Previously owned by...
The provenance of previous owners
A bookplate, an armorial crest stamped on the spine, an inscription left on the flyleaf...these are just some of the ways that we can identify the previous owners of a book. Sometimes these previous owners are well known to history, with lots of information about their lives...while others are a complete mystery!
Ex Libris / Bookplates and Stamps
Here is a gallery of the various bookplates and owner's name stamps that were found inside the bindings selected by this project.
Bookplate of previous owner, the French Duke of Montebello, in "La Pologne"
Bookplates inside "Istorie della città di Firenze"
Bookplate of previous owner of "Tracts in prose and verse"
Bookplate of Solomon R. Guggenheim in "The reminiscences and recollections of Captain Gronow"
Inside front board of "The life and times of Richard the First", showing bookplates
Bindings of "The bivouac"
Label inside front board
Front endpapers of "Marah", with bookplates of previous owners
Previous ownership marks in "A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology"
Inside front board, with bookplates on pastedown and flyleaf
Ex Libris Lino A Arronso
Unidentified signature on flyleaf of "The Pagan Trinity"
Previous ownership mark on front pastedown
Previous ownership mark on flyleaf
Inside front board showing endpapers and bookplate
Binding of one volume of "A select collection of old English plays" showing stamp on front board
Inscriptions
These are the inscriptions left inside the pages of these books...
Inscription in "Un autunno in Oriente"
Inscription in "Fanny"
Author's inscription on title page
