Eve, George William, 1855-1915 :[Bookplates made by the artist George William Eve for various persons, collected by David Graham. ca 1890-1910].

Arranged in boxes alphabetically according to the name of the person for whom the plate was made.

Contains plates made for:

W Bruce Bannerman (1900. Pictures a man in armour with a sword and flag. The flag is plain excepting a dark square in the top left corner containing a diagonal cross. Includes motto "pro patria")

Percy Neville Barnett (1914. Includes motto "spes mea in deo". Pictures an engraved heraldic shield quartered diagonally with a lion's head in the top quarter, and an armorial helmet with closed or fixed visor bearing a crown or coronet, and a muzzled bear at the crest) (2 copies)

Sir John Nicholson Barran ({Bt.} 1896. Includes motto "amor patriae". Armorial imagery includes a helmet with fixed visor and a turret or gatehouse at the crest. Heraldic shield depicts a muzzled bear and an upheld white hand)

Taille Bois (imagery includes an heraldic shield with a diagonal cross and 2 escallops, and a helmet with fixed or closed visor bearing a bull's head with wings as a crest [note that this is very likely related to another bookplate in this box, that of James Charles Getting])

Edward Bond (1905. Full text reads "Du bon du mon coeur; Mihi et Meis; Edward Bond. 1905")

Elizabeth Anne Bostock (1895. Pictured is a study or studio with a view over the sea, a bookshelf, an easel with a painting and palette and a viola or violin. Includes the motto "ars amora natura amici")

A H F Boughey (1905. Includes motto "nec quaerere nec spernere honorem". Pictures 2 fixed visored helmets facing each other, the crest of 1 being a spear head and the other a deer's head. Heraldic shield includes 5 deer heads and 6 arrows in flight)

Philip Wm. Poole Britton ({F.S.A.} includes motto "salut a tous". Pictures an armorial helmet with a fixed visor bearing a lion's paw as a crest, upon an heraldic shield depicting 2 lions, 2 stars with 6 points, and 3 turrets or gatehouses)

Charles John Philip Cave ([this name could alternatively read Charles Philip John Cave] 1902. Includes text "Cave Adsum". Pictured is an heraldic shield including a running collared hound and latticework pattern, atop of which is an armorial helmet with fixed visor, bearing a crest of a flower, possibly a daisy, upon which is a hound's head)

William Kyle Westwood Chafy ({of Rous Lench}{D D} 1899. Includes motto "fide et fidu cia". Pictured is a complex heraldic shield, atop of which is an armorial helmet with closed and possibly fixed visor, bearing a peacock as a crest) (2 copies)

James Frederick Chance (1895. Includes motto "deo non fortuna". Pictured is an heraldic shield quartered by a diagonal cross, 2 quarters depicting fleur-de-lis and 2 depicting turrets or gatetowers. Atop of this is a helmet with fixed visor, bearing as a crest a rearing lion with sword and foliage)

Frederici Arthuri Crisp ({S.A.S.} 1899. Includes motto "dum tempus habemus operemur bonum". Pictures a heraldic shield with a chevron and 5 horseshoes)

R E H D (1894. Includes motto "deo ducente". Pictures an heraldic shield with 3 circular wreaths and a grotesque face, possibly of a lion, atop of which is a helmet with fixed visor bearing a griffin-esque creature as a crest)

William Farrer (1897. Includes motto "ferre va ferme". Pictured is an heraldic shield with imagery of deer heads, horseshoes and acorns. Upon this are 2 helmets, 1 bearing a deer's head and 3 spear points as a crest, the other an acorn, a pair of wings and 3 horseshoes)

James Charles Getting (1904. Full text reads "Taille bois; James Charles Getting of Doughton Cottage; Ross-on-Wye. Co: Hereford". Pictured is an heraldic shield with a diagonal cross and 2 escallops, atop of which is a helmet with fixed visor bearing at the crest a bull's head with wings)

J W L Glaisher (full text reads "J.W.L. Glaisher Sc.D. Coll.SS.Trin.Cant. Soc. Ex Libris". Urn depicted at base of bookplate features mathematical symbols as decoration)

J J Howard (full text reads "credo christi cruce; Ex Libris J.J. Howard; L.L.D F.S.A; mal traver s herald [possibly intended as mal travers herald?]; Extra ordinary; SS SS; Dieu et mon droit". Pictured is an heraldic shield upon which is a helmet with fixed visor bearing a lion on hind legs as a crest)

Robert H Mackworth-Praed ({of Mickleham Downs, Surrey} 1901. Includes motto "gwell angau na cywilydd". Pictured is a heraldic shield divided into 20 parts with imagery including rearing lions, castles, spear points, chevrons, dog heads and crosses. Armorial helmet has a fixed visor and bears a wing at the crest)

Sir Reginald Pole-Carew ({of Anthony. Co: Cornwall. K.C.B} Includes motto "pollet virtus". Pictured are 2 heraldic shields, upon which is an armorial helmet with fixed visor bearing a rearing lion and spears at the crest. Both shields are enclosed by wreaths. Also pictured are 3 medals; 1 representing the title "K C B", Knight Commander of the Bath; 1 7 pointed medal with 7 stars and 7 crescents, possibly representing the Turkish "Order of Medjid"; 1 is a maltese cross in form with a crown and the word "Victoria")

George H Viner (1905. Includes motto "vi ner visque". Pictured is an heraldic shield including 2 black birds, upon which is an armorial helmet with a fixed visor bearing a armoured arm clasping a buckle in hand)

Quantity: 20 b&w art print(s) on bookplates..

Physical Description: Engravings, etchings

Provenance: Donated by David Graham in the 1950s.