Artist/Designer
Bird, Elisha Brown
Preview
Commissioned for
Barron G. Collier
Signed
Yes
Description
An engraved pictorial bookplate on sepia paper with black ink for Barron G. Collier, a capitalist in New York. There's a man flying high above Earth on wings fashioned from a book, while reading another book. There are also a stack of books he's holding in his arm and one is falling. His wings are the pages of a book. At the bottom of the image is a passage, "My books, they take me everywhere, the North, the South, the East, the West: Fiction, Poetry, -all the rest in Romance Land with history old. Books open wide vast worlds untold." The image has a floral calligraphic frame.
Condition
Affixed on card stock
Bookplate Function
Ownership
Object Type
Bookplate
Bookplate Type
Pictorial
Language
English
Date or Era
c. 20th Century
Object Size
5.5 x 3.25 in.
Bookplate Collection Number
BA042
Subject
Bookplate designers
Subject
Bookplates--Specimens
Subject
Books—Owners’ marks
Part of
Bookplate Collection of Christine Price
Donor
Christine Price
Digital Publisher
Copley Library, University of San Diego
Date Digitized
2023-05-17
Image Format
image/jpeg
Image File Size
829 KB
Image File Location
S:\Bookplates\Bird, Elisha Brown\TIF Images\BA042.tif
Repository
Special Collections, Copley Library, University of San Diego
Copyright
Images provided for research and reference use only. For more information please contact the University Archives/ Special Collections Department, Copley Library, University of San Diego.
Digital USD Citation
"Bookplate of a man reading a book while flying over Earth with a book as his wings" (2023). Bookplates by Elisha Brown Bird. Image 4.
https://digital.sandiego.edu/bookplates-artists-bird/4