Sunday, September 26, 2021

LEFT INSIDE: A Variety of Bookplates

Pandemic boredom led me to amassing about three boxes of books (most of them still not read) and I noticed in reorganizing them and cataloging them that many had some intriguing bookplates.  And here they are for your viewing pleasure...

This woman was married to an optometrist in Ohio. There are various Scudder family trees found on various genealogy sites. But when I stumbled across a medical association book I found online I found out the entire family history of this particular Scudder family. She was born in Iowa in 1870, lived in Chicago and settled in Ohio. Her first husband died in 1900 and apparently she married the guy's younger brother, also a doctor, in 1909 when she was 39.


Over ten years ago I bought several books from this man's library when they were initally offered on eBay.  Apparently many of them are still floating out there among the many used booksellers because I bought this one only a few months ago.

 

One of the many popular bookplates from the famed Antioch Bookplate Company in Yellow Springs, Ohio.  I've seen multiple copies of this bookplate in dozens of books (from obviously various owners) I've either owned or perused over the past twenty years. 




Over the years I've owned several books form Oscar's library also. Quite a reader of mystery and adventure fiction.  This is also a popular bookplate design as I've seen it many time in various books.


I wish I knew who this artist was.  I see the initials LCD at the edge of the book.


This is a mystery to me.  George M.R. Holmes' name appears in a small banner beneath this ornate heraldry symbol, but I'm completely at a loss to understand what was granted by the Queen.


 Another coat of arms, but rather simple compared to the Holmes one.

 

5 comments:

  1. Have missed these posts on your blog, John. Glad you have posted one again.

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  2. I left a comment but got an odd broken e-blogger icon in response. Did it go through?

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    1. This is the only one I got from you. I checked my Awaiting Moderation section in the Comments area of my Blogger account. Nothing else. Some internet gremlin must’ve sent it into digital limbo.

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  3. Very nice idea for a post. The art work in the first ex libris is especially elegant.

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