French Book-plates Part 27

BOURGEOIS. 18th cent.

BOUTET, HENRI. Modern Ernest Maindron (a collector).

Ex-libris Catel. Fantaisie.

Motto, "_Nocturna versate manu, versate diurna_."

BOUVENNE, AGLAuS.

Designed and engraved the following:

Ex-libris Ch. a.s.selineau, with the curious enigmatical motto, "_La femme qui n'est pas la colombe et le roseau est un monstre_." M. a.s.selinea had another book-plate by Braquemond.

He was an employe in the Bibliotheque Mazarine, and produced some bibliographical works. He died in June, 1874.

Jules Cousin. A punning plate (a gnat).

A mon cher Edouard Castillon-Aglaus Bouvenne, 1882.

Motto, "_Travail liberte_."

Ex Libris Mario Proth.

(Author and Art Critic.) Motto, "_Sempre Vagare_."

Maurice Tourneux. Author and critic, died in 1867.

Ex Libris Alexis Martin, 1868.

Pictorial.

Theophile Gautier.

Monogram. 1872.

Ex Libris Champfleury, 1874.

Eau-forte.

Ex Libris Francois Coppee.

Monogram on a lyre.

L. West, 1876.

Library interior.

Victor Hugo. View of the Towers of Notre Dame, Paris, 1870.

Octave Uzanne, 1882.

Pictorial. Author and art critic.

Monogram (for M. Benoit).

Motto, "_Avec le temps_,"

Signed, Agaus (sic) Bouvenne, _Inv. Sculp._ '83.

Ex Libris de Madame la Comtesse de Noe, 1888.

Fantaisie.

For M. Leon Sapin the Bookseller of the Rue Bonaparte, Paris, a plate showing an avenue of fir trees (Sapins) Signed, _Aglaus Bouvenne sc. a l'ami L. Sapin_. (See "Archives de la Societe Francaise," May, 1895.)

BRACQUEMOND _del. et sculp._ on the cypher book-plate of Aglaus Bouvenne, 1875.

Motto, "_Colligebat--quis perficiet_."

Mons. Felix Braquemond also designed the following plates:

A monogram plate for Paul Arnauldet, signed B. Motto, "_Nunquam amicorum_."

Charles a.s.selineau.

Philippe Burty.

An allegorical design for this author, art critic and collector. Motto, "_Libre et fidele_."

Georges Pouchet.

Edouard Manet, the painter.

With the motto "_Manet et manebit_." In the first state there were accessories peculiar to the wors.h.i.+p of Priapus, which were removed.

Christophe, the sculptor.

He also designed a plate for himself. (See Poulet-Mala.s.sis, p. 38.)

BRANCHE. 18th cent.

"Bibliotheque de M. de Villiers du Terrage, Pr. commis des Finances."

This was an armorial plate, style Louis XVI., the owner of which was a Viscount, yet bore the coronet of a Marquis. He survived the revolution, aristocrat though he was, and served in the Ministry of Police, under the first Empire and the Restoration.

BRAs.p.a.cHER. 1775.

BReANT. 18th cent.

BRENET _fecit_.

Louis Pfyffer de Wyher, Capitaine aux Gardes Suisses.

Armorial. 18th cent.

Ce livre Appartient a M^r. Le Maire. Armorial.

R. BRICHET _inv. sculp._ I. Ph. Grauss. Armorial.

Dumont de Valdajou.

Chirurgien. Armorial. 18th cent. (See reproduction.)

BRIOT, ISAAC. 17th cent.

Signed "Briot" on the plate of Claude Sarrau, who died in 1651.

Isaac Briot signed an engraving of Henri IV. lying in state, dated 1610.

BROCHERY _fecit_.