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_Dated Book-Plates_ (Ex-Libris), with a Treatise on their Origin and Development. By Walter Hamilton. London, A. and C. Black, Soho Square, 1895. Ill.u.s.trated.

This volume contains a list of all the known French dated plates from 1574 to 1895, with descriptions of their styles, their mottoes, artists, and engravers, and biographical notes about their owners.

_Ladies' Book-plates._ By Norna Labouchere. With numerous ill.u.s.trations.

London, George Bell and Sons, 1895.

In the ”Ex-Libris” series. This work contains a chapter on Foreign Ladies' Book-plates, in which many interesting French ex-libris are described.

_Les Ex-Libris Limousins._ Par A. Fray-Fournier. Published by M.

Ducortieux, Limoges, 1895.

_L'Ex-Libris de F. de Larochefoucauld, Abbe de Tournus._ La premiere Marque Francaise armoriee. Par F. S. Paris, L. Joly, Editeur, 19, Quai Saint-Michel, 1896.

350 only printed.

_Les Ex-Libris Anciens aux Armes de Jeanne d'Arc._ Par A. Benoit.

Miss Labouchere cites this little pamphlet on p. 214 of ”Ladies'

Book-plates,” but omits to mention when and where it was published.

She gives a few details of plates belonging to descendants of the family of Jeanne d'Arc, but these do not appear to be of any special interest.

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