There could be an exhibition featuring bookplates in any visual arts venue and it would work just fine – if the selection were as diverse and interesting as this one at Recspec Gallery. But since ...

Ralph B. Sipper is a Santa Barbara rare book dealer. Once upon a time in America -- if you were a book person -- you would commission an artisan to emboss on a block of soft wood your family name ...

"Spanning five centuries of charming and unusual examples of bookplate design by artists including Albrecht Dürer, Edward Burne-Jones, C.R. Ashbee, Walter Crane, Aubrey Beardsley, Eric Gill, and ...