Example of an Abraham Bracebridge bookplate. Black and white image of a herald. Below herald is the motto "Be As God Will" followed by Bracebridge's name. The bookplate can be found in The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Landsdowne, written by George…
Example of an Alexander J. and Rosalia P. Isaacs bookplate. Black and white with decorative border and animals at the bottom. Bookplate can be found in The Poems of Mr. Gray by Thomas Gray.
Example of an Alice G.C. Clark bookplate. Black and white herald. Bookplate can be found in Metrical Tales and Other Poems by Samuel Lover.
Example of a Charles Edmund Merrill Jr. bookplate found in a 1923 copy of Sherwood Anderson's Horses and Men: Tales, Long and Short, from Our American Life.
Example of Charles MacA. Willcox bookplate. Black and white image of a room with books and statue on desk. Motto at the top reads: "Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye Have Left Your Souls on Earth!" Bookplate can be found in Cobwebs from an Empty Skullby Ambrose Bierce.
Example of a Charles Vere Dashwood Esq. bookplate. Black and white herald motif with floral decoration around herald. Bookplate can be found in The Adventures of David Simpleby Sarah Fielding.
Example of a Harlan Ellison bookplate. Black and white image of a naked man standing on top of an open book with a rocket flying toward the sky. Bookplate can be found in an 1887 copy of Jules Verne's A Trip Round the World in a Flying Machine.
Example of a Harold Glendon Steele bookplate. Gold coloring image of a naked man kneeling. Above the man is the motto: "Become what you are." Bookplate can be found in Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin.
Example of James Robert Bashore Jr. bookplate. Black and white image of comedy and tragedy masks with two hands.
Example of a John Morgan bookplate. Black and white image with motto around the border. Motto reads: "The house the Lord builds not we vainly strive to build it." Images also includes a house with angels building it. Bookplate can be found in The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Example of Lila Vanderbilt Field's bookplate. White and black with flowers and herald motif. Bookplate can be found in Samuel Butler's The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler.
Example of an Edith Helen, Marchioness of Londonderry bookplate. Bookplate includes image of Marchioness with two mottoes "Prest d'accomplir" and "Non Domini nostri sed duces." Bookplate found in La Rouchefoucauld's 1902 edition of Maximes.