Bookplate for Phillips Exeter Academy
post-1924 / 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. The academy's name is above, and below is additional text which reads “Presented to [blank space] as an award for superior interest and effort in English. From the Tencher Book Fund in memory of William K. Tencher of the class of 1924.”
~ “Bookplate for Phillips Exeter Academy,” Portsmouth Public Library's Online Archives, accessed July 22, 2025, https://portsmouthexhibits.org/items/show/1677.