Today’s coloring book page is a #bookplatespecial! This beautifully illustrated coat of arms is found inside our copy of New improvements of planting and gardening by Richard Bradley (1717).
To download and print the full coloring book follow: https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/LCP-COC-Portrait.pdf
This advertisement used in the place of a bookplate offers books bound and sold gilt or plain by Andrew Barclay. Well Mr. Barclay, there is no shame in gilt.
Ownership can not be dismissed if a book has this beautiful manuscript bookplate.
Bookplate and birth record for Joseph Nesch [Nash]. Fraktur Collection. Pennsylvania. ca. 1830. 7979.F.2
For our first #bookplatespecial post, we present William Penn’s bookplate, dated 1703, found on our copy of George Whitehead’s A Serious Apology for the Principles & Practices of the People Call’d Quakers (1671).