A decorative border surrounds the bookplate's text. At center is a crest with an open book featuring the phrase Sapientia Legendo. Beneath this are three argent waves. Within the bottom half of the plate is text, which reads "A gift in memory of Harve...
Subject (Name):
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 and Public Library of Brookline
Subject (Topic):
Books, Libraries, Neurosurgeons, Shield, and Shields
Three women stand in a library; two converse as the third looks through the catalogue discussing the titles as the man behind the counter looks on as a dog lies curled up at her feet. A second man stands on a ladder reaching for a book; he has several...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 1, 1804 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A scene in a fashionable library with ladies and gentlemen conversing with attendants at the counters on either side. On the left a woman looks in a book while her male companion converses with a clergyman, as the woman behind the counter consults a b...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
R. Ackermann
Subject (Geographic):
Scarborough (England) and Great Britain,
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Interiors, Libraries, Books, Bookcases, Window displays, Light fixtures, Dogs, and Stores & shops
A drawing of three men in tunics with books with a series of buildings in the background. At the bottom is the quote "'The True University is a Collection of Books', Carlyle." Cowgill's name and address are applied with a rubber stamp. Cowgill was a f...
Subject (Name):
Cowgill, George R. and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Biochemists, Books, Buildings, Libraries, Medical colleges, Nature, and Yale University
Boston Public Library Streeter, Edward Clark, 1874-1947 Thomas Prince Library
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A drawing of a church on the left-hand side of the bookplate, and a portrait of Thomas Prince in the upper right-hand corner. A space below indicating "Shelf No." gives space to write a number.
A caduceus is at the center of the plate, with the letter "D" at the top and a closed book on both sides. Beneath, on a ribbon, is the phrase Ars et Scientia. Under the image is a space labeled "Gift of", and a line in which to write.
Subject (Name):
University of Pittsburgh, School of Dentistry Library
Subject (Topic):
Books, Caduceus, Dental schools, Libraries, Snakes, and University of Pittsburgh
At the center of the plate, beneath the title text, is the insignia of the University of Pennsylvania. Below are lines labeled "Class" and "Book", and lines in which to write.
Subject (Name):
University of Pittsburgh, School of Dentistry Library
Subject (Topic):
Dental schools, Libraries, Shield, and University of Pittsburgh
