Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Bookplates in Iowa
N medieval days books were chained to the bookshelves to protect them from people who might borrow and fail to return them.
In these later times, books are loaned, but men who care most for their books and wish them back again have substituted for the chains a little device called the bookplate which is placed on the inside front cover of a book and serves as a mark of identification, to insure the return of books loaned, mislaid, or lost. Such a device may contain simply the owner's name printed on a slip of paper, or in addition to the name a verse such as those printed above. This is the simplest form of a bookplate.
The bookplate is no innovation of the modern faddist, looking for a bookish hobby to ride; but it is as old as the invention of printing.
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