Antiquarian Bookplates: 55 Bookplates to Personalize Your Library

Product Information

com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US.

And the tenth Children's Laureate, Lauren Child, has drawn us a lovely new bookplate to mark the occasion! If you find a book with a bookplate of a notable figure, then that bookplate may mean that the object is an association copy of great value. The various styles of English bookplates from the Tudor period to the late Victorian period reflect the prevailing taste in decorative art at different epochs—as bookplates do in all countries. The ornate and elaborate German style does not seem to have affected neighbouring countries; but as it was undoubtedly from Germany that the fashion for ornamental bookplates spread, the history of German ex-libris remains relevant to all those who are interested in their development. From the beginning of the 19th century, no special style of decoration seems to have established itself.Each pack is bursting with the potential to make your favourite school books, holiday novels or work folders your very own. At the turn of the 20th century, however, bookplate design diversified and flourished beyond traditional armorials. There are still substantial numbers of collectors for whom the study of bookplates spanning 500 years is a fascinating source of historical, artistic and socio-cultural interest. 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.

Cards and tags can be hand written and prints, stationery, bookbinding kits and handmade books can be gift wrapped on request. The librarian David Pearson has argued that a plausible case can be made for regarding this as a kind of bookplate. 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. Many bookplates you’ll find are decorative, and they’re reflective of the time period in which they were created and the aesthetic preferences of the owner of the bookplate. With gold foil details these letter book plates will add a fantastic personal touch to any home library.She invited your favourite illustrators to help her, by drawing special bookplates for you to print off and paste into the front of your books, to tell everyone that this book is part of your Home Library. 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.