- Black and white bookplate with a gummed backing. 3 ½ x 4 ¼”. Sold in packets of 25 alike in a cellophane bag with header. “Helaine Victoria Book Plates. Be sure your books (before you lend) Their Homeward Way will always wend.” Brookside, adapted from Ladies’ Book-plates: An illustrated handbook for Collectors and Book-lovers by Norna Labouchere, London: George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, & New York. Mdcccxcv (1895). Design by Marion Reid, “a clever draughtswoman, whose design, reproduced in this chapter on mottos, gained first prize in The Studio competition for ex-libris, is representd by four others."
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