Robert Anning Bell, Director of the Art School of the Liverpool
University, is the most prolific designer of artistic picture-plates
in Great Britain. His work has long been the envy of amateurs, and no
collection can claim to be representative without some examples of his
work. His book-plates have been reproduced and commented on in almost
all published articles on the general subject. The book-plate number
of the "Studio," Simpson's "Book of Book-plates," Bowdoin's "Rise of
the Book-plate," Zur Westen's "Ex Libris" (Leipzig, 1901), all show
examples. His work is characterized by dignity and grace, is in good
drawing, and has an average of excellence unsurpassed. The list is
complete to July 1, 1902.
1 Walter George Bell
2 Rainald William Knightley Goddard
3 G. R. Dennis
4 Barry Eric Odell Pain
5 Jane Patterson (circular)
6 Jane Patterson (rectangular)
7 Christabel A. Frampton
8 Frederick Brown
9 Matt. Gossett
10 Arthur Trevithin Nowell
11 Edward Priolean Warren
12 Frederick Leighton (small)
13 Frederick Leighton (large)
14 Arthur Melbourne Sutthery
15 Juliet Caroline Fox Pym
16 Yolande Sylvia Mina Noble Pym
17 Florence and William Parkinson
18 Nora Beatrice Dicksee
19 Felsted School
20 Arthur E. Bartlett
21 The Hon. Mabel de Grey
22 Geraldine, Countess of Mayo
23 Walter E. Lloyd
24 George Benjamin Bullock-Barker
25 George Benjamin Bullock-Barker
26 Thomas Elsley
27 University College, Liverpool
28 Rowland Plumbe
29 Rennell Rodd
30 Alicia, Lady Glomis
31 H. E. John Browne
32 Barham House
33 Cecil Rhodes
34 Mander Bros.
35 Hon. Harriet Borthwick
36 Beatrice Patterson
37 Walter Drew
38 Walter Raleigh
39 Théodule, Comte de Grammont
40 Joshua Sing
41 Alice Emma Wilkinson
42 James Easterbrook
43 Theodore Mander
44 W. H. Booth
45 Hector Munro, 1897
46 Margaret Wilton
47 L. and M. S.
48 Gardner S. Bazley
49 Ex Libris Sodalium Academicorum Apud Lyrpul
50 Roberti A. S. Macfie
51 Richard T. Beckett
52 Edmund Rathbone, 1898
53 Croy Grammont, 1898
54 A. J. Stratton
55 John Duncan
56 Helen Woollgar de Gaudrion Verrall
57 C. Kohn
58 C. J. R. Armandale
59 Wm. Renton Prior
60 H. and O. Lewis
61 Herbert Lyndon
62 Johanna Birkenruth
63 Fanny Dove Harriet Lister
64 Mary Josephine Stratton
65 Louise Frances Foster
66 Caleb Margerison
67 Ellis Roberts
68 Marie Clay
69 Fanny Nicholson
70 L. and E. Stokes
71 Alfred Cecil Gathorne Hardy