French Book-plates

Chapter 53

On a nameless plate having the initial _V_ on it.

VIONNET. Modern.

Henri-Marie Hippolyte de Faucher. Armorial.

VIOTTE, _Graveur de la monnaie royale_. 18th cent.

VIOTTE. _Regis monet._

Mr. D"Hyenville. Armorial.

LOUISE DU VIVIER _f._ 1737.

On a nameless armorial plate with supporters, and coronet of marquis.

VOYSARD. 18th cent.

WACHs.m.u.t _Sculp._

On the ex-libris of J. L.

Blessig, prof. A library interior, similar to that of F.

R. Saltzmann of Strasbourg.

(See "Ex Libris Alsaciens,"

page 35.)

WAFFET. 18th cent.

D. WALLAERT _fecit._ 18th cent.

Ex Libris J. Gosselin.

Pictorial.

WEIS (Alsatian, of Finckwiller).

Probably engraved the ex-libris of _Antonii Jeanjean_ of Strasbourg, who died 1791. (See "Archives de la Societe Francaise,"

vol. ii., page 70.)

WEISS, J. M. (of Strasbourg).

Johannes Boeclerus.

Armorial. (A Doctor of Medicine, Strasbourg.)

Ex Museo Schoepfliniano.

(See "Ex Libris Alsaciens,"

pages 15, 40. See also J.

Striedbeck.)

CH. WeRY _fecit_ 1887.

Ex Libris V. Duchataux, advocati Remensis.

Mons. Victor Duchataux, avocat, membre du Conseil Munic.i.p.al de Reims, president de l"Academie. The arms on the plate are those of Reims. (See "Les Bibliophiles Remois," page 98).

WICKER _sc._ (See Saint Hilaire.)

J. B. Nack, 1759. (Of Frankfort.)

WILLE _filius del._ 1766.

On a nameless plate (engraved by Halm) supposed to be for J. V. Meyer, of Bordeaux. Reproduced in the "Ex Libris Journal,"

vol. iv., page 178.

The same signatures and date on a nameless plate supposed to be for E. Cordes.

Pierre-Alexandre Wille, son of the famous engraver, Georges Wille, spent most of his life in Paris; and, although of German origin, was enrolled in the Garde Nationale in 1789. He was still alive and in Paris in 1821. Halm was probably a pupil of Wille senior.

WINKLER. 18th cent.

P. YVER 1743.

Le Marquis de Gournay.

ZAPOURAPH _sculp._

Duval. Floral label, dated 1772.

ZIX, BENJAMIN.

An Alsatian artist who etched two ex-libris for himself: one for his library, the other for his collection of engravings. These are described in "Ex Libris Alsaciens," page 33.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

BEING A LIST OF THE PRINc.i.p.aL WORKS REFERRING TO FRENCH EX-LIBRIS, CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED.

_Notice sur quelques Graveurs Nanceiens_ du XVIII. siecle. Par M.

Beaupre. Nancy, Lucien Wiener, 8vo, 1862.

This work contains descriptions of a number of book-plates engraved by Dominique Collin.

_L"Amateur d" Autographes_, Avril, 1872.

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