This series contains several bookplates that were housed together and labeled: "Attributed to Eve." Eve has been identified as the artist for each of these plates by the collector, Irene D. Andrews Pace.
This collection contains over 200 bookplates by British designer and etcher George W. Eve (1855-1914). Most of these bookplates are documented in A Descriptive Catalogue of the Bookplates Designed and Etched by George W. Eve, R.E., authored by George H. Viner and published in 1916. Given his background and expertise in heraldry, most of Eve's bookplates are armorial designs, although several fine pictorial designs, such as library interiors and maritime scenes, are also included.
This folder contains a letter written by J. Sidney Pearson to Warren Hiram Lowenhaupt and a few handwritten checklists pertaining to these Eve materials.
A note on the mount states that this is a decorative proof by Eve that is not included in George Heath Viner's descriptive catalogue. The design is very similar to #204.