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s-u-w-i:Two new stamps, for dear Marieke and Emily :>commissions/store/ko-fi/instagram s-u-w-i:Two new stamps, for dear Marieke and Emily :>commissions/store/ko-fi/instagram

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Two new stamps, for dear Marieke and Emily :>


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This interesting modern bookplate is just a liiiiittle too big for its book. The right third of the

This interesting modern bookplate is just a liiiiittle too big for its book. The right third of the plate is not pasted down, and instead has been folded over so that the book can be closed.

Maybe this owner should have invested in smaller bookplates, but this is a pretty ingenious solution. Has anyone seen a similar example?

http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b1544257~S39a

~Andrew


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Bookplate with the motto, ‘Fert in omnia rutubam et tristitiam terribilis amor’, made byBookplate with the motto, ‘Fert in omnia rutubam et tristitiam terribilis amor’, made by

Bookplate with the motto, ‘Fert in omnia rutubam et tristitiam terribilis amor’, made by Raphaël Kirchner for Georges Goury.
1905


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Sakaguchi Hisashi

Sakaguchi Hisashi


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Bookplate for Oliver Wendell Holmes Per ampliora ad altiora The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell

Bookplate for Oliver Wendell Holmes

Per ampliora ad altiora

The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sails the unshadowed main,–
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.

Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,
As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,
Before thee lies revealed,–
Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!

Year after year beheld the silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the past year’s dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.

Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
Child of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap, forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn;
While on mine ear it rings,
Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:–

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!


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Bookplate for Mabel Waterston, c. 1897.

Bookplate for Mabel Waterston, c. 1897.


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Bookplate for Blanche Falcon, 1898

Bookplate for Blanche Falcon, 1898


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Artist: Smith, Ismael, 1886-1972 Description: States, ‘Ex-Libris Vera Fokina;’ depicts a

Artist: Smith, Ismael, 1886-1972

Description: States, ‘Ex-Libris Vera Fokina;’ depicts a partially robed woman holding a large bow of roses. Signed 'Senor Ismael Smith.’

Format: 1 print, col.

Source:Pratt Institute Libraries, Special Collections 362b (sc00451)


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“Das Leben ist der Narr der Zeit”

Alfred Cossmann, Ex libris Ludwig Schweinburg, 1918

Ex Libris Max Cremer

This bookplate belonged to Max Cremer, a German physiologist (1865–1935) and inventor of the glass electrode. The bookplate is in our 1922 volume of Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie und angewandte physikalische Chemie.

Witchsona Week is here again! Alas, even if I had witchy powers, I cannot see myself doing much with

Witchsona Week is here again! Alas, even if I had witchy powers, I cannot see myself doing much with them in January, when my will to live is always at its yearly low. Winter is a time to hide under the blankets, read your heart out, and recharge whatever magic is sputtering within you.

Obvious debt to Mucha on this one; along with his divine powers of draftsmanship, I am so jealous of him for living during a time when the commercial arts were heavy on the art and light on the commercial. The products these Art Nouveau posters were promoting often never even showed up in the imagery, and no one minded, and the result was so gorgeous and elegant that over a hundred years later people are still buyingthe ads for their walls. 

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From the Reverence Desk collection:Cat Bookplate

From the Reverence Desk collection:

Cat Bookplate


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Another bookplate!

Another bookplate!


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A bookplate assignment! Knowledge is power and all that

A bookplate assignment!

Knowledge is power and all that


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Ian J. Kahn, Master of Rare Books, thank you so much for sponsoring this design, Lux Mentis, http://

Ian J. Kahn, Master of Rare Books, thank you so much for sponsoring this design, Lux Mentis, http://www.luxmentis.com


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Riverdale S06E13

Betty Cooper wore the Smythe ‘Notched Lapels Blazer’ ($825) In Riverdale 6x13 - Ex-Libris.

Riverdale S06E13

Betty Cooper wore the Joie ‘Lanigan Ribbed Turtleneck’ ($59.97 - On Sale) In Riverdale 6x13 - Ex-Libris.

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