Sentiment is seldom in place, but on a bookplate it is peculiarly odious.
I have never admired the much-talked-of bookplateof Grolier, which, in addition to his own name, bore the ridiculous advice Et Amicorum.
The small volume is in a black, half leather binding, with an old Library of Congress bookplate marked "Smithsonian Deposit.
The 1815 bookplate of the Library of Congress is preserved in this rebound copy, and Jefferson's secret mark of ownership can be seen--his addition of his other initial to printed signatures I and T.
The second of the above copies has the heraldic bookplate of Rob.
The present copy has an elaborate heraldic bookplate of Thomas Cokayne.
It carries with it a certificate of its master's love; thebookplate gives the volume a certain status it would not otherwise have.
I was a young man when I adopted the bookplate which I am still using, and which will be found in all my books.
The pedigree of this volume is well established by its having in the cover the bookplate of Thomas Barrett, of Lee, celebrated by Dibdin as a 'bibliomaniacal and tasteful gentleman.
