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Prints and bookplates by Sidney Lawton Smith, 1886-1925
Call No.: LOT 15196 (FM -- AA size, A size, B size)
Extent: 886 items
BOX 1 FOLDER 1 Folio 1, 1905-1908
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 1 to 19 (FM -- AA size)
Folio Description: Title pages, frontispieces, decorations, and illustrations for books by William Loring Andrews: "New York as Washington Knew It After the Revolution" (1905); "An English XIX Century Sportsman Bibliopole and Binder of Angling Books" (1906); "The Heavenly Jerusalem: A Mediaeval Song of the Joys of the Church Triumphant" (1908). Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 1 FOLDER 2 Folio 2, 1901
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 20 to 40 (FM -- AA size)
Folio Description: Illustrations for William Loring Andrews' "Paul Revere and His Engraving" (1901). Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 5 FOLDER 1 Folio 3, 1889
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 580 to 587 (FM -- A size)
Folio Description: Proof states of the Heber R. Bishop Jade Collection, Bowl. Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 5 FOLDER 2 Folio 4, 1889
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 588 to 595 (FM -- A size)
Folio Description: Proof states of the Heber R. Bishop Jade Collection, lotus vase. Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 5 FOLDER 3 Folio 5, 1889
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 596 to 603 (FM -- A size)
Folio Description: Proof states of the Heber R. Bishop Jade Collection, low relief vase. Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 5 FOLDER 4 Folio 6, 1888
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 604 to 611 (FM -- A size)
Folio Description: Proof states of the Heber R. Bishop Jade Collection, tower piece. Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 5 FOLDER 5 Folio 7, 1889
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 612 to 618 (FM -- A size)
Folio Description: Proof states of the Heber R. Bishop Jade Collection, trumpet vase. Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 5 FOLDER 6 Folio 8, undated
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 619 to 622 (FM -- A size)
Folio Description: Proof states of the Heber R. Bishop Jade Collection, white plaque. Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 1 FOLDER 3 Folio 9, 1902
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 41 to 59 (FM -- AA size)
Folio Description: Illustrations for William Ellery Channing's "Thoreau: The Poet Naturalist, with Memorial Verses" (1873). Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 1 FOLDER 4 Folio 10, 1901-1915
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 60 to 108 (FM -- AA size)
Folio Description: Named portraits of men for the "Coe Family Genealogy"; portrait of Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson; engraving from "The Princeton Washington" painting; portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson; frontispiece and title page for Xavier de Maistre's "Voyage" (1901); de Kock illustration (1902); Goodspeed's Book Shop imprint; and World's Columbian Exposition medal commemorating the 400th anniversary of Columbus' landing. Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 5 FOLDER 7 Folio 11, 1894
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 623 to 641 (FM -- A size)
Folio Description: Illustrations for several Charles Dickens novels, such as the "Old Curiosity Shop" (1840), "Mugby Junction" (1866), "Great Expectations" (1861), and "Nicholas Nickleby" (1838-1839). Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 2 FOLDER 1 Folio 12, 1903-1921
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 109 to 169 (FM -- AA size)
Folio Description: Ex-Libris, A-B // Bookplates for the Boston Public Library, Boston Medical Library, Frank Brewer Bemis, Bolton Public Library, Adaline B. Beal, John S. Bartlett, Bangor Public Library, Hilda Rice Ayer, Frederick Ayer Jr., American Antiquarian Society, Alpha Delta Phi Club, and Susan Janney Allen, among others.
BOX 2 FOLDER 2 Folio 13, 1900-1919
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 170 to 207 (FM -- AA size)
Folio Description: Ex-Libris, C // Bookplates for The Children's Hospital Boston, Stephen Caplin, W.H. Chase, John Bouvé Clapp, Clara Erskine Clement, Thomas Upham Coe, Arthur T. Connolly, Annie B. Crocker, Prentiss Cummings, and Frederic H. Curtiss, among others.
BOX 2 FOLDER 3 Folio 14, 1896-1921
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 208 to 277 (FM -- AA size)
Folio Description: Ex-Libris, D-H // Bookplates for Cambridge First Parish (ex dono Edward Henry Hall), Frederick Thayer Hunt, James Frothingham Hunnewell, Lucius Lee Hubbard, Howe Library, Sallie W. Hovey, Mary Livingston Hinsdale, Harvard College Library, Charles J. Groves, Charles Eliot Goodspeed's Book Shop, Josiah Minot Fowler, E. Hayward Ferry, District of Columbia Public Library, John Dane, Daniel B. Fearing, The Essex Institute, Helen Frances Dinsmore, and Ruthven Deane, among others.
BOX 3 FOLDER 1 Folio 15, 1898-1925
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 278 to 338 (FM -- AA size)
Folio Description: Ex-Libris, J-P // Bookplates for Charles Lemuel Nichols, Francis G. Peabody, Lynn Public Library, The Massachusetts Historical Society, Malden Public Library, Lodge of St. Andrews, John Thomas Lee, Robert Irving Jenks, Herbert J. Jackson, Winward Prescott, Thomas Redfield Proctor [and] Maria Watson Williams Proctor, Portland High School Library, The Newberry Library, and Pequot Library, among others. Also includes one original folio page from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 3 FOLDER 2 Folio 16, 1901-1924
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 339 to 385 (FM -- AA size)
Folio Description: Ex-Libris, R-S // Bookplates for Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Edith Heath Rossiter, Martha B. Stone, Stevens Memorial Library, Eleanor F. Sproul, Arthur E. Sproul, Clarence W. Spring, Joseph N. Smith, Harry Worcester Smith, Harold Marsh Sewall, Charles P. Searle, Sidney L. Smith, Spenceley, The Rowfant Club, and Henry Livingston Rowe, among others. Also includes one original folio page from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 3 FOLDER 3 Folio 17, 1903-1924
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 386 to 421 (FM -- AA size)
Folio Description: Ex-Libris, T-W // Bookplates for George Clinton Fairchild Williams, Isabella Lincoln Whittier, Albert R. Whittier, Jr., Sargent Holbrook Wellman, Vassar College Library, Mary Brinsmade Van Sinderen, Vail Library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred Rogers Turner, Isaac Rand Thomas, Henry F. Tapley, and Byam and Madeleine Whitney. Also includes one original folio page from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 3 FOLDER 4 Folio 18, 1902-1908
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 422 to 453 (FM -- AA size)
Folio Description: Illustrations for "Glinting Sunshine" for Mrs. Edward A. Adams; title page, illustrations, and table of illustrations for William Loring Andrews' "Bibliopegy in the United States: And Kindred Subjects" (1902); and title pages for the 1905 and 1906 yearbooks of the Bibliophile Society. Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 4 FOLDER 1 Folio 19, 1890-1913
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 454 to 516 (FM -- AA size)
Folio Description: Portrait of John Hay; profile of Thomas Jefferson for Club of Odd Volumes; Houghton-Mifflin & Co. imprints; portraits of Dr. N. C. Keep; medallion showing Abraham Lincoln; portrait of Hugh Earl Percy for "Earl Percy's Dinner Table" (1907); proofs of "Morning on the River"; outbreak and birthplace of the great Boston fire of 1872; title page for Charles L. Nichols' "The Library of Ramses the Great" (1909); portrait of Rev. Thomas Prince; "Protection" for North East Mutual Life Insurance Company; portraits of men in the Revere Family for the History of the Revere Copper Co. (1890); portrait of Sir Roger Sheaffe Bart; portrait of Charles William Sherborn; and portrait of Mrs. Sidney L Smith. Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 5 FOLDER 8 Folio 20 (part 1), 1889-1918
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 642 to 692 (FM -- A size)
Folio Description: Portraits of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mrs. [Elizabeth Lawrence (?)] Hemingway, Maria P. Gilman, N. J. Bartlett (drypoint and etching, 1904), Thomas Bailey Aldrich, D. T. Huntoon, Dudley Buck, George E. Littlefield, and Hon. F. A. Gasall (?) (1910).
BOX 5 FOLDER 9 Folio 20 (part 2), 1886-1913
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 693 to 720 (FM -- A size)
Folio Description: Portraits of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Luis Agassiz, John Quincy Adams (as a boy), Elisha R. Brown, and Mrs. John Fiske. Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 6 FOLDER 1 Folio 21, 1887-1904
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 721 to 773 (FM -- A size)
Folio Description: Illustrations for the Boston Iconographic Society, including Park St. Meeting House (Church), Old Corner Book-store, Old State House, Brattle St. Church, West View of Mick Street, New South Church, Faneuil Hall, John Hancock House, and Old South Church. Also, copy of Nassau Hall, Princeton. Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 4 FOLDER 2 Folio 22, 1902-1922
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 517 to 574 (FM -- AA size)
Folio Description: Brochure for the book "Thoreau: The Poet-Naturalist" by William Ellery Channing (1902) and title page and vignettes for the book "The Iconography of Manhattan Island" by I. N. Phelps Stokes (1912). Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 6 FOLDER 2 Folio 23, 1886-1888
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 774 to 792 (FM -- A size)
Folio Description: Prints showing a Japanese sword guard, bowl, Fritsche Ewer, a vase, and Tiffany jeweled coffee pot. Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 6 FOLDER 3 Folio 24, 1890-1896
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 793 to 801 (FM -- A size)
Folio Description: Reproductive prints from Jules Bastien Lepage's painting "Joan of Arc" and Franz Rosler's "Diana and her Nymphs Hunting"; Revere Copper Co. store front; shore views; a portrait of Mark Hopkins; and horse racing. Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 7 FOLDER 1 Folio 25 (part 1), 1898-1900
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 802 to 814 (FM -- A size)
Folio Description: New England Historic Genealogical Society membership certificate; William Loring Andrews' library; North West Prospect of Nassau Hall in New Jersey; View from the park gate, Broadway, NY; and engravings of women for the John A. Lowell & Co. Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 8 FOLDER 1 Folio 25 (part 2), 1890
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 872 (FM -- B size)
Folio Description: Reproductive art print of Europa and the Bull.
BOX 7 FOLDER 2 Folio 26, 1892-1904
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 815 to 844 (FM -- A size)
Folio Description: Portraits of E. H. Barney, J. W. Wheeler, Pach, J. M. Stone, James Bradley Thayer, and Sidney Lawton Smith. Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 4 FOLDER 3 Folio 27, 1904-1918
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 575 to 579 (FM -- AA size)
Folio Description: Reproductive print of Thomas Johnston's "View of Yale"; letterhead for The Witch House, Taunton, MA; and "Updike's French border." Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 7 FOLDER 3 Folio 28, 1894-1895
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 845 to 871 (FM -- A size)
Folio Description: Portraits and illustrations commissioned by John G. Whittier (portraits of himself, a sister, a brother, home at Amesbury, and Oak Knoll, Danvers) and John Burroughs works (nature scenes illustrations). Also, a copy of the folio sheet descriptions from Goodspeed's Book Shop.
BOX 8 FOLDER 2 Folio 29, 1890-1912
Call No.: LOT 15196, no. 873 to 886 (FM -- B size)
Folio Description: Trial proof prints with descriptions of distinctive features for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., 1892, Boston, Mass.: Quadra-centennial of the discovery of San Salvador by Columbus, 1492; portrait of William Eustis Russell, Governor of Mass., 1912; and portrait of unidentified man, 1912.

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