A Brief History of Bookplates

Items

• Ex Libris of August F. Ammann
  Bookplate for August F. Ammann made by Otto Ubbelohde. Depicts open water with two ducks flying in the foreground, and a boat sailing to the right.
• Ex Libris of Albert Heine
  Bookplate for Albert Heine made by Ferdinand Schmutzer. Depicts a seated man with a scroll around him with an orange background.
• Ex Libris of Amanda Nemvalts
  Bookplate for Amanda Nemvalts made by Arkadio Laigo. Depicts two books stacked on top of each other. The bottom is closed, the top book is partially open. Around the book is a ribbon with "A. Nemvalts" written on it. In the background is a red textile (likely a rug or blanket) with "Ex Libris" faintly written on it.
• Ex Libris of A. Grunbaum
  Bookplate for A. Grünbaum made by Arkadio Laigo. Depicts an open book next to two closed books with a scrolling banner above them, with "Ex Libris A. Grunbaum 1939" written on it. In the backgrounds is a tree with green foliage, and a green branch with leaves in the foreground.
• Ex Libris of Norman H. Friedman
  Bookplate for Norman H. Friedman made by A.G. Racey. Printed with brown ink on cream paper, the image depicts a man seated in an armchair with an open book held in both hands and a pipe in his mouth. In the foreground is a pile of books, papers, and a dog. In the background is a fireplace with a lit fire, and a mantlepiece with a bust of a man sitting on top facing to the right.
• Copper Plate for Ex Libris of Epes Sargent
  Copper plate for bookplate for Epes Sargent, made by Paul Revere, Jr. Depicts coat of arms with three fish inside the shield, one on top.
• Ex Libris of Epes Sargent
  Bookplate for Epes Sargent made by Paul Revere, Jr. Depicts a coat of arms with three fish inside a shield, one above.
• Woodblock for Ex Libris of Jacob Weiss
  Woodblock made by Eric Gill for the bookplate for Jacob Weiss. Image depicts a woman, facing right, with foliage behind her and a snake at the bottom of the picture.
• Ex Libris of Jacob Weiss
  Bookplate for Jacob Weiss made by Eric Gill. Depicts a nude woman facing to the right with foliage in the background and a snake at the bottom.
• Ex Libris of C. Wittmann
  Bookplate for C. Wittmann made by François Courboin. Depicts a figure working a printing press. At the top is a banner with "Ex Libris C. Wittmann" written on it.
• Ex Libris of Josephi Schwörer
  Bookplate for Josephi Schworer. Depicts a heron standing on top of a closed book with a scroll in it's beak with "ex libris" written on it. Another, larger scroll is in the background with "Josephi Schwörer" written on it.
• Ex Libris of Francin Thibaudeau
  Bookplate of Francin Thibaudeau made by George Auriol. Depicts an owl perched on an open book with a tree in the background and a rabbit reading a book.
• Ex Libris of Henrik Goth
  Bookplate for Henrik Goth. Printed in green ink, depicts lamp on a table in foreground with an ink pot and quill and a bookshelf in the background.
• Ex Libris of F. Raisin
  Bookplate for F. Raisin made by E.G. Reuter. Has "Ex Libris F. Raisin" written in the center of the image in yellow ink. "Inter folia fructus" is written at the top and "advoc genevenfis" at the bottom. In the background is a grapevine design.
• Ex Libris with a Cat
  Bookplate made by Julie de Graag. Depicts a white cat laying down, facing to the left with geometric details at the top and bottom of the image.
• Ex Libris of René Martin
  Bookplate for René Martin. Depicts a man seated in an armchair, holding a smoking pipe in his right hand and an open book in his left. On the top lefthand corner of the image the words "Ne pas se frapper!"
• Ex Libris of Hermann Scheiner
  Bookplate for Hermann Scheiner made by an unidentified artist. It depicts a woman, possibly one of the muses, standing in the center of the image with an open book in her hands. She is wearing flowing robes or a dress and some form of headpiece, possibly a laurel crown. She also has wings extending to the right side of the image. Above her is the phrase "Ex Libris" with "Hermann Scheiner" to the left of the image and "Würzburg" to the right. Around her are various items including a painter's palette with paint and paintbrushes, a coat of arms, a violin, sheet music, and a blank space, possibly a canvas, with "No" written in the top lefthand corner of the canvas. There are trees with branches and leaves to the right and left of the image, and a blank scrolling ribbon on the bottom that extends up the left side of the image.
• Ex Libris with a Reading Woman
  Bookplate made by Auguste Roedel. Depicts a seated woman in a dark dress holding an open book in front of her. The words "Ex Libris" are written in the lower left-hand corner.
• Ex Libris of Dr Frederik Muller
  A bookplate for Dr Frederik Muller made by Elias Voet Jr. It is printed with blue ink and depicts an open book above the words "Ex Libris Dr Fred Muller."
• Ex Libris of Forro Oszkarek
  Bookplate for Forro Oszkarek made by Ilona Máté. It depicts a woman standing with an open book in her right hand, and her left hand is resting on a horizontal structure. The sun is in the top lefthand corner with rays extending throughout the background of the image. In the lower lefthand corner is a flower in the foreground. Forro Oszkarek's name is written in a box on the bottom of the image.