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1 50), have made a very generous use of these marks of book -possession. French women of the eighteenth century have, as the reader of Miss Labouchere's interesting pages on this part of her subject will see, for the most part, used book- stamps, many of the most beautiful French bindings gaining an additional interest and beauty from the coats of arms of their fair owners impressed upon them. There are, however, a fairly large number of book-plates known which have belonged to French women, or..., at all events, to women resident in France, and amongst them one to which attaches pathetic interest from the tragic fate of its owner. I mean that of the Princesse de Lamballe, who fell a victim to her attachment to the reigning house of France during the revolting massacres of 1792. There are such things as 'joint' book-plates book-plates which have belonged both to husbands and wives. We meet with some such in England, though not at a very early date ; but in Germany they exist as far back as 1605.
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