CONCLUSION

Readers interested in more information about bookplates in general, or advice on how to go about making their own will find two websites, and their indicated links, helpful:

www.bookplate.org, and www.bookplatesociety.org.  The former site has an illustration of the first known bookplate (circa 1450), that of Johannes Knabensberg – “Igler” – mentioned earlier.

For those interested in making their own bookplate, be on the watch for illustrations that would be appropriate – here are two examples:

click image to enlarge (129K) Figure 71

click image to enlarge (92K) Figure 72

It has been great fun surveying bookplates with microscopes; readers knowing of others are invited to help me expand this fascinating topic.

It is a pleasure to acknowledge the following people for the gift of bookplates:

Arthur L.E. Barron, Thomas Joyce, William Kraus, Maria Kuhnert-Brandstätter, Walter C. McCrone, James Solliday, David Stoney, and Reid Zeigler.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Allen, Charles Dexter (1896).  Ex Libris; Essays of a Collector.  Lamson, Wolffe, and Co., London.

Almack, Edward (1904).  Bookplates.  Methuen & Co., London.

Carver, Clifford, N. (1912).  Bookplates of Princeton and Princetonians.  Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Castle, Egerton (1894).  English Book-Plates; Ancient and Modern.  George Bell & Sons, London.

Hamilton, Walter (1896).  French Book-Plates.  George Bell & Sons, London.

Johnson, Fridolf (1977).  A Treasury of Bookplates From the Renaissance to the Present.  Dover, New York.

Keenan, James P. (2003).  The Art of the Bookplate.  Barnes & Noble, New York.

Kronhausen, Phyllis and Eberhard, eds. (1970).  Erotic Book Plates.  Bell Publishing Co., New York.

Leiningen-Westerburg, Karl Emich Count zu (1901).  German Book-Plates; An Illustrated Handbook of German & Austrian Ex Libris.  George Bell & Sons, London.

Warnecke, Frederick (1894).  Rare Book-Plates (Ex-Libris) of the XV^th and XVI^th Centuries . . . . H. Grevel & Co., London.