bookplate
noun
book·plate
ˈbu̇k-ˌplāt 
: a book owner's identification label that is usually pasted to the inside front cover of a book
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After the delivery person dropped off the package, Joely Day, an editor, opened it up to reveal stacks of rectangular bookplates signed by Fosse in a spidery hand, in varying densities of ink.
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
In 1742, Franklin repeatedly suspended work on Pamela to print lottery tickets, licenses for peddlers and public houses, sheriff’s warrants, naval certificates, soap wrappers, medical cures, bookplates for libraries, 1,000 hat bills, Irish Society tickets, and thousands of advertisements.
—Adam Smyth, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
Items range in size and price from Ex Libris bookplates to original 18th-century maps.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2024
The artist Robert Pruitt designed an ex libris bookplate for Jay-Z’s private library on Black culture and society.
—Sarah Medford, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
Members got a booklet, an enamel badge imprinted with the Puffin logo, and a set of bookplates.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
Each contains her bookplate.
—Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
Details include a Tom Ford signed bookplate.
—Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2021
These are his personal copies of his famous works with his [personal] bookplate [a line drawing of a stirrup] inside, and there’s only one of each.
—Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2023
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
In 1742, Franklin repeatedly suspended work on Pamela to print lottery tickets, licenses for peddlers and public houses, sheriff’s warrants, naval certificates, soap wrappers, medical cures, bookplates for libraries, 1,000 hat bills, Irish Society tickets, and thousands of advertisements.
—Adam Smyth, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
Items range in size and price from Ex Libris bookplates to original 18th-century maps.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2024
The artist Robert Pruitt designed an ex libris bookplate for Jay-Z’s private library on Black culture and society.
—Sarah Medford, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
Members got a booklet, an enamel badge imprinted with the Puffin logo, and a set of bookplates.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
Each contains her bookplate.
—Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
Details include a Tom Ford signed bookplate.
—Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2021
These are his personal copies of his famous works with his [personal] bookplate [a line drawing of a stirrup] inside, and there’s only one of each.
—Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2023
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bookplate
noun
book·plate
ˈbu̇k-ˌplāt
: a label pasted inside a book to show who owns it
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