• A Drinking Fawn: A Dutch design of the 1890’s.

Drinking Fawn bookplate

From Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press by Julia M. Allen and Jocelyn H. Cohen

  • 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.” The Fawn, 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). "a specimen of modern Dutch design by Mrs. Darkinderen for Miss Wally Does, another lady artist who paints and lives in Laren, where a small coterie of artists form Dutch Barbizon."
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