Bookplates or Ex-Libris, whatever you call them, these little prints denoting book ownership are delightful and are wonderful vehicles for artists to express themselves and also to reveal something ...

A decorative label stuck inside a book with the owner's name on it – an ex libris bookplate – can tell a lot about its history. But why are they so hard to find, asks MARY LELAND IN THE introduction ...

A bookplate, or ex libris, is a small print for pasting inside the cover of a book, to express ownership. By the late 19th century, bookplates had developed into a highly imaginative form of miniature ...

There’s something intimate and slightly thrilling about opening a book and finding a bookplate pasted inside the cover. These small prints give us a glimpse of the owner through an illustration of the ...

Ralph B. Sipper is a Santa Barbara rare book dealer. Once upon a time in America -- if you were a book person -- you would commission an artisan to emboss on a block of soft wood your family name ...

Offset lithograph in colours with embossing, on wove paper, with full margins, with the accompanying illustrated book Recueil des Secrets de Louyse Bourgeois 9 x 6.9 cm (3 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.) Signed, ...

There could be an exhibition featuring bookplates in any visual arts venue and it would work just fine – if the selection were as diverse and interesting as this one at Recspec Gallery. But since ...

Liu Shuohai (left), a woodblock-print artisan, establishes China's first ex-libris museum, the Shuohai International Ex-Libris (Graphic) Arts Collection Museum in Tianjin.[Photo provided to China ...

AN EXHIBITION of bookplates called Slovenský EX LIBRIS opened on May 24 in the Italian town of Ortona. The exhibition was prepared by the Slovak Institute in Rome for Ortona’s Mediterranean Museum and ...

A decorative label stuck inside a book with the owner's name on it – an ex libris bookplate – can tell a lot about its history. But why are they so hard to find, asks MARY LELAND IN THE introduction ...

The print art of ex-libris - bookplates that express ownership or one's passion for reading and books - is somewhat niche, and to possess ex-libris represents the owner's high taste. Some people in ...