Thursday, December 14, 2017

The Bewicks and Their Bookplates: Number Six of the Twelve Blog Posts for Christmas



MERRY CHRISTMAS!


Six years ago, I began a custom that bookmen in the past have enjoyed doing, among them Luther A. Brewer and A. Edward Newton.  Each Christmas they published a keepsake and sent it to their friends.  I decided to post my Christmas keepsakes on My Sentimental Library blog, and share them with all of my readers. And I already had the bibliophilic resource to supply the material for the keepsakes: Contributions to Biblionotes, the "unofficial" newsletter of the "Bibliomites." Walter Harris was its editor, which means he was the author of practically all the contributions to Biblionotes.



I posted Walter Harris's first five essays to Biblionotes as my first five Christmas blog posts:  Ex-libris, Chapbooks, Grangerisers, Miniature Books, and Peter Motteux. This year I am posting Walter Harris's essay:  The Bewicks and Their Bookplates.

If you want to know more about Bibliomites, Biblionotes, and Walter Harris before reading this year's Christmas blog post, I recommend that you read my Dec 2013 Biblio Researching blog post:

About Bibliomites, Biblionotes and Walter "Wally" Harris


THE BEWICKS AND THEIR BOOKPLATES




Obscure Private Presses:  No. 1 The Rochester Press will be the the blog post for next Christmas.  Here are hyperlinks to the first five Christmas blog posts:

Dec 2012:  Ex-Libris:  Number One of the Twelve Blog Posts For Christmas

Dec 2013:  Chapbooks:  Number Two of the Twelve Blog Posts For Christmas

Dec 2014:  Grangerisers:  Number Three of the Twelve Blog Posts for Christmas

Dec 2015:  Miniature Books:  Number Four of the Twelve Blog Posts For Christmas

Dec 2016:  Peter Motteux:  Number Five of the Twelve Blog Posts For Christmas