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 ...
Black in on white paper bookplate with a dragonfly (Toronto, 1930-69). It was illustrated by Thoreau MacDonald, a Group of Seven founder and a leading Canadian book illustrator (courtesy Thomas Murray ...
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 ...
There’s something intimate and slightly thrilling about opening a book and finding a bookplate pasted inside the cover. These small prints give us a glimpse of the owner through an illustration of the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about fashion, power and what powerful people wear. This article is more than 10 years old. That's part of the reason why ...
Clifford Nickels Carver (1891-1965), Princeton Class of 1913, served as secretary (1914-1915) to Walter H. Page, the American ambassador in London, as secretary (1915) to Edward Mandell House in ...
Lauren Alex O'Hagan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
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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