Bookplate for Cornelia Eames Anthony, by John W. Evans.
Title
Bookplate for Cornelia Eames Anthony, by John W. Evans.
Description
These are copies of one of Cornelia Anthony's bookplates. There are fifty of them in total.
The artist, John W. Evans (1855-1943), was a master wood engraver and bookplate artist born in Brooklyn, NY.
Anthony was an elocutionist in the 19th C., traveled around North America with her spouse, Frank Anthony, in the first third of the 20th C., and was based in her father's homestead, Grove Place, at West Chicago, IL. She gave a large, 10,000-item collection of bookplates to the West Chicago, IL, public library. A smaller but representative group of plates, with many duplicates of her own plates and her family's, some by Evans, 1936-37, according to this essay, was inherited by her nephew Edwin Neltnor Asmann (d. 1991) of Lake Forest (alumnus of LF College, 1927), and he in turn donated this group to this library in the 1980s.
The artist, John W. Evans (1855-1943), was a master wood engraver and bookplate artist born in Brooklyn, NY.
Anthony was an elocutionist in the 19th C., traveled around North America with her spouse, Frank Anthony, in the first third of the 20th C., and was based in her father's homestead, Grove Place, at West Chicago, IL. She gave a large, 10,000-item collection of bookplates to the West Chicago, IL, public library. A smaller but representative group of plates, with many duplicates of her own plates and her family's, some by Evans, 1936-37, according to this essay, was inherited by her nephew Edwin Neltnor Asmann (d. 1991) of Lake Forest (alumnus of LF College, 1927), and he in turn donated this group to this library in the 1980s.
Creator
Evans, John W.
Format
JPEG
Type
Image
