Bookplate of Edgar Rice Burroughs with Tarzan and his ape cheetah Long Sleeve T-Shirt

This is a restored copy of the personal bookplate Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan of the Apes. The early vintage Art Deco style bookplate image which includes Martians also depicts Tarzan holding the planet mars while standing next to his pet chimpanzee, Cheetah. The design also includes characters from other Burroughs stories. This bookplate was designed by Burrough's nephew Studley Burroughs [1892-1949] circa 1918 and before 1922 as documented in a famous letter from Edgar describing the bookplate..
Tarzan is the only son of British aristocrats who were shipwrecked on the west African coast by mutineers. Tarzan's mother died when he was a small child and his father was murdered by Kerchak, head of an ape tribe that adopted Tarzan.
After the death of his parents Tarzan became a wild child living with his ape tribe, the Mangani, Great Apes of a mysterious unknown species. Tarzan's Mangari ape mother is Kala. Edgar Burroughs later wrote stories of Tarzan's youth in hi...

I have been a visual artist since the 1960s. I'm originally from Orange County, New York, located in the Metro New York City region where I was raised on the working dairy farm [Ogden Farm] which my family founded in 1832. As a young man I spent many long hours working in gardens, crop fields, pastures and in barns with livestock. I grew up surrounded by antiques. I graduated from Bucknell University where I majored in art which included a semester in Florence studying Italian Renaissance art. After Bucknell I studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. I have lived throughout the U.S. [including three years in Sante Fe, New Mexico], in the Caribbean and in Mexico and Central America. I now reside in the 19th century...