Bookplate of the week: Olive Lathrop Grover
Jun 7th, 2012 by houghtonmodern
Searching for something to feature for this week’s entry, I came across a volume titled Women Designers of Bookplates, just one of many extra-illustrated volumes of bookplates in the collection of Winward Prescott. Published in a limited edition in 1902, the book includes brief information on female bookplate designers of the period, reproduces a number of those plates, and leaves ample space for a collector to add his or her own. (Prescott did so, quite thoroughly).
Among the plates Prescott pasted into his copy were a handful designed by American artist and binding designer Olive Lathrop Grover. Below are both her own bookplate and one she designed for Mary K. Wheatland.
These and other bookplates in our collections can be accessed by contacting the Modern Books and Manuscripts department.
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