This collection comprises bookplates attached to volumes in the Special Materials collections, plus a small number of bookplates which have been donated or collected as separate material items.
The bookplates are being described via 'Archives@Victoria' in order to facilitate online access for researchers.
This series includes both bookplates attached to books and those held as separate items. The initial entries are being transcribed from a card index; additional information (e.g. size) and a scan of each bookplate is being added to this finding aid as resources permit.
In order to improve access, each bookplate is being described as follows: Title - Name of owner/commissioner if given. Unit reference - Library callmark or other reference. Date - in lieu of other evidence, this is given as the year the book was published. Name references - both to the owners and to the artists if known. Subject references - to 'Bookplates'; 'Bookplates - New Zealand'; 'Armorial Bookplates', as appropriate. Dimensions - height x width in millimetres - given as a note and also as 'Container note' under 'Extent'. Scope and Content - brief textual description to assist searching.
Links to scanned images of the bookplates are being added as resources permit. The file references for these images consist of the Library callmark for the book in which the bookplate is fixed, or a numeric reference if the bookplate is a single item.
Armorial below two emblems, that on the left showing a phoenix with the text 'Virescit vulnere virtus' and that on the right showing a griffin rampant with text 'Impero'.
Foxed and minor staining.
Horatio Granville Murray Stewart, After 1877
Horatio Granville Murray Stewart, After 1877
In Library book: Author: Rushworth, John, 1612?-1690. Title: Historical collections of private passages of state, weighty matters in law, remarkable proceedings in five parliaments : beginning ... 1618 ... / and now published by John Rushworth. Publisher: London, D. Browne [etc.] 1721-1722. Call Number: DA385 R955 H Location: Order at Beaglehole Room
This bookplate is attached to a volume held privately at the Wai-te-Ata Press.
Art Nouveau style black and white design showing a man [William Colenso] reading, and with the text 'Ex Libris R. Coupland Harding DHS'. A skull garlanded with flowers, a butterfly, and a decorated lampstand are included. The initials DHS are thought to refer to David Henry Souter (1862-1935), the noted Australian artist and journalist (source URL http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120026b.htm).
R. Coupland Harding bookplate, c1890
R. Coupland Harding bookplate, c1890
Text 'Constans Fidei'.
In Library book: Author: Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1814-1880. Title: Waihoura : or the New Zealand girl / by W.H.G. Kingston. Publisher: London : Gall & Inglis, [1873?] Call Number: PR4846 K5 W Location: Order at Beaglehole Room
[three bells]
buckles,3, on a fesse [crest]
In a copy of Menippée 'Satyre'.
[buckles, 3, on a fesse; greyhound supporters]
In a copy of Menippée 'Satyre'.
chevron, crescents, 3
Crescent, manacles, coronet; badge of Percy, Duke of Northumberland
Crows, 3, stags' heads, 3.
Ducks, 2, greyhound supporters. In Chamberlyne 'Magnae Britanniae notita', 1727.
Fesse, crosses, 3.
In copy of Cowper ' Peoms', 2 eds. 1811,1812, 1815.
Fesse, crosses, 3. [crest]
In copy of Cowper ' Peoms', 2 eds. 1811,1812, 1815.
In Heath, 'A revival of Shalespear's text', 1765.
'Aequo pede perge' (monogram)
In 'Wesleyan missionary notices 1839-56 (withdrawn stamp).
Label, leather. 'Allman, S. 1849'.
In Culpeper 'Complete herbal', 1847.
In 'The Harleian miscellany (4to ed.), 1808.
'Esse quam videri'. In Dugdale 'A short view of the late troubles', 1681.
'Tenax propositi'.
In Dugdale, 'Origines juridicales', 1671.
Armorial design between [storks?], over text on banner as follows 'Auctor pretiosa facit'. Name printed beneath as 'The Right Honble Lord Avebury, F.R.S. D.C.L. L.L.D.'. In Von Haast 'Geology of ... Canterbury and Westland', 1879.
Lord Avebury, Scanned 2009
Lord Avebury, Scanned 2009
Two copies, in: McCulloch, 'Select ... tracts on commerce', 1859, and McCulloch, 'Select ... tracts ... national debt', 1857.
In Ascham 'The English works', 1761.
In Puseley, 'The rise, progress ... Australia ...', 1858.
In Herbert, 'A priest to the Temple', 1701.
In Műller, 'Verium terrestrium et fluviatilium', 1773.
In Racinet, 'Le costume historique', 1888.
In Williams, H.W. 'Travels in Italy...', 1820.
'Virtute non astutia', crest. In Fox, 'War in New Zealand', 1866
Illustration of man looking at sundial on pillar labelled 'Carpe Diem'. Sign with text 'Arthur Bird His Book'. Text at foot of illustration as follows 'The Grange - Great Bookham' and name given below as 'Malcolm Patterson Inv. et Del.'
In Nesfield, 'A chequered career', 1881.
Arthur Bird, Scanned 2009
Arthur Bird, Scanned 2009
In 'Colonial magazine and East India review', v. 19 and v. 21.
In Angas, 'New Zealanders Illlustrated', 1847.
In Smeaton, 'Reports', 1837 (TA144) , and in [Blair. 'Pamphlets', 1865 etc.] (DU401).
In Bathgate, 'Colonial experience', 1874.
Armorial design below lion emblem, with name below as follows 'George Jacob Bosanquet. Esqre. Broxbournbury'.
Bookplate is fixed into the 1851 volume of the 'Church Missionary Intelligencer', and front matter also bears signature 'Bosanquet'.
Armorial design with [drakes?] over badge with text 'Tria juncta in uno' and label with text 'Arduis Saepe metu nunquam'. Name beneath is 'Thomas Baron Brassey of Bulkeley'.
In Brenchley, 'Jottings during the cruise of H.M.S. Curaçoa', 1873.
'Certamine summo', (armorial crest). In Earp, 'Gold colonies of Australia', 1852.
In Earp, 'Gold colonies of Australia', 1852.
Label. In Busby, 'Jurnal of a recent visit ... vineyards', 1834.
Label. In: Newman, J.H. Sermons 1843. BX890. Chrystostom 'Sancti Patris ... opera', 1621-24 BR65. Collier, J. 'Ecclesiastical History'. 1708-1714. BR742. Newman, J.H. 'An essay on the development of Christian doctrine', 1845. BT21.
In Greville 'Scottish Cryptogamic flora', 1845.
'Esse quam videri'. In Miller, 'Natural history of the Crinoidea', 1821 [partially removed].
Stamp. In Clark, S. 'Marrow of ecclesiastical history', 1654.
In Boyle, 'Theological works' v.2, 1715.
Label. In Yate, 'Account of New Zealand', 1835.
Pictorial. In: Ingram, 'Shipwrecks', 1936 G525; Verschuur, 'At the Antipodes', 1891. DU21; Wheeler, 'Extracts from the letters', 1839. DU21; Stack, 'South Isalnd Maoris', [1898]. DU424.7.
Label. In Coxe, W. 'History .. of Austria', 1807.
Label. In Barker, 'Station amusements in New Zealand', 1873.
In Bougainville, 'A voyage around the world', 1772.
In Adams, 'The counterfiet seal', 1897.
Label. In: British Museum Dept. of Mss. Catalogue ... Harleian mss. 1808. British Museum Dept. of Mss. Catalogue ... Cottonian. 1802.
In Palmer, 'Treatise on the Church', 1839 BV600; Pearson, 'Exposition of the Creed', 1676 BT30.
Label. In 'Quarterly review', 1859. (obscured0.
Pictorial, with 'Craignez honte' on banner. In Rickman, 'Journal of ... Cook's last voyage', 1781.
'Cavendo tutus'. In Wilson, 'Missionary voyage ... Duff', 1799.
In 'Rerum Anglicarum scriptorum veterum tom.', 1684-1691.
Lable. In Fosbroke, 'Synopsis of ancient costume', 1825
Label. In: Say, 'Lettres a Malthus', 1820. Darwin 'Expression of the emotions', 1872 Davies, 'Celtic researches' 1804 The Ormulum, 152.
In Labilliere, 'Early history of ... Victoria', 1878.
In: Littleton, 'Littleton tenures', 1627, K10; Schultze, 'Gothisches Glossar', [1848], PD1193; Skinner, 'Etymologicon linguae Anglicanae', 1671, PE1580; Maseres, F. 'Select tracts', 1815, DA410; Tutchin, 'A new martyrology', 1689, DA430; Jonson, B. 'The workes', 1640, PR2600.
Label. In Chapple, 'Early Days in Whanaganui', 1930.
In: Pauw, 'Recherches philosophiques', 1773, D22; Martin, '[New Zealand etc.], [1851], Fildes 1243; Fuller, 'Pisgah-sight of Palestine', 1650, PR3461.
In Christie, 'Offerings', 1909.
In Racinet, 'Le costume historique', 1888.
In Maning, 'Old New Zealand', 1863.
Label. In: Buller, 'History of the birds', 1873, QL693.5; Wood, 'Twelve months inn Wellington', 1843, Fildes 92; Dieffenbach, 'New Zealand and its native population', 1841, Fildes 54; Churton, 'Letters from Wanganui', Fildes 33; Stokes, 'A letter ... Massacre at Wairau', 1844, Fildes 199; Pyke, 'History of the early gold discoveries', 1887, Fildes 851.
In Gordon, J. 'History of Scots affairs', 1841.
In Herbert, 'A priest to the temple', 1701.
In Scott, 'Balads and lyrical pieces', 1810. PR5306'; Scott, 'Lady of the lake', 1810, PR5308.
Label. In Clarendon, 'A brief view ... Leviathan', 1676.
Pictorial. In Lacroix, 'Les enclaves des roches volcaniques', 1893.
In Maunsell, 'Grammar' (2nd ed.), 1862.
In [Burghley Papers] 'A collection', 1740-1759.
In Angas, 'The New Zealanders illustated', 1847.
In 'New Zealand Alpine Journal' [case - previously used for another journal].
In Leslie, C. 'Theological works', 1721.
In Burke, 'British husbandry', vol. 2, 1837.
Includes texts "T.E. Donne. Tana Pukapuka", shown as a sign attached to the post of a pataka, and "A Maori store-house for food". In Donne, T.E., 'The Maori past and present', 1927.
T. E. Donne, Scanned 2009
T. E. Donne, Scanned 2009
This bookplate is fixed into the first book recorded as purchased by the Library in its Accession Registers, 1902.