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Decorate your books with bookplate labels from our exclusive collection and you just might be spending more time at your library. Apr 26, 2011 a bookplate, or ex libris, is a small print for pasting inside the cover of a book, to express ownership. Provenance through bookplates or book labels rare books. Shop a wide selection of beautiful borders and designs like donated by, in memory of, and this book presented by as well as blank bookplates ready to receive your own design. Mar 22, 2018 bookplates hold the secrets to books past lives the mysterious marks owners leave in their books tell stories of their own. Bookplates hold the secrets to books past lives the mysterious marks owners leave in their books tell stories of their own. Bookplate definition of bookplate by merriamwebster. There are also bookplates from numerous authors and american libraries, as well. Acquisition information bookplate collection acquired through gifts of adelaide underhill, charles gordon post and harry j. John simpson produced these two bookplates for himself, and they are discussed in our autumn 2012 journal. Bookplates, also known by the term exlibris, evolved over centuries from simple inscriptions to printed woodcuts to an artistic medium that has attracted worldclass artists and illustrators.
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