Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486998789
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
This unique homage to bookplate art illuminates over 320 of the craft's finest examples. A breathtaking variety of black-and-white designs embrace a multitude of styles: woodcuts, engravings, lithographs, typography, and more.
Bookplate Designs
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486998789
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
This unique homage to bookplate art illuminates over 320 of the craft's finest examples. A breathtaking variety of black-and-white designs embrace a multitude of styles: woodcuts, engravings, lithographs, typography, and more.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486998789
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
This unique homage to bookplate art illuminates over 320 of the craft's finest examples. A breathtaking variety of black-and-white designs embrace a multitude of styles: woodcuts, engravings, lithographs, typography, and more.
Ex Libris
Author: Martin J. Hopkinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300171631
Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Endlessly diverse and appealing, bookplates are small decorative labels pasted inside a book's cover to express personal ownership. This volume explores the various sources of "ex libris" inspiration, including designs by C.R. Ashbee, Eric Gill, and Rudyard Kipling.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300171631
Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Endlessly diverse and appealing, bookplates are small decorative labels pasted inside a book's cover to express personal ownership. This volume explores the various sources of "ex libris" inspiration, including designs by C.R. Ashbee, Eric Gill, and Rudyard Kipling.
The Art of the Bookplate
Author: James P. Keenan
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780760746967
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The world is full of people who love books. People who not only love to read, but who love to possess and collect books. Since the fifteenth century truly devoted collectors have commissioned their own bookplates, known also as ex libris. Some are straightforward ? a simple label bearing the owner?s name. Others are impressive works of art in miniature. Whether plan or fancy, book plates give an owner a special sense of proud proprietorship. Even more important, they assure that if a cherished book is lent, it has a decent chance of being returned. They are an indulgence of the rich and famous, certainly. And, ?The art of the Bookplate? includes many owned by prominent people such as George Washington, Charlie Chaplin, John F. Kennedy, Joan Crawford J.P. Morgan, Walt Disney, Grace Allen, Otto Bismarck, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Houdini, Sigmund Freud, Charles Dickens, and Anita Loos. But other bookplate patrons are unknown to us, like Mabel Bishop, whose charming ex libris shows a young woman tending her garden, or Lucius Fisher, whose bookplate, naturally enough, features a fish. In this delightful book James P. Keenan, Director of the American Society of bookplate collectors & Designers, shares many of his favorite bookplates. He explains the history behind each, and discusses the artists ? some as famous as Rockwell Kent and Claes Oldenburg, others as unknown or not ex libris owners are passionate about keeping their book collections intact. As one very old bookplate proclaims, ?Steal not this book for fear of shame. For here you see the owner?s name.? The Art of the Bookplate is a book to be treasured and, of course, kept in your possession. --
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780760746967
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The world is full of people who love books. People who not only love to read, but who love to possess and collect books. Since the fifteenth century truly devoted collectors have commissioned their own bookplates, known also as ex libris. Some are straightforward ? a simple label bearing the owner?s name. Others are impressive works of art in miniature. Whether plan or fancy, book plates give an owner a special sense of proud proprietorship. Even more important, they assure that if a cherished book is lent, it has a decent chance of being returned. They are an indulgence of the rich and famous, certainly. And, ?The art of the Bookplate? includes many owned by prominent people such as George Washington, Charlie Chaplin, John F. Kennedy, Joan Crawford J.P. Morgan, Walt Disney, Grace Allen, Otto Bismarck, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Houdini, Sigmund Freud, Charles Dickens, and Anita Loos. But other bookplate patrons are unknown to us, like Mabel Bishop, whose charming ex libris shows a young woman tending her garden, or Lucius Fisher, whose bookplate, naturally enough, features a fish. In this delightful book James P. Keenan, Director of the American Society of bookplate collectors & Designers, shares many of his favorite bookplates. He explains the history behind each, and discusses the artists ? some as famous as Rockwell Kent and Claes Oldenburg, others as unknown or not ex libris owners are passionate about keeping their book collections intact. As one very old bookplate proclaims, ?Steal not this book for fear of shame. For here you see the owner?s name.? The Art of the Bookplate is a book to be treasured and, of course, kept in your possession. --
English Book-plates
Author: Egerton Castle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookplates, English
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookplates, English
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Book-plates of To-day
Author: Wilbur Macey Stone
Publisher: New York : Tonnelé
ISBN:
Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A collection of essays on bookplates by various authors.
Publisher: New York : Tonnelé
ISBN:
Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A collection of essays on bookplates by various authors.
Book-plates
Author: William John Hardy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Chassepot to FAMAS
Author: Ian McCollum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733424608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733424608
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
American Book-plates
Author: Charles Dexter Allen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookplate designers
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookplate designers
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
French Book-plates
Author: Walter Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Bookplates
Author: Audrey Spencer Arellanes
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Book-plates, Periodicals, Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Book-plates, Periodicals, Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description