{"id":1141,"date":"2012-06-07T16:48:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T20:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2012-06-07T16:48:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T20:48:58","slug":"bookplate-of-the-week-olive-lathrop-grover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2012\/06\/07\/bookplate-of-the-week-olive-lathrop-grover\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookplate of the week: Olive Lathrop Grover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Searching for something to feature for this week&#8217;s entry, I came across a volume titled <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=wgkaAAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PT18&amp;dq=Women+designers+of+bookplates&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=L-vQT7mlBqGY6QGdwth7&amp;ved=0CE0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=Women%20designers%20of%20bookplates&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Women Designers of Bookplates<\/em><\/a>, just one of many extra-illustrated volumes of bookplates in the collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghton\/2009\/11\/20\/winward-prescott-bookplate-collection\/\">Winward Prescott<\/a>. Published in a limited edition in 1902, the book includes brief information on female bookplate designers of the period, reproduces a number of those plates, and leaves ample space for a collector to add his or her own. (Prescott did so, quite thoroughly).<\/p>\n<p>Among the plates Prescott pasted into his copy were a handful designed by American artist and <a href=\"http:\/\/libcdm1.uncg.edu\/cdm4\/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=\/tb1&amp;CISOPTR=2241&amp;CISOBOX=1&amp;REC=1\" target=\"_blank\">binding designer<\/a> Olive Lathrop Grover. Below are both her own bookplate and one she designed for Mary K. Wheatland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/06\/Olive-Grover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1146 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/06\/Olive-Grover-708x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/06\/Olive-Grover-708x1024.jpg 708w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/06\/Olive-Grover-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/06\/Olive-Grover.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/06\/Mary-K-Wheatland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1147 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/06\/Mary-K-Wheatland-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/06\/Mary-K-Wheatland-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/06\/Mary-K-Wheatland.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a>These and other bookplates in our collections can be accessed by contacting the Modern Books and Manuscripts department.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searching for something to feature for this week&#8217;s entry, I came across a volume titled Women Designers of Bookplates, just one of many extra-illustrated volumes of bookplates in the collection of Winward Prescott. Published in a limited edition in 1902, the book includes brief information on female bookplate designers of the period, reproduces a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","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-ip","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","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=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}