Detail View: Pratt Institute Ex Libris Collection:
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Identifier:
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sc00363
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Description:
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States, "Ex-Libris Frederick Willis Davis. Brooklyn, N.Y. 1907." depicts an open book. Left page: depicts a statue of a minute mans on a pedestal that states "Here once the embattled farmers stood,and fired the shot heard round the world." The statue is surrounded by two torches and a ribbon that contains the names of the authors "Alcott, Whittier, Longfellow, Emerson, Holmes, Hawthorne, Lowell, Thoreau. Right page: features the motto "A Good Book is the Precious Life Blood of a Master Spirit." Also features a shield with a lion. Signed at bottom "W.F. Hopson."
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Date:
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1907
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Source:
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Special Collections 150a
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Owner:
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Davis, Frederick Willis
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Place:
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Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Artist:
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Hopson, William Fowler, 1849-1935
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