Artist/Designer

Beulah Mitchell Clute (1873-1958)

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Commissioned for

Donald Douglas Cameron

Signed

Yes

Description

An etched pictorial bookplate on light sepia paper with brown stains and black ink. There is a person in a stone built room sitting at the desk next to the bed. There's a crucifix on the wall above the bed. Around the picture are 4 different crests. On the bottom there is a passage "For him was lever have at his beddes heed Twenty bokes, clad in blak or reed. Of Aristotle and his philosophye, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrye. And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche." Below that is "Ex libris Donald Douglas Cameron"

Condition

Affixed on card stock

Bookplate Function

Ownership

Object Type

Bookplate

Bookplate Type

Pictorial

Language

English

Date or Era

c. 20th Century

Object Size

13.5 x 8 cm

Bookplate Collection Number

BA191

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

2023-02-22

Image Format

image/jpeg

Image File Size

747.234KB

Image File Location

S:\Bookplates\Clute, Beluah Mitchell\JPEG Images\BA191.jpeg

Repository

Special Collections, Copley Library, University of San Diego

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