miscellany editor writes to robert snyder jr

Stationary from the desk of Alfred Fowler. 

THE MISCELLANY, 
H. ALFRED FOWLER, EDITOR -

 17 BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING, 

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, U.S.A.: 

"26 January 1915  

Robert M. Snyder, Jr. Esq.          

Rockhill Manor, Kansas City, MO

  
To - 2 - Theatrical Bookplates "Autographed"
Your Order Dashed 25 - J - 1915
Per bookpost this day. 
The edition is now exhausted!
 F."

 H. Alfred Fowler corresponded with Robert M. Snyder Jr.

(correspondence courtesy of Robert M. Snyder Jr. Collection, LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC Miller Nichols Library, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, M0, accessed Aug 8, 2013)

robert snyder jr plate by Paul Avril

Robert Mc Clure Snyder Jr. was a member of the American Bookplate Society  in 1915.

His given address was 4550 Walnut, Kansas City, Missouri.

He collected bookplates.

Snyder's bookplate was done by the French artist, Paul Avril and was featured at the Grolier Club in New York in 1921 at the
Sixth Annual Bookplate Exhibition of Contemporary Bookplates. Engravings by Avril were well known to the Grolier Club as early as 1894, click HERE, then scroll down on article.

 
Photo of Robert Snyder, RIGHT.

Biography, Next.










 



















His bookplate, RIGHT, is # 562 in collection.

Double click on image to enlarge.

It was based on painting. From a postcard.

(images courtesy of Robert M. Snyder Jr. Collection, LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC Miller Nichols Library, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, M0, accessed Aug 8, 2013; Avril bio, Art Directory, http://www.paul-avril.com/; The Bookplate Annual of 1921, http://archive.org/stream/21bookplateannua00fowluoft#page/50/mode/2up; Grolier Club, New York Times, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10A12F93E5515738DDDAB0994D8415B8485F0D3, accessed Jan 1, 2014)

irving lew catalog

  The bookplates for children that Wilma Hall Fowler collected may have been found in a catalog like the one below. 

Irving Lew was a lawyer and a dealer of rare books who had arrived in America in 1916 and learned to speak English while attending a Brooklyn public school.
(courtesy of The Jewish Daily Forward, http://forward.com/articles/169402/jack-lews-life-shaped-by-faith-and-service/?p=all#ixzz2pH99buBt, accessed Jan 2, 2014.)

Irving Lew was an avid collector and published catalogs featuring bookplates, typography, and book-binding, among other subjects. (see LEFT) He sold books on a mail-order basis.

Much like Alfred Fowler, Lew sought out "want lists" from his subscribers, to keep himself relevant in their eyes (see page 4, ABOVE). Always on the lookout for the next great thing. In this case, bookplates. What follows BELOW were the books he offered in his 1953 catalog. You will notice number of publications listed were by Alfred Fowler of Kansas City. This is to give you a taste for the public demand.    

Double click on images to enlarge. Page 5, LEFT.

Pages 6 and 7, LEFT.

Pages 8 and 9, RIGHT.

Pages 10 and 11, RIGHT.

Pages 12 and 13, LEFT.

Pages 14 and 15, LEFT.








Read more on Lew's publishing business, CLICK on http://books.google.com/books?id=x-6PBX7crnQC&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=irving+lew,+new+york,+rare+books&source=bl&ots=ygnOdfH-bm&sig=dVUz3tSOzdFNsXgAIz97rNl8tOE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9M7FUsSBOOblyQHl1oDYCw&ved=0CGUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=irving%20lew%2C%20new%20york%2C%20rare%20books&f=false, scroll down pages 125 and 126.
 

Cover of mail order 
catalog, RIGHT.

(images from Irving Lew Catalog, courtesy of Robert M. Snyder Jr. Collection, LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC Miller Nichols Library, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, M0, accessed Aug 8, 2013.)

fowler plate by stanley harrod

Double click on image to enlarge.


(LEFT) The 'Ex-Libris Militaribus Major Harry Alfred Fowler Signal Corps U.S.' bookplate by Stanley Harrod was one of the six entries Harrod displayed at the National Arts Club in New York City. Harrod was one of seventy-five artists featured in the Seventh Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Bookplates. (close up details, BELOW)

This bookplate is numbered # 80 in the Robert M. Snyder Collection.
(courtesy of LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC Miller Nichols Library, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, M0, accessed July 2013)

It was featured on page 49 of The Bookplate Annual 1922, which H.A. Fowler published. Click on
http://archive.org/stream/22bookplateannua00fowluoft#page/48/mode/2up 

(accessed Dec 15, 2013)

H.A. Fowler published the bookplates of Stanley Harrod in 1919

 (courtesy of LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC Miller Nichols Library, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, M0, accessed Aug 8, 2013)