Artist/Designer

Louis Joshua Silver

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Commissioned for

Oscar M. Nudelman

Signed

No

Description

A pictorial bookplate on a dark yellow tinted paper with black ink for Oscar M. Nudelman. "Ex-Libris'' is used to show who the book owner is. The main illustration is the Justice Scale with a poem in a black space in between the scale plates. The poem says "A fire-Mist and a Planet A crystal and A Cell A Jellyfish and a Saurian A cave where Cave-men dwell Than a Sense of Law and Order A Face upturned from the Clod Some call it Evolution And others call it God''. Under the quote box is a lit oil lamp. Above the poem is an illustration of a crowd surrounding a knight on a horse. There is a diverse group of people in the crowd. Above the scale is a shelf of books that are religious books.

Condition

Affixed on card stock

Bookplate Function

Ownership

Object Type

Bookplate

Bookplate Type

Pictorial

Language

English and Latin

Date or Era

c. 20th Century

Object Size

5 x 3.5 in

Bookplate Collection Number

BA957

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

2023-11-07

Image Format

image/jpeg

Image File Size

520 KB

Image File Location

S:\Bookplates\Silver, Louis Joshua\JPEG Images\BA957.jpg

Repository

Special Collections, Copley Library, University of San Diego

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