Item 93: Bookplate, Ex Libris Georgia Medora Preston, 1905
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 93
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, no issues.
Measurements:
2 13/16 in. x 3 ¾ in.
Title:
The Golden Rule - The Rule with No Exceptions, Ex Libris Georgia Medora Preston
Description:
A bookplate with the sentence, “The Golden Rule - The Rule with No Exceptions” There are trees, a mountain, and a river surrounded by the text. Georgia Medora Preston, formerly known as Georgia Medora Lee was born in 1875 in Nevada. Her mother was Margaret Matilda Healy Clark. She had one sibling, Frances Stewart Dean. She was married to Arthur Kidder Lee. She died in 1951 in California. In the book, Bookplate Quarterly, she talks about how she started collecting bookplates. She is quoted as saying “Although I was frequently told, and occasionally saw it in print, that ‘everyone should have a fad, especially as one advances in years’ up to the very minute of my change in heart in this direction, I must admit that I had an abhorrence for collections, collections of any kind. I looked upon these collectors as somewhat abnormal, and failed to see how anyone could spend time and energy, to say nothing of dollars and cents in the amassing of things. I had been treated to a glimpse of all sorts of collections, from coins, postage stamps, and butterflies to a huge ball of tinfoil, the proud possessor of which, as she gave me in detail, the modus operandi of its construction, did not forget to tell me that it had its beginning as a two inch piece.” 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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570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu