EXCEEDINGLY RARE, ONE OF A KIND COLLECTION OF 143 BOOKPLATES WITH A RELATED ARCHIVE...This is an incredible and extremely valuable scarce album and bookplate collection that was assembled by Major Edward Willis of Charleston, South Carolina. He collected bookplates and ex-libris stamps over a period of years which attracted scholars from many states. His full name, which was seldom used was, John Edward Whitridge Linneus Willis; the great Linneus was a relative. This one-of-a-kind album contains 143 bookplates, many original and valuable representing the Landgraves who settled South Carolina, with grants of Land from the Crown, and French Huguenots who refugeed to Charleston SC to escape the Massacre after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Further ex-libris stamps and book plates in this work represent many colleges, libraries, institutions, etc; and other notable ex-libris from various states, most American; several rare signatures. Plates are mounted; many with moderate wear, some cello-taped into album, however, for the most part the tape has dried and the plates could be easily removed.
Valuable Plates from South Carolina, Coat of Arms, Armorial Crests, Decorative book plates and ex-libris plates include; Daniel Ravenel.. Della Torre..Henry Laurens (See Biography of Henry Laurens by Dr. Duncan Wallace).. Hay.. Frederick Tupper Jr. (Ancestor was a Crusader).. E. Horry Frost..Louis Manigault.. Peter Manigault..Thomas Hayward.. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Millions for Defense But Not One Cent For Tribute).. James Louis Petigru (Famous jurist)..Thomas G. Prioleau..John Ashe Alston.. Francis Simmons Holmes.. W. G. Hinson (James Island, SC).. C. E. Stewart..Allen Smith Izard.. John M. Huger..Library of Confederate Widows' Home (three plates).. College of Charleston with signature of Hugh S. Legare.. C. Cotes Esq., and J. Northrop (three separate plates), etc. All of the above are very valuable South Carolina plates and all of them are rare.
Further valuable plates from various states include, Calvin Coolidge, Daniel Webster, William Penn, George Washington-1798, Headquarters of The Army, Lloyd Aspinwall, Robert W. Adam, William A. Hammond (related to Maj. Gen. John Hammond of Annapolis, MD. One of the founders), R. B. Bradford, “Handmade” plate of John Schnierle, 1823, Mary E. Rath Merrill of Columbus, OH, W. J. Booth, W. G. Haywood M.D.-Kenwith Lodge, Harold Day Foster, John Walker Gibb-Charleston, SC, Edith E. Fraine, Anna Randolph Darlington Gillespie, Hugh W. Diamond- U.S.A. Surgeon, Julia Andrews Bruge (daughter of the Railroad Magnate of Youngstown, Ohio), Francis Simmons Holmes-Scientist and Co-founder of Charleston Museum, etc. A very scarce collection of book-plates and a worthy acquisition indeed.
Colleges and Institutions represented; Harvard, Radcliffe, Yale, Public Library of Boston, MA, College of William and Mary, Princeton, Bowdoin, Smith College, U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD, Charleston Library Society (oldest in America), etc.
The accompanying archive contains handwritten letters, one signed by the son of Prioleau, (dated 1903), another signed by A. G. Palfrey of New Orleans, LA (dated Nov. 10, 1934), and another from The Library of The College of Charleston signed by the librarian Emma A. Bull (dated April 6, 1905). Further contents of the archive identify the plates (rare, original, or duplicate), and are either hand written by Miss Eola Willis, Tradd Street, Charleston, SC, the daughter of Maj. Willis, or typed with further notations and descriptions on the bookplates and ex-libris stamps. Hardcover black album measures approx. 10 ½ x 12 ½ inches, shows some shelf wear but has done a fine job of protecting the bookplates.
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