary of its too frequent employment. The
employment of a seated girl reading has been com-
mented on above ; yet they are distinctly decorated
labels and not pictures in the added inscriptions,
whether both would not be improved by the
'■»■-
BOOK-PLATE BY W. B. MACDOUGALL
absence of the black rectangular framing line is an
open question; the lower one would certainly be
quite complete without it.
The Jane Hay plate by W. Brown Macdougall is
interesting and meritorious in its own way. Those
who remember this artist's work in The Evergreen
and elsewhere expect much from him, when he has
finally found himself. It is needless to observe
that in this there is a trace of the style of another
designer, one who has influenced, not always for
good, too many younger men. The fact that imita-
tion, be it ever so clever, is always less desirable than
BOOK-PLATE BY ARTHUR MAUDE
BOOK-PLATE BY ARTHUR MAUDE
97
school. The trick of the enclosing white line to
detach a figure from a solid black background is
dangerous if overdone—just at present one grows a
little weary of its too frequent employment. The
employment of a seated girl reading has been com-
mented on above ; yet they are distinctly decorated
labels and not pictures in the added inscriptions,
whether both would not be improved by the
'■»■-
BOOK-PLATE BY W. B. MACDOUGALL
absence of the black rectangular framing line is an
open question; the lower one would certainly be
quite complete without it.
The Jane Hay plate by W. Brown Macdougall is
interesting and meritorious in its own way. Those
who remember this artist's work in The Evergreen
and elsewhere expect much from him, when he has
finally found himself. It is needless to observe
that in this there is a trace of the style of another
designer, one who has influenced, not always for
good, too many younger men. The fact that imita-
tion, be it ever so clever, is always less desirable than
BOOK-PLATE BY ARTHUR MAUDE
BOOK-PLATE BY ARTHUR MAUDE
97