French Book-plates Part 49

The ex-libris of M. Gandouin.

SORNIQUE. 18th cent.

STAGNON _sc._ 18th cent.

Il Cittadino Carlo Giac^{o} Caissotti. Motto, "_Les Hommes naissent libres et egaux en droits_." Pictorial.

A nameless armorial plate, with military trophy, signed "_Dessine et grave par A.

M. Stagnon Graveur des Sceaux du Roi a Turin, 1780_."

STALLIN, E. 18th cent.

Du Cabinet de Mre. Barthelemy Gabriel Rolland D'Erceville, Consr. au Parlement de Paris, 1750.

Armorial. (M. Rolland had another plate, dated 1761, not signed.)

a Mr. de Lorme, Gentilhomme Ordinaire du Roy.

Armorial.

STERN, _Graveur a Paris_.

M. Stern has signed some of the most beautiful modern French book-plates; light, graceful, and clearly engraved.

A fair proportion of his plates are what we term plain armorial; indeed, these somewhat resemble the neat, formal workmans.h.i.+p of the modern London heraldic engravers.

Those herein named have been selected only as typical examples of the various styles he has produced.

Biblioteca Conte Di Aquila.

Seal, armorial.

Monogram B. C. Motto, "_C'est ma Toquade_." (See reproduction.)

Alfred Bovet.

Wilfrid Chauvin.

A. Clericeau. Pictorial. (See reproduction.)

L. Delatre. Pictorial. (See reproduction.)

Antonio E. D'Ornellas.

Armorial.

Emile Levava.s.seur.

Monogram.

Paulde Saint Victor (Historian and Journalist). Seal.

Alphonse Royer. Monogram.

Patrice Salin.

Motto, "_Tel je suis prends moi_." Monogram.

Ex Musaeo Castellanae Genevensium.

_H. L. B._ 1874 (Bordier).

Ex Libris Dupuytrein, 1884.

Pictorial.

Ex Libris Armand Baschet.

Crest in a garter. Motto, "_Custos vel ultor_." (Signed _Stern, Panoramas 47, Paris_.)

Bibliotheque du Marquis de Granges de Surgeres.

Motto, "_Post tenebras spero lucem_." Armorial.

Ex Libris V. Diancourt.

Motto, "_Eligere, Colligere, Legere_." Mons. Victor Diancourt, who is Mayor of Reims, has written some works on the history of that city.

A charming _fantaisie_ plate, reproduced on page 96. "Les Bibliophiles Remois.

A. STEYERT _del. et sculp._

Ex Libris Auguste Fabre (of Lyons). Motto, "_Le petafine pas_." 19th cent.

STORCK.

J. Morel, Lyon, 1843.

Pictorial.

R. STRANGE _scul._ on a nameless plate designed by C. Eisen, dated 1749.

Sir Robert Strange was a devoted adherent of the Stuart dynasty, and, having been implicated in the 1745 attempt to expel the Hanoverian usurper, he was obliged to seek refuge in France. He executed many fine engravings, as well as several other book-plates.

J. STRIEDBECK _fec. Argent_.

(Strasbourg.)

On the armorial plate of the Alsatian scholar and bibliophile, Richard Brunck. (See "Ex Libris Alsaciens," page 41.)

Striedbeck of Strasbourg also engraved the following:

Jacob Reinbold Spielmann.

Armorial; pictorial.

Ex Bib. Philippi Henrici Boecleri (of Strasbourg).

EMILE SULPIS _sculp. F. Vernon del._