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[Bookplate of the New York Society Library] / eng'd by P.R. Maverick, 65 Liberty Street. – Vintage Photo Print

[Bookplate of the New York Society Library] / eng'd by P.R. Maverick, 65 Liberty Street., [between 1775 and 1811, printed 1907] — antique engraving
[Bookplate of the New York Society Library] / eng'd by P.R. Maverick, 65 Liberty Street., [between 1775 and 1811, printed 1907]. Antique engraving from the New York City collection.

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What sets this plate apart is its engraver's imprint, "eng'd by P.R. Maverick, 65 Liberty Street," which places the work in a New York shop of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. The plate belongs to the New York Society Library, a subscription library founded in 1754 that ranks among the city's oldest. Its members pasted plates like this one inside their books to mark ownership. The catalog also lists Native American subjects, a theme that appears now and then in early American bookplates. This impression was printed in 1907, though the plate itself dates from roughly 1775 to 1811.

Created / published[between 1775 and 1811, printed 1907]
Medium1 print : engraving.
GenreBookplates 1770-1820.Engravings 1900-1910.
SubjectsNew York Society Library--1770-1820. Books--New York (State)--1770-1820. Indians of North America--New York (State)--1770-1820.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,270 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-179693

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