Bookplate design for Mrs G. Linnaeus Banks, The Manchester Man – Historic Print
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Bookplate design for Mrs G. Linnaeus Banks, The Manchester Man
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This bookplate was made for Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks, the novelist Isabella Varley Banks, whose best-known book was *The Manchester Man*, a novel published in 1876. Owners pasted bookplates like this one inside the front cover to mark a volume as their own, so the design often says as much about the owner's tastes and standing as about the book collection. Designs of this kind from the late 1800s commonly combined a name, a motto or emblem, and an ornamental border, and they make a useful record of how a writer chose to present her library. Looking closely at the lettering and imagery can tell you a good deal about the period's taste in printed ephemera.
| Original scan | 4,229 × 6,971 px · prints to 14 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15515_OneoffourbookplatedesignsforEn |
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