Antiquarian Bookplates: 55 Bookplates to Personalize Your Library

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In the United States, bookplates replaced book rhymes (which replaced book curses) after the 19th century. Period Features strive to be the number one source in the UK for vintage homeware and traditional hardware products for period properties, and to always provide an excellent, friendly service. Signed book plates are one of the most popular way for authors to personalise copies of their books. Aside from ex-libris bookplates, the other type of bookplate you might encounter is the author-signed bookplate. uk and in line with current government recommendations, products will no longer be sent with plastic sleeves.

With a selection of six, all designed to suit the Colour Story collection, these label stickers work best on our paperback covers and hardback endpapers. In the end, it’s a word or phrase that refers to a label of some sort that has been attached inside a book. Later, however, the composition becomes exceedingly light and complicated; every conceivable and often incongruous element of decoration is introduced, from cupids to dragons, from flowerets to Chinese pagodas.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. Until then, the more luxurious custom of blind- or gold-stamping a book's binding with a personal device had been more widespread: the supralibros. At the same time, however, if the bookplate is particularly interesting on its own merits, it could add some value to the book. 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. One of the first known English collectors was Maria Jenkins of Clifton, Bristol, who was active in the field during the second quarter of the 19th century.

Bookplates often bear a motif relating to the book's owner, such as a coat-of-arms, crest, badge, motto, or a design commissioned from an artist or designer. The history of the bookplate as a symbolical and decorative print used to mark ownership of books begins in Germany. We’ll also tell you a little bit more about sources for discovering new information about bookplates if you get particularly interested. Among early 20th-century English artists who have more specially paid attention to the devising of bookplates, may be mentioned C. You might be wondering precisely what a bookplate is, whether it is a newer addition to the book, and how it affects the value.Many notable historical figures have also been book collectors, and as such, a book containing one of their bookplates can have great value. In 2010 John Blatchly asked whether the hand-painted armorial device attached to a folio of the first volume of Quatuor concilium generalium belonging to Cardinal Wolsey should be regarded as the first English bookplate.

During the middle third of the century this rococo style affects the bookplate as universally as all other decorative objects.The shield shows a plain spade-like outline, manifestly based upon that of the pseudo-classic urn then very alive. The development in various directions of process work, by facilitating and cheapening the reproduction of beautiful and elaborate designs, has no doubt helped much to popularize the bookplate—a thing which in older days was almost invariably restricted to ancestral libraries or to collections otherwise important. These classic book plates are the perfect way to personalise your books, journals, folders and diaries. Many rare book and special collections libraries have large collections of bookplates, ranging vastly in time period, style, and significance.

Such plates could be very elaborate, or very simple in their design, reflecting the character of the awarding institution.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. e., previous to Restoration, exemplified by the Nicholas Bacon plate); Jacobean, a somewhat misleading term, but distinctly understood to include the heavy decorative manner of the Restoration, Queen Anne and early Georgian days (the Lansanor plate is Jacobean); Chippendale (the style above described as rococo , tolerably well represented by the French plate of Convers); wreath and ribbon, belonging to the period described as that of the urn, etc. This work established what is now accepted as the general classification of styles of British ex-libris: early armorial (i. Straight or concentric lines and all appearances of flat surface are avoided; the helmet and its symmetrical mantling tends to disappear, and is replaced by the plain crest on a fillet. Broadly speaking, it may be said that the purely heraldic element tends to become subsidiary and the allegorical or symbolic to assert itself more strongly.