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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
THE SOCIETY'S CALENDAR FOR 2012
Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 2pm Auction 65
In addition to the auction items, participants often bring their duplicate bookplates for sale.
Results for Auction 64 can be found in the Members Area (link at top of this page}, where the list for the April auction has been posted.
Wednesday, 20 June 2012 at 2pm Visit to the Library of the Middle Temple.
Further to her article in The Bookplate Journal (Autumn 2011), Renae
Satterley, Senior Librarian, hosts our June meeting at the Middle Temple Library, Middle Temple Lane, London EC4Y 9BT, a short walk from Temple underground station.
Please contact the Secretary by 1 June if you wish to attend. Prior to the meeting we plan to have lunch in the hall. There will be a charge for lunch and numbers
will be limited, confirmed on a first come, first served basis.
Saturday, 29 September 2012 at 2pm Auction 66
Saturday, 1 December 2012 at 2pm Auction 67
Please note that (except for the June visit) we now meet at:
22 Endell Street (office of PR Consolidated), London WC2H 9AD.
This is located very close to Covent Garden Underground Station.
Click here to see map.
DOMINIC WINTER AUCTION OF EUROPEAN EXLIBRIS ON 9 NOVEMBER 2011
Dominic Winter Book Auctions (of Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Near Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQ) were selling a collection of Continental European ex-libris, formed by our onetime members Walter (1913-96) and Alice Schwab.
Given a pre-sale estimate of £10,000-15,000, with a reserve higher than any would-be purchaser was willing to pay, no sale was made at the auction. The catalogue
description was as follows: Lot 562: Bookplates. An important private collection of 2,371 20th-century European bookplates or Ex Libris, including work by Artur Bar, Hermann Bauer, Alfred Cossmann, Michel Fingesten,
Willi Geiger, Walter Helfenbein, Luigi Kasimir, Oskar Kokoschka, Alois Kolb, Adolf Kunst, Jaroslav Marik, Martin Philipp, Alfred Soder, Endre Vadasz and many others, many signed, all in fine condition,
and contained in twenty-one uniform Plymouth stamp albums, bound in mock black leather, with matching slipcases, a little rubbed, 4to. A fine collection of over 2000 European Ex libris,
by artists from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Hungary, France and elsewhere, many of which are signed in pencil.
A complete listing of the bookplates offered is available in these two files: A to K. and L to Z.
Two members of the Society have subsequently been able to negotiate the purchase of this collection for about half the mid estimate.
BOOKPLATE TALK BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO SCOTLAND
Bookplates were one of the topics broadcast on 12 January 2009 by BBC Radio Scotland in its programme The Book Café, hosted by
Clare English. Prompted by an exhibition at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (see below), she talked about bookplates with Robert Betteridge,
Rare Books Curator at the National Library of Scotland, and with our American member Lew Jaffe of Philadelphia. It is no longer possible to listen online,
but to read our transcription of this section of the broadcast Click Here.
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
INDEX TO THE BOOKPLATE JOURNAL, SECOND SERIES
The first index to the New Series Bookplate Journal is largely complete and cover the years 2003-2008.
It will automatically be sent to all current subscribers. We anticipate publishing this midway through 2012.
THE BOOKPLATES OF MISS C HELARD
As the members book for the two years 2011/2012, our Chairman, Colin Lattimore has researched the many fine heraldic ex-libris designed
by Miss Helard. Her real name was Mary Ellen Blanche Crookes (1870-1935), who in 1901 married the well-know heraldic authority and author Sir Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. All
aspects of her ex-libris work are covered, with a checklist and about 150 illustrations. The text is completed, and we hope to issue this to members in the second half of 2012. A special edition is
planned, in just 20 copies, cloth bound, and containing original ex-libris tipped in. Contact the Secretary if you wish to reserve a copy. Biographical details of Sir Arthur
can be found in Wikipedia
PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS
WINTER 2011/2012 ISSUE OF THE BOOKPLATE SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
Our Newsletter is printed and will be mailed by end-January.
AUTUMN 2011 ISSUE OF BOOKPLATE JOURNAL
Our journal now carries Spring and Autumn on the cover in place of March and September, and our aim is to mail these to subscribers in April
and October. Six articles occupy two-thirds of this issue: Bryan Welch asks: Did Linley Sambourne design any bookplates? John Blatchly writes about Florence Amy Clarke: a privileged and discerning
short-term collector. A Wodehouse bookplate and its designer is W.E. Butler's topic. Renae Satterley examines Bookplates in the library of the Middle Temple. Bryan Welch looks at the ex-libris of
William Ewart Gladstone: from the Temple of Peace to the Gladstone Library. Lastly, the work of Stanley Reece bookplate designer and artist is celebrated by the editor, Peter Youatt. In addition there
are Notes on half a dozen subjects: Darley Addenda; Thomas Oughtibridge /Barlow /Browne; Edmund Blampied; an Anglo-American label for David Hoffman; Railway bookplates; Gothic Revival plates; and
Paul Lemperley's label by ED French.
SUMMER 2011 ISSUE OF THE BOOKPLATE SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
Our Newsletter now has Summer and Winter as cover dates in place of June and December, and we aim to get the mailing out in January and July/August.
For the Summer 2011 issue our timing has slipped a little - it was mailed to members on 2 September.
SPRING 2011 ISSUE OF BOOKPLATE JOURNAL
Peter Youatt's fourth journal as editor is now with the printers. We hope that copies will be available at the meeting on 16 April.
Again it promises a good range of varied and well illustrated articles: Bill Butler offers an extensive biography of Peter Stephen du Ponceau and illustrates his bookplates, John Blatchly investigates the bookplate work of 18th century
print shop owner and engraver Matthias Darley, John Titford recounts his researches into two bookplate challenges, and Bryan Welsh discusses the library and bookplate of Sir Richard Francis Burton. In the
next 20 pages are a dozen or more notes and queries, with topics including William Hopson, an elusive bookpile, Stamford keepsakes, Double Agents, and a bookplate by the Gregynog Press.
BOOKPLATE JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 2010
With the reopening in September 2010 of Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, the former home of Horace Walpole, this issue carries
a well-timed article by Bryan Welch on Walpole bookplates; Celia H. Austin writes about the bookplate work of etcher J.R.Granville Exley; John Blatchly reveals George Bailey of Derby as the
engraver of a fine set of 19th century armorial and pictorial ex-libris; and Peter Youatt illustrates bookplates at Arundel Castle, owned by the Duke of Norfolk and his family. Various notes,
questions and answers then follow.
BOOKPLATE JOURNAL, MARCH 2010
My Ladye Nevells Booke is the title of John Harley's contribution describing a music manuscript acquired in
2006 by the British Library and containing a fine heraldic painted bookplate pre-1626. Peter Allpress writes on Some Aspects of Ecclesiastical Heraldry as illustrated by
ex-libris. Bookplate work by Bristol engraver John Ames is recorded by John Blatchly. Anthony Trollope's bookplates are investigated by Bryan Welch. We publish an article
written by the late Brian North Lee on Bookplates reflecting the Gothic Revival in England, and the final pages are devoted to short notes on several bookplates of interest,
including a wood-engraving by Keith Vaughan for publisher John Lehmann.
BOOKPLATE JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 2009
The three main articles in this number are:
John Blatchly writing about William Milton, Engraver of Bristol, a previously unpublished piece by the late Brian North Lee on Some British bookplates made for use overseas,
and the work of William Henry Toms, Engraver and Copper-plate Printer chronicled by Edward Potten. A variety of notes cover E.D. French's bookplate for the Union League Club,
Charlton of Ludford, Winifred Lindsay Scott's manuscript ex-libris, Irish Jacobeans V, Jacob Skinner in London and more on his Bath period, Discovering Mr Baker, The Frederick Starr
collection of Mexican bookplates, More on the bookplate of Hugh Oswald Short, Caroline Newton's bookplate, The Wedgwood Library, and some Questions and Answers from correspondents.
The issue concludes with a report on The Society's Summer Outing.
MARCH 2009 ISSUE OF BOOKPLATE JOURNAL
Regrettably this journal was two and a half years late, as the result of serious illness. We apologise for this long delay. It has now been mailed
to members who subscribed for the year 2009. We reprinted the British section of Gleeson White's 1898-9 Special Winter Number of The Studio, which was devoted
to Modern Book-Plates, to which an index is added. There is a short biography of writer on art Gleeson White (1851-1898), his last essay, an article on the bookplates designed by him,
and further pieces on the artists and designers whose bookplate work has, over the years, appeared in The Studio.
BOOKPLATE JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 2008
This issue has four main articles: John Blatchly gives a comprehensive view of the Bath
engravers Jacob Skinner and William Hibbart, active in the 1730s and 1740s; the Ex-libris of William Stewart Bishop of Aberdeen is discussed by
Alastair Cherry; Paul Latcham elaborates on the links between Bookplates and Chinese Armorial Porcelain; and John Blatchly catalogues Square
fleuron-bordered labels from Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds. In the Notes section are mentioned the bookplates of Arthur Troyte Griffith,
additional Brownlowe and Cust family plates, Charles Stewart Rolls, Hugh Oswald Short, and Blayney and other Baldwyns, and much more.
THE MEMBERS' BOOK FOR 2007-2008 EAST ANGLIAN EX-LIBRIS, by John Blatchly
This sequel to the author's Some Suffolk and Norfolk Ex-Libris, 2000, is printed and is about to be issued
to members with our June 2008 Newsletter. Those who are members for only one of the two years 2007-08 may purchase a copy by paying £10.
BOOKPLATE JOURNAL, MARCH 2008
Peter Hoare writes at length about
The Brownlowes and Custs of Belton House, Lincolnshire and their bookplates, and John Blatchly tells us all about Thomas Oughtibridge (c1702-56),
engraver of Hatfield near Doncaster, and London. Included amongst a wealth of notes is information about: watercolour ex-libris by Bowdler;
The Inspector General of Insane; bookplates for Daniel Beaumont, CJ Shoppee, TN Dick-Lauder, R Effinguer de Wildek, Ducarel, Richard Wilk(e)s;
and work by engravers Nathaniel Kettle, Michael Burghers, Culleton, ED French, JAC Harrison.
BOOKPLATE JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 2007
Paul Latcham has researched the work of 18c. engraver William Bowley of Shrewsbury; Alastair Cherry writes
about the bookplate of the Scots College, Paris; Simon Brett tells us of his recent wood-engraved ex-libris; Edward Law studies bookplates in an Irish provincial library; and
Georgia Barnhill describes the bookplate collection at the American Antiquarian Association. Other topics include a unique Charles I bible plate, bookplates in
fiction, Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo, and the bookplate of Cecil Rhodes. Several queries and a book review are followed by an obituary of Brian North Lee.
BOOKPLATE JOURNAL, MARCH 2007
This contains three main articles: (1) John Blatchly, Two London bookplate engravers c1730-60: Charles
Gardner and John Clark (2) Edward Potten, The bookplates of the Winn family of Nostell Priory and the Strickland family of Boynton Hall (3) Brian North Lee: Five
Irish woodcut Chippendale armorials. Various notes include details of the work of Culleton, heraldic stationer, and John Blatchly's address at the funeral of Brian
North Lee (1936-2007). It was posted to members (rather late - our apologies) on 10 May 2007.
THE MEMBERS' ANNUAL BOOK FOR 2006
is a collaboration between the late Brian North Lee and Sir Ilay Campbell on Scottish Bookplates.
The extensive introduction is followed by a selection of representative examples - these are all illustrated and their history described. 144 pages;
247 illustrations. Soft cover. It has now been mailed to all members (non-UK members will receive it with the March journal).
THE MEMBERS' ANNUAL BOOK FOR 2005
is a detailed review by our Journal editor, Paul Latcham, of bookplates
in the trophy style. Details are given on our Publications page.
BOOKPLATE JOURNAL, MARCH 2006
As main articles we have Brian Lee discussing rare modern British exlibris, Brian Schofield writing about
the Charles Hall Crouch collection bequeathed to the Society of Antiquaries, Sir Ilay Campbell investigating the lairds of Abercairney,
John Blatchly on the stencilled exlibris, and Ed Potten reporting on the National Trust cataloguing project. A dozen notes in this issue
range far and wide, including a gallows bookplate and the problem of gift or homage bookplates. Queries and answers are followed by a book
review and an obituary of Audrey Arellanes.
BOOKPLATE JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 2005
has Edward Potten's researches into the bookplates of the Egerton and Tatton
families of Tatton Park and Wythenshawe Hall; details by Brian Smith of John Dougharty of Worcester; The Trafalgar
bicentenary - some relevant bookplates by Peter Allpress; A much bookplated Irish earl, by John Blatchly; Miss Maria Jenkins - bibliophile
of Clifton (1791-1858), by Anthony Pincott; and An early Scottish ex-libris - Alexander Mylne and the Cambuskenneth missal, by Alastair Cherry.
BOOKPLATE JOURNAL, MARCH 2005
contained as its leading article a comprehensive study by John Blatchly on the
Cambridge engraver William Stephens. A second feature article covers the modern bookplates engraved on copper by Stanley Reece, and is
followed by a host of notes and information about exlibris of all periods in a range of styles.
THE MEMBERS' ANNUAL BOOK FOR 2004
was about the bookplates of Church of England parochial and cathedral libraries,
by Brian North Lee.
BOOKPLATE JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 2004
has an extensive study by Brian Lee of 18th century woodcut or soft metal
armorials with particular attention given to the engraver Francis Hoffman. Edward Potten writes about the bookplates
of the Grey and Booth families of Dunham Massey and Enville Hall, and Ian Jackson's piece is entitled
'Ever learning, ever dying' (The motto used by Anatole de Montaiglon on his ex-libris -
'De jour en jour en apprenant mourant').
BOOKPLATE JOURNAL, MARCH 2004
contained as its leading article a ground-breaking
paper giving a biography of Miss Sarah Sophia Banks, early ephemera, coin and bookplate collector. She was the sister of Sir Joseph Banks, the celebrated
naturalist and President of the Royal Society. The two other main articles provided an overview of the work and bookplates of 18th century engraver William Austin, and
a discourse on some bookplates of men who fought at Waterloo. Also in this issue: notes, queries and book reviews.
EARLIER ISSUES
- A listing of the main contents of Bookplate Journal is given here.
DETAILED INDEX TO THE BOOKPLATE JOURNAL, FIRST SERIES, 1983-2002
These files record the contents of the First Series, which comprised 40 issues of
Bookplate Journal. See the first file for Notes to Users of this Index.
Index of Names A to D
Index of Names E to H
Index of Names I to P
Index of Names Q to Z
Index of Author and Title
BRIAN NORTH LEE (1936-2007)
Three years have passed since the death of our Past-President, Brian North Lee FSA, who had such a great influence on the history of our Society. He died on Saturday, 24 February 2007 as a
result of bowel cancer. He was 70 on 27 December 2006.
HIS OBITUARY NOTICE OF 5 MARCH 2007
is reproduced here by kind permission of The Independent.
On the FISAE website are some further memories.
Renowned for his knowledge of British bookplates and for his extensive output of
books and articles on the subject over more than thirty-five years, he was pre-eminent in this field, signally eclipsing Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks and
Julian Marshall, both leading collectors over a century ago, as well as George Heath Viner (1865-1955), none of whom wrote much on the subject.
His last book, SCOTTISH BOOKPLATES, written jointly with Sir Ilay Campbell, Bt. was published by the Society in 2007. Further memories of him are given in the September 2007 issue of Bookplate Journal.
BRIAN NORTH LEE'S BOOKPLATES
Bonhams of New Bond Street, London auctioned the residue of Brian Lee's bookplates on 13 November, 2007. So very much of his collection was sold off to favoured friends during his
last years that the (well picked-over) residue and its method of lotting were largely a disappointment to most collectors. An alphabetical sequence of some 4,900 British bookplates realised a total
of £9,600. Collections of Indian and West Indian fetched £1,800 and £2,200 respectively. A unique silver Charles II Bible Plate sold for £1,200, and seventeen albums
of material (including photos and letters) of British and Foreign Royalty achieved £6,200. With other lots, a total of nearly 9,000 bookplates sold for £29,180 (all figures before adding 23.5% buyer's premium).
Some bookplates bequeathed by Brian Lee to The Bookplate Society were sold in December, 2007, and more were offered on 6 December 2008 at our third auction for that year.
We can offer a few
items for direct sale - See here.
These are in addition to the several hundred bookplates already available for sale to members (for access details see notice on page 26 of the Directory of Members, or write to the Membership Secretary).
IN MEMORIAM - FRANK MARTIN (1921-2005)
With the death of Frank Martin we have lost an accomplished wood engraver, though
his other interests meant that he produced only a couple of dozen bookplates. Brian North Lee has written a short appreciation which appears
on the FISAE website. An obituary in The Times online is to be found here.
IN MEMORIAM - AUDREY ARELLANES (1920-2005)
An outstanding contributor to American bookplate literature is also gone. She is described
as "one of the giants" of the bookplate world who "took the trouble to attend ex-libris congresses and meetings far and wide, and her character was such that she made
many friends". Her Year Books, ABCD&E Newsletter and her bibliography of bookplate periodical literature were all the products of great devotion.
The appreciation written by Bill Butler and Brian North Lee can be found on the FISAE website.
The Czech artist Joseph Liesler (1912-2005) and Italian collector
Remo Palmirani (1943-2005) are also remembered.
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