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At its most basic, a bookplate is a slip of paper bearing the name of the books owner. A bookplate, also known as exlibris latin, from the books of. A bookplate, or ex libris, is a small print for pasting inside the cover of a book to express ownership. Primrose hill press is proud to carry a selection of books on the. Bookplates and ex libris are rightly admired today as miniature works of art allowing collectors to build. Make offer ex libris book plates 12 self adhesive cat by if uk for books a million new. A bookplate or ex libris is a bookowners identification label pasted inside the front cover of a book. Often they show the family coat of arms or some particular area of interest to the owner. Boston book designer, illustrator and teacher amy maria sacker 18721965 was one of several bookplate artists to be celebrated by the troutsdale press and bookseller charles e. Should you fail to return this book, the argus eye at you will look. This way everyone knows its your book from your personal library. I think the green ones would be pretty in garden books.
I tend to spend my time and energy searching for 18thcentury american ex libris, bookplates from the libraries of famous people. Also known as ex libris, meaning from the library of, the bookplate has been gracing the inside front covers of books for centuries. So to say ex libris carrot top is to say from the library of carrot top. A bookplate junkie on the basics of collecting ex libris. Bookplate ink antioch bookplates ex libris for home.
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Samuel pepys and rudyard kipling have used them, but a personal bookplate has been available to anyone owning a library and wishing to place in. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Bookplates in the archives kings college cambridge. The first books were highly valuable and prestigious objects to own, hence the first bookplates usually. Ex libris is a coed book club for everyone who loves to read books of substance and who is willing to participate and discuss the themes and issues our titles focus on. Ex libris is a latin phrase that means from the books. Info select options a108 cat and owner by fireplace bookplate design. Antique book plates known more generally as book plates, ex libris are prints, drawings or watercolors designed by artists to be inserted into the front of books to display ownership.
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