In this complex illustration, a candle casts a giant shadow onto a wall of books. In the border, glass jars, like the books, preserve "what the human heart forgets." The full text reads, "Candles they are that on a wayside bare regather what the…
Madison Reece's concerns for the fate of his books, as expressed in his bookplate, were well founded once he packed the little medical dictionary on which this bookplate is affixed and set off to serve as a Union surgeon in the Civil War.
John Huston Finley, Knox College class of 1887, joined with other local bibliophiles to form the Cadmus Society, which met in a corner of a Galesburg bookshop to discuss books and to plan their own publications. The purpose of the club, according to…