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English Heraldic Book-Stamps. By Cyril Davenport. (A. Constable and Co.

25s. net.)—In this volume we have a glimpse of the ornamental side of literature, ?4r. Davenport gives us,

duly emblazoned in heraldic colours, the devices with which collectors of books, from Kings downwards, have adorned their ,volumes. There are three hundred of them, and among them may ho recognised the names of the great book-collectors of days gone by.