Concerning Book Plates (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Concerning Book Plates The book plate, like the printed book, had its origin in Germany. Both date from the middle of the fifteenth century. Albrecht. Diirer is known actually to have engraved six plates between I 503 and I 516, and to have made designs for many others. Most of the larger and more wealthy monasteries used more than one plate. The advent of each new lord abbot was celebrated by the creation of a new plate for the library. With indi viduals it grew out of the various armorial bearings of the family. Frederick August, duke of brunswick-ols, had, in 1789, sixteen plates. More recently, Count leiningen-westerburg had twenty-one plates, all in use, and the Countess had eight for her own use. I have no data as to the size of the family library. The Count was an authority on the subject of book plates, had written a book on German ex-libris, and many of the twenty-nine difierent plates used by him and his wife were complimentary plates from well-known artists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.