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An obscure bookplate with initials J.N.

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.

Heraldic images adorn this bookplate for Sir William Earle Welby's library.

Bookplate for the library of Augusta Kendall Standish and John Van Ness Standish

The bookplate for this private library was used to note the specific location within the library for this volume.

Bookplate for the library of the invincible Mr. Moxon.

A bookplate from Earnest Elmo Calkins' Books about Advertising collection.

Earnest Elmo Calkins (1868-1964) pursued an extremely successful career in advertising after graduating from Knox College in 1891.

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…