Catalogue of modern pictures and drawings, from numerous private collections and different sources
An 1897 London auction catalogue from Christie, Manson & Woods, listing modern pictures and drawings gathered from numerous private collections, aimed at dealers and collectors of the period. The one plate shows a printed ex libris bookplate for R.W. Lloyd, with a black-and-white ice axe over a mountain ridge, a beetle in an oval frame, and a ribbon banner bearing the name. A designer could take from it the compact logic of a bookplate, where a few engraved motifs and a lettered ribbon are arranged in clear blocks.
