BOOKPLATES

Collection of approximately 2,500 bookplates collected by Mary Edith Nichols, eighteenth century to 1930s (16)

Footnotes

The collection of Miss Mary Edith Nichols of Cincinnati, Ohio, gathered through exchanges and purchases, and particularly wide-ranging in early twentieth century Continental artists. Around 400 plates are eighteenth-century to mid-nineteenth century - including some Jacobean and Chippendale plates - while the remainder generally date from the 1890s to 1930s.

Artists include: C.W. Sherborn, Frederick Spenceley, J.W. Spenceley, Edwin Davis French, Rockwell Kent, Otto Barth, G. Meyer, Alex Cock, Robert Michiels, Bruno Seuser, Brosseck, Irma Nemes, E.L. Hoess, J.A. Marques, L. Forell, André Vlaanderen, Marianne Grimm, Mario Marenghi, I. Indagine, Harold Nelson, A. Herbinier, Paul Hermann, Pol Erec, Q. de Sampeyo, Rudolf Mekicke, Dwight Franklin, K. Ritter, A. Piedade, P. Moquette, Raymond Prévost, Ernest Huber, Rose Reinhard, Daniel Meyer, S. Kulhanek, E.G. Bird, I. Lhota, H. Nelson Poole, H. Reiffersheid, J. Melse, Hubert Dupond, Wolbrand, Ruth Saunders, J.W. Simpson, Ismael Smith, A.C. Tixier, T. Viero (dated 1771), U. Wernaers, George Wharton Edwards, Naston Nastoupil, E.A. Wright, Ainslie Hewett, W.F. Hopson of New Haven, F.J. Junod, H.W. Kearney, Lawrence Kennedy, F.C. Tilney, A.N. Macdonald, William Edgar Fisher, Will Foster, T.E. French, and Franz Geritz.

Owners include: Mary Edith Nichols herself (by H. Bridwell 1897), Jack London (annotated below "given to Mr Howells of San Francisco by widow of London"), Rudolph Valentino (by Menzies), James Cagney, Pierre Louys, Joshua Scrope of Cockerington (by C. & A. Paas), Earl of Aylesford, Samuel Putnam Avery (by C.W. Sherborn), H.W. Fincham, Thomas Bernard Cooke (by S. Watts, [1780]), Cicely Rose Gleeson White (by Gleeson White, 1891), George Loch, Edward Lewton Penny of Bermuda (by Phillimore 1885), F.E. Spurgeon, Dr W.A. Yingling, large ink and watercolour arms for Irvine quartering an unidentified family, N. Vansittart (spade shield), Mr Horatio Walpole, Joseph Whatley, Samuel Whitbread, Sherlock Willis 1756, anonymous transitional Jacobean/Chippendale with crossed bones, John Peerson of Halden (typographic label dated 1804 by Weston), John Pollen (by F. Gardner), William Rutter of Newcastle (by J. Jameson), Sir Robert Eden, Henry Fly of Brasenose College, Sir John Harpur, Edward Blount of Sodington, Thomas Bramston of Skreens, Viscount Bruce 1712, Deburgh (by Kibbart 1750), Thomas Coutts, Sorabjee Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Henry Duke of Kent 1733, and Nathaniel F. Moore (Columbia University president, by P. Maverick).