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It was common for affluent bibliophiles who maintained personal libraries to commission personalized bookplates. Atlas Obscurainterviewed Laura Aydelotte, the director of the Provenance Online Project at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, which tracks provenance marks (e.g. “bookplate...
One of the earliest known bookplates is from 1480 and was owned by a Carthusian monk named Hilprand Brandenburg, the second son of a wealthy patrician family from Biberach, Germany. In 1506, Brandenburg donated more than 450 volumes to the Carthusian Charterhouse in Buxheim, Bavaria, and each book bore one of his armorial woodcut bookplates. The bo...
Bookplate collecting became popular roughly at the same time as bookplates themselves in the 19th century, and meant that bookplates could be classified. According to the King’s College Archive Centre, “…most collections were built through the exchange of duplicate pieces. Often, collectors would have several personal designs just for the purpose o...
When I asked Mr. Jaffe where he thought modern bookplates and design are headed, he doubted books were going to become obsolete. He notes that “there’s still lots of people around who collect [bookplates] but a lot of them are older. These things come in cycles, something that was trendy will come in fashion again.” After speaking with Mr. Jaffe, I...
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Apr 28, 2014 · I guess you can’t be a fascist dictator without a proper bookplate. Here’s Benito Mussolini’s. Albert Einstein’s bookplate. The poet Robert Frost’s bookplate. Walt Disney’s bookplate. Ian Fleming — the creator of James Bond. “Let the deed shaw” is the Fleming clan’s Scottish motto, originating from the 1300s.
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An Ex Libris from ex-librīs (Latin for 'from the books (or library)'), also known as a bookplate (or book-plate, as it was commonly styled until the early 20th century), is a printed or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the front endpaper, to indicate ownership.
In Latin, ex libris means, literally, "from the books," and, in the past, the phrase was placed before the owner's name on a bookplate. In the late 19th-century, the phrase came to refer to the bookplate itself, which is a label that identifies the owner of the book, is usually engraved or printed, has a distinctive design (for instance, the ...
Mar 16, 2010 · Ex Libris : Blog Of The Nation Some thoughts on the book plate, from Alex Beam. ... What happened to the bookplate? It's gone the way of, well, the book, Beam concludes:
The earliest dated French ex-libris is from 1574, but there is evidence that there are ones that were produced earlier. It should be noted that in the case of England it was not until the late-17 th century that we begin to see bookplates used as identification of works within a person’s library rather than to identify the provenance of a ...
