Preliminaries
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Ex Libris; Jacob Chester Chamberlain
[figure description] Bookplate: figure of an opened book's spine and outer covers,
including an image of stars and stripes on the front book cover. A
scrolling banner appears on each side and across the top front of this
opened book. There are two stars on each portion of the banner on the
sides of the image of the opened book; this banner bears the caption “Ex
Libris” where this banner crosses over the top front face of the opened
book. Ornamental leaves extend from behind the sides of this opened
book and scrolling banner. Beneath this figure of an opened book is a
globe, showing the North American and South American Continents.
Beneath the image of the globe is a scrolling banner with “Jacob Chester
Chamberlain” on it, and within and beneath this banner are loose papers
and various stacks of books, with only the book spines visible.
[end figure description]
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Hic Fructus Virtutis; Clifton
Waller Barrett
[figure description] Bookplate: heraldry figure with a green tree on top and shield
below. There is a small gray shield hanging from the branches of the
tree, with three blue figures on that small shield. The tree stands on
a base of gray and black intertwined bars, referred to as a wreath in
heraldic terms. Below the tree is a larger shield, with a black
background, and with three gray, diagonal stripes across it; these
diagonal stripes are referred to as bends in heraldic terms. There are
three gold leaves in line, end-to-end, down the middle of the center
stripe (or bend), with green veins in the leaves. Note that the colors
to which this description refers appear in some renderings of this
bookplate; however, some renderings may appear instead in black, white
and gray tones.[end figure description]
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[figure description] Blank Leaf.[end figure description]
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[figure description] Blank Leaf.[end figure description]
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[figure description] Blank Leaf.[end figure description]
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 [1821], The spy, volume 1 (Wiley & Halsted, New York) [word count] [eaf052v1].