2. | ![[Bookplate for James Phinney Baxter] [Bookplate for James Phinney Baxter]](/cgi-bin/thumbnail.exe?CISOROOT=/bookplate&CISOPTR=673) | [Bookplate for James Phinney Baxter] | In black ink. This ex-libris includes a portrait of the originator in the upper-right-hand corner, identified by his name and geographic locale. The remaining two-thirds of the bookplate consist of a depiction of the interior of a library. In a section spanning the base of the bookplate is a cursive, printed motto and a hand-written book number. The printed text is drawn from the last two lines of the second stanza of a poem composed by Baxter, entitled, "The Library." |