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JA M E S G U T H R IE HIS BOOK OF BOOKPLATES
Three Hundred and Twenty jiv e copies, o f which are Twenty-five on Japanese Vellum, only printed o f this Book,
The copies on Japanese Vellum are all numÂ
bered and Signed by the Artist.
JA M E S
G U T H R IE
HIS BOOK O F BO O K Â P L A T E S , CONSISTING of 2 4 ORIGINAL D ESIG N S
P U B L IS H E D 1907 BY O TTO SC H U L Z E & CO.. 20 SO U TH FR E D E R IC K S T R E E T . E D IN B U R G H
IN TR OD UC TION HPH E bookplate, despite its occasional nature, has been repeatedly proved worthy of the attention of those who love fine draughtsman ship and design. The facilities of photographic engraving have certainly confused the evolution of adequate treatment by furthering the too hasty reproduction of conventionalities and mannerisms numerous enough to obscure all true principles of design ; yet the same facilities have chiefly enabled the draughtsman to take this petite art out of the hands of the heraldic engraver, and make of it the dainty mode whose choicest examples may well vie with the koroplasts’ figures of Tanagra in the regard of a posterity of connoisseurs. No more earnest and sensitive talent than that of Jam es Guthrie has ever turned thus to
mechanical methods of reproduction, owes something of its richness and ardour to its appearance of having been prepared with a thought for the requirements of the engraver on wood; for the freedom granted by modern processes cannot undo the fact that the most effective economy of hand-engraving has stated essentially the fundamental laws of black and white work. In concluding a necessarily brief note, the consciousness remains that the originality of this artist’s vision deserves fuller appreciation; his ability in weaving decorations of abstract pattern has had no mention, though it has been employed both in book-plates and title pages ; but the ensuing series of plates will rectify such omissions while it justifies the opinions for which space has been found. Certainly Guthrie is an artist of positive achievement, and still more power of beauty and insight is to be looked for from him in years to come. G ordon B ottomley. July 1907.
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M r Guthrie and Messrs Schulze ty Co. desire to thank the owners o f the Book-plates collected in the preceding pages f o r their courtesy in lending them f o r reprodiiction, as such a collection would have been impossible
without their sympathy and concurrence.
P R IN T E D BY TU R N BU LL A N D SPEA R S E D IN B U R G H
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