Bookplate for Rice Public Library
Date Unknown / Creator Unknown
Collection: The Helen Pearson Bookplate Collection
A heraldic-style institutional bookplate in black ink on white paper with a border made to look like carved stone. In each corner of the border is a Rose, and it reads "Kittery Maine, Rice Public Library, 1888." In the center is a shield with three ravens, topped with a helmet with a raven crest and mantling.
~ “Bookplate for Rice Public Library,” Portsmouth Public Library's Online Archives, accessed August 31, 2025, https://portsmouthexhibits.org/items/show/1736.
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Title
Bookplate for Rice Public Library
Subject
Bookplates
Description
A heraldic-style institutional bookplate in black ink on white paper with a border made to look like carved stone. In each corner of the border is a Rose, and it reads "Kittery Maine, Rice Public Library, 1888." In the center is a shield with three ravens, topped with a helmet with a raven crest and mantling.
Source
The Helen Pearson Bookplate Collection
Publisher
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections Dept.
Contributor
Pearson, Helen (1870-1949)
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Format
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
eng
Type
StillImage
Identifier
PPL-MS: 1925.1.134
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Physical Dimensions
4 and 1/4"H x 3 and 3/4"W.