ARE YOU AN ARMIGER? .......... HAVE YOU BEEN GRANTED, OR ASSUMED
A COAT of ARMS? ...... OR SIMPLY LOVE HERALDRY ...... THEN WHY NOT
AN HERALDIC BOOKPLATE?
BOOKPLATES (ex libris) have been used for many centuries, particularly armorial bookplates. Today the Armorial (coat of arms) Bookplate is out of fashion! The production of a modern day bookplate is no longer restricted to ancient methods of production which needed engraving and letterpress printing. Computer technology has opened the door for the bookplate designer to produce all manner of designs, many of which can be seen on bookplate web sites and blogs. Not all are pasted into books! Special edition bookplates are produced in limited numbers by popular designers for sale to collectors, or commissioned with a view to making an exchange, thereby building a bookplate collection of different artists work covering many subjects.
COATS OF ARMS
However, there are still people who love Heraldry and have either applied to their own countries authority for a Grant of Arms, or Assumed a coat of arms in countries where no authority exists for the granting of coats of arms. So the potential for the Armorial Bookplate lives on!
Indeed, what better way to display your arms could there be than on a bookplate pasted on the inside cover of your favourite book! A proud reminder of family tradition to display arms, or more likely to start that tradition, whence future generations will see and treasure such items. But please don't paste your Armorial bookplates in inferior quality books, just those that are rather special to you! Also, do please leave a few for the collectors of Modern Armorial Bookplates ......... in fact I would love to see yours in my collection!
In the pages to follow you will see examples of Modern (contemporary) Armorial Bookplates from all corners of the world. Some designed by highly respected International Heraldic Artists, others by relatively unknown heraldic artists and of course bookplates designed and drawn by a friend of a friend! All are welcome in my collection provided they are heraldically correct, which of course all Modern Armorial Bookplates should be.
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All bookplates shown on these web pages are from my own collection and have been generously donated by other bookplate collectors or exchanged for my own bookplate. Should any owner on seeing his plate here object in any way it will be removed immediately.
Some of the bookplates have had to be re sized in order to achieve a suitable display.
All plates are copyright their owners, please respect this. Peter Harling 2012
Indeed, what better way to display your arms could there be than on a bookplate pasted on the inside cover of your favourite book! A proud reminder of family tradition to display arms, or more likely to start that tradition, whence future generations will see and treasure such items. But please don't paste your Armorial bookplates in inferior quality books, just those that are rather special to you! Also, do please leave a few for the collectors of Modern Armorial Bookplates ......... in fact I would love to see yours in my collection!
In the pages to follow you will see examples of Modern (contemporary) Armorial Bookplates from all corners of the world. Some designed by highly respected International Heraldic Artists, others by relatively unknown heraldic artists and of course bookplates designed and drawn by a friend of a friend! All are welcome in my collection provided they are heraldically correct, which of course all Modern Armorial Bookplates should be.
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All bookplates shown on these web pages are from my own collection and have been generously donated by other bookplate collectors or exchanged for my own bookplate. Should any owner on seeing his plate here object in any way it will be removed immediately.
Some of the bookplates have had to be re sized in order to achieve a suitable display.
All plates are copyright their owners, please respect this. Peter Harling 2012