Item 51: Bookplate, Ex Libris George S. Goodrich, 1905
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 51
Dates
- Created: 1905
Creator
- Spenceley, Joseph Winfred, 1865-1908 (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Bookplate
Condition Note:
Good.
Measurements:
2 ¾ in. x 3 ½ in.
Title:
Ex Libris George S. Goodrich
Description:
A bookplate featuring Goodrich Castle. There are books and a family crest below the picture of the castle. The crest has lions on it and has a text banner that reads “foritor leone justus” which translates to “the lion’s fair share.”
Bookplate collector George S. Goodrich was born in 1833 in Hagerstown, Maryland. His parents were George S. Goodrich Senior and Margaret (McCarthy) Goodrich. In 1915, he relocated to Hagerston, Maryland in 1915 to start his job at the Pangborn Corporation which he had been involved with for a while. “He was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, the Holy Name Society; a fourth degree knight, Knights of Columbus, Elks, and Fraternal Order of Police.” His first wife was Cora Elizabeth Goodrich and his second wife was Nancy Pierce Carter Goodrich. He had three stepkids, John J. Murphy, William E. Murphy, and Donald Murphy. He died on January 26, 1945 in Hagerstown, Maryland. Joseph Spenceley Winfred was born on February 21, 1865 in Boston Massachusetts. When he was seventeen, he started studying engraving and took classes in “lettering and ornamental work on steel and copper plates, so as to fit himself for a bank note engraver.” He also had a night class with Tomasso Juglaris, where he learned drawing. In 1887, he became an engraver in Boston. Four years later, he got a job with a bank-note company in Chicago, but two years later, he gave it up and moved back to Boston where he lived for two years. In 1895 and 1896, he worked for a firm in Mexico City where he went back to Boston to focus completely on bookplates and engraving. During this time, he got into “out of door" studies and it was from these original sketches that he evolved those charming bits of landscape which blossomed out into bookplates of rare delicacy. The modesty and reticence of the late artist account for the paucity of details found in his biographics. On November 16, 1904, he got married to Clare Holbrook, and on September 14, 1905, their son, Richard Colby was born and Baptized. On October 17, 1908, Joseph Spencely Winfred died in Chocorua, New Hampshire.
Bookplate collector George S. Goodrich was born in 1833 in Hagerstown, Maryland. His parents were George S. Goodrich Senior and Margaret (McCarthy) Goodrich. In 1915, he relocated to Hagerston, Maryland in 1915 to start his job at the Pangborn Corporation which he had been involved with for a while. “He was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, the Holy Name Society; a fourth degree knight, Knights of Columbus, Elks, and Fraternal Order of Police.” His first wife was Cora Elizabeth Goodrich and his second wife was Nancy Pierce Carter Goodrich. He had three stepkids, John J. Murphy, William E. Murphy, and Donald Murphy. He died on January 26, 1945 in Hagerstown, Maryland. Joseph Spenceley Winfred was born on February 21, 1865 in Boston Massachusetts. When he was seventeen, he started studying engraving and took classes in “lettering and ornamental work on steel and copper plates, so as to fit himself for a bank note engraver.” He also had a night class with Tomasso Juglaris, where he learned drawing. In 1887, he became an engraver in Boston. Four years later, he got a job with a bank-note company in Chicago, but two years later, he gave it up and moved back to Boston where he lived for two years. In 1895 and 1896, he worked for a firm in Mexico City where he went back to Boston to focus completely on bookplates and engraving. During this time, he got into “out of door" studies and it was from these original sketches that he evolved those charming bits of landscape which blossomed out into bookplates of rare delicacy. The modesty and reticence of the late artist account for the paucity of details found in his biographics. On November 16, 1904, he got married to Clare Holbrook, and on September 14, 1905, their son, Richard Colby was born and Baptized. On October 17, 1908, Joseph Spencely Winfred died in Chocorua, New Hampshire.
Creator
- Spenceley, Joseph Winfred, 1865-1908 (Person)
Repository Details
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Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu