BOOKPLATES
Book Description
GEORGE A. FOTHERGILL Bookplates. 1907 - 28.
Folio. 24 bookplates, 8 notepaper headings, 4 sheets of letter samples, 7 miscellaneous items including a Christmas card. All mounted in a full leather album, recently rebacked, each item mounted on a large sheet with extensive manuscript explanatory notes by the artist on the opposite page.
“The complete Collection of my Book-plates, eighteen [sic] in all, done by me during the years 1907 to 1928, together with designs for Note-paper headings, Initial Letters, a Testimonial, and 2 New Years’ cards & a Christmas Card (1929) George Fothergill.”
Dealer Notes
The artist’s record of his work including designs for his own bookplate, many signed in pencil, in some cases the examples are proof pulls of 3 or 5 copies. The extensive descriptions and explanations of the designs give testimony to the care he gave in finding the most appropriate image and his attention to detail.
The first bookplate, his own, with the motto “So Farre, No Farther” records “Although done for a book-plate, I do not think I ever had more than two or three prints pulled from the block. The same. however, was used for the inscription portion of a large plate entitled “A Curiosity of Heraldry, or George A. Fothergill riding his latest hobby.
The first bookplate, his own, with the motto “So Farre, No Farther” records “Although done for a book-plate, I do not think I ever had more than two or three prints pulled from the block. The same. however, was used for the inscription portion of a large plate entitled “A Curiosity of Heraldry, or George A. Fothergill riding his latest hobby.
Author
GEORGE A. FOTHERGILL
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