Finding Aid for the Bookplate Collection, 1770-1953
Processed by Evert Volkersz; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé
UCLA Library Special Collections
UCLA Library Special Collections staff
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
© 1999
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Finding Aid for the Bookplate Collection, 1770-1953
Collection number: 144
UCLA Library Special Collections
UCLA Library Special Collections staff
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Information
- UCLA Library Special Collections staff
- UCLA Library Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
- Processed by:
- Evert Volkersz, 24 February 1964
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Text converted and initial container list EAD tagging by:
- Apex Data Services
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, May 2002
© 1999 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Bookplate Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1770-1953
Collection number: 144
Extent:
25 boxes (12.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Library Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Maurice Thorner, 1953.
Collection donated by Thorner originally assembled by Olive Percival. Later additions were made by the UCLA Library
Special Collections.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Bookplate Collection (Collection 144). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Scope and Content
Collection consists of thousands of bookplates from the United States, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Iran, Russia, and South
Africa. Includes several hundred children's bookplates, some highlighted by Kate Greenaway and engravings of Gordon Craig,
G.H. Shurtleff, Pixie Harris, and wood block prints of Sheldon Cheney. Also includes works of Thomas Bewick (originator of
wood engraving), Maxfield Parrish, Samuel Hollyer, W.W. Garret, Stanley Harrod, Rob Wagner, and W.F. Hopson. Many of the items
are mounted, and include proof copies, inscribed copies, original drawings, wood block prints, wood engravings, steel engravings,
etchings, and photolithographs.
Organization and Arrangement
Collection is arranged alphabetically.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Bookplates.
Percival, Olive, 1869-1945.
Note
This quick inventory was made February 24, 1964 by Evert Volkersz. There appears to be no correspondence or other records
available to describe the history of this collection. Neither does the collection itself yield any such information. Some
of the correspondence in box 20 dates back to 1942.
N.B.- Collection of 1,000 items reported to the
Subject collections; a guide to special book collections and subject emphases as reported by university, college, public,
and special libraries and museums in the United States and Canada,
by Lee Ash.
Note
Boxes 1-19 all plates are mounted, alphabetically filed by country, and then by designer. Count is very approximate.
Box 1
California.
Physical Description: 400 Count.
Box 2
Austria.
Physical Description: 350 Count.
Box 3
Belgium.
Physical Description: 250 Count.
Box 6
England.
Physical Description: 200 Count.
Box 4
Czechoslovakia.
Physical Description: 450 Count.
Box 5
Czechoslovakia.
Physical Description: 200 Count.
Box 7
France.
Physical Description: 150 Count.
Box 8
Italy.
Physical Description: 300 Count.
Box 9
Italy.
Physical Description: 250 Count.
Box 10
Japan.
Physical Description: 200 Count.
Box 11
Lithuania.
Physical Description: 450 Count.
Box 12
New Zealand.
Physical Description: 300 Count.
Box 13
Portugal.
Physical Description: 250 Count.
Box 14
South Africa.
Physical Description: 500 Count.
Box 15
U.S.
Physical Description: 500 Count.
Box 16
U.S.
Physical Description: 300 Count.
Box 17
U.S.
Physical Description: 150 Count.
Box 18
U.S.
Physical Description: 200 Count.
Box 19
U.S.
Physical Description: 250 Count.
Note
Total 5650.
Box 20
Unprocessed bookplates, catalogs, reprints and leaflets.
Box 21
Several hundred unprocessed bookplates.
Box 22
Unprocessed bookplates, catalogs, reprints and leaflets.
Box 23
Approximately 100 miscellaneous, mounted bookplates.
