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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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