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States: "Ex Libris"; depicts an opened book which reads "May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books - Carlyle." Mass production bookplate. Quote from Thomas Carlyle.

States: "Intrepidus [fearless]"; depicts a colorful coat of arms that has a blue glove on white beneath two lion's heads on green, with a crest of a winged lion's head.

States: "Inter Folia Fructus [among the leaves fruit]/ Ex Libris Harris C. Fahnestock New York"; depicts a female nude leaning on a stele filled with classical symbols of the arts and knowledge. signed with monogram 'SW.' Harris C. Fahnestock was a…

States: "Ex Libris"; annotated: "Blanche M. Harnan"; depicts a flying horse in the night sky; decorative border. Personal bookplate for Blanche M. Harnan. Personal bookplate for Blanche M. Harnan. Blanche M. Harnan was the founder of the Seattle…

States: "Maxwell Steinhardt/R.K."; depicts a man under a tree reading. Personal bookplate for Maxwell Steinhardt designed by Rockwell Kent. Carl Zigrosser, in Rockwellkentiana (Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1933), listed Steinhardt among the major…

States: "Ex Libris Blanche Harnan"; depicts a house, opened book, candle, trees. Personal bookplate for Blanche M. Harnan. Blanche M. Harnan was the founder of the Seattle Ceramic Society in 1940, a society dedicated to the collection of…

States: "John Quinn/JBY"; depicts a landscape with mountains, a road, a horse-drawn vehicle, several figures, a house or other building, and a stone wall. Personal bookplate for John Quinn by artist Jack "John" Butler Yeats. John Quinn was a New York…

States: "Omnia Libertate Ex Libris Petri Tempels Bruxellensis"; depicts a coat of arms with the compass and square of freemasonry, supported by an olive branch and a woody branch. Personal bookplate for Pierre Tempels (1825 - 1925), a was a Belgian…

States: "Ex Libris Julia M. Fairbanks"; depicts an opened book. Personal bookplate for Julia M. Fairbanks (1877 - 1969), a Boston area socialite.

States: "I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home."; annotated: "Mary V. Curtis"; decorative border of leaves and flowers. Personal bookplate for Mary V. Curtis.