Original housing labelled by Richard Shirley Smith as:

'A6, Line drawn bookplates I, Richard Shirley Smith 32-51' (folders 1-2)

'A100, W/E Prints, Wood engraving prints, V: good proofs and line drawn bookplates, untrimmed' (throughout, in acid-free paper labelled 'fine proofs')

Additional labels have been transcribed onto acid-free paper folders within the box.

Comprises:

Folder 1: Correspondence, tracings, reference material, sketches and prints of line drawn bookplates for Country Life magazine, Raine Countess Spencer, various projects, James Wilson, Nicholas Bomford, Mrs Salah Hawila, Lord Butler of Brockwell and Peter Stilwell (Moss: numbers 52-57, and three not listed in Moss)

Folder 2: Correspondence, tracings, reference material, sketches and prints of line drawn bookplates for Murray Rosen, Roger W. Moss, Robert Irving, John Landis, William Dacombe, Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd and the Folio Society (Moss: numbers 58-64)