London: George Bell & Sons, 1896. small 8vo. rebacked with original cloth, top edge gilt. x, 360 pages. Second edition. (Fuller p.60). Limited to 788 copies. Many illustrations. Expanded from the 1892 edition. Rebacked with new endpapers. Covers lightly spotted, light shelfwear. Internally foxed. READ MORE about FRENCH BOOK-PLATES, AN ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK FOR STUDENTS OF EX-LIBRIS
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 16212
1931. tall 4to. later stiff paper wrappers. 14 pages with 6 plates, two in color. From Osterreichisches Jahrbuch fur Exlibris und Gebrauchs-Graphik. Band 26. READ MORE about HANDGEMALTE BUCHEIGNERZEICHEN III, DIE VERSCHIEDENEN ARTEN DER ANBRINGUNGEN DES HANDGEMALTEN...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 21171
Kobenhavn: Carit Andersens Forlag, 1941. small 8vo. contemporary half leather with paste-paper-covered boards and with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. XIV pages. 24 plates. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies. Biographical sketch of this Danish bookplate designer followed by 24 full-page facsimiles of his works. Leather rubbed along hinges. READ MORE about LEO ESTVADS EXLIBRIS, DEN INDLEDENDE TEKST AF ARTHUR G. HASSO
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 21418
N.P. n.p., (1964). 8vo. patterned paper-covered boards, leather spine label. (ii), 150, (2) pages. First edition, limited to 400 copies. Study, in Danish, of the Danish heraldic bookplates of military officers. Introductory text followed by 43 full-page plates reproducing the bookplates. Covers faded with some wear at spine ends. READ MORE about DANSKE HERALDISKE OFFICERS-EXLIBRIS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 73257
Elsinore: Poul A. Andersen, 1966. small 8vo. later cloth with original stiff paper wrappers bound in, leather spine label. 208 pages. First edition, limited to an edition of 400 copies. An account of the history of bookplates with military themes in Denmark and abroad. The author traces the general history of bookplates and then discusses the specific genre of military ex-libris. Illustrated in black-and-white with several tipped-in color reproductions. In Danish with a French summary..... READ MORE about MILITAERE BOGEJERMAERKER EXLIBRIS
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 72175
London: George Bell & Sons, 1895. thick 8vo. original cloth, top edge gilt. x, 358 pages. First edition. (Fuller p.69). Some wear to the hinges and spine ends. Light foxing and spotting to boards. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Overall a very good, tight copy. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of bookplates in the text. The last 96 pages list ladies' bookplates. READ MORE about LADIES' BOOK-PLATES, AN ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK FOR COLLECTORS AND BOOK-LOVERS
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 17358
London, England: The Bookplate Society, 2016. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages. Limited to 375 copies. A supplement to the Bookplate Society's members' book for 2006 about trophy plates. Black and white illustrations. Includes addenda and corrigenda to the 2006 publication. READ MORE about BOOKPLATES IN THE TROPHY STYLE: A SUPPLEMENT
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 132156
Washington: The Bruin Press, 1940. small 4to. boards. (ii), 55 pages. B1-80. Limited to 300 copies. Includes three tipped-in bookplates; Delaware Academy of Medicine from the original lithographic stone by Albert Kruse, a print of the James A. Bayard bookplate from the original copper, and bookplates of Henry I. Law printed from the block. Minor cover soiling. READ MORE about DELAWARE BOOKPLATES
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 43157
Frederikshavn: Exlibristen, 1986. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 58 pages. Limited to 350 numbered copies; this copy out of series. This essay describes the bookplates designed by these three eighteenth century English engravers including detailed information on specific bookplates. Well-illustrated throughout. READ MORE about THE BOOKPLATES OF ROBERT HANCOCK, JAMES ROSS AND WILLIAM BACHE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 33638
London: The Bookplate Society/Forlaget Exlibristen, 1987. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 28 pages. Trade edition. Limited to 650 numbered copies. This work contains a biographical essay and one-hundred sixty-eight descriptions of Hagreen's bookplates. Well-illustrated with reproductions of the bookplates in different colors. READ MORE about THE EX-LIBRIS OF PHILIP HAGREEN
Price: $22.00 Order nr. 33694
London: The Bookplate Society/Forlaget Exlibristen, 1987. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 28 pages. Trade edition. Limited to 650 numbered copies. This work contains a biographical essay and one-hundred sixty-eight descriptions of Hagreen's bookplates. Well-illustrated with reproductions of the bookplates in different colors. Covers soiled and tear in front cover. READ MORE about THE EX-LIBRIS OF PHILIP HAGREEN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 86957
Cleveland: Printed for Subscribers, 1899. 8vo. original red cloth. 33 pages. First edition, limited to 120 numbered copies. Printed at the Marion Press. (Fuller p.70). Loosely inserted are four additional bookplates engraved by French. They are: Charles E. Clark, M.D. (variant one), Charles E. Clark, M.D. (variant two); Edward Hale Bierstadt; and James Hale Bates. A beautiful copy. Contains frontispiece portrait of French, four reproductions of bookplates done from the copper plate, and an photogravure..... READ MORE about LIST OF BOOK-PLATES ENGRAVED ON COPPER BY MR. EDWIN DAVIS FRENCH
Price: $325.00 Order nr. 17349
Melbourne, Australia: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2014. small folio. cloth, gilt on cover and spine, slipcase. (xii), 130 pages. Limited to 215 copies, of which this is one of 200 numbered copies bound thus. Tipped-in illustrations and photographs of Corrigan and the bookplates. Text set in Monotype Baskerville at Whittington Press, England. Includes an exclusive 90 minute interview with Pat Corrigan on DVD. Finely bound by hand in gilt-illustrated full cloth, with slipcase, at The..... READ MORE about BOOKPLATES FOR PAT CORRIGAN & FAMILY
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 132672
N.P. Porto, 1956. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 53, (3) pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the author. A study of the bookplates produced by the 20th century bookplate artist, Reitsma- Valenca. 28 illustrations in the text. READ MORE about NO MUNDO DO EX-LIBRIS, A ARTISTA HOLANDESA ENGELIEN REITSMA-VALENCA
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 19014
Berlin, Germany: (Claus Wittal), 1998. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. Text in German. Exlibris publication 327. Comments on rare bookplates in the collection of Count Wilczek exhibited at the Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum. One reproduction of a papal bookplate tipped in. READ MORE about SELTENE EXLIBRIS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 133211
Portugal: privately printed, 2015. 4to. illustrated paper-covered boards. 224 pages, 1 tipped-in sample. NOTE: THIS IS FOR DAMAGED COPIES (I.E. BUMPED CORNERS/SPINE ENDS). Limited to a total 200 numbered copies, of which this is one of 150. Text in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Publication directed by Artur Mário de Mota Miranda. Dedication, list of artists, acknowledgments. Biographical sketches and descriptive information about the work of each of 26 artists. Features one tipped-in sample. Ex-libri..... READ MORE about CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL EX-LIBRIS ARTISTS #19
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 125289
N.P. The American Bookplate Society, 1914. 8vo. paper-covered boards. 70 pages. Limited to only 250 copies. (Fuller p. 86). An early bibliography of bookplate literature. READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOK-PLATE LITERATURE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 3167
Copenhagen, Denmark: Editions Areté, n.d. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Text in Danish with English translation. Prospectus for Gunnar de Trönnberg, L'Ex-Libris Français du 16e Siecle à 1815. With three illustrations. Folded. READ MORE about Publication Announcement by Areté
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 133040
Leipzig, Germany: Friedrich Rothbarth, 1905. 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Text in German, English, and French. Prospectus for Ex-libris-werk Willi Geiger. Illustration on front cover. READ MORE about Publication Announcement by Friedrich Rothbarth
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 133047
Kobenhavn: H. Hagerup's Forlag, 1943. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 122, (4) pages. History of heraldic bookplates from Denmark with biographical information on the owners of the bookplates described. 52 bookplates are illustrated. READ MORE about DANSKE HERALDISKE EXLIBRIS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 26224
4 1/4" x 3 3/4" Single sheet. Finely printed bookplate for the Wormser Collection of Graphic Satire at Fairleigh Dickinson University Library, with comic engraving. Printed by John Anderson at his Pickering Press. READ MORE about RICHARD S. WORMSER COLLECTION OF GRAPHIC SATIRE BOOKPLATE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 48621
London: Edward Arnold, (1898). 8vo. quarter cloth with decorated paper-covered boards. (x),+55 plates. A collection of 55 bookplates, each printed on a separate page (Fuller 90). In the following pages, some fresh combinations of the heraldic, view, and purely decorated plates have been aimed at, and the title "Composite" taken to indicate, generally, the character of the contents. Plates by T.S. Simson, Frank Bramley, and E.B. Ricketts, with a colophon engraved by the latter. Bookplates..... READ MORE about COMPOSITE BOOK-PLATES, 1897-98
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 73232
London: Edward Arnold, (1898). 8vo. quarter cloth with decorated paper-covered boards. (x),+55 plates. A collection of 55 bookplates, each printed on a separate page (Fuller 90). In the following pages, some fresh combinations of the heraldic, view, and purely decorated plates have been aimed at, and the title "Composite" taken to indicate, generally, the character of the contents. Plates by T.S. Simson, Frank Bramley, and E.B. Ricketts, with a colophon engraved by the latter. Bookplate..... READ MORE about COMPOSITE BOOK-PLATES, 1897-98
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 137255
3.25" x 4.75" small 12mo bookplate. Isaiah Thomas altered to "Isaac Rand Thomas" as indicated on the plate itself. Faint notation below 'TUS" in NEC-ELATUS reads, "S.L.S after P.R." Printed on early watermarked laid paper. Exceptional eye appeal and workmanship. The printer was Sidney Lawton Smith (1845-1929). Smith was an American designer, etcher, engraver, illustrator, and bookplate artist. This bookplate for Isaiah Thomas was first engraved by Paul Revere and subsequently name altered by Sidney..... READ MORE about C. 1870 PRODUCTION, RENDITION OF PAUL REVERE'S ENGRAVED BOOK PLATE
Price: $550.00 Order nr. 135358
London and New Castle: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 1999. large 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 384 pages. Forty years before the turn of the 18th century, a small, prestigious bookplate workshop was established, the likes of which were never to be seen again after its employment of one man: Thomas Bewick. To this day, the works of the bookplate shop of Beilby & Bewick are highly collectible and valued in the antiques world..... READ MORE about BOOKPLATES BY BEILBY & BEWICK, A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 54988
