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Bookplate for Phillips Exeter Academy

Date Unknown / Creator Unknown

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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.” At the bottom is the text "Edwin Fay Rice Collection."

~ “Bookplate for Phillips Exeter Academy,” Portsmouth Public Library's Online Archives, accessed March 29, 2024, https://portsmouthexhibits.org/items/show/1678.

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Title

Bookplate for Phillips Exeter Academy

Subject

Bookplates

Description

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.” At the bottom is the text "Edwin Fay Rice Collection."

Source

The Helen Pearson Bookplate Collection

Publisher

Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections

Contributor

Pearson, Helen (1870-1949)

Format

Jpg derived from Tif

Language

eng
lat

Type

StillImage

Identifier

PPL-MS: 1925.1.192

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Original Format

Paper

Physical Dimensions

4 and ½”H x 3 and 1/4”W