A.M. (bookplate for Ada M. Shrimption)

 

William Giles

  1879 - 1939 (biography)

c. 1922  

color woodcut 

2 1/4 x 3" image 

pencil, lower right 

edition of ca. 500 

none 

The Original Colour Print Magazine, June 1st, 1924 

cream wove 

published 

The Original Colour Print Magazine, June 1st, 1924 

2167 

$225.00 

"A.M." was done as a bookplate for the artist's wife, Ada M. Shrimpton, printed in watercolor from 2 relief-etched plates. The print was used as an example of bookplate heraldry on page 23 in the June, 1924 issue of "The Original Colour Print Magazine." William Giles was the editor. From the collection of Danish critic and author Georg Bröchner, who wrote for the British art magazine "The Studio" in the early 20th century.