Download or read book The Art of the Bookplate written by James P. Keenan and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is full of people who love books. People who not only love to read, but who love to possess and collect books. Since the fifteenth century truly devoted collectors have commissioned their own bookplates, known also as ex libris. Some are straightforward ? a simple label bearing the owner?s name. Others are impressive works of art in miniature. Whether plan or fancy, book plates give an owner a special sense of proud proprietorship. Even more important, they assure that if a cherished book is lent, it has a decent chance of being returned. They are an indulgence of the rich and famous, certainly. And, ?The art of the Bookplate? includes many owned by prominent people such as George Washington, Charlie Chaplin, John F. Kennedy, Joan Crawford J.P. Morgan, Walt Disney, Grace Allen, Otto Bismarck, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Houdini, Sigmund Freud, Charles Dickens, and Anita Loos. But other bookplate patrons are unknown to us, like Mabel Bishop, whose charming ex libris shows a young woman tending her garden, or Lucius Fisher, whose bookplate, naturally enough, features a fish. In this delightful book James P. Keenan, Director of the American Society of bookplate collectors & Designers, shares many of his favorite bookplates. He explains the history behind each, and discusses the artists ? some as famous as Rockwell Kent and Claes Oldenburg, others as unknown or not ex libris owners are passionate about keeping their book collections intact. As one very old bookplate proclaims, ?Steal not this book for fear of shame. For here you see the owner?s name.? The Art of the Bookplate is a book to be treasured and, of course, kept in your possession. --

Download or read book Lankes His Woodcut Bookplates written by Wilbur Macey Stone and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Woodcut Bookplate written by Norman Kent and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bookplate Designs written by Carol Belanger Grafton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique homage to bookplate art illuminates over 320 of the craft's finest examples. A breathtaking variety of black-and-white designs embrace a multitude of styles: woodcuts, engravings, lithographs, typography, and more.

Download or read book The Woodcut Art of J J Lankes written by Welford Dunaway Taylor and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taylor (English, U. of Richmond) paints a rich portrait of Lankes, arguably the first genuine native-born American woodcut artist who was the sole creator of about 1,300 b&w images used on everything from book jackets to theater posters. He presents Lankes' varied and striking renditions of the peop

Download or read book The Bookplate Chronicle written by Alfred Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book J J Lankes His Booklet of Woodcut Bookplate Designs written by Julius J. Lankes and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ex Libris written by Martin J. Hopkinson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endlessly diverse and appealing, bookplates are small decorative labels pasted inside a book's cover to express personal ownership. This volume explores the various sources of "ex libris" inspiration, including designs by C.R. Ashbee, Eric Gill, and Rudyard Kipling.

Download or read book Artistic Book plates written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Bookplate written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bookplate Annual for 1921 1925 written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1921 annual includes list of members of the American Bookplate Society.

Download or read book Woodcut Book plates written by Percy Neville Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Woodcut Book Plates written by Percy Neville Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bookplate Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bookplate Annual for written by Alfred Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1921 includes list of members of the American Bookplate Society.

Download or read book Early Colour Printing written by Elizabeth Savage and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated publication reproduces and describes effectively every early modern German color print held at the British Museum. It is one of the world's most significant collections of these rare milestones of cultural heritage and technology. New photography reveals 150 impressions in jaw-dropping detail, most life-size. Some have never been seen in public or reproduced. It is the first major study of the first wave of German color printing. It spans medieval printing in the late 1400s through the Renaissance and Reformation of the 1500s. Early Colour Printing features masterpieces by leading figures like Erhard Ratdolt, Lucas Cranach, Hans Baldung Grien, and Hans Burgkmair, as well as unfairly overlooked entrepreneurs and innovators like Erasmus Loy (and his daughter Anna). Their breakthroughs reproduced artworks and simplified astronomical calculations. They created trends in interior design and signalled 'red-letter days'. They helped musicians sight-read and they color-coded metals for goldsmiths. These diverse new functions and markets might seem unrelated. But they are connected, and they cannot be understood in isolation. From artworks to missals, icons to wallpapers, this book breaks new ground by revealing the fascinating underlying technologies that enabled the production of these color-printed objects. The many inventions of color printing in the German-speaking lands began with medieval novel solutions. They were devised long before color printing inks could be formulated. Then, color printing techniques transformed how printed material could be used during the technological and cultural revolutions of the sixteenth century. Later designers and artists around Europe celebrated these techniques' heritage for centuries, from the 'D rer Renaissance' until chromolithography revolutionized the print market in the nineteenth century. Early Colour Printing captures this story in rich detail. It sets the stage for second wave of German color woodcut, which was triggered by the Expressionist revival at the turn of the twentieth century. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, this collection guide will be a standard reference on German graphic art, early modern visual culture, and the history of printing itself. Early Colour Printing: German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum offers significant new research, including previously unidentified examples of early modern color-printing. Some are believed to be unique in the world; others were made decades before the landmark invention of colorful chiaroscuro woodcut in Italy in 1516. By modeling a printer- and technology-based approach to the history of printing, it contributes to scholarship by pinpointing attributions to printers--not just to artists or designers. In doing so, it lays the groundwork for a new understanding of the history of print, one that encompasses all forms of printed material. This publication derives from an exhibition at the British Museum curated by Elizabeth Savage.