Bookplate for Phillips Exeter Academy
From book received April 1860; accessioned 1965. / Creator Unknown
Collection: The Helen Pearson Bookplate Collection
A heraldic-style institutional bookplate in black ink on ivory paper with a line border, featuring the coat-of-arms of Phillips Exeter Academy, which bears a lion rampant and is topped with a seated lion, and surrounded by elaborate mantling. Latin script above and below reads “Pia mente studeatur. In usum Academia Phillipsa Exoniensis,” which loosely translates to “Let him study with a pious mind in the use of the Academy of Phillips Exeter.” Beneath is space for accession information, including "Accession," "Book," and "Presented by." Handwritten in the accession field is 1965, in the book field is "E.F.013" and below the presented by field is the handwritten date April, 1860. "Discarded" is written in pencil across the left side.
~ “Bookplate for Phillips Exeter Academy,” Portsmouth Public Library's Online Archives, accessed July 30, 2025, https://portsmouthexhibits.org/index.php/items/show/1680.