Tag: ex libris

1930s Depression era bookplates, taken from a 1931 C. D. Reimers Bookplate Company catalogue. They were located in Fort Worth, Texas and were a firm owned by Charles Dietrich Reimers who was originally from Illinois and had been a first baseman on the Northwestern University baseball team.

Front cover of 1931 catalogue of bookplates from the C. D. Reimers Book Plate Company of Forth Worth, Texas. American. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/6419/c-d-reimers-bookplates
Young woman in I think Ancient Greek or Roman dress stirring something, possibly creating a spell. Number 108 from a 1931 catalogue of bookplates from the C. D. Reimers Book Plate Company of Forth Worth, Texas. American. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/6419/c-d-reimers-bookplates
Airplane and lighthouse. Number 113 from a 1931 catalogue of bookplates from the C. D. Reimers Book Plate Company of Forth Worth, Texas. American. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/6419/c-d-reimers-bookplates
Owl with the caption reading: Who owns this book? I own this book. Number 114 from a 1931 catalogue of bookplates from the C. D. Reimers Book Plate Company of Forth Worth, Texas. American. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/6419/c-d-reimers-bookplates
Young woman reading. Number 115 from a 1931 catalogue of bookplates from the C. D. Reimers Book Plate Company of Forth Worth, Texas. American. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/6419/c-d-reimers-bookplates
Geometric design. Number 121 from a 1931 catalogue of bookplates from the C. D. Reimers Book Plate Company of Forth Worth, Texas. American. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/6419/c-d-reimers-bookplates

Arts and Crafts bookplates or ex libris. British. Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo, designer. Collections of the William Morris Gallery.

Part-finished design for bookplate with initials within a wreath motif. Possibly created for Herbert Percy Horne. Undated. British. Pencil and ink on tracing paper. Collections of and © William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest, Fair use license. via https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/collection/artists-64/mackmurdo-arthur-heygate-1851-1942/initial/m/page/3/object/bookplate-design-for-hlph-a204viii
Design for a book plate for Arnold Dolmestsch that features a bird and lute motif. Dolmetsch was a French-born musician and instrument maker, and was a leading figure in the 20th-century revival of interest in early music. Undated. British. Pencil and ink. Collections of and © William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest, Fair use license. via https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/collection/artists-64/mackmurdo-arthur-heygate-1851-1942/initial/m/page/3/object/bookplate-design-for-arnold-dolmetsch-a204xix
Bookplate design for William Thomas Holmes Spicer who was an ophthalmic surgeon. Undated but before 1935. British. Ink on paper. Collections of and © William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest, Fair use license. via https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/collection/artists-64/mackmurdo-arthur-heygate-1851-1942/initial/m/page/3/object/bookplate-design-for-william-thomas-holmes-spicer-a204i