A decorative label stuck in the front of a book, bearing the name of the book's owner.
藏书者标签
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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.
The mayor then presented them with copies of the books, complete with a Big Read bookplate.
She also collected bookplates and the woodblocks and metal plates from which they were printed.
The discovery of royal bookplates and fragments of artefacts already 1500 years old also hints at the king's ‘antiquarian interests’.
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.
Hence, the importance of the much maligned bookplates occasionally found on books which serve to give us at least some information on previous owners.
We'd been keeping the bookplates in an unoccupied corner in a reasonably neat pile.
He glued a special bookplate in each of the volumes as a memorial to his father.
I still have a Puffin Club bookplate stuck inside the cover of this book.
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.
Numerous examples of her lively bookplates and covers are reproduced in full colour.
Detectives also found bookplates and yellowing pages that had contained library stamps.
The Chinese painters were meticulous copyists of the bookplates, drawings, or watercolors of arms provided them.
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.
The society's library received a personally inscribed copy of The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany, containing Tiffany's own engraved bookplate.
The Chinese proved remarkably adept at reproducing the armorial designs, copying painted or printed patterns such as bookplates sent from Europe and America.
Definition of bookplate in US English:
bookplate
nounˈbo͝okˌplātˈbʊkˌpleɪt
A decorative label stuck in the front of a book, bearing the name of the book's owner.
藏书者标签
Example sentencesExamples
She also collected bookplates and the woodblocks and metal plates from which they were printed.
Numerous examples of her lively bookplates and covers are reproduced in full colour.
Attached to the back of the canvas was a bookplate (now removed but remaining with the painting) that is printed with the family arms.
I still have a Puffin Club bookplate stuck inside the cover of this book.
Detectives also found bookplates and yellowing pages that had contained library stamps.
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.
The Chinese proved remarkably adept at reproducing the armorial designs, copying painted or printed patterns such as bookplates sent from Europe and America.
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.
We'd been keeping the bookplates in an unoccupied corner in a reasonably neat pile.
The mayor then presented them with copies of the books, complete with a Big Read bookplate.
The society's library received a personally inscribed copy of The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany, containing Tiffany's own engraved bookplate.
Hence, the importance of the much maligned bookplates occasionally found on books which serve to give us at least some information on previous owners.
The Chinese painters were meticulous copyists of the bookplates, drawings, or watercolors of arms provided them.
The discovery of royal bookplates and fragments of artefacts already 1500 years old also hints at the king's ‘antiquarian interests’.
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.
He glued a special bookplate in each of the volumes as a memorial to his father.