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A CLASSIFIED LIST OF EARLY AMERICAN BOOKPLATES WITH A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL STYLES AND NOTES AS TO THE PROMINENT ENGRAVERS.
Allen, Charles Dexter

- New York : The Grolier Club 1894 - tall 12mo. - stiff paper wrappers - 38 pages with 22 pages of bookplates. - ISBN none / Order Nr. 65108 - Price: $ 35.00

First edition, issued for the club. (Asaf 18; Fuller p.21). Also contains an exhibition catalogue devoted to bookplates issued by the Caxton Club in 1898. Loosely inserted is an invitation to the opening of the exhibition at the Grolier Club and an engraved bookplate extending the invitation. Covers foxed.

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DEUTSCHE KUNST UND DEKORATION. Early volumes in this periodical which eventually merged into Die Kunst after volume 72. With much on art nouveau. Some of the separate plates are in full color. Spines faded with wear. Front hinge of volume 2 broken.