Description: An international society of collectors, bibliophiles, artists and others dedicated to promoting bookplate study.
artists (5271) genealogy (2899) family history (1046) heraldry (97) book arts (84) engravers (61) exlibris (56) bookplates (7) bookplate (6) bookplate society (1)
Interested in joining The Bookplate Society? The annual subscription of £40 (UK) or £52 (rest of world) is good value. Click on these links here for an information leaflet, for details of membership benefits and for an online application form .
OUR LATEST BOOKS Our book for 2014/15 was mailed to members in mid-March 2017. Entitled Strawberry Leaves it illustrates the bookplates of many British non-royal dukes and records their family histories. Royal dukes were covered in British Royal Bookplates by Brian North Lee, published in 1992, but we obtained the back stock and issued a copy to every member in June 2013. Our members book for 2011/12 was on the bookplates of Miss C Helard (see image below right). She was the wife of Arthur Fox-Davies, the g
THE FRANKS CATALOGUE IS DIGITIZED AND AVAILABLE ONLINE Library staff in Toronto have earned our warmest thanks by converting into digital form the Catalogue of the Franks Collection of British and American Bookplates in the British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings . Rather than paying out £400 or more for ever-scarcer copies of this important reference work, you can now find it online. Each of the three volumes can be downloaded free of charge, without copyright restriction, in PDF format, which is