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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(American Bookplate) |
| Author: |
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| Title: |
Bookplate for William Byrd Westover in Virginia |
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No place |
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| Date: |
c.1725 |
| Item # : |
211445 |
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| Sale Number |
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431 |
| Lot Number |
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7 |
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| Americana & World History: Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera from the Library of Calvin P. Otto |
| Sale Date |
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07/01/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 270 |
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| Description: |
| Engraved bookplate. 8x6.5 cm. (3¼x2¾"). |
| A handsome, elaborate armorial bookplate engraved circa 1725, but probably not in America. Colonel William Byrd (1674-1744) “was a very distinguished Virginian: was born to an ample fortune, liberally educated, and became the patron of science and literature in his native state” - Allen. Byrd also had one of the largest libraries in colonial Virginia. Allen, American Bookplates, 123. |
| Condition: |
| A fine example. |
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