Bookplates by Aleksei Kravchenko – Книжные знаки А.И. Кравченко (1924)
Aleksei Kravchenko was a Russian painter, illustrator, draughtsman, and printmaker. Bookplates are a lesser-known part of his legacy. Still, some of them are quite impressive.
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Nonexistent Bookplates From the Utopian Libraries
Do you know what bookplates and ex-libris are? These prints or stamps that mark the book's ownership. Here is a twist: the Utopian Libraries project by a Russian artist Dmitry Babenko includes only bookplates of nonexistent libraries.
A Bibliophile’s Ex-Libris for 37.000 Books – The Bookplate of Sergey Vavilov with an Engraving of Félix Vallotton
I often find curious things just browsing tomes in old books stores. Here is an excellent example. This bookplate on a vintage book about engraving techniques of the 19th century momentarily attracted my attention.
Russian ‘Printing Art’ Magazine from 1902 and a Selection of Bookplates
I planned to upload some English-language book this time. However, I stumbled upon an article about bookplates in the April'1902 issue of the Russian magazine "Искусство печати" (Printing Art,) and decided I have to share it.
Bookplates Miscellanea from the Collection of Joseph Jackson Howard
This isn't really a book. No, that's not right. It's a hardcover binding, so it's definitely a book. That's a convolute of multiple articles taken from various magazines published on the brink of the 20th century. And it's about bookplates.
