This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
American, English and French bookplates from private and institutional libraries. Box four contains some related correspondence concerning Welch's collecting and exchanging of bookplates. Four letters are from the English painter-etcher, Charles William Sherborn, who designed a bookplate for Welch's wife, Fanny Fredericka Dyckman Welch. The original etched plate is also enclosed.
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This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Alexander McMillan Welch bookplate collection; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Gift of Mrs Alexander M. Welch, ca.1948; transferred from the Avery Library, 1974.
Bookplates: Source of acquisition--Welch, Mrs. Alexander and Avery Library. Method of acquisition--Gift and transfer.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
See also: James M. Baldwin Bookplate Collection (NYCR90-A25) and the S. E. Blake Bookplate Collection (NYCR90-A28)
Bookplates Entered in AMC 12/05/90.
Columbia University Ph.B. 1890, Architecture, 1915.
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