bookplates

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İngilizce - İngilizce
plural of bookplate
bookplate
a printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover showing ownership, and thus preventing theft
bookplate
A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written. a decorated piece of paper with your name on it, that you stick in the front of your books. Label with a printed design pasted inside the front cover of a book to identify its owner. It probably originated in Germany in the mid-15th century; the earliest extant dated bookplate (1516) is German. The earliest American example is dated 1749. Bookplate designs include portraits, views of libraries, and landscapes, as well as symbols of the owner's interests or occupation (e.g., military trophies, palettes), and, toward the end of the 19th century, nude figures
bookplate
A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library
bookplate
A pasted-in sign of ownership
bookplate
Label with the owner's name Attached to the inside cover of a book
bookplate
also known as an ex-libris: an ownership label, often decorative, usually pasted to the endpaper
bookplate
used, most often on the pastedown, to identify the ownership of a book and especially useful in establishing earlier ownership Finely produced bookplates collectable in their own right
bookplate
{i} label in book which states the name of it's owner
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a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted
bookplate
A label, usually found pasted to the inside of the front cover denoting ownership
bookplate
A book owner's identification label which is usually printed, has a distinctive design, and is usually pasted to the inside front cover of a book; called also ex libris