Pencil bookplate design with books and 'The Manchester Man 1876' – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Pencil bookplate design with books and 'The Manchester Man 1876' comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Pencil bookplate design with books and 'The Manchester Man 1876'
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A pencil design for a bookplate, with a stack of books and the words "The Manchester Man 1876" lettered across it, sets this drawing apart from the library scenes around it. Bookplates were small printed labels pasted inside a book's cover to show who owned it, and collectors of the 1870s often commissioned artists to make them. The inscription points to Manchester, the industrial city in northwest England that was then one of the great centers of cotton trade and private book collecting. Working in pencil, the designer would have sketched the composition before it was reproduced, so the drawing shows the stages of an image meant to be printed in small form.
| Original scan | 4,481 × 7,316 px · prints to 15 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15514_OneoffourbookplatedesignsforEn |
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