DOI Heft:
No. 48 (March, 1897)
DOI Artikel:White, Gleeson: Some recent book-plates, mostly pictorial
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0122
Some Recent Book-plates
f MARIE-CLAUSEN-
hands in this bye-way of decoration, which will
show that there are several young designers endowed
with graceful fantasy and a faculty for pleasant
decoration. Especially is this true of some ex libris
by Mr. Byam Shaw and Mr. Alfred Jones, which
are unavoidably held over until a more convenient
opportunity.
But the only Conclusion each really good plate
forces one to arrrive at, is that it is the artist alone
who makes a book-plate worth anything, and it is
BOOK-PLATE BY A. K. WOMRATH
cannot be all illustrated here, but in future numbers
reproductions will be given of others by less familiar
BOOK-PLATE BY MARIE JACOUNCHIKOFF
only because a few real artists do now and again de-
vote themselves seriously to it, that it escapes being
relegated to the position of a mere hobby, and,
moreover, can occasionally be considered on its
REBUS BOOK-PLATE
(See page 114)
own merits as a design—a point of view that the
average book-plate could never occupy.
BOOK-PLATE BY A. K. WOMRATH GLEESON WHITE.
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f MARIE-CLAUSEN-
hands in this bye-way of decoration, which will
show that there are several young designers endowed
with graceful fantasy and a faculty for pleasant
decoration. Especially is this true of some ex libris
by Mr. Byam Shaw and Mr. Alfred Jones, which
are unavoidably held over until a more convenient
opportunity.
But the only Conclusion each really good plate
forces one to arrrive at, is that it is the artist alone
who makes a book-plate worth anything, and it is
BOOK-PLATE BY A. K. WOMRATH
cannot be all illustrated here, but in future numbers
reproductions will be given of others by less familiar
BOOK-PLATE BY MARIE JACOUNCHIKOFF
only because a few real artists do now and again de-
vote themselves seriously to it, that it escapes being
relegated to the position of a mere hobby, and,
moreover, can occasionally be considered on its
REBUS BOOK-PLATE
(See page 114)
own merits as a design—a point of view that the
average book-plate could never occupy.
BOOK-PLATE BY A. K. WOMRATH GLEESON WHITE.
Il8