#bookplate illustration

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Maxfield Parrish (American, 1870-1966) • The Man on the Moon • Bookplate for Dream Days; Section: A Departure) by Kenneth Grahame • c. 1898 • Oil on board

"As we turned to go, the man in the moon, tangled in elm boughs, caught my eye for a moment ".

Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame (British, 1859-1932) • John Lane, London and New York, Publishers • 1898

Source: Project Guttenberg e-book

#illustration #art #illustrator #maxfield parrish #american illustrator #fine art illustration #bookplate illustration #late 1800s illustration #kenneth grahame #project gutenberg #man on the moon #sassafras and moonshine blog #illustration art #british author #dream days

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

#art #etching #drawing #illustration #bookplate #ex libris #rudolf gräber #stanislaus kuhlhanek #death and the maiden #der tod und das mädchen

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Japanese bookplate

#unknown #japanese art #nobrashfestivity #illustration #ex libris #frogs #bookplates

[sheydgarden]

a really fun recent commission: this custom bookplate for the curator of Judaica at the Museum of the Bible! it's based on a variety of texts that describe (at least some) sheydim as observantly Jewish - especially the Talmudic stories of Yosef Sheyda, a demonic scholar or possibly even a rabbi himself. the quote in the window is from Psalm 24, "the earth is the Lord's, and everything in it" which is often written above an owner's name in Jewish books, but provides double meaning here for the fact that sheydim too are divinely created. Jesse shares my love for sheydim as transgressive, marginalized figures who are nevertheless deeply Jewish, so this was an ideal collaboration & a delight to make!

also done entirely in Procreate, inked with True Grit Texture Supply's "Rusty Nib" engraver brushes - totally in love with this new process & the relative ease of accomplishing this type/level of hatching vs. traditional media (giving me added respect for the 17th century printmakers I've been studying). i will always love working traditionally but adding more digital techniques to my repertoire has been super useful.

#jewish art #jumblr #illustration #bookplate #commissions #ex libris #sheydim #digital art #jewish artists

[thefugitivesaint]

Franz von Bayros (1866-1924), 'Ex Libris - Paul Berger', 1904 Source

#franz von bayros #austrian artists #ex libris #bookplates #vintage illustration #vintage art #art nouveau

[danskjavlarna]

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My modest collection of vintage ex libris / bookplates.

#ex libris #bookplate #1930s #vintage yearbook #vintage illustration #yearbook #illustration

[elixir]

Bookplate from the collection of Richard Sica

#bookplate #reaper #grim reaper #art #illustration #portrait #abstract #graphic design #contemporary art #painting #aesthetic #nature #graphic art #landscape #photography #college #medieval

[1five1two]

Bruno Shulz.

#vintage illustration #ex libris #bookplate #art

[sleepgarden]

Ex Libris: August

Lately I've been obsessed with bookplates, i've been wanting to start designing my own! So here's my first, to welcome august. August's flower is the poppy, its association with rest and death had me thinking a lot about those in relation to storytelling. The desire to read is the want to live in its own way, and how the end of a story is a small death in its own way too. "Memento vivere" comes to my mind when thinking about this, enjoying a story as it unfolds! You can physically feel the approaching death in your hands as you turn pages, but when enthralled in a book I find that I forget I'm turning pages at all. I chose a blade to balance these two, it sits between life and death; our use of it to defend life and in turn, to take it.

A print and Bookplates are available in my shop, which is now open again! I also welcome you to my new blog, the url is the same but I've moved accounts.

My shop

#art #bookplate #illustration #ex libris

[worm-dark]

An Ex Libris (or ex-librīs, Latin for “from the books (or library)”), also known as a bookplate (or book-plate, as it was commonly styled until the early 20th century), is a printed or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the front endpaper, to indicate ownership. Simple typographical bookplates are termed “book labels”.

Bookplates bear a motif relating to the book’s owner, such as a coat-of-arms, crest, badge, motto, or a design commissioned from an artist or designer. The name of the owner usually follows an inscription such as “from the books of...” or “from the library of...”, or in Latin, “ex libris”. Bookplates are important evidence for the provenance of books.

In the United States, bookplates replaced book rhymes (which replaced book curses) after the 19th century.

—Wikipedia

#bookplate #ex libris #books #library #illustration

[anineillustration]

A sketch that got out of hand, from last year, when I was looking at family mottoes for a thing

#unicorn #illustration #ex libris #digital illustration #bookplate #anine boesenberg #don't worry he's fine he's got plenty of water

[heavyanddissolved]

One last bookplate which is so charming I have to provide some comments (See the other ones here, here and here.)

This is the bookplate (or ex libris) of German politician, lawyer and Enlightenment figure Johann Daniel von Olenschlager (1711-1778), It depicts an ideal of a library which is made clear already in the Latin motto inscribed in the elaborate, Rococo frame, which translated into something like “I wish to be both useful and to be of enjoyment.” 

The depicted library room is an open loggia covered with a roomy vault. The side walls are entirely covered by bookshelves, giving that pleasant, comfortable impression of being lost in a sea of reading material. The floor, we may imagine, is a cool stone floor - because at the rear end, the loggia opens generously to a gorgeous Baroque garden. The shadows falling from the pillars to the left, the fountain trickling  and the garland having from the roof to frame the entrance all give away a vague feeling of an eternal summer day. Pruned trees, a gravel path and a balustraded stair emanate an atmosphere of peace and order. Two figures move towards us from the garden; we can almost hear the bright voices of our friends approaching. In a few moments they will be with us, laughingly teasing us to finally drop our books and get out into the sunshine with them. I wouldn’t mind at all.

#book plate #bookplate #ex libris #exlibris #rococo #vintage illustration #old library #library #reading #old books #books #vintage interior #architecture

[nobrashfestivity]

Ex Libris

#ex libris #bookplates #bookplate #rabbits #illustration

[arthistoryanimalia]

It’s #WorldAnteaterDay so here’s Salvador Dali’s (1904-1989) anteater bookplate design c. 1930 for friend & Surrealist movement founder André Breton (1896-1966), whose nickname became “le tamanoir.” Bonus photo of Dali walking a Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) in Paris in 1969.

#animals in art #animal holiday #european art #20th century art #illustration #engraving #bookplate #anteater #Salvador Dali #Andre Breton #surrealism #1930s #giant anteater #World Anteater Day

[thefugitivesaint]

Koloman Moser (1868-1918), 'Ex Libris - Otto Zuckerkandl', 1906 Source

#koloman moser #austrian artists #ex libris #bookplates #bookplate #art nouveau #vintage illustration #vintage art

[danskjavlarna]

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A shadow looms over this collection of vintage sundials.

#sundial #ex libris #bookplate #1930s #vintage yearbook #vintage illustration #yearbook #illustration