Definition of Bookplate. Meaning of Bookplate. Synonyms of Bookplate

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Definition of Bookplate

Bookplate
Bookplate Book"plate`, n. A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.

Meaning of Bookplate from wikipedia

- ex-librīs (Latin for 'from the books (or library)'), also known as a bookplate (or book-plate, as it was commonly styled until the early 20th century)...
- Margaret Ely Webb (1887–1965) was an American illustrator, printmaker, and bookplate artist. She was part of the Arts and Crafts movement of the early 1900s...
- erotica collector Henry Spencer Ashbee commissioned Avril to design a bookplate for him. Avril worked with Octave Uzanne, who after, leaving the Société...
- name, denoting "from the library of" the nominate; also a synonym for "bookplate". ex luna scientia from the moon, knowledge The motto of the Apollo 13...
- 1989). Bookplate with the arms of the 2nd Duke of Beaufort Bookplate with the arms of Elizabeth Somerset, wife of the 5th Duke of Beaufort Bookplate with...
- 1895) was an English poet, numismatist, botanist and an authority on bookplates. He was eldest son of George Fleming Leicester (afterwards Warren),[1]...
- (1845–1929) was an American designer, etcher, engraver, illustrator, and bookplate artist. Smith was born in Foxborough, M****achusetts to Lawton and Lucy...
- for the purchase of books "of which I might or might not approve." The bookplate bears a calendar for February with Friday the 13th and Sunday the 29th...
- Bodleian there is the first example of an English bookplate David Pearson has suggested that the bookplatepainted on paper rather than printed – may have...
- designing ephemera, such as bookplates. Bookplates by Rogers that have survived in library and museum collections show that his bookplate designs were text-based...