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Book-Plates

by William John Hardy

A history of 1893 of the labels owners paste inside their books, from early armorial plates to the pictures of Hardy’s own day. It belongs to a series called Books about Books. The plates themselves are often the best part.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 3 hr 20 min

Where to find it

On the Archive shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #41142. In the public domain in the United States.