[Vwoolf] A Bookplate Mystery...

[Eleanor McNees]

Dear Joshua,

See p. ix of The Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: A Short-title Catalog, ed. Julia King & Laila Miletic-Vejzovic. WSU Press, 2003, in which the editors reproduce this coat of arms and state that it belonged to Sir James (Woolf’s grandfather). They note that this book plate with coat of arms was inside The Prose Works of John Milton, but it is the same plate that is in the works by Bacon.

Both Fitzjames and Leslie Stephen were awarded baronetcies late in their careers, but I’m quite sure that the original coat of arms was that of Sir James, their father and Woolf’s grandfather.

Best wishes,
Eleanor
Dr. Eleanor McNees
Professor Emerita
Department of English & Literary Arts
University of Denver
Denver, Colorado 80208





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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
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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 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.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, and all best wishes,
Josh
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