bookplate

[ book-pleyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a label bearing the owner's name and often a design, coat of arms, or the like, for pasting on the front end paper of a book.

bookplate

/ ˈbʊkˌpleɪt /

a label bearing the owner's name and an individual design or coat of arms, pasted into a book

First recorded in 1785–95; book + plate ¹

A 1942 edition, taken from the Berlin bunker where Hitler committed suicide, contains the Nazi leader's personal bookplate.

His bookplate (Fig. 739) is one of the earliest Scottish dated plates.

The present copy has an elaborate heraldic bookplate of Thomas Cokayne.

The second of the above copies has the heraldic bookplate of Rob.

Sentiment is seldom in place, but on a bookplate it is peculiarly odious.

If there be a bookplate, soak it off, and when dry paste it inside the end cover.

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