How To Use Bookplate In A Sentence
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Numerous examples of her lively bookplates and covers are reproduced in full colour.
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The society's library received a personally inscribed copy of The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany, containing Tiffany's own engraved bookplate.
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I still have a Puffin Club bookplate stuck inside the cover of this book.
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The front cover sports a bookplate from 1900 of Nietzsche wearing a crown of thorns, the back cover one of him naked, with remarkable musculature, posing on an Alp.
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Later, a friend who signed 3,500 bookplates for a limited-edition work on Ali told him he couldn't sign more than 500 bookplates at a time.
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Punning (sometimes called canting) bookplates use an image relating to the owner's name.
Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie
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'bookplate' as part of literacy effort On the origin of fun Brainpower makes a mean, nasty robot
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He glued a special bookplate in each of the volumes as a memorial to his father.
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Hence, the importance of the much maligned bookplates occasionally found on books which serve to give us at least some information on previous owners.
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Detectives also found bookplates and yellowing pages that had contained library stamps.
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These complement the Bookplate File, a collection of more than twenty thousand of these miniature engraved and lithographed gems dating from the 1500s to the present.
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Many of the 4,000 books in the auction www.bloomsburyauctions.com have Davidson's bookplate affixed—a simple line drawing of the Mediterranean rascasse fish, the essential ingredient of bouillabaisse, of which Davidson wrote a hilarious essay called "The Harlot of Marseilles.
A Culinary Man of Letters
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She also collected bookplates and the woodblocks and metal plates from which they were printed.
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(If you haven't seen these before, a bookplate is a little ornamental sticker that you stick to the inside front cover of a book.)
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Forty special copies housed in a solander box are accompanied by signed prints of six of the best drawn bookplates, price £224, but this edition went straight out of print.
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One of the Catholic artists in our midst is Daniel Mitsui, who operates a website, The Lion and the Cardinal and who also fashions bookplates and other art.
Support Catholic Artists by Your Commissions
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We'd been keeping the bookplates in an unoccupied corner in a reasonably neat pile.
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Set in the ceiling were small plaster panels with renditions of bookplates; the walls were stenciled with representations of bookbindings; and quotations about books embellished the broad wooden cornice.
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Yale University Press Bookplate of a crab Pages with a nautical air: A crab, pictured here, seemed just right for Alois Rogenhofer, a librarian at the University of Vienna who wrote about crustacea.
The Fine Art of Saying 'It's My Book'
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A transcript of The Concealed Fansyes, made from the M.S. in the Bodleian about 1860 and bearing the Stainforth bookplate, is in my possession.
Three Hundred Years Hence
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It wasn't hard for me to learn their language; I had learned quite a few now-dead languages from bookplates, and their language was not unlike one of them.
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The mayor then presented them with copies of the books, complete with a Big Read bookplate.
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The images on the bookplate juxtapose, rather unhistorically, several images from the career of Downing as a young actor, but, cumulatively, they indicate his ability successfully to mix classical, canonical drama and popular entertainment.
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A bookplate is a simple but nicely designed sticker that the two of us can sign and then simply mail to you, to be placed inside your book or on your dashboard or forehead if you want, like one of those old “ex libris” stickers.
A Bookplate Announcement - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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The Chinese proved remarkably adept at reproducing the armorial designs, copying painted or printed patterns such as bookplates sent from Europe and America.
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Attached to the back of the canvas was a bookplate (now removed but remaining with the painting) that is printed with the family arms.
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The discovery of royal bookplates and fragments of artefacts already 1500 years old also hints at the king's ‘antiquarian interests’.
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If despite this waiting, you'd like either a starter-kit or a personalized, signed bookplate (s), just email me at [email protected].
Gretchen Rubin: Balanced Life -- No More Complaining, 'I Feel So Tired'
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Dinner tables were embellished with armorial silver and porcelain, gaming tables used mother-of-pearl gaming counters bearing coats of arms, while libraries were filled with rare volumes containing armorial bookplates.
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The Chinese painters were meticulous copyists of the bookplates, drawings, or watercolors of arms provided them.
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The address to send a self-addresses stamped envelope to for a signed bookplate is on the order form for the web site for autographed books here.
Christmas Book Ordering Stuff
