One hundred and three proofs of pictorial initial capitals. Subjects illustrated are principally biblical, although a number depict secular scenes and figures. A few bear the engraver's holograph annotations, and some have been trimmed or have had blank spaces neatly excised; twenty-three proofs of bookplates commissioned by Janet Ashbee, William Abercrombie, C.J. Peacock, the engraver J.B. Swain and others. Proofs of Hooper's design for his own bookplate are also present. With a pen-and-ink design for Ethel Sperry Crocker's bookplate, and a quantity of small book labels for William Morris and Robert Steele (author of the Riccardi Press's Revival of Printing); proofs of six engravings after Gere for the Ashendene San Francesco and after Ashbee for the Essex House Psalter, together with proofs of additional engravings, including signs of the zodiac, kings and queens of England and related subjects; in all some thirty-six pieces. Related ephemera includes a small card on which Hooper has written out the Lord's Prayer within a circle of only one inch diameter, and a series of three proofs by Harry Furniss., Sub- 1, Box: 1. William Harcourt Hooper Papers, MsC0252. University of Iowa Special Collections. https://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/61924 Accessed April 30, 2025.