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[Bookplate of Newman Erb, railroad executive] (LOC)

[Bookplate of Newman Erb, railroad executive]

 

[between 1880 and 1920]

 

1 print : etching ; bookplate 11.7 x 8.2 cm, on mount 22.8 x 15.2 cm.

 

Notes:

Title devised by Library staff.

On verso: Manuscript letter from Newman Erb to Ruthven Deane, dated June 5th, 1922, enclosing his bookplate.

On verso: Newman Erb, 1850- , railway prest. Receiver director in many roads, copper cos. &c.

Print showing a frame of acanthus leaves, a portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, and the words "Ex Libris" surrounding a railroad track running through a wildeness, mathematical instruments, books, a scale, a tablet, a globe, and a sword.

Forms part of the Ruthven Deane Bookplate Collection.

 

Subjects:

Erb, Newman,--1850-1925--Associated objects.

Poe, Edgar Allan,--1880-1849.

 

Format: Bookplates--1880-1920.

Lithographs--1980-1920.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.23637

 

Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1935:144.4466 [item]

 

 

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Taken circa 1880