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Sorry for so many emails, but the reason why I am wondering why you think it is Fitzjames is because it may as well be Woolf’s grandfather James Stephen whose books most probably were passed on to Woolf’s father after his death, and ended up</div>
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<div>Sorry for so many emails, but the reason why I am wondering why you think it is Fitzjames is because it may as well be Woolf’s grandfather James Stephen whose books most probably were passed on to Woolf’s father after his death, and ended up in Woolf’s
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<div>I would not exclude him, but consider them both in this case. </div>
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Oops sorry, he was the grandfather of Fitzjames Stephen. So actually you could include him in your search, then his son James Stephen (born 1789-1859) and finally Fitzjames. One of these three should be, which narrows your search. Good luck. </div>
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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Oops sorry, he was the grandfather of Fitzjames Stephen. </div>
<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">So actually you could include him in your search, then his son James Stephen (born 1789-1859) and finally Fitzjames. One of these three should be, which narrows your search. </div>
<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Good luck.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Thank you! I’ve not had a chance to check bookplate indices, etc., but they are certainly a good next port of call. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">My best guess based on context is that it’s James Fitzjames Stephen. He was an eminent legal theorist and so would have good reason to read Bacon, and created a Baronet, so had a coat of arms. The issue is that all of the Stephen family (or the
ones called James at least) were eminent intellectual <i>somethings </i>who could have been plausibly interested, while the coat of arms isn’t quite a match for JFJ’s as it’s combined with another’s. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Confusedly,</div>
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Also, what can give you a clue is asking yourself who would have been interested in Francis Bacon's work, who most likely of these many James Stephen-ses?. </div>
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By David Pearson. Given a particular bookplate, there are a number of avenues of research which may yield useful information on the owner. There are biographical and heraldic reference works; bibliographies or lists of bookplates; major collections of bookplates
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Many rare book and special collections libraries have large collections of bookplates, ranging vastly in time period, style, and significance. Some of the
</span><span style="color: rgb(49, 124, 149);"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bookstellyouwhy.com/advSearchResults.php?orderBy=saleprice2&action=search&cat_conj=or&keywordsField=book*plate__;Kw!!KGKeukY!0WdwMY_TCrpfXNto3YNslG91wZH0KkzGQ-zNe1-XapKLcABVM_4hb0-1ceDvLX_AQi983grt7Rt3fOejGd1LWGw5rpPcuiD_$" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWAe08cef3c-e973-41c7-61a5-ff2e59cd2d28" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 158, 160); color: rgb(49, 124, 149);">bookplate
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College Cambridge Archive Centre</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> above, which houses a large collection of bookplates that span centuries. You can even explore their online exhibition, “Bookplates in the Archives.” The Library of Congress has
a </span><span style="color: rgb(49, 124, 149);"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/coll/bookplate.html__;!!KGKeukY!0WdwMY_TCrpfXNto3YNslG91wZH0KkzGQ-zNe1-XapKLcABVM_4hb0-1ceDvLX_AQi983grt7Rt3fOejGd1LWGw5ruhTnOSq$" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWA0b771992-d999-6380-9ea7-336426a26c3f" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(95, 158, 160); color: rgb(49, 124, 149);">Russian
Bookplate Collection</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> that contains a total of 130 bookplates created by Soviet artists from 1970 to 1987. The Pratt Institute Libraries also houses an
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Bookplate Collection</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. These are just a handful of examples to get you started.</span></div>
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Dear Woolfians, I’m writing with what is possibly the world’s most trifling query. This is to ask if anyone knows which of the many James Stephen-ses the bookplate in the attached image might belong to. The coat of arms looks similar to that</div>
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I’m writing with what is possibly the world’s most trifling query. This is to ask if anyone knows which of the many James Stephen-ses the bookplate in the attached image might belong to. The coat of arms looks similar to that of James Fitzjames Stephen but
isn’t an exact match. It’s in an 1819 ten-volume of Francis Bacon’s works that’s in the Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf in Washington – they’re not able to make an identification, and I’ve not been able to figure it out.</p>
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