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Mon 01 Jan 2010Why bookplates speak volumes
A decorative label stuck inside a book with the owner’s name on it – an ex libris bookplate – can tell a lot about its history. But why are they so hard to find, asks MARY LELAND
IN THE introduction to his pictorial history of British bookplates, the late Brian North Lee, founder of the English Bookplate Society, states: “There have always been areas of research largely left to the amateur, and bookplate history is one of them.”
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