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This
part of our site is primarily for the benefit of members
and may one day become
a password-protected area. We considered making the Members Handbook available online to members,
for convenience and to save the print costs, but this will not be pursued (due to internet
security issues and the fact that many members do not have access to the internet).
A new Members Handbook updated to
January 2008 was issued to members with our December 2007 Newsletter.
MEMBERS AUCTIONS
Our Next Auction will take place on Saturday, 27 September,
at 2:00pm, and the auction list will appear in due course in the Society's June Newsletter and on this website.
The results of the auction held on 19 April 2008 can be found here, and for the
list of the items sold click here please. Our Auctions Secretary is Peter McGowan,
to whom all auction correspondence should be sent (address on Contacts page).
SALES AND WANTS
A selection of many hundreds of bookplates for sale by
members is available through this website. Access details were given on a notice enclosed with
the December 2005 Newsletter, but send an email to the Membership Secretary if you require details, or a list.
Prices are set by owners of the material (not the Society). Postage extra. In the same way as for our members
auctions, the vendor pays 12.5% of the sale price to the Society.
Before mailing items to the Membership
Secretary, please first send details of items proposed for inclusion in this list (address on Contacts page)
WPB BOOKPLATE OFFERED TO MEMBERS
John Blatchly writes: "Recently in a Beasley's Beccles
bookshop I was offered a bookplate collection in a fine album made Bumpus of Oxford Street for [Florence] Amy Clarke
in 1906. There is an interesting article to be written for Bookplate Journal about Amy, whose General father was
Equerry and Treasurer to the King, and the way she set about putting her collection together. Lots of unusual lady's
plates and one or two new artists disclosed. Included is her small stock of her own WPB pictorial label, rare
because she probably almost never gave any away. I would like to offer copies to interested BPS members with a brief
account of Amy on receipt of a stamped self-addressed envelope and just £3 (stamps perfectly acceptable). My address
is: 11 Burlington Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 2HS.
THE JOHN SIMPSON COLLECTION
A former member who died tragically in 2004, John Simpson
was an assiduous collector not only of books on fishing but also of
early bookplates, especially typographic labels, Early Armorials and Jacobean style bookplates. Results of the
auction at Bonhams, New Bond Street on 17 May 2005 are at www.bonhams.com and were included in the Society's
June newsletter. Some 23,000 bookplates sold for £63,000. An offprint of the catalogue was circulated to members, and further copies are available for purchase
by non-members Click here. John Simpson produced these two bookplates for himself.
The Society has a few copies available, each at £4 post free.
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