In the past week while looking at some of my books, I noticed that many of them have Ex Libris plates. I have not really thought of having such a thing myself. I always thought although decorative, in most cases they are dull and damage books – though it is nice to trace the possessions of people. Some of the bookplates you are able to Google the people involved, others it is a mystery.
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Captain Thomas John Norman Hilken, DSO. (1901-1969)
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Richard Wayne. The illustration is lovely and I thought slightly Bloomsbury but I couldn’t find any mention of him.
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Stephen Brook
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A Book Society bookplate for the public to fill in by Rex Whistler, below another design by Whistler, this time for Duff Cooper.
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Trinity Hall Library, Cambridge
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Keith Douglas – Second World War Poet.
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Samuel Courtauld – Art Collector and founder of the Courtauld Institute of Art. Designed by Paul Nash.
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John & Myfanwy Piper – Artists and writer.
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Raymond Lister – Society Ironworker and writer on Romantic Watercolourists, designed by Reynolds Stone.
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Brian M Warner. A mass produced bookplate by D.W who is unknown to me.
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Trevor and Anne Martin
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Hengrave Hall library bookplate. Hengrave Hall is a Tudor manor house near Bury St. Edmunds and has been a nunnery. It is now a wedding venue.
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E G Crowsley.
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Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, KStJ, PC. As noted on the plate, it features a beautiful drawing by William Orpen.
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Angela Carter the Novelist.
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One of the Prince Friedrich’s of Liechtenstein
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John Denham Austin, writer. Figures depicted are Samuel Johnson and James Boswell.
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Norbert Hardy Wallis – Translator and writer.
2nd Lieutenant in the South Wales Borderers.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert McDougall, of the McDougall’s Flour company. His daughter married Prince Andrew Alexandrovitch of Russia, eldest nephew of Tsar Nicholas II.