Book Plate

[poliphilo]

I love it when a book has a history:



The book, by the way, is a copy of J H Pollack's Croiset The Clairvoyant, published by W H Allen in 1965. It's last owner, before it came to me, was Matthew's mother.

Comments

[shewhomust]

I love bookplates. And that's a very fine one.

[poliphilo]

Do people still use bookplates? I suppose they must....

[cmcmck]

That kind of thing is always fun.

I have a poetry volume actually signed by HW Longfellow which I picked up in a junk shop years ago for peanuts. 50p iirc :o)

[poliphilo]

That's a great find.

[basefinder]

I assume you are going to promptly post it to Mansbridge House! ;-)

That is quite a dire warning for a bookplate. And a stamped serial number -- now that's accountability!

I also enjoy looking at my purchases for clues to the book's former life and owners. At least two of my books on thin-shell concrete were owned by authors of other books on thin-shell concrete.

[poliphilo]

I checked. The Seafarers' Education Service ceased to exist in 1995.