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In the United States, bookplates replaced book rhymes (which replaced book curses) after the 19th century. She invited your favourite illustrators to help her, by drawing special bookplates for you to print off and paste into the front of your books, to tell everyone that this book is part of your Home Library. One of the first known English collectors was Maria Jenkins of Clifton, Bristol, who was active in the field during the second quarter of the 19th century. By the Victorian era (1837-1901) and the Edwardian era (1901-1910), bookplates had become particularly decorative and elaborate. We know that what you really enjoy about this site is the bookplates - so we've had a grand spring clean to make it easier for you to make the most of them.

The earliest English bookplate appears to be the gift plate of Sir Nicholas Bacon; it adorns a book that once belonged to Henry VIII, and now is located in the King's library, British Museum. Label and personalise your stationery with the variety of bookplates available on this sticker sheet. We’ll also tell you a little bit more about sources for discovering new information about bookplates if you get particularly interested.For certain titles, plates are only included in first editions or deluxe editions, and they can often spread over entire sheets of paper. However, a bookplate in an otherwise rare book can lower the value of the text if the bookplate indicates ownership of an ordinary reader. The earliest known American example is the plain printed label of Stephen Daye, the Massachusetts printer of the Bay Psalm Book, 1642.

We’ll give you some basic information about bookplates to help you understand how these additions to books came to be and how they can affect the value of an object. From then until the dawn of the French Revolution, English modes of decoration in bookplates generally followed French trends.Signed book plates are one of the most popular way for authors to personalise copies of their books. 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. These classic book plates are the perfect way to personalise your books, journals, folders and diaries. 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 development in various directions of process work, by facilitating and cheapening the reproduction of beautiful and elaborate designs, has no doubt helped much to popularize the bookplate—a thing which in older days was almost invariably restricted to ancestral libraries or to collections otherwise important.

Many notable historical figures have also been book collectors, and as such, a book containing one of their bookplates can have great value. They commission numbered and signed editions of bookplates to their name which are never pasted into books but only serve for exchange purposes. Bookplates for Libraries: Contemporary Designs for School, Public, College and University Libraries (Beacham 1968). Near the turn of the 20th century, the composition of personal book tokens became recognized as a minor branch of a higher art, and there has come into fashion an entirely new class of designs which, for all their wonderful variety, bear as unmistakable a character as that of the most definite styles of bygone days.

The person I bought for cried and said the gift was thoughtful and made personalizing her library so much fun! Please contact our Membership Secretary if you wish to know more about, or participate in, this project. In the end, it’s a word or phrase that refers to a label of some sort that has been attached inside a book.