Monday, May 13, 2013

Pass the Bookplate: Second Helpings


Below are either the images or links to images of bookplates owned by a wide range of world leaders, artists, and celebrities throughout history. 



George Washington's Bookplate,
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Paul Revere

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover A self-made man, Hoover's bookplate is supposed to show the dichotomy between the hard work and industry he had to put into his life, and the success he achieved because of it.







I love how the stars seem to actually move around the human figure in Albert Einstein's bookplate. (http://bookhaven.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/bookplate1.jpg

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Dickens

Maurice Sendak

Jack London



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Sheesh, these actors. So self-absorbed. On the other hand, she could always say, "I vant to be alone...with my book."

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