#bookplate

[danskjavlarna]

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My modest collection of vintage ex libris / bookplates.

#ex libris #vintage yearbook #bookplate #1920s #vintage illustration #yearbook #illustration

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

#art #etching #drawing #illustration #bookplate #ex libris #rudolf gräber #stanislaus kuhlhanek #death and the maiden #der tod und das mädchen

[sheydgarden]

a really fun recent commission: this custom bookplate for the curator of Judaica at the Museum of the Bible! it's based on a variety of texts that describe (at least some) sheydim as observantly Jewish - especially the Talmudic stories of Yosef Sheyda, a demonic scholar or possibly even a rabbi himself. the quote in the window is from Psalm 24, "the earth is the Lord's, and everything in it" which is often written above an owner's name in Jewish books, but provides double meaning here for the fact that sheydim too are divinely created. Jesse shares my love for sheydim as transgressive, marginalized figures who are nevertheless deeply Jewish, so this was an ideal collaboration & a delight to make!

also done entirely in Procreate, inked with True Grit Texture Supply's "Rusty Nib" engraver brushes - totally in love with this new process & the relative ease of accomplishing this type/level of hatching vs. traditional media (giving me added respect for the 17th century printmakers I've been studying). i will always love working traditionally but adding more digital techniques to my repertoire has been super useful.

#jewish art #jumblr #illustration #bookplate #commissions #ex libris #sheydim #digital art #jewish artists

[catsofyore]

Bookplate of unknown year, but the artist, H. C. Bärenholdt, passed away in 1976. Source.

#cat #cats #catsofyore #cats of yore #bookplate #ex libris #calico

[clawmarks]

Bookplate - Hans Frank - c.1918-1921 - via The British Museum

#skulls #ex libris #bookplate #grasses #botanical

[nobrashfestivity]

Ex Libris

#ex libris #bookplates #bookplate #rabbits #illustration

[littlealienproducts]

Vintage Illustrated Bookplates by oiseaux

#oiseaux #bookplate #vintage art #vintage style #book

[nemfrog]

Death wears a fool's clothing. Dated book-plates (Ex libris) with a treatise on their origin and development. 1895.

Internet Archive

#bookplate #bookplates #fool #death #macabre #nemfrog #1895 #19th century #ex libris

[glavilio]

i carved a rubber stamp bookplate for my personal library featuring pernelle but unfortunately the i can only use water based ink cuz oil is too much of a mess, so i can only use them for sketchbooks on account of the smudging. i still like the design tho

#my art #pernelle #citrinitas #furry #art #block printing #bookplate

[thereadersdesire]

#ex libris #cat #bookplate

[othmeralia]

This bookplate never gets old. It's probably our favorite in the collection.

Found in: Traité des embaumemens selon les anciens et les modernes. Avec une description de quelques compositions balsamiques & odorantes ...

#bookplate #spooky #skeleton #halloween #creepy collections #creepy #morte vita #death and life #libraries #libraries of tumblr #tumblrarians #rare books #embalment #funeral #history of science #mummy #othmeralia

[danskjavlarna]

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My modest collection of vintage ex libris / bookplates.

#ex libris #bookplate #1930s #vintage yearbook #vintage illustration #yearbook #illustration

[heaveninawildflower]

Bookplate of Ornithologist Ruthven Deane, hand-coloured by Mrs. Frank S. Hatch (1924). Engraved by Sydney Lawton Smith.

The Library of Congress

Wikimedia.

#bookplate #boooks #Ruthven Deane #design #1920's

[elixir]

Bookplate from the collection of Richard Sica

#bookplate #reaper #grim reaper #art #illustration #portrait #abstract #graphic design #contemporary art #painting #aesthetic #nature #graphic art #landscape #photography #college #medieval

[catsofyore]

Bookplate for Zoldos Sakeviciutes by Vaclovas Kosciuska, 1963. Source.

#cat #cats #catsofyore #cats of yore #ex libris #bookplate #1960s

[1five1two]

Bruno Shulz.

#vintage illustration #ex libris #bookplate #art