salt lake city letter from Sven Arthur Wiman

An embossed letter from Sven-Arthur Wiman.

"Dear Sir: Undersigned here enclosed with my bookplates and with the same number in return, waiting to hear from you soon, with collectors regards."

The letter below was in the Robert McClure Snyder Jr. collection. Was is correspondence with Snyder Jr? Was it correspondence with Alfred Fowler?

Sven-Arthur Wiman was a member of the Svenska ExLibris Foreningen

Also, a member of Nordstjarnan Collectors Club in Stockholm, Sweden. More about Swedish emigrants in Utah, click HERE.























(Link to swedish emigrants in Utah, http://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_peoples_of_utah/scandinaviansaga.html, accessed Jan 2, 2014; photos of letter, courtesy of Robert M. Snyder Jr. Collection, LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC Miller Nichols Library, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, M0, accessed Aug 8, 2013)

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.)

wilma hall fowler plate by Antonio de Guezala

Wilma Hall Fowler (Mrs. Alfred Fowler) was a member of the American Bookplate Society in 1918.

Her given address was 3606 Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri.

She exchanged bookplates.
Her particular interest was in bookplates for children.

On page 43 of The Bookplate Annual of 1921 is a bookplate of a woman standing beside a stack of books, click HERE. It mostly likely is of Wilma Hall Fowler, H. Alfred Fowler's wife. 

 "Spanish painter and printmaker Antonio Guezala y Ayrivié (1889-1956) was active in Bilbao. This ex-libris, which Guezala designed for Alfred Fowler in 1920, was exhibited the following year at the Grolier Club as part of the American Bookplate Society’s Sixth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Bookplates. Alfred Fowler (b. 1889) was a charter member and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Bookplate Society as well as a member of the Grolier Club and the editor of several bookplate publications."  

(courtesy of the Yale Bookplate Collection, http://web.library.yale.edu/arts/news/bookplate-fowler, accessed Dec 15, 2013)

In later years, Wilma Hall Fowler helped her husband manage The Woodcut Society, The Miniature Print Society and The Society of Print Connoisseurs. Between 1942 and 1947 she wrote correspondence to the Australian wood engraver Lionel Lindsay, in regard to his commissioned prints. Her letters are held in the State Library of Victoria, in Melbourne. (According to emails from Jayson Althofer,
Bolton Library Services Officer, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Australia, Sept 17, 2011)

(Wilma Hall Fowler (Mrs. Alfred Fowler) listing courtesy of Archive. Org, The Bookplate Annual of 1922, page 53, http://archive.org/stream/22bookplateannua00fowluoft#page/52/mode/2up; Bookplate by Antonio Guezala courtesy of Archive. Org, The Bookplate Annual, page 43; detail photos of Guezala bookplate, http://archive.org/stream/21bookplateannua00fowluoft#page/42/mode/2up; bookplate closeups courtesy of Robert M. Snyder Jr. Collection, LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC Miller Nichols Library, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, M0, accessed Aug 8, 2013. Reference to artist Antonio Guezala courtesy of the Yale Bookplate Collection, http://web.library.yale.edu/arts/news/bookplate-fowler, his biography, http://www.bd-arteder.com/cgi-bin/BRSCGI?CMD=VERDOC&CONF=BRSCGI_ing.cnf&BASE=ARTI&PIECE={ARTI}&DOCR=52&SORT=APE1,APE2,NOMB,PSEU&SEPARADOR=&&IAPE=%27G%27  his paintings, http://www.bd-arteder.com/cgi-bin/BRSCGI?CMD=VERDOC&CONF=BRSCGI_ing.cnf&BASE=ARTI&PIECE={ARTI}&DOCR=52&SORT=APE1,APE2,NOMB,PSEU&SEC=OB_CAS&SEPARADOR=&&IAPE=%27G%27, accessed Dec 15, 2013)

exchange with Dr. Howard N Moses

(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)

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)