Depicts a phoenix or an eagle standing on a stack of books and grasping a scroll with a lyre beneath.
The Pratt Institute Libraries have a collection of more than 1200 Ex Libris (bookplate) images in their flickr stream.
“The Ex Libris Collection consists of nineteenth- and twentieth-century bookplates from private and institutional libraries. The plates feature finely detailed engraving and etching, and serve as outstanding examples of period book art and typography.”The first six images above come from a selection of more than one hundred of the Pratt Libraries Ex Libris Collection posted at high resolution to LunaCommons…
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