Barrett, William Phillips, fl 1912: [Bookplates made by the artist W P Barrett for various persons, collected by David Graham. 19-- - 1950s]

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

Contains plates made for:

Ernest Ridley Debenham (1910. 2 identical bookplates))

Edward Granville Eliot (1908. Full text reads "Edward Granville Eliot and Clare his wife; Praecedentibus Insta". Heraldic imagery includes an elephant's head atop of a full faceplate helmet)

Reverendus Dominus Georgius Radulphus Fetherston ({Baronettus} 1908. Includes motto "Volens et Valens". Heraldic imagery includes 2 ostriches, a gazelle , 4 swallows in flight and a shield which bears 3 white feathers and a dark hand upheld on a white background in inset)

Robertson Lawson (1898. Includes mottoes "hac virtus mercede digna" and "dominus providebit". Included in the imagery is an inset of a castle near a stream and wood, several books bearing the titles "The Works of Sir W. Scott Bt.", "Shingto Irving" [possibly meaning Washington Irving], "Napoleon", "Longfellow" and "Burton's Scotland", and prominent in the floral border are thistle plants)

Charles Hesketh Fleetwood Hesketh (1911. Includes motto "quod tibi hoc alteri")

Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons ({Bart. of Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells} 1908. Includes motto "deo adjuvante". Note this bookplate is a "half-tone reproduction from the engraved plate")

Robert Hall (1902. Pictured is a study, with a cathedral in view through the window)

Reginald Nicholson (1898. Pictured is a chair before a fire and hearth, with books, a dog, a tennis racket, a gun and a dead pheasant among the objects around it. Note on back of bookplate reads "From Barrett's LV bookplates ...")

Royal Naval & Military Bazaar (1900. Full text reads "Honi soit mal y pense; Easiest soul to please, handy ashore, handy afloat; Look Sirs, my wounds I got them in my country's service; Dieu et mon droit; Royal Naval and Military Bazaar. June 1900; In aid of H.R.H. Princess Christian's homes for disabled soldiers and sailors". Depicted are 2 men with various military regalia and armourments, and an inset showing a large gunship and several smaller vessels at sea)

V Sackville-West (1903. Pictured is a large stately home or castle in an open park-like setting with deer and sheep, with the name "V Sackville-West" depicted as though part of a garden feature. Note on back of bookplate reads "Knoll Park")

Hans Sauer (includes motto "jamais abattu")

Mary Lothrop Sheridan (1901. Pictures a large stately home viewed through a window, across a lake or river. Includes the text "Silent companions of the lonely hour friends who can neither alter nor forsake". On a desk in the foreground lie several books, bearing the titles "Sheridan" and "Dutch Republic, Motley")

Isabel Somerset (1906. Includes motto "Sicut Flos inter Spinas". Pictured are trees in blossom)

Mary Emma Wilson (1900. Pencilled note on bookplate reads "Mrs Arthur Wilson")

Ellen Wharncliffe (1906. Pictured is a waterfall down a layered rock formation. Includes the text "To me the meanest flower that blows can give, Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears", quoted from Wordsworth. Bookplate also illustrates several books which bear the titles "Bentham's Flora", "Bicknels", "Botanical Tables" and "Sowerbys Wild Flowers")

Alfred Harmsworth (1903. Pictured is a brook and several books, 1 titled "The Complete Angler" by Izaak Walton)

Mary Hay (1898. Pictures a study or library interior with piano and the motto "esto sol testis" upon the wall. Collector notes owner's profession as "Author")

Christopher Head (1902. Includes motto "Study Quiet". Pictured is St Christopher carrying the Christ child across the river, and a heraldic shield with a white chevron and 3 pegasus heads)

Quantity: 19 b&w art print(s) on bookplates..

Physical Description: Engravings, etchings

Provenance: Donated by David Graham in the 1950s.