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This is a selection of the 80 bookplates that I have engraved in wood and printed in Victorian handpresses. I have also included details from the finished work as well as from the design drawings and engraved woodblocks. You can find out more about wood engraving and see my work on my website: www.andyenglish.com I am always very happy to talk about designing and engraving a bookplate for you to use yourself or for a gift. My work is always be in demand and there is usually a wait of at least a couple of months, sometimes more. However, I can sometimes fit work in if it is for a special event. Contact me at andyenglish@btinternet*dot*com. I have arranged the bookplates in groups of ten, starting with the most recent. Bookplate 71 Wood Engraving 75 x 50 mm The tower of Montaigne in Perigord, France, with his skeptical motto "What Do I Know?" Here is a detail: Bookplate 72 Wood Engraving 94 x 80 mm This complex image was a challenge, both n the design and the engraving. I enjoy a challenge! Here is part of the engraved block: Bookplate 73 Wood Engraving 67 x 50 mm The owner of this plate and I both appreciate the bookplates of the Italian engraver Italo Zetti and I used several elements from Zetti's work in this design. Bookplate 74 Wood Engraving 100 x 75 mm An orrery for a scientist. Bookplate 75 Wood Engraving 70 x 70 mm The S.S. Normandie and Jack Russel terriers, set against a historic New York skyline. Here is a detail: Here is a detail of the engraved block: Bookplate 76 Wood Engraving 75 x 50 mm A Cornish coastal landscape. Bookplate 78 Wood Engraving 75 x 50 mm Castel Coch in S. Wales. I have included some of the motifs from architect William Burgess' wonderful designs. Here is part of my final drawing: Bookplate 79 Wood Engraving 75 x 50 mm A corgi, a short haired cat and a reference to Roald Dahl in the open book. I enjoyed making this bookplate very much. Here is a detail: Here is part of the pen and ink drawing: and here, the partly engraved block:

This page lists bookplates found inside books in the Parker Library, with Franks numbers where found. It is hoped to add more illustrations at a future date. Corpus Christi College

For more information on collecting bookplates and an incredible array of beautiful images, visit Jaffe's Bookplate Junkie blog.Bookplate mania peaked in ...

The University of British Columbia Library has digitized hundreds of highly personalized bookplates from the 19th and early 20th-centuries.

One of the best things about having an extensive personal library is the ability to lend books to my loved ones. Of course, “lend” is a stretch—they very rarely come back, probably beca…

Punning bookplates have always fascinated me. If you have any in your collection please send me a scan(s). They will be posted to this blog as they are received. Puns in languages other than English would be most welcome. Send your scans to [email protected] Three of the plates shown below are actually rebus/punning plates A R Kane is a rebus/ punning plate Another rebus/punning plate 1/6/2014 Jos Swiers sent a number of Dutch punning plates Dutch punning bookplates Name owner Designer Year La Chapelle (chapel) Anton Pieck n.k. Koopman (merchant) Anton Pieck n.k. Hahn (cock) Albert Han 1904 Valk (falcon) Nico Bulder 1932 Eyck (oak) Engelien Valença 1913/14 Brugmans (bridgeman) Pam. G. Rueter 1950 Schutter (marksman) Nico Bulder 1962 B.H. Vos (fox) Nico Bulder 1945 Visser (fisherman) Ank Spronk-Feenstra 1983 Dijkhuizen (houses on a dyke) Jan Batterman 1957 Kiewiet (pewit)-de Jong Simon Moulijn 1944 Rotgans (brent-goose) Georg Rueter 1928 C. Vos (fox) Henri Jonas ca 1920 Boer (farmer) Dirk van Luijn 1945 Mol (mole) P.J. Franken 1937 Kramer (pedlar/packman) Pam G. Rueter 1981 Dorrenboom (dry tree) Lou Strik 1985 1/7/1014- I just found two more in my bird bookplate album Vogler is German for bird watcher

Curious how famous people laid claim to their libraries? These lovely inserts not only indicate a book's provenance, but they often reflect the owner's personality. Ranging from silent movie stars to presidents, here are examples of ex libris from the historical elite.

Bookplate. Urling Sibley. Frances W. (Fanny) Delehanty (American, 1879-1977). Delehanty studied at Pratt Institute and had one woman shows in New York City. In later years, circa 1940s, she lived in...

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Every book lover knows that books borrowed often become books lost. Perhaps you loaned a book to an excitable guest, knowing full well that she will never again grace your doorstep? Have you, out o…

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Description: States, 'Winward Prescott' [in geometric design], bordered by the words, 'Hic Liber.' Unsigned. Format: 1 print, col., 7 x 7 cm. Source: Pratt Institute Libraries, Special Collections 833 (sc00062) Pratt Libraries Website For inquiries regarding permissions and use fees, please contact: [email protected].

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Bookplates are printed paper name plates that are fixed to the covers of books. You can make a bookplate, download one for free or commission a designer to create one for you.

CONTEST RESULTS: Everyone wins!!! Jayne and Patti I will bring yours to you today. If everyone else will email me your home address I will get some in the mail to you!!! Thanks! I am loaning a book to a friend. It is a book that I love and want to keep in my library permanently so I put a bookplate in the front cover so that I will get it back someday. I have received bookplates as gifts from others (mostly my Mom) over the years. These top two are my absolute favorites! Do you use bookplates? I would like to send a medley of bookplates to a lucky winner. Just leave your name/email address/name of favorite book on this post and I will pick a name this coming Friday, 2/26/10.

Artist: E.E. Description: States, 'Ex Libris A.K. Rossiter;' depicts a road winding to a medieval hilltop town. Signed at bottom right 'EE.' Format: 1 print, col., 13 x 9 cm. Source: Pratt Institute Libraries, Special Collections 891 (sc01185) Pratt Libraries Website For inquiries regarding permissions and use fees, please contact: [email protected].

Curious how famous people laid claim to their libraries? These lovely inserts not only indicate a book's provenance, but they often reflect the owner's personality. Ranging from silent movie stars to presidents, here are examples of ex libris from the historical elite.

I am very pleased to announce a special event from The Bookplate Society. Send Bids or Questions to [email protected] Good luck with your bidding. Lew THE BOOKPLATE SOCIETY'S SUMMER AUCTION The Bookplate Society’s members’ auctions, three each year, offer a wide range of material, mostly British 18th and 19th century exlibris, but there are also Continental European and North American items. These sales are not open to non-members. Members either attend in person or bid in advance by email or post. However, the Society is doing something different this summer by holding an entirely web- and email-based auction, which on this occasion is open to non-members. Given that this is a manual system, lacking the software resources of eBay, the auction is being drawn out over ten weekly cycles of bidding, and participants can only submit one set of bids per week. Bidders are encouraged to bid for as many items as possible on the first occasion, because in subsequent weeks there is a restriction on the number of additional bids that can be placed. There is a further bias helping people who bid early, because in the event of equal bids the earlier bidder wins the day. The deadline for the first round of bids is Sunday, 2 June (6pm BST) and this auction ends on Sunday 4 August 2013 (6pm BST). To view the listings, go to www.bookplatesociety.org/WebAuction1.htm , and if you wish to join in the auction you will need to read the notes and write to the auction address. Non-members of the Society must register their details prior to emailing bids. This is an auction in slow-motion (!), but it will nevertheless be interesting to see how it works out. As the notes point out, this is not a commercial venture, but designed to offer bookplate collectors some summertime fun. Lot84 This bookplate of Morton and Helena Stephenson probably dates from about 1920. It is the work of Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941), portrait and landscape painter, also book illustrator. He has a short write-up in Wikipedia. Recourse to www.freebmd.org.uk soon established that the owners of this bookplate were Morton F G Stephenson (born Kensington, London, 1884) and Marion Helena née Deverell (born in 1885, also in Kensington), and they were married in 1916 in Central London. Lot # 59 Matilda Constance Ismay (1877, New York -1963, England) was the sister-in-law of Bruce Ismay (1862-1939), chairman and managing director of the White Star Line. He attracted severe moral opprobrium and was ostracised after the Titanic disaster. Not only was he in no small part responsible for the lack of provision of lifeboats, but he was among the survivors, notwithstanding the loss of many women and children. Daughters of George Richard Schieffelin and Julia Matilda née Delaplaine, the two Schieffelin sisters, Matilda Constance Schieffelin and Julia Florence Schieffelin, married two Ismay brothers, Charles Bower Ismay (1874 - 1924) and Joseph Bruce Ismay. Matilda married Charles in New York in 1900. She is buried at Haselbech, near Kettering, Northamptonshire Lot 44 Signed PB, the bookplate of Margaret Brudenell Bruce is the work of Pleasance Bruce, depicting St Margaret Virgin & Martyr, whose feast day is July 20. Margaret Renshaw m.1873 Lord Charles Frederick Brudenell-Bruce (1849-1936), brother to the Marquess of Ailesbury. Daughter of James Renshaw of Broughton, Lancashire, she d.1913. Send Bids or Questions to [email protected]

A bookplate, also known as ex-librīs [Latin, "from the books of..."], is usually a small print or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the inside front cover, to indicate its owner. Simple typographical bookplates are termed "booklabels". The earliest known marks of ownership of books or documents date from the reign of Amenophis III in Egypt (1391–1353 BCE). The Ex Libris of Amenophis III and Teie The earliest recorded bookplates or ex-libris are small enameled ceramic plaques representing the ownership of pharaoh Amenhotep III (Amenophis III) and Queen Tiy (Teie), dating from 1391 to 1353 BCE, probably excavated from Amarna. by A. Levitsky by Steve Ollice

Artist: BMC Description: States 'Violet V. Collins Her Book' over a background of hand-tinted violets. Signed at bottom, 'BMC.' Format: 1 print, hand col., 10 x 5 cm. Source: Pratt Institute Libraries, Special Collections 219 (sc00013) Pratt Libraries Website For inquiries regarding permissions and use fees, please contact: [email protected].

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Description: States, 'N. Friedeberger;' features central design, possibly the monogram 'NF.' Signed with unidentified monogram near bottom, 'EvS,' or 'ES.' Format: 1 print, col., 9 x 6 cm. Source: Pratt Institute Libraries, Special Collections 386 (sc00114) Pratt Libraries Website For inquiries regarding permissions and use fees, please contact: [email protected].

Smith, Sidney Lawton,, 1845-1929,, engraver. [Bookplate of Charles P. Searle] [1904] 1 print : etching with engraving ; bookplate 9.9 x 7.3 cm. Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Print shows a man sitting in a library or study reading a large book monogramed "CPS". Forms part of the Ruthven Deane Bookplate Collection. Subjects: Reading--1900-1910. Format: Bookplates--1900-1910. Etchings--1900-1910. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.15507 Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1935:144:2130 [item]