Clara T. Evans bookplate collection, circa 1740-1960-(bulk 1890-1940).
Collection Number: 8027
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Clara T. Evans bookplate collection, circa 1740-1960-(bulk 1890-1940).
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
8027
Abstract:
Bookplates from a variety of countries and time periods, mainly American and European.
Armorial and pictorial plates are included, as well as those consisting of portraits,
family crests, or mottoes.
Creator:
Evans, Clara Therese
Bird, Elisha Brown.
Blackburn, Oscar T.
Blank, F. C.
Evans, John William, 1855-
Fearing, Daniel B. (Daniel Butler), 1859-1918.
French, Edwin Davis, 1851-1906.
Fuhrmann, Otto W. (Otto Walter)
Hopson, William Fowler, 1849-1935.
Jones, Dan Burne.
Jordan, William, (Engraver)
Jameson, J. W.
McDonald, Arthur N.
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911.
Smith, Sidney Lawton, 1845-1929.
Smith, Ismael, 1886-1972.
Smith, Leslie Victor.
Spenceley, J. Winfred (Joseph Winfred), 1865-1908.
Stone, Wilbur Macey.
Webb, Margaret Ely.
Quanitities:
33 volumes.
Language:
Collection material in English
Clara Therese Evans (also known as Mrs. Hubert Evans) was evidently a staff member
at Ware Memorial Library, Columbia University, who collected bookplates. She corresponded
with numerous libraries, other collectors, and some artists in search of bookplates
to add to her collection.
Bookplates from a variety of countries and time periods, mainly American and European.
Armorial and pictorial plates are included, as well as those consisting of portraits,
family crests, or mottoes. Plates include engravings, etchings, lithographs, wood
engravings, woodcuts, watercolors, and photographs; styles include classical, imitation
Celtic, imitation Gothic, symbolist, cubist, art nouveau, and others. Bookplate designers
featured include Elisha Brown Bird, F.C. Blank, Oscar T. Blackburn, Daniel B. Fearing,
Edwin Davis French, Otto W. Fuhrmann, W.F. Hopson, Dan Burne Jones, William Jordan,
J.W. Jameson, Arthur N. McDonald, Sidney L. Smith, Ismael Smith, Leslie Victor Smith,
J. Winfred Spenceley, Wilbur Macey Stone, Margaret Ely Webb. The collection is only
partially organized, so every volume contains some bookplates that are extraneous
to its main focus. A few newspaper clippings, and letters to Mrs. Evans from various
libraries, other collectors, and artists, are interspersed with the bookplates.
Book owners whose bookplates are in the collection include Charles Dickens, David
Garrick, James Branch Cabell, Thomas Bird Mosher, book collector George A. Plimpton,
Winfred Porter Truesdell, William Whewell, and numerous institutions including Avery
Library, Columbia College (New York City), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ohio State
University, Bangor (Me.) Public Library, Harvard College Library, other library collections
at Harvard University, Princeton University Library, and the Grolier Club.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Clara T. Evans bookplate collection, #8027. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Whewell, William, 1794-1866.
Cabell, James Branch.
Mosher, Thomas Bird, 1852-1923.
Truesdell, Winfred Porter.
Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936.
Avery Library
Columbia College (New York, N.Y.)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library
Bangor Public Library
Harvard College Library
Harvard University
Grolier Club
Princeton University. Library
Subjects:
Book collectors.
Scenic bookplates.
Heraldic bookplates.
Bookplates.
Form and Genre Terms:
Armorial bookplates.
Bookplates.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Miscellaneous unmounted or unsorted plates
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Lesser nobility, Jacobean, 1700-1745; Chippendale, 1753-1773
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1600-1800 | ||
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Lesser nobility; also U.S. presidents (facsimiles), Charles Dickens, and David Garrick
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English bookplates: armorial, crests, portraits, pictorial (includes William Whewell)
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English pictorial plates, G-Y
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"Portrait plates" (actually mainly family crests); plates by English engravers
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Bookplates of French, Irish, and Scottish notables
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French, Bohemian, Belgian, German, and Italian plates
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Bookplates from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Japan, Norway, Russia, and Spain
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Bookplates of American statesmen, including facsimiles of the plates of Alexander
Hamilton and John Quincy Adams; also, plates of the New-York [Historical?] Society
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Early American bookplates, A-C, including Columbia College
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1700-1800 | ||
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Early American bookplates, D-J, and Harvard College bookplates, 1878-1901
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1700-1901 | ||
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Early American bookplates, McBride-Roosevelt
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Early American bookplates, S-W
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Modern American bookplates, A-B, including that of bookplate designer Elisha Brown
Bird, and several other bookplates designed by him
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1900-1930 | ||
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Modern American bookplates, C-Z, including plates designed by Oscar T. Blackburn and
F.C. Blank
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1900-1930 | ||
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Modern American bookplates, A-S (mainly B-C), including the plate of James Branch
Cabell
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Bookplates with ribbon and wreath motif; plain armorial plates
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1700s-1800s | ||
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Pictorial bookplates, including plates designed by John W. Evans and also Otto W.
Fuhrmann
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1890-1950 | ||
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Modern American plates (mainly H), including plates designed by W.F. Hopson
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1890-1950 | ||
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Miscellaneous modern American plates (mainly pictorial), including plates designed
by Dan Burne Jones, F.C. Blank, William Jordan, and J.W. Jameson
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1890-1950 | ||
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Modern American bookplates, mainly A and L-M, including the plate of Avery Architectural
Library at Columbia University
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1890-1950 | ||
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Bookplates designed by Arthur N. McDonald; modern American plates, including those
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Ohio State University Library
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1900-1930 | ||
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Modern bookplates, M-P, including that of publisher Thomas Bird Mosher
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1900-1930 | ||
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Modern bookplates, P-S, including plates designed by Howard Pyle
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1895-1930 | ||
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Modern American bookplates, including plates designed by Sidney L. Smith, Ismael Smith,
and Leslie Victor Smith. Includes draft and proofs of a plate by Sidney L. Smith;
also, several plates for Bangor (Me.) Public Library
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1890-1930 | ||
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Modern plates, mainly H and S-W, including plates for Harvard College Library; also,
proofs of a plate designed by Daniel B. Fearing
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1890-1930 | ||
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Two manuscript lists describing bookplate collections; modern American plates, A-H,
including plates designed by J.W. Jameson and J. Winfred Spenceley
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1890-1930 | ||
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Modern American plates, S-T, including plates designed by Wilbur Macey Stone
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1890-1930 | ||
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Modern American plates, U-W, including plates designed by Margaret Ely Webb; also,
erotic bookplates
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1890-1940 | ||
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Bookplates designed by Edwin Davis French, A-H, including plates for the Grolier Club
and Harvard University
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1890-1930 | ||
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Bookplates designed by Edwin Davis French, M-W, including plates for Princeton University
Library and Winfred Porter Truesdell
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1890-1930 | ||
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Modern American bookplates, including the plate of book collector George A. Plimpton,
and plates designed by Edwin Davis French
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1890-1930 | ||