It is clear that the original engraving is the French version, published in 1784 signed " de Loraine del . / Chevillet sculp . " The English book plate was obviously engraved after it.
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He joined the " Indianapolis News " in 1909 . In Indianapolis, where he had a growing reputation as a designer of book plates, he married Magdalena " Lena " Engelbert, a graduate of Earlham College in his hometown.
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There are still a few who can engrave a head from a photograph or drawing, or a small engraving for book illustration or for book plates; there are more who are highly proficient in mechanical engraving for decorative purposes, but the engraving-machine is quickly superseding this class.
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Fraktur drawings were executed in ink and / or watercolors and are found in a wide variety of forms : the " Vorschriften " ( writing samples ), the " Taufscheine " ( birth and baptismal certificates ), marriage and house blessings, book plates, and floral and figurative scenes.
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The print collection has more than 500, 000 items, covering : posters, greetings cards, book plates, as well as a comprehensive collection of Old Master prints from the Renaissance to the present, including works by Rembrandt, William Hogarth, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Canaletto, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Henri Matisse and Sir William Nicholson.
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Now, for the first time, the sect's collection of illuminated manuscripts _ marriage certificates, birth announcements, book plates and gift drawings _ is on view to the public in " Fraktur Treasures From the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center Collection, " an exhibition at the group's newly expanded center in Pennsburg, 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
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He was at one time an authority on numismatics ( he was a first cousin of the numismatist John, Count de Salis-Soglio ), he wrote two novels, published " A Guide to the Study of Book Plates " ( 1880 ), and the fruit of his careful researches in botany was printed posthumously in his elaborate " Flora of Cheshire " ( 1899 ).
