Bookplates or Ex-Libris, whatever you call them, these little prints denoting book ownership are delightful and are wonderful vehicles for artists to express themselves and also to reveal something ...

There could be an exhibition featuring bookplates in any visual arts venue and it would work just fine – if the selection were as diverse and interesting as this one at Recspec Gallery. But since ...

There’s something intimate and slightly thrilling about opening a book and finding a bookplate pasted inside the cover. These small prints give us a glimpse of the owner through an illustration of the ...

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 ...

Offset lithograph in colours with embossing, on wove paper, with full margins, with the accompanying illustrated book Recueil des Secrets de Louyse Bourgeois 9 x 6.9 cm (3 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.) Signed, ...

Ralph B. Sipper is a Santa Barbara rare book dealer. Once upon a time in America -- if you were a book person -- you would commission an artisan to emboss on a block of soft wood your family name ...

The print art of ex-libris - bookplates that express ownership or one's passion for reading and books - is somewhat niche, and to possess ex-libris represents the owner's high taste. Some people in ...

Asheville BookWorks is pleased to announce their June / July exhibition, Ex Libris. This unique portfolio of prints was a collaborative project of the Atlanta Printmakers Studio (APS) and Spudnik ...

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 ...

Signed, numbered 267/300 in pencil (there was also a deluxe edition of 40 and 15 artist's proofs) ...

Liu Shuohai (left), a woodblock-print artisan, establishes China's first ex-libris museum, the Shuohai International Ex-Libris (Graphic) Arts Collection Museum in Tianjin.[Photo provided to China ...