In Great Britain every family of rank has its arms suitably emblazoned
on its harnesses, carriages, table-plate, dining-chairs, and, of
course, in its library. When a new coach is ordered, or a new set of
harnesses, the coach-builder or the harness-maker furnish the proper
trimmings. So milord's stationer fixes up the family letter-paper
_and_ the family book-plate. Somebody has to lick into some semblance
of artistic unity the records of prowess of our medieval ancestors. In
the workshops of Messrs. "Bumpus Limited," Mr. William Phillips
Barrett performs this more or less genial task. He has signed some
ninety to one hundred designs, which were cut by the workmen in the
Bumpus establishment. Mr. Barrett's designs are not wholly without
merit, but they so apparently lack the spark of vitality and their
execution is in many cases so hard and mechanical that one is inclined
more to pity than to praise. In the pages of the London Ex Libris
Journal, that industrious encourager of the ordinary and banal in
book-plate design, Mr. Barrett's work is exploited at length. Vol.
II., page 81, et seq.
1896
Lady Gerard
Hon. E. Byng
Mr. Jack Cummings
Lord Manners
Lady Sarah Wilson
Lady Charles Bentinck
H. Somers Somerset, Esq.
Lady K. Somerset
1897
J. Watson Armstrong, Esq.
Lady Angela Forbes
Mrs. Panmure Gordon
Hon. Mrs. Charles Harbord
Miss Beatrice Dudley Smith
The Marchioness of Headfort
Miss Audrey Battye
Lady Beatrix Taylour
Miss Rachel Duncombe
J. S. Forbes, Esq.
1898
Lady Maud Warrender
Lady de Trafford
Hon. Marie Hay
The Countess Mar and Kellie
Mrs. Brocklebank
The Viscountess Wolseley
Robertson Lawson, Esq.
Baron Königswarter
Baroness Königswarter
Miss Van Wart
Reginald Nicholson, Esq.
Lady Sybil Carden
The Countess of Lathom
1899
The Duchess of Bedford
Miss Eadith Walker (Australia)
The Countess of Wilton
The Viscountess Chelsea
Mrs. Duff
J. E. Ballie, Esq.
Lord Bolton
Lady Margaret Levett
Miss Howell
Basil Levett, Esq.
Mrs. Harcourt Powell
Lady Ampthill
J. & E. (Mr. and Mrs. Muller)
Bishop Lefroy of Lahore
Mrs. McCalmont
Miss Gabrielle de Montgeon
1900
Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Great Britain
The Earl of Lathom
The Duke of Beaufort
Hon. Mrs. Gervase Beckett
The Countess of Gosford
The Marchioness of Bath
Mrs. Lee Pilkington
Freda and Winifreda Armstrong
Mrs. Wernher
Miss Freda Villiers
Miss Muriel Dudley Smith
Lord Kenyon
Lady Savile Crossley
Hon. Hilda Chichester
Lady Dickson-Poynder
Sir John Dickson-Poynder
Gervase Beckett, Esq.
Canon Stanton
The Duke of Portland
Mrs. Alfred Harmsworth
Mrs. Arthur Wilson
J. Hutchinson, Esq.
Hon. Mrs. G. Kenyon
Captain Noble
Edward Hubbuck, Esq.
R. L. Foster, Esq.
Royal Naval and Military
Will Watson Armstrong
Masonic Supreme Council, 33° (Large and small)
The Earl of Shaftesbury
Miss Barclay (Wood block Armorial)
H. A. Harben, Esq.
1901
Ivor Fergusson, Esq.
Harold Harmsworth, Esq.
Lord Haddo
Lady Mary Cayley
Mrs. Sheridan (Frampton Court)
The Marchioness Anglesey
Sir Charles Cust
The Countess of Derby
Lady Hillingdon
Lady Alice Stanley
Lady Clementine Walsh
R. C. Donaldson-Hudson, Esq.