[Rarebooks] FA: Washington State Bookplates -1927 book

Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA office at joslinhall.com
Thu Jun 8 06:41:01 EDT 2006


Newly listed on Ebay-

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  "WASHINGTON BOOKPLATES" by Frederick Starr. Published in Seattle in 1927. 
This is numbered "No.95" of an unspecified limited edition. 'Six Articles 
Reprinted from the Town Crier, 1925-26.'

An informative little book on Washington-state bookplates, based on a 
series of articles. The bookplates were, for the most part, created by 
Washington designers for Washington bibliophiles. Includes illustrations of 
the bookplates of George W. Fuller for himself; Mrs. Glenn Hughes' 
bookplate by Ambrose Patterson; Albert R. Lovejoy's bookplate by Mark 
Tobey; the Reverend Ambrose M. Bailey's bookplate by Winifred Ward; the 
bookplate Jessie Fisken designed for the Frances Skinner Edris Home; Olive 
Eden's bookplate by Annette Edens; Edward Godfrey Cox's bookplate for 
himself; S. Gano Fotheringham's bookplate for H.C. Henry; Roi Partridge's 
bookplate for Charles E. Shepard; the Reverend Herbert H. Gowen's 
bookplate, designed by a Chinese artist; the bookplate of Dr. S.B.L. 
Penrose, and the bookplates of the Rainier Club, the Women's University 
Club of Seattle, the University of Washington, and the Eels Northwest 
History Collection in the Library of Whitman College.

No reserve.

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