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Bookplates Depicting Members of the Cat Family
Everyone has a favorite cat bookplate so send me a scan of yours and it will be added to this blog.In fact,, if you also want to send me a photo of your own cat I will include...
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A Checklist of Bookplates by Anne Jope
Anne Jope has taken the time to respond to my email inquiries as follows:How many bookplates have you produced ?"I should start by saying that in total I have only produced 15 bookplates. all done...
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Some Recent Arrivals (Show and Tell)
I try to find information about the owners of bookplates because it pleases me.to do so and it also opens other areas for exploration..Waldo and Dorothy HeinrichsThe bookplate was designed by H Nelson...
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Errol G. Hill's Bookplate,Dartmouth College Library
Rauner Special Collections, Dartmouth College LibraryErrol G. Hill’s BookplateCreated for Rauner Special Collections, Dartmouth College Library2011, sheet: 2 ½ x 4 inchesErrol G. Hill (1921-2003)...
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Custom Bookplates From The Antioch Bookplate Company. Archives
Submitted By Rebecca EschlimanA bookplate has always been a choice of a most personal nature, none more so than a custom bookplate. During the first half of its existence, the Antioch Bookplate Company...
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Submissions from Readers
It always pleases me when readers take the time to write about bookplates they have unearthed...I encourage you to send information about any bookplates you find..If English is not your primary...
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E.D. French Bookplates Not Listed In Brainerd
Yesterday, I obtained a copy of Three Generations of Book Collectors The Evan Turner Gift at The Athenaeum of Philadelphia.It was the cover illustration that intrigued me.In the book I also found an...
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Fellow collector/dealer Gabe Konrad has just released a 23 page well illustrated catalog of bookplates, bookseller labels and books about both subjects. It is an excellent reference for both beginning...
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Lots of Links August 3rd, 2015
I have accumulated a good many links this week ,many of which were sent by blog readers .Fellow collector Jacques Laget is having bookplate sales at two different web sites. Many but not all of the...
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Bookplate Odds and Ends
Okay, I admit to never having read To Kill A Mockingbird ; however,I just purchased a copy and will read it this weekend..In response to a bookplate request sent about ten years ago Harper Lee took the...
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This Week in Bookplates 8/16/2015
Rebecca Eschliman has has written two articles about the Antioch bookplate company.The first article is about David Sallume and can be seen by following this linkhttp://www.yshistory.org/David...
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Bookplate Odds and Ends 2/19/2015
Monday February 23rd is the deadline for submitting your first round of bids for the Bookplate Society web auction. A day or two after this we shall be seeing the bidding status available online...
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This Week in Bookplates 2/26//2015
A Major Addition To My Bookplate CollectionBy Larry NixBookplate collecting is a serious endeavor which is normally undertaken by serious collectors. I don’t consider myself a serious collector of...
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This week in Bookplates 3/4/2015
Timothy Jones, Esqr. By John TitfordHow many collectors may have been confused by such a plate? It could so easily be mistaken for an eighteenth-century item, but it was engraved by E.D.French in 1893....
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Fellow collector/dealer Gabe Konrad has just released a 23 page well illustrated catalog of bookplates, bookseller labels and books about both subjects. It is an excellent reference for both beginning...
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Bookplates about Cars Part One
I have a group of bookplates relating to transportation . Within that group are a number of car and truck items.This is one that arrived yesterday.Ref.Page 19Tales of Studebaker: The Early Years By...
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Bookplates About Cars-Part 2
Think Smallby James P. KeenanIt was the late 1950s and the Madison Avenue advertising agency of Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB) initiated the most remarkable “Think Small” ad campaign for Volkswagen. Imagine...
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Bookplate Owners
I enjoy finding biographical information about bookplate owners almost as much as acquiring them. Here are a few examples:The New York lyricist Paul Francis Webster (1907-1984) collaborated with many...
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Back From New York City
Yesterday, I went to three different book shows in New York City. Here are a few of the items I purchased .Ref. P.356 The annual Biography and Obituary for the Year .... Vol.1-2The William Beloe plate...
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Bookplate Odds and Ends 8/26/2015
Fellow collector Bill Glaseman sent me scans of two silent film star bookplates.Here is a link to the Hollywood Notables site which I try to update...
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