P. N. BODFISH DRY AND FANCY GOODS (1886).
Bookmarker, printed in colours, gold & black on thin cream card; reverse blank; copyright 1886 by L. Prang & Co, Boston. Length 15.4 cm. Width 5.5 cm. More
Bookmarkers
LILIES BOOKMARKER WITH BEATITUDES FROM MATTHEW 5-3-11 (c.1912).
Printed in green, yellow & brown on celluloid, with page tab. The bottom edge carries the legend 'David C. Cook Publishing Co., Elgin, Ill.' Length 13 cm. More
DALGETY & COMPANY LTD.
(c.1930s-40s), Bookmarker, (c.1930s-40s), printed in colours on white card, with port scene of liner, small craft, and natives and passengers on shore, with advertisements for four shipping lines, and the Athenaeum Library [Melbourne], advising one to 'Read, Mark, Lean and Enjoy that book called life by travel with the world..... More
EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY BOOKMARKER: SHELLEY.
Bookmarker (c.1920s-30s) printed in red & black on cream paper, with a woodcut portrait of Shelley and a quotation, being the inscription on the decorative frontispiece to volumes in the Poetry & Drama section of Everyman's Library; reverse side carries information about the series (Over 880 volumes). Length 16.3 cm..... More
EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY BOOKMARKER: SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
Bookmarker (c.1920s-30s) printed in red & black on grey paper, with a woodcut portrait of Sir Philip Sidney and a quotation, being the inscription on the decorative frontispiece to volumes in the Fiction section of Everyman's Library; reverse side carries information about the series (Over 880 volumes). Length 16.5 cm...... More
EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY BOOKMARKER: MILTON.
Bookmarker (c.1920s-30s) printed in red & black on cream paper, with a woodcut portrait of Milton and a quotation, being the inscription on the decorative frontispiece to volumes in the Biography section of Everyman's Library; reverse side carries information about the series (Over 880 volumes). Length 16.6 cm. Width 6.3..... More
HOLIDAY HAUNTS. STATION: LLANGOLLEN.
Bookmarker (c. 1925-30) printed in dark brown on cream card, with a horizontal oval view of The Vale of Llangollen, North Wales; reverse side carries the coats of arms of London and Bristol and a description of The Vale of Llangollen. Holiday Haunts Series: Station Llangollen. Length 18.2 cm. *One..... More
HOLIDAY HAUNTS. STATION: PENZANCE.
Bookmarker (c. 1925-30) printed in dark brown on cream card, with a horizontal oval view of St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall; reverse side carries the coats of arms of London and Bristol and a description of St. Michael's Mount. Holiday Haunts Series; Station: Penzance. Length 18.2cm. *One of at least four..... More
PICTORIAL BOOKMARKER.
With a hand painted roundel scene at top and fringe at bottom; length 21 cm. x width 6 cm.; reverse side slightly marked; n.d.[c.1940s]. More
FRANK R. LAWRENCE.
Cream silk-ribbon bookmarker (1901) printed on one side in red & blue with a pair of crossed and draped flags (American and Canadian) above clasped hands and Masonic symbol, with crossed words 'Frank R. Lawrence' in the centre followed by 'Rochester, N.Y. June, 1900. Toronto, Ont. June, 1901'. Length (without..... More
J. MERRILL & SON:
Booksellers and Stationers, 37 Merrimack Street [Lowelle, MA.]. Bookmarker, printed in greens and black on a gold background on thin white card (margin off centre); reverse blank. Length 12.2 cm. Width 5 cm. Verso lightly browned. *One of a series. More
J. MERRILL & SON:
Booksellers and Stationers, 37 Merrimack Street [Lowelle, MA.]. Bookmarker printed in greens and black on a gold background on thin white card (margin off centre); reverse blank. Length 12.2 cm. Width 5 cm. *One of a series. More
PEDESTRIANS! CROSSINGS ARE FOR YOUR PROTECTION.
Bookmarker (c.197-?) printed in black on white card with pedestrian crossing and warning to pedestrians that 'Crossings are for your protection . . .'; reverse side carries seven road safety hints. Length 16.4 cm. Width 5 cm.; issued by the Victorian Road Safety Division. With horizontal creases. More
NEW BRIDGE, HARTFORD, CONN.
Blue silk-ribbon bookmarker (1908) issued at the 'Dedication of the New Bridge, Hartford, Connecticut, October 6, 7, 8, 1908'. Lithographed on one side in black with a frame containing two photographic portraits, presumably of designer and engineer, above a view of the bridge ('Largest Stone Arch Bridge in the World')..... More
ORIENT LINE BOOKMARKER.
Bookmarker (c.1950s), printed in brown, green, red & black on white card, with line drawings of five ships ('Ormonde', 'Orford', 'Orion', 'Orontes' and 'Orsova'), under the heading "EXTENDING A POPULAR SERVICE"; reverse side carries advertisement for Athenaeum Library, Melbourne; with page flap crease at shaped top, slightly creased. Length 19.7..... More
BOOKMARK: THE YOUTH'S COMPANION 1902.
Die-cut bookmarker in the shape of a lady in period costume and hat; reverse carries promotional material for the publication; length 15.5 cm.; lightly creased across chin of face; Boston, copyright 1901. More
THE PRESBYTERIAN BOOKROOM BOOKMARKER.
(c.1940s-50s?), printed in dark blue on light blue card, with photograph of The Assembly Hall Building and the heading 'The Home of Good Books' above advertising blurb; reverse side blank. Length 17.6 cm. Width 5.7 cm. Lightly browned at one edge. More
FOR MAYOR, CHAS. S. ASHLEY.
Pale cream cotton bookmarker (c.1880s-1890s) printed in black on one side: For Mayor, [head and shoulder portrait] Chas. S. Ashley. reverse side blank. Length 14.9 cm. (including top edge which may have originally been turned over as a hem). Width 7 cm. This may have started life as an election..... More
DECEMBER. Issue II(c).
The Walter Crane Series of Bookmarkers. Recto: illustrated by Walter Crane with a couple seated together (he holding sprig of mistletoe over her head) drinking wine (Walter Crane's signature above the woman's left hand), within a decorative frame and with text below; Verso: Society particulars with its Centenary 1914 roundel..... More
ROCHESTER INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION.
Silk bookmarker (1909) with small illustration of the Convention Hall, titled along with the date 'Oct.11-23,'09' within a ribbon banner, and with the main illustration of a large building, followed by the words 'Enlarged Store Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Company', woven in black & grey on a cream ground, the..... More
SOZODONT BOOKMARKER: Falls of the Neversink New York.
Advertising bookmarker, (c.1891), printed in colours on thin white card; reverse bears a rhyming promotional message and copyright date. No. 8 of First Series of Twelve Varieties. Length 12.7cm. Width 5 cm. Reverse lightly browned. More
I LOVE LITTLE PUSSY.
Silk bookmarker (1874) with a small girl and her cat, with verse, floral decoration at bottom, woven in red, blue, brown, pink, green, & gold, on a cream ground; reverse side has the woven mark 'T. Stevens. Coventry.' and registration symbol for 19 March 1874. Length 16.2 cm. Width 4.1..... More
GLEBE PURE CANE SUGAR BOOKMARKER.
Bookmarker, printed on both sides in yellow, blue and red on thin white card, with page flap, and quotes from 'The People's Friend, Weldon's Ladies' Journal, and the 'Westminster Budget'; n.d.; Length 11.8 cm. Width 8.3 cm. More
MAY CHRISTMAS DAY BE A JOYFUL ONE.
Cream silk-ribbon bookmarker (c. 1880-1910), printed in colours on one side, depicting a gloved hand holding a rose, the bottom edge folded into the traditional bookmarker point with tassel; a trifle soiled. Length (without tassel) 24.5 cm. More
RELIGIOUS CROSS.
Pink ribbed ribbon bookmarker (c.1870-1880) with large perforated card with deep punched out decorative border and a central punched out cross (card length 19.5 cm. x width 15.4 cm.; ribbon length 36 cm. x width 15.4 cm.). Intended for use in a family bible, the ribbon of this example is..... More