[Vwoolf] A Bookplate Mystery...

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Thu Jun 12 07:48:10 EDT 2025


It was my pleasure. But as you said in your initial email that in the library they couldn't make the identification, I hope they would have this article that I sent you in my previous email, because it is so rich in details. Not only does it show the same picture of the bookplate and that it is Woolf's grandfather's (also that VW inherited her father's library) but it explains how Leonard's and Virginia's own library was distributed, who received what and in what way WSU’s collection came to life.

I would love if a library like theirs included this article in the collection, as an additional piece of information.


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Thank you both!
Josh

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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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