Bookplates (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Bookplates The genesis of the Bookplate must be sought afield. We are making up for lost time and promise soon to be in the van, thanks to the many brilliant stylists who now devote their art to the subject, but while we were still content with armorial bearings for these attractive symbols, and had not escaped the tyranny of couchant lions, rampant leopards and chimeras dire, other nations already began to see the humanity implicit in ex-libris, and the designs of Albert Durer, Hans Holbein and the "Little Masters" of Germany, though they still embrace coats and crests and mottoes, lead the way to fresher air and better ground. Our modern bookplates are now nearly free of the Herald's Office, and other extraneous influences, including the French style and convention, have been abandoned for more fluent beauty, humour and imagination. In fact, a happy future is dawning for these fine things, and the time must quickly come when no book-lover, worthy the name, can deny himself a work of art to link him with his book, long after his eyes shall read and his hands embrace it no more. We have already followed James Guthrie's admirable advice (than whom no man better understands what may become a bookplate), and "let go the coat-tails of our ancient heroes to do some wayfaring on our own account." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.