A large collection (128 examples) of fine Ex Libris bookplate etchings on paper from a printer who worked in Zurich and Vienna in the early 1900s, dating from approximately 1914-1921. The printer is unknown, although the bookplates themselves reveal the owner's names and sometimes the artists commissioned to produce them. Most bookplates are untrimmed and printed on larger-sized paper up to 7" x 9". Of the 128, 36 plates are in mats having been exhibited at the Shoen Library at Marylhurst University in Oregon. Images and symbols employed are varied.....
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A hand-colored etching of The County of Essex by Emanuel Bowen "Divided into its hundreds containing the Boro(ugh) & Market Towns with the Rivers, Roads, distances...". Emanuel Bowen was a Welsh map engraver, who became the Royal Mapmaker to both King George II of Great Britain and Louis XV of France. Bowen was highly regarded by his contemporaries for producing some of the most detailed and most accurate maps of his era.

Condition: Very Good, two 1.0" x 1/8" pieces of tape along left and right edges; two rectangular areas.....
Item #1467

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