About this title: This jewel of a volume, beautiful to look at and the per-fect gift for booklovers, traces the origins, development, and exquisite designs of the personalized bookplate. Magnificent images display bookplates drawn by Durer, Holbein, Hogarth, Kate Greenaway, and Aubrey Beardsley. The foreword is by best-selling author George Plimpton.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Date Published: 09/2003
ISBN-13:9780760746967ISBN:0760746966
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 160 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Date Published: 09/2003
ISBN-13:9780760746967ISBN:0760746966
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 160 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Date Published: 09/2003
ISBN-13:9780760746967ISBN:0760746966
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 160 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Date Published: 09/2003
ISBN-13:9780760746967ISBN:0760746966
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 160 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; 2003. 0760746966. Almost like new condition. DJ improved with new, clear Brodart mylar cover.; Hardcover; Barnes & Noble; NY; First Printing; 0.7 x 9.04 x 6.5 Inches; 175 pages. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books, New York
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780760746967ISBN:0760746966
Description: As New in As New jacket. 7 x 8 1/2. 173 pgs. illustrated. A book about the history, artistry, and collectability of book plates. Pictures examples of bookplates of famous people with detailed explanations. A wonderful book for the booklover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780760746967ISBN:0760746966
Description: As New in As New jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barnes & Noble, New York
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780760746967ISBN:0760746966
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A beautiful collection of bookplates through the ages, many of famous people, many by noted illustrators. As new. 175 pages. read more
Description: New in new dust jacket. Absolutely new. A beautiful book. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 160 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: New in New jacket. pp. 175. Since the 15th cent., devoted book collectors have commissioned their own bookplates, known also as ex libris. Whether plain or fancy, bookplates give an owner a special sense of proud proprietorship. This book includes many bookplates owned by prominent people such as George Washington, John F. Kennedy, Joan Crawford, J.P. Morgan, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Dickens, as well as bookplates owned by people who are not ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barnes & Noble, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S. A
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780760746967ISBN:0760746966
Description: New in New jacket. 175 pages, illustrated throughout with bookplates of the famous and not-so-famous, The history behind each plate is given and a discussion of the artists. A wonderful treasury of the small works of art. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Barnes and Noble,
Date Published: 2003.
ISBN-13:9780760746967ISBN:0760746966
Description: Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. First printing. Fine in black paper covered boards wtih gilt title to spine. Pristine interior filled with color illustrations. Fine marbled dust jacket with red and black spine panel and white title to spine. 175 pages. BOB/102209. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barnes & Noble, New York, NY
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780760746967ISBN:0760746966
Description: Photos & Illustrations. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-Over 8"-9" Tall. 175 pp, black boards w/gilt lettering, glossy red-blu-yel-orange-black marbled dj. The book contains reproductions of the bookplates of many prominent people such as George Washington, Charlie Chaplin, John F. Kennedy, Gracie Allen, Joan Crawford, J.P. Morgan, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, Otto Bismarck, Anita Loos, Charles Dickens and many more. The author, director of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors & ... read more
"A neat little book that I first read in my History of the Book course, and then had to pick up my own copy. Well, two, actually. They were Christmas gifts, and look rather nice next to each other on the shelf."
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