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[Bookplate for Douglas Battersby]
Description
In black ink on yellow paper, the bookplate consists of an ornate decorative border surrounding the text. The text is a Gothic typeface, except for the city. There are significant stains around the edges of the bookplate.
Item Metadata
| Title |
[Bookplate for Douglas Battersby]
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| Date Created |
[between 1870 and 1899]
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| Description |
In black ink on yellow paper, the bookplate consists of an ornate decorative border surrounding the text. The text is a Gothic typeface, except for the city. There are significant stains around the edges of the bookplate.
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| Extent |
1 bookplate : relief printing ; 8.7 x 5.2 cm
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| Geographic Location | |
| Person Or Corporation | |
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| File Format |
image/jpeg
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| Notes |
The owner may have been Douglas Battersby, who was born in England around 1843, and appears in the 1851 census living in Lancashire. He left England by 1861 and moved to Canada by 1871. The 1871 Canadian census shows him living in Montreal, where he worked as an accountant and a passenger agent for the National Line steamship company. He remained in Montreal until at least 1891, after which he vanishes from the census. He married a Canadian woman of Irish descent named Mary (born around 1843), and they had one daughter, Isabel (born around 1866, and called Bell in the 1881 census). The family is listed as 'Buttersby' in the 1871 census, but the names and birth dates confirm their identity. This is presumably the Douglas Battersby acknowledged in the preface of James Croil's 1898 Steam Navigation and its Relation of the Commerce of Canada and the United States (xi).
References: 1) "Canada Census, 1871," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4KZ-C8F : accessed 07 Dec 2012), Douglas Buttersby, St-Laurent Ward, Montreal West, Québec, Canada. 2) "Canada Census, 1881," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MVJ5-YLR : accessed 07 Dec 2012), Douglas Battersby in household of Douglas Battersby, St-Antoine Ward, Montreal(City), Québec, Canada. 3) "Canada Census, 1891," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MW5S-9XR : accessed 07 Dec 2012), Douglas Battersby, St Antoine Ward, Montréal Centre, Québec, Canada. 'Census of Canada, 1871,' Library and Archives Canada (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1871/001101-119.01-e.php?&person_id_nbr=22929&interval=20&&PHPSESSID=up5i01mk66a1if4rsqivifeng1; accessed 7 Dec 2012), Douglas Buttersby, see PDF. 4) 'Census of Canada, 1881,' Library and Archives Canada (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/base-de-donnees/recensement-1881/001049-119.01-e.php?id=QC_6187100&interval=20&PHPSESSID=g2ur3qkdst947du74fslkp9v27; accessed 7 Dec 2012), Douglas Battersby, see PDF. 5) 'Census of Canada, 1891,' Library and Archives Canada (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1891/001081-119.01-e.php?&person_id_nbr=4063644&interval=20&&PHPSESSID=fsgs24uno808e3mlstslgc4m63; accessed 7 Dec 2012), Douglas Battersby, see PDF. Croil, James. Steam Navigation and its Relation to the Commerce of Canada and the United States. Toronto: W. Briggs, 1898. Internet Archive. Accessed 7 December 2012. http://archive.org/details/steamnavigation00croiuoft. 6) MontrealDirectory for 1873-74. Montreal: J. Lovell, 1873. Internet Archive. Accessed 7 December 2012. http://archive.org/details/cihm_37000. 7) Lovell's Montreal Directory for 1875-76. Montreal: Lovel, 1875. Open Library. Accessed 7 December 2012. http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24392294M/Lovell%27s_Montreal_directory_for_1875-76. |
| Identifier |
BP MUR CAN P B3884; BP_MUR_CAN_P_B3884
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| Collection | |
| Source |
Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. Thomas Murray Bookplates Collection. Morley Binder. BP MUR CAN P B3884
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| Date Available |
2013
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| Provider |
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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| Rights |
Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca
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| DOI |
10.14288/1.0215724
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| Aggregated Source Repository |
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Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca