Antiquarian Bookplates: 55 Bookplates to Personalize Your Library

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Antiquarian Bookplates: 55 Bookplates to Personalize Your Library

Antiquarian Bookplates: 55 Bookplates to Personalize Your Library

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Please contact our Membership Secretary if you wish to know more about, or participate in, this project. 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. We already mentioned the King’s College Cambridge Archive Centre above, which houses a large collection of bookplates that span centuries. 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.

They are as a rule very plainly armorial, and the decoration is usually limited to a symmetrical arrangement of mantling, with an occasional display of palms or wreaths. In 1901–1903, the British Museum published the catalog of the 35,000 bookplates collected by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks (1826–97).However the value attached to book plates, otherwise than as an object of purely personal interest, is comparatively modern. 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. The first real impetus was given by the appearance of A Guide to the Study of Book-Plates (Ex-Libris), by Lord de Tabley (then the Honorable J.

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 rare book and special collections libraries have large collections of bookplates, ranging vastly in time period, style, and significance.From then until the dawn of the French Revolution, English modes of decoration in bookplates generally followed French trends. If you would like to change your preferences you may do so by following the instructions here visit our Privacy Policy to understand more about our we use your data. At the same time, however, if the bookplate is particularly interesting on its own merits, it could add some value to the book. He's the great man who endowed so many of our public libraries, and rather wonderfully said, "To die rich is to die disgraced. The main characteristics of the style which prevailed during the Queen Anne and early Georgian periods are: ornamental frames suggestive of carved oak; a frequent use of fish-scales; trellis or diapered patterns, for the decoration of plain surfaces; and, in the armorial display, a marked reduction in the importance of the mantling.



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