Baja peninsula

Date: 1900 - 1960

From: The Graham Bookplate Collection; bookplates collected by David H Graham. [1500-1950s]

By: Cole, Timothy, 1852-1931; Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878; Evans, John William, 1855-; Hopson, William Fowler, 1849-1935; Junge, Carl Stephen, 1880-1934

Reference: BOOKPLATES-Graham-US-R/S

Description: Arranged in boxes alphabetically according to the name of the person for whom the plate was made. Contains plates made for: C S B R (1919. These initials could also concievably be read C S R B or C B S R ) O M R (initial of artist reads "A". Note on back of bookplate reads "Allan Lewis") Dr Samuel Radbill (name of the artist illegible. Pictured are cartoons of a baby boy and baby girl, and a staff entwined by a snake.) Dr Samuel H Radbill (also possibly Dr Samuel X Radbill. Name of the artist illegible. Pictured is a bearded doctor cutting the umbilical cord between a baby and it's mother. Pencilled in the top corner of the bookpage's mounting page are the initials "U R") Dr Samuel X Radbill (name of the artist illegible, possibly U K Florian. Pictured is a man in a robe holding a baby, behind which lies a woman in bed, having apparently just given birth to this baby) Rose Eliza Rales (by A F K, 1904) Marion Ransom (initials of the artist illegible, possibly "A" or "A L". Full text of the bookplate reads "Ex Libris; Marion Ransom; Edith Bridges" and it is unclear whether this is 2 people or whether Edith Bridges could possibly be a place name. It is filed under "Ransom" in keeping with the collector's original system) Benjamin Weiser Reed G F Reinhardt (initials of the artist illegible, possibly L W P or Z W P) Harold Reppert (3 bookplates; 2 are of identical image printed on different papers) Bertha Reynolds (by P K) Robinson (name of owner illegible, possibly Sf. E Robinson or H E Robinson) W F E Roelofson (by A W C, 1901. Includes emblem with the text "Immer Bereit" and a whip and riding spur) Gretta Gordon Brown Rowell (by Gretta B Rowell, 1922. Text reads "Ex Libris; Art Books of Gretia Gordon Brown Rowell". Pictured is a study or studio with a shelf of books, a painting of a child upon an easel, and paint brushes and palette) Mrs N H Reid (by Dreka. Full text reads "Dum Clavum Teneam; Ex Libris; Hannah Penn House; Presented by; Mrs. N. H. Reid") John E Russell (full text reads "John E. Russell. J.E.R. Del; M.T. Callahen, Sculpt". Note from collector attached dates the bookplate at 1890) Mabelle Rutherford Laurence Darby Ryan (by M H N, 1935. Full text reads "From among the Books and Maps of; Laurence Darby Ryan". Featured is a map of Baja Peninsula, Mexico, with placenames in Spanish) George Hope Ryder (full text reads "Ex Libris; New Jersey; New York; George Hope Ryder". Note on the back reads "Wood Eng. by John W Evans USA") William Lewis Sachse (pictures a stately building in front of which are several figures, a horse and rider and a horse and cart) Dean Sage (pictured is a fish, possibly a trout, a fishing rod and a landing net. Note from the collector attached reads "...an enthusiastic fisherman, and the author of a sumptuous volume on salmon-fishing in some of the Canadian Rivers. Mr sage uses this plate only in the books of his library which relate to the gentle art of Walton") Henry Kendall Sanborne (includes an emblem of 2 hands shaking within a black cross) Alfred Santell (full text reads "I am a heritage because I bring you years of thought and the lore of time - I impart yet I can not speak - I have traveled among the peoples of the earth - I am a rover - Oft-times I stray from the fireside of the one who loves and cherishes me - who misses me when I am gone - Should you find me vagrant please send me home - among my brothers - on the bookshelves of...Alfred Santell". Note on back of bookplate reads "Motion Pictures actor") Tyndall Savage (1915) Helen Virginia Sawler (by Junge, possibly Carl S Junge. Pictured is a woman holding an artist's palette and possibly a brush) H Adama van Scheltema (full text reads "Cogito, Ergo Sum; Ex Libris. bookfelloviensis; H. Adama van Scheltema") Ada Laurie Scherling Leonard J Schiff (pictured is a snake entwined around a staff. Behind it is a bookshelf with books bearing the titles "Gynecology", "Surgery", "General Pathology" and "Anatomy") Fred C Schlaich (by H S, possibly Howard Sill, 1891. Full text reads "Fred C Schlaich, Architect") Winfield Scott (note from the collector attached reads "Scott, Winfield [General] Of Virginia; The patriotic motto of the Scots of Whitislaid, Scotland, and well did the character of the man who used the bookplate coincide with its meanin [sic]. Plain armorial; Armore Patriae" [motto in fact reads "Amore Patriae") Lillian E Serbousek (picturing 2 white swans swimming) George Dudley Seymour (by W F Hopson, 1894. Full text reads "No.5; Captain Charles Churchill, hys house at Wethersfield in the colony of Connecticut in Newe England, 1760-1885; Ex Libris George Dudley Seymour; W F Hopson, N.H. 1894") James Porter Shaw Judy Sherman Julia Booth Sherman S L Shey (includes the text "Spring Grove" and a heraldic emblem in a diamond format including a rearing animal and 3 flowers, similar to daisies) Adam Hull Shirk (by P L) Edwin and Lucy Shore (by George Cruikshank. Bookplate illustration is a scene from the Charles Dickens novel "Oliver Twist", where Oliver accompanies 2 young thieves as they pick the pockets of a gentleman examining a book) Milton Henry Shutes M.D. (name of owner also possibly Henry Milton Shutes M.D.) Inez Stanley (possibly by Carl S Junge) Ruth Stark (by M Nelson, 1912) Helen J Stearns (picturing 2 women flanking a statue or mask of a large laughing face, printed on delicate filmy paper) Paula Stellwagon (picturing a lamp and spinning wheel) Constance Stephens J F Stevens Maureen Stewart Thomas Wheeler Stewart (includes the motto "Creag an Scairdh" and features a man wearing a kilt about the waist and shoulders with a girdle, and standing on a 3 tiered plinth) Arthur Robinson Stone (possibly by George M White, 1887. Picturing a book of sheet music, open at a page headed "Messiah au Oratorio; Largo; Part of Second") Ellery Stone (by M N, 1909) Emerson A Stoner Robt S Storey (initials of the artist illegible, possibly H E) J A Svengsbir (initials at base of illustration illegible, possibly C S A or C S R. Includes the motto "Atavis et Armis" and heraldic imagery similar to that of the bookplates of Alan Weaver Hazleton, also included in the Graham collection of American bookplates) George Selwyn Swarth Carolyn Patten Swett (by Timothy Cole) J B Swett (note from the collector attached reads "Sweet, J.B.[sic], John Barnard Sweet of Newbury, Mass; A symbolical [sic] plate, representing the profession of medicine...") Abbie M Sykes (picturing a large and prominent tree, possibly a fir or pine, against a wilderness setting) Quantity: 57 b&w art print(s) on bookplates.. Physical Description: Engravings, etchings