Example of a Harold Glendon Steele bookplate. Gold coloring image of a naked man kneeling. Above the man is the motto: "Become what you are." Bookplate can be found in Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin.
Example of a Ned Guymon bookplate. Black and white image of a skull with a nail through it. Tree in the background and in foreground image of a person's arm.
Example of a Ray and Pat Browne Popular Culture Library bookplate. Image is red and white. Bookplate can be found in Brief Candles: Stories by Aldous Huxley.
Example of a John Morgan bookplate. Black and white image with motto around the border. Motto reads: "The house the Lord builds not we vainly strive to build it." Images also includes a house with angels building it. Bookplate can be found in The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Example of an Alice G.C. Clark bookplate. Black and white herald. Bookplate can be found in Metrical Tales and Other Poems by Samuel Lover.
Example of a Maurice Baring bookplate. Black and white image with motto around the edge. Motto reads: "Here goes a ship with a cargo of books to the city of dreams." Dated June 1897. Image is of a ship sailing down a river with tress on one bank and a town on the other. Bookplate can be found in…
Example of an Abraham Bracebridge bookplate. Black and white image of a herald. Below herald is the motto "Be As God Will" followed by Bracebridge's name. The bookplate can be found in The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Landsdowne, written by George…
Example of a Meum Stewart bookplate. Bookplate features a naked woman surrounded by decorations. Bookplate is multi-color. Bookplate can be found in The Poems of Robert Herrick by Robert Herrick.
Example of an Alexander J. and Rosalia P. Isaacs bookplate. Black and white with decorative border and animals at the bottom. Bookplate can be found in The Poems of Mr. Gray by Thomas Gray.
Example of a Yale University Library bookplate. Black and white bookplate with books on top of a table. Includes the motto: "I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." Bookplate can be found in The Adventures of David Simple by Sarah Fielding.
Example of a Charles Vere Dashwood Esq. bookplate. Black and white herald motif with floral decoration around herald. Bookplate can be found in The Adventures of David Simpleby Sarah Fielding.
Example of Sir James Graham Bart bookplate. Black and white with herald. Motto at the bottom reads: "Reason contents me." Bookplate can be found in the Miscellaneous Works of the Late Philip Dormer Stanhope by Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield.