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| Title | [Bookplate for John Leeds Bozman] |
| Date Created | [between 1770 and 1829] |
| Sort Date | 1829 |
| Description | This bookplate consists of an argent (silver) escutcheon with a gules (red) fess. On the escutcheon are three sable (black) eagles, displayed, two over one. Raised above the shield on floral mantling is a curved crest wreath, and a perched cockatrice. Below the shield is a banner containing the Latin motto. |
| Extent | 1 bookplate : intaglio printing, burin engraving ; 9.5 x 11.8 cm |
| Subject | Heraldry |
| Subject - Geographic | Maryland |
| Personal Names | Bozman, John Leeds |
| Genre | Prints |
| Type | Still Image |
| Format | image/jpeg |
| Language | Latin
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| Notes | John Leeds Bozman was a lawyer, poet, and historian. He was born in Maryland in 1757 and died in 1823. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, 1783, and completed his studies in London, becoming a member of Middle Temple. Middle Temple is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English bar as barristers. According to "American Bookplates" by Charles Dexter Allen, Bozman's chief work was "History of Maryland to the Restoration in 1660." His work, an "Historical and Philosophical Sketch of the Prime Causes of the Revolutionary War" was apparently suppressed ; in it Washington's role was praised and Franklin's depreciated.
References:
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Temple |
| Access Identifier | BP MUR USA P B696 |
| Digital Identifier | BP_MUR_USA_P_B696 |
| Is Part Of | RBSC Bookplates |
| Source | Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. Thomas Murray Bookplates Collection. BP MUR USA P B696 |
| Date Available | 2007 |
| Publisher - Digital | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
| 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 |
| Transcript | SINE VIRTUTE VANI SUNT HONORES. John Leeds Bozman Esqr. of the Middle Temple. |
| Translation | Without virtue, there is no honour. |
| DOI | 1.0215267 |
