When Anne Fine became Children's Laureate, she set up My Home Library, to make it easier for everyone to have their own Home Library. Many rare book and special collections libraries have large collections of bookplates, ranging vastly in time period, style, and significance.

You might be wondering precisely what a bookplate is, whether it is a newer addition to the book, and how it affects the value. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy.com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. The immense majority of examples display a plain shield of arms with motto on a scroll, and crest on a fillet.

They started as basic inscriptions in early manuscripts, and bookplates started to be printed in the 15th century. Book collectors would exchange their own bookplates, and they’d seek out the bookplates of authors, cinema stars, or other famous people whose bookplates might be of value. The librarian David Pearson has argued that a plausible case can be made for regarding this as a kind of bookplate.The Library of Congress has a Russian Bookplate Collection that contains a total of 130 bookplates created by Soviet artists from 1970 to 1987.

And if these don't take your fancy, use the buttons to explore the site - the right bookplate for you is here, somewhere. Please contact our Membership Secretary if you wish to know more about, or participate in, this project.This work established what is now accepted as the general classification of styles of British ex-libris: early armorial (i. The earliest known American example is the plain printed label of Stephen Daye, the Massachusetts printer of the Bay Psalm Book, 1642. Albrecht Dürer is known to have engraved at least six copper plates (some quite large) between 1503 and 1516, and to have supplied designs for several others.