{"id":1128,"date":"2012-05-17T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2012-05-22T11:37:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T15:37:12","slug":"bookplate-of-the-week-a-bookplate-collectors-bookplate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2012\/05\/17\/bookplate-of-the-week-a-bookplate-collectors-bookplate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookplate of the week: A bookplate collector&#8217;s bookplate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most collectors might have just one bookplate for their entire collection. Rhode Island collector and merchant Daniel Butler Fearing (1859-1918) had a number of different bookplates for his many collections. This week&#8217;s plate is the one designed for Fearing&#8217;s collection of bookplates on watercraft:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/05\/Fearing_1365.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1129 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/05\/Fearing_1365-504x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This particular plate was designed by Boston artist <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ebbirdhisbookpla00birdrich\" target=\"_blank\">Elisha Brown Bird<\/a> (1868-1943), and may have been commissioned for a Grolier Club exhibition of Fearing&#8217;s collection just before his death.<\/p>\n<p>Fearing&#8217;s bookplate collection now makes up a significant portion of the bookplate collection at Houghton Library. Along with bookplates on watercraft, Fearing also collected bookplates relating to angling, and heraldic bookplates with fish- and watercraft-related elements. His bookplate collection contains over 3,000 plates, along with numerous extra-illustrated volumes and reference works relating to bookplates.<\/p>\n<p>Fearing gave more than bookplates to the library &#8211; his large collections of books on angling, fish, whaling, and related topics are also at Houghton.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most collectors might have just one bookplate for their entire collection. Rhode Island collector and merchant Daniel Butler Fearing (1859-1918) had a number of different bookplates for his many collections. This week&#8217;s plate is the one designed for Fearing&#8217;s collection of bookplates on watercraft: This particular plate was designed by Boston artist Elisha Brown Bird [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-ic","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}