Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Bookplate Collection,
- Dates:
- 1770-1953
- Extent:
- 25 boxes (12.5 linear ft.)
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Bookplate Collection (Collection 144). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Acquisition information:
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Gift of Maurice Thorner, 1953.
Collection donated by Thorner originally assembled by Olive Percival. Later additions were made by the UCLA Library Special Collections.
- Arrangement:
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Collection is arranged alphabetically.
- 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.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Bookplates.
- Names:
- Percival, Olive, 1869-1945.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1999
- Date Encoded:
- Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services. Frontmatter gathered from MARC record. Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Caroline Cubé.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
- Terms of access:
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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.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], Bookplate Collection (Collection 144). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988