DOI Heft:
No. 386 (May 1925)
DOI Artikel:[Studio-talk]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0287
LONDON—EDINBURGH
BOOKPLATE BY A.
G. LAW SAMPSON
Damianos represent young artists of real
promise. The pages from a Roll of Honour
by Miss B. Goldsmith are exercises in
delicate calligraphy which deserve sincere
commendation. 0000
We have pleasure in drawing our
readers' attention to the " Daily Tele-
graph's " prize competitions for garden
designs, full particulars of which may
be obtained from the Gardening Editor
of that paper, at Fleet Street, E.C.4.
Communications should be marked
" Garden Prizes" on the top left-hand
corner of the envelope. There are four
classes, and any amateur gardener in the
London district may compete. We wel-
come this interest in the aesthetic side
of everyday life by a daily paper, and
hope that in time its scope may be
extended. 0 a a a 0
EDINBURGH.—Within recent years
the popularity and designing of book-
plates has not received so much attention
in Great Britain as it has in America and
Germany ; while in France perhaps the
book-cover takes first place. Many of her
book-cover artists have made the books
they have embellished more sought after
on account of their binding designs than
any rarity regarding the writer of their
contents. One unique instance of this was
notable at the sale of the Vicomte de la
Croix-Laval's collection, in which all the
books were catalogued under the name of
the bookbinder and not that of the author.
But to trace the origin of the bookplate
one must seek it as a growth from the
coat-of-arms and its significance, though
nowadays the majority of the designs are
very varied in their symbolical motives as
well as in their purpose. Amongst de-
signers in Scotland few could be found
more competent to be entrusted with work
of a true traditional character than Mr.
A. G. Law Sampson, heraldic designer and
official heraldic writer to the Court of the
Lord Lyon, Edinburgh. Two examples of
his bookplate designs are here reproduced,
while other notable and similarly charac-
teristic expressions of his art include
stained glass, seals, embroidery and various
illustrations for heraldic publications. 0
E. A. T.
BOOKPLATE BY A.
G. LAW SAMPSON
28l
BOOKPLATE BY A.
G. LAW SAMPSON
Damianos represent young artists of real
promise. The pages from a Roll of Honour
by Miss B. Goldsmith are exercises in
delicate calligraphy which deserve sincere
commendation. 0000
We have pleasure in drawing our
readers' attention to the " Daily Tele-
graph's " prize competitions for garden
designs, full particulars of which may
be obtained from the Gardening Editor
of that paper, at Fleet Street, E.C.4.
Communications should be marked
" Garden Prizes" on the top left-hand
corner of the envelope. There are four
classes, and any amateur gardener in the
London district may compete. We wel-
come this interest in the aesthetic side
of everyday life by a daily paper, and
hope that in time its scope may be
extended. 0 a a a 0
EDINBURGH.—Within recent years
the popularity and designing of book-
plates has not received so much attention
in Great Britain as it has in America and
Germany ; while in France perhaps the
book-cover takes first place. Many of her
book-cover artists have made the books
they have embellished more sought after
on account of their binding designs than
any rarity regarding the writer of their
contents. One unique instance of this was
notable at the sale of the Vicomte de la
Croix-Laval's collection, in which all the
books were catalogued under the name of
the bookbinder and not that of the author.
But to trace the origin of the bookplate
one must seek it as a growth from the
coat-of-arms and its significance, though
nowadays the majority of the designs are
very varied in their symbolical motives as
well as in their purpose. Amongst de-
signers in Scotland few could be found
more competent to be entrusted with work
of a true traditional character than Mr.
A. G. Law Sampson, heraldic designer and
official heraldic writer to the Court of the
Lord Lyon, Edinburgh. Two examples of
his bookplate designs are here reproduced,
while other notable and similarly charac-
teristic expressions of his art include
stained glass, seals, embroidery and various
illustrations for heraldic publications. 0
E. A. T.
BOOKPLATE BY A.
G. LAW SAMPSON
28l