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States: "Winslow + Anna Ames / 27.VI.31 / Fama Candida Rosa Dulcior [fame is sweeter than the white rose]"; depicts white rose surrounded by text. Winslow Ames was an art historian, museum director, and art collector. The text is the motto of the…

States: "Wild / Avance [advance]"; depicts coat of arms with chevron and three martlets, or birds, crest of a stag. Family coat of arms of the Wild family, Canterbury and Lewisham, county Kent.

States: "Wachsthum Und Stetigkeit [growth and continuity] Newton Hall Cambridge"; signature of J.S. in upper left-hand corner; depicts a coat of arms with four lions. Bookplate for Henry Walston, Baron Walston, (1912 - 1991) a farmer and politician…

States: "Vi et Virtute [by strength and valor] Thomas Earle White"; depicts coat of arms with three lions rampant and a chevron, crest of hand bearing roses. Personal bookplate for Thomas Earle White, a Philadelphia lawyer and founding member of the…

States: "This edition is limited to fifty copies. This is number 36. Compliments of Frank Gair Macomber; Date 12/1/28"; depicts a decorative border. This numbered and signed bookplate is from a privately published volume on the collection of Flemish…

States: "This book belongs to Arthur W. Kennard of Boston, Massachusetts. Reading maketh a full man"; annotated: "No. 202"; single-lined border. Personal bookplate or Arthur W. Kennard (1870-1937), a Boston jeweler and silversmith.

States: "The Groton Public Library Presented by Yssabella G. Waters"; annotated "discarded"; single-lined border. Library bookplate for The Groton Public Library.

States: "The Book of Phila Calder Nye No."; greek letters, decorative border with flowers. Personal bookplate for Phila Calder Nye, an art historian and one-time director of the Index of Christian Art.

States: "Still Am I Busie Books Assembling / For To Have Plentie Tis A Lovesome Thing / Ex Libris Morris J Cohen"; depicts multiple crests, flowers, snake, masks, gazelles, books and a scenic landscape; colored bookplate. Personal bookplate for…

States: "Smith College Library / Northampton Massachusetts / From The Library of / John Spencer Bassett / Professor of History / 1906-1928"; annotated: "withdrawn". Bookplate for John Spencer Bassett, Professor of History for Smith College. For…