Unknown artist, bookplate for Hilprand Brandenburg of Biberach , woodcut, black printing ink, and hand coloring on paper (Germany, 1480). Bookplate is in Jacobus de Voragine’s Sermones quadragesimales ...

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As personal libraries grew in the 19th and 20th centuries, so did bookplates. A way of establishing ownership, the little pasted pieces of paper pressed on inside covers evolved into miniature works ...

The Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections at Brandeis has the distinction of holding an example of the earliest known bookplate, which comes from the collection of Brother ...

A decorative label stuck inside a book with the owner's name on it – an ex libris bookplate – can tell a lot about its history. But why are they so hard to find, asks MARY LELAND IN THE introduction ...

It begins by somebody saying: ” Why don’t you have a bookplate— you have such a lot of books.” You think: “Why, yes—I guess I will.” You remember, vaguely, bookplates you have known—heavy engravings ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. As e-readers and e-books rise in popularity this holiday season, good ...

Bacon gifted this “very handsome device” to the University of Cambridge in 1574. In addition to being the father of philosopher and scientist Francis, Bacon was, Castle writes, “an attorney of the ...

On November 1, as a one-day only thing, we made a simple offer. Anyone who buys a copy of Playmakers that day and follows the specific steps listed at the publisher’s website gets a signed and ...

There’s hope that the era of American idiocy will end soon, and while a lot of that rides on the outcome of the presidential election, you can feel some real optimism from this trend: Bookstores have ...

A decorative label stuck inside a book with the owner's name on it – an ex libris bookplate – can tell a lot about its history. But why are they so hard to find, asks MARY LELAND IN THE introduction ...