[Bookplate of Fred E. Woodward, Washington, D.C.] / Brockett.

Print shows an elderly man seated on a chair next to a bookshelf and a book on the floor opened to a page displaying the word "No..." Text on bookplate reads: "Guardabosque, I'm stingy, grown, whats mine's my own!" Handwritten inscription on back of plate indicates Woodward was in charge of the book department at Woodward & Lothrop Department Store, Washington, D.C.
Plate designed by Paul Brockett.
"Guardabosque, means Woodward" handwritten inscription on back of plate.
Forms part of the Ruthven Deane Bookplate Collection.

Accession box no. 20-2
Possibly by Washingtonian Paul Brockett (b. 1872); librarian Natl. Acad. Sci.