Holland comes next with the plate of Anna van der Aa, in 1597; then Italy with one attributed to the year 1622. Catalogue of British and American Bookplates bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks. Our Book Plates sticker sheet organises and decorates sketchbooks, notebooks, planners, envelopes, folders, and more. From then until the dawn of the French Revolution, English modes of decoration in bookplates generally followed French trends. The shield shows a plain spade-like outline, manifestly based upon that of the pseudo-classic urn then very alive.

Period Features strive to be the number one source in the UK for vintage homeware and traditional hardware products for period properties, and to always provide an excellent, friendly service. The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings. We have also many portrait-plates, of which, perhaps, the most notable are those of Samuel Pepys himself and of John Gibbs, the architect; allegories, such as were engraved by Hogarth, Bartolozzi, John Pine and George Vertue; landscape-plates by wood-engravers of the Bewick school, etc.com with the number of book plates (within your package limit) required and the individual messages you wish to have added. They have however been joined by a now dominant group of new collectors whose interest is more than anything the constitution—at quite reasonable cost—of a miniature, personalized art-print collection.

The earliest English bookplate appears to be the gift plate of Sir Nicholas Bacon; it adorns a book that once belonged to Henry VIII, and now is located in the King's library, British Museum. Since the 1950s, there has been a renewed interest in the collection of bookplates and in many ways a reorientation of this interest.Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. In the United States, bookplates replaced book rhymes (which replaced book curses) after the 19th century. e., previous to Restoration, exemplified by the Nicholas Bacon plate); Jacobean, a somewhat misleading term, but distinctly understood to include the heavy decorative manner of the Restoration, Queen Anne and early Georgian days (the Lansanor plate is Jacobean); Chippendale (the style above described as rococo , tolerably well represented by the French plate of Convers); wreath and ribbon, belonging to the period described as that of the urn, etc.