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 ...

That's part of the reason why I found Ex Libris: The Art of Bookplates, a new book by Martin Hopkinson and published by Yale University Press, so delightful. This slim little volume, complete with 100 ...

I used to deliver newspapers, a long time ago. This time of year, the front page of every edition had a single-frame Peanuts cartoon that reminded everyone of the number of shopping days until ...

Some are no bigger than a standard envelope, their purpose little more than a marker of ownership, but to those in the know, bookplates have their own stories to tell. Robert Littlewood, convener of ...

A UNIQUE exhibition has opened in Ballarat ahead of the world's richest bookplate design awards.

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 ...

On November 1, as a one-day only thing, we made a simple offer. Anyone who buys a copy of Playmakers that day and follows the specific steps listed at the publisher’s website gets a signed and ...