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Updated: June 1, 2025
Other people have invented book-plates, containing fell curses in doggrel Latin or the vernacular on the careless or dishonest borrower: "Aspice Pierrot pendut Parceque librum non a rendu" is the kind of macaronic French and Latin which schoolboys are accustomed to write under a sketch of the borrower expiating his offences on the gallows.
It was no secret to Maggie it was indeed positively a public joke for her that she couldn't explain as Mrs. Assingham did, and that, the Prince liking explanations, liking them almost as if he collected them, in the manner of book-plates or postage-stamps, for themselves, his requisition of this luxury had to be met.
Sentiment is seldom in place, but on a bookplate it is peculiarly odious. To paste in each book an invitation to steal it, as Grolier seems to have done, is foolish; but so also is it to invoke, as some book-plates do, curses upon the heads of all subsequent possessors as if any man who wanted to add a volume to his collection would be deterred by such braggadocio. But this is a digression.
The card is still among the Hogarth relics. He set up as an engraver on his own account, though he did study a little in Sir James Thornhill's art school; but whatever he learned he turned to characteristic account. He continued to make shop-cards, shop-bills, and book-plates.
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