bookplate

[ book-pleyt ]

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.

Origin of bookplate

First recorded in 1785–95; book + plate¹

Words Nearby bookplate

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How to use bookplate in a sentence

A 1942 edition, taken from the Berlin bunker where Hitler committed suicide, contains the Nazi leader's personal bookplate.
Hitler's Bedtime Reading | Timothy Ryback | October 17, 2008 | THE DAILY BEAST
His bookplate (Fig. 739) is one of the earliest Scottish dated plates.
A Complete Guide to Heraldry | Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
The present copy has an elaborate heraldic bookplate of Thomas Cokayne.
Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge | W. W. Greg
The second of the above copies has the heraldic bookplate of Rob.
Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge | W. W. Greg
Sentiment is seldom in place, but on a bookplate it is peculiarly odious.
In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays | Augustine Birrell

If there be a bookplate, soak it off, and when dry paste it inside the end cover.
The Book-Hunter at Home | P. B. M. Allan

British Dictionary definitions for bookplate

bookplate

/ (ˈbʊkˌpleɪt) /

noun

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

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