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The Curio (1887)

New York : R.W. Wright; · leaf 23

An illustration from The Curio, 1887, leaf 23
ticle the book-plate used by William Penn,* although it has been engraved his will, Logan left his library to the city of Philadelphia, and singularly enough in the cat- alogue of that library, published in 1760, there does scarcely appear, among the nearly 3,000 volumes, a single book bearing an… … ARMS: Argent, three holly leaves , in chief , vert and a hunt- earliest-dated plates. It is true that, before ing horn, in base, sable, stringed and garnished gules. 1700, the South contained the largest and most CREST: A dexter hand with a pruning knife prunbig a vine proper. * William Penn was…

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