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BO0KPLATE  \nhttps://archive.org/details/nothing0000unse_i7b4  \nNOTHING  \n# T HE BOOKPLATE\n\nBY  \nEDWARD GORDON CRAIG  \n1//  \n# WITH A HANDLIST\n\nBY  \nE.CARRICK  \nEl buey sin cencerro piérdese presto  \nLONDON  \nJ.M.DENT&SONS LTD.  \nRE-1SSUED BY J.K.DENT AND sONS LTD. r93I  \nIRST PUELISHED IN I925 EY CHATTo AND wINDUs  \nAT THE cURWEN PRSs,LONDoN  \nMADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN  \n# FOREWORD\n\n*  \nWHEN I hear young men telling me that though they love theTheatre more than all else,yet cannot work for it for nothing,cannot give up a comfortable salary in some one theatre andfight for a better theatre,because if they do they will not be ableto pay for their rent and food,I think of my bookplates.  \nFor bookplates once served me in good stead.I was a youngman,and wanted to fight for a better Theatre,and,to do so,wanted to get away from the old one and study.  \nTo give up my engagement would mean giving up a regular[8 a week.The bookplate in part made it possible for me todo this.Instead of [8 a week,the bookplate brought me about[2 a week.Wood-engraving and drawing for journals helpedme too,but bookplates were the chief source of income for me.  \nSo I always remember this,and always feel grateful towardthe whole world of bookplates and bookplate collectors,users,and makers.  \nThis is all I shall offer as apology for reprinting the littlethings—they are old friends.  \n56213  \nNOTE  \n*  \nTHE PUBLISHERS and I wish to thank the ladies and gentlemenwho have courteously allowed us to reproduce their bookplatesin this book.  \nAnd we wish to ask forgiveness from those few—three theyare--who,in spite of every attempt to reach them,have some-how eluded us.  \nI hope that all will be quite right and that they will feel thatwe have only acted as pirates under compulsion.  \nIf any piracy has taken place,either it has been utterlyvirtuous or I alone am the culprit.I alone am the captain ofthis ship and I've been signalling my whereabouts to the 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