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[Bookplate for Thomas Taylor by James Cole]

1750

1 bookplate : burin engraving ; 7.4 x 9.2 cm

Oxford (England)

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Thomas Taylor (28 December 1727 - 5 January 1805) is of the Taylor family of Beaconfield, Denbury, and Ogwell, county Devon. He is a descendent of Joseph Taylor who, by 1714 served in the royal navy as Captain of the flagship stationed at Plymouth, and son to Mary and, Joseph Taylor, who served as a member of parliament. There are several Thomas Taylors mentioned in Hazlitt's A Roll of Honour, a chronicle of prominent manuscript and book collectors. It is believed, that this bookplate belongs to Thomas Taylor, esquire who married Elizabeth Pierce and served as a magistrate for Devon. Taylor was a supporter of leading conservative satirist and poet, William Gifford, Esquire.
References:
1) Fincham, Henry W.(1897). The Artists & Engravers of British & American Bookplates: A Book of Reference for Book Plate and Print Collectors. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
2) Burke, Bernard. (1864). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time. Harrison & Sons.
3) Burdon, E. & Duggan, J. (2005). St Mary's Parish Church, Denbury: Record of Gravestones, Cremations and Monumental Inscriptions. Accessed on October 30, 2008 at http://www.btinternet.com/~denbury/memorials/memorials.pdf
4) Hazlitt, William Carew. (1971). A Roll of Honour: A Calendar of the Names of Over 17,000 Men and Women who Throughout the British Isles and in Our Early Colonies Have Collected Mss. and Printed Books from the XIVth to the XIXth Century, with Topographical and Personal Notices and Anecdotes of Many of them and Their Libraries. Manchester, New Hampshire: Ayer Publishing.
5) Burke, John. (1836). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions or High Official Rank; But Uninvested with Heritable Honours. Vol. 4 of 4, R. Bentley: London. Accessed October 30, 2008 at http://books.google.ca/books?id=KikAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA446&lpg=PA446&dq=colonel+thomas+taylor+denbury&source=web&ots=OUkvTIq6s1&sig=07JzhV23M0xsn78-kd1wBIovU94&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA446,M1
6) West Country Poets: William Gifford (1756-1826), accessed on October 30, 2008 at http://www.windeatt.f2s.com/poets/Gifford_W.html
7) The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. From January to June, 1827. Vol. 97. London: F. Jefferies, 1827.
8) Revolutions in Romantic Literature: An Anthology of Print Culture, 1780-1832, edited by Paul Keen. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2004.

RBSC Bookplates

2008

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