Antiquarian Bookplates: 55 Bookplates to Personalize Your Library

Product Information

We’ll give you some basic information about bookplates to help you understand how these additions to books came to be and how they can affect the value of an object. com with the number of book plates (within your package limit) required and the individual messages you wish to have added.

Whether you are just starting or looking for expert advice, chances are, you'll find something of interest on blogis librorum. If you find a book with a bookplate of a notable figure, then that bookplate may mean that the object is an association copy of great value. We’ll also tell you a little bit more about sources for discovering new information about bookplates if you get particularly interested.Other bookplates might not refer to a particularly notable person, but the ex-libris bookplate might have such a fascinating or unique design that it is of great value on its own. Bookplate is in Jacobus de Voragine's Sermones quadragesimales (Bopfingen, Württemberg, 1408) Sir Patrick (Peter) Budge Murray Threipland 4th Bt. Aside from ex-libris bookplates, the other type of bookplate you might encounter is the author-signed bookplate. Societies of collectors were founded, first in England in 1891, then in Germany and France, and later in the United States, most of them issuing a journal or archives: The Journal of the Ex-libris Society (London), the Archives de la Société française de collectionneurs d'ex-libris (Paris), both of these monthlies; the Ex-libris Zeitschrift (Berlin), a quarterly. The first real impetus was given by the appearance of A Guide to the Study of Book-Plates (Ex-Libris), by Lord de Tabley (then the Honorable J.

It doesn't have to be huge, and it doesn't have to be full of shiny new books, but everyone needs to be able to own a few of their favourite books, the ones we want to read over and over again. Please contact our Membership Secretary if you wish to know more about, or participate in, this project. These classic book plates are the perfect way to personalise your books, journals, folders and diaries. And if these don't take your fancy, use the buttons to explore the site - the right bookplate for you is here, somewhere.They are as a rule very plainly armorial, and the decoration is usually limited to a symmetrical arrangement of mantling, with an occasional display of palms or wreaths. Book plates are full page illustrations, pictures, or photographs that are printed separately from the text of the book, but they are bound in during production. This work established what is now accepted as the general classification of styles of British ex-libris: early armorial (i.

One or two copies of the special edition of the Helard book, with original bookplates tipped-in, remain available. The earliest English bookplate appears to be the gift plate of Sir Nicholas Bacon; it adorns a book that once belonged to Henry VIII, and now is located in the King's library, British Museum.

Most frequently, you’ll find a bookplate just inside the front cover of a book, often adhered to the front endpapers. Many notable historical figures have also been book collectors, and as such, a book containing one of their bookplates can have great value. First, they invariably display the tincture lines and dots, after the method originally devised in the middle of the century by Petra Sancta, the author of Tesserae Gentilitiae, which by this time had become adopted throughout Europe. Ladies' Book-Plates: An Illustrated Handbook for Collectors and Book-lovers] (Originally published in 1895).

However the value attached to book plates, otherwise than as an object of purely personal interest, is comparatively modern. Some collectors attempt to acquire plates of all kinds (for example, the collection of Irene Dwen Andrews Pace, now at Yale University, comprising 250,000 items).In France the most ancient ex-libris as yet discovered is that of one Jean Bertaud de la Tour-Blanche, the date of which is 1529. More than 50 "national" societies of ex-libris collectors exist, grouped into an International Federation of Ex-libris Societies (FISAE) which organizes worldwide congresses every two years.