1905 Arts & Carfts Bookplate, Edith Cleaves Barry, Margaret Hardon Wright

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1905 Arts & Carfts Bookplate, Edith Cleaves Barry with Margaret Hardon Wright for Nannie Jenckes Borden
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Uncommon collaborative Arts & Crafts Ex-Libris bookplate after a drawing by artist Edith Cleaves Barry etched by artist Margaret Hardon Wright signed in the plate at bottom left (E.C. Barry, Del. 9 1 05) and bottom right (M.H. Wright, Sc).  This bookplate is noted in the publication
American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers., 1942
under “Check-List of the Bookplates of Edith Cleaves Barry” which lists this plate as  “1.  Nannie Jenckes Borden, Heraldic Pictorial, 1905, engraved (M.H. Wright).”
A plethora of history here, nice condition with some light overall wear/handling marks, some aging to the paper, light residue on verso from previous mounting, measures 4 1/2 x 3 inches.
Edith Cleaves Barry (1884-1969) was born in Boston but grew up in Montclair, New Jersey.  She traveled extensively as a child and received her art education in New York, Europe, African and the “Orient.”  She established her first studio in New York City in 1916 splitting her time between NYC and Kennebunk, Maine.  She was the founder and director of The Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk.  She exhibited extensively and her works can be found in numerous institutions.  The Brick Store Museum holds her personal archives which lists numerous bookplates and bookplate designs.
Margaret Hardon Wright (1869-1936) was born and died in Newton, Massachusetts and was educated at Wellesley College.  One source notes that she studied architecture as part of her art eduction.  She was an accomplished etcher and her works can be found in numerous collections, most notably the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston holds a number of her works.  She was also a collector of prints with a portion of her collection donated held by the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College.
Nannie Jenckes Borden (1877-1963) was born at Fall River, Massachusetts the daughter of Norman Easton Bordon and Nannie Peabody.  She is listed as being in the Class of 1899 at Vassar College. She married James Duncan Phillips (1907) who went on to work for the publisher Houghton Mifflin Company until he retired in 1941.  An extensive collection of their personal films made on their travels from 1925 until the 1940s is held in the Historic New England archives.
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