British Royal Bookplates and Ex-Libris of Related Families

Scolar Press, Aldershot, first edition, 1992. Cloth, 4to, 29 cm,. 259 pp, ills. To make the text as comprehensive and useful as possible the catalogue has been divided into five parts. The first and principal of these comprises British Royal ex-libris..., together with a handful of interesting 'association' items... Next follow a handful of bookplates of grandchildren of Queen Victoria of, or married into, European Royal houses. The third section shows bookplates of families closely related by marriage but not themselves Royal. .. The fourth classification comprises the ex-libris of non-Royal but immediate illegitimate descendants of King Charles II and King James II. Joined with these are bookplates relating to later marriages in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act, 1772; and sons- and daughters-in- law...Finally, shown much reduced in size, is a group of armorials and pictorial plates of questionable authenticity or in earlier writings wrongly recorded as bookplates which have not been mentioned elsewhere in the text...In other words, the aim has been, wherever possible, to provide an answer to the question so often posed in correspondence: Is this a Royal bookplate? Elegant bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper.