SOME OTHER PUBLICATIONS ABOUT BOOKPLATES

The following publications are available from (but mostly not published by) the Society.
Prices are the same for members and non-members, and include UK postage.
If you live outside the UK, please email us to obtain the post-inclusive price.
Orders for these books (only) to: The Bookplate Society, 32 Belitha Villas, London N1 1PD.

Publication Price
SIMPSON COLLECTION OF BOOKPLATES - Offprint of the bookplate section of the Catalogue of Bonhams auction of 17 May 2005, with list of prices realised. £5.00
COLLEGE OF ARMS EXHIBITION HANDLIST, 2003    To accompany the recent exhibition the Society issued this 24-page, A4 size catalogue of the 300 exhibits, under the headings Royalty, Heralds, City of London, Ladies, Coloured Armorials, Distinguished Persons, Naval & Military, Pictorial Armorial, Styles in British Bookplates, Heraldic Artists, and Notable Individuals. £3.00
A Brief History of BOOKPLATES IN BRITAIN, by Brian North Lee, HMSO, 1979    A 24-page booklet, 44 b&w illustrations, published to accompany the Society's exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Remains a useful introduction to bookplates. £6.00
BRITISH BOOKPLATES - A PICTORIAL HISTORY, by Brian North Lee, David & Charles, 1979    The classic textbook on the subject - the first book to which those interested in British Bookplates should refer; 160 pages, 250 b&w illustrations. Secondhand copies only. £35.00
PICTORIAL BOOKPLATES IN BRITAIN, by Brian North Lee, The Private Library, 1982. This well-illustrated essay appeared in the Summer 1982 issue of The Private Library at the time of the Oxford FISAE Congress. 58 pages, 78 b&w illustrations. £6.00
A W FRANKS - Nineteenth-century Collecting and the British Museum, Ed. Caygill and Cherry, British Museum Press, 1997.   Immensely well-researched volume of essays about the career and wide interests of Sir AW Franks, including a chapter by BN Lee on Franks as a bookplate collector. Hardbound, royal 8vo. xi + 372 pages, 60 b&w illustrations. Published at £45. £22.50
DEUTSCHE UND OSTERREICHISCHE EXLIBRIS 1500-1599 im Department of Prints and Drawings im Britischen Museum, by Ilse O'Dell, British Museum Press, 2002.    Introduction and catalogue (TEXT IN GERMAN) of the unparallelled holdings of 16th C. German/Austrian bookplates in the Franks and Rosenheim Collections. Hardbound, 256 pages, 570 b&w illustrations. Published price £95. £78.00
BRITISH ROYAL BOOKPLATES and Exlibris of related Families, by Brian North Lee, Scolar Press. 1992. Bound in blue cloth in d/w. 259 pages, illustrated throughout. Originally published at £65. £24.00
THE BARRETT SAGA - the life and work of William Phillips Barrett (1861-1938), by Cliff Parfitt, Whitchurch, Shropshire, Egerton Press, 2001. Many illustrations in colour incl.25 WPB plates, photographs and documents from the period, historical appendices on the firm of Bumpus, etc. Hardbound in d/w, xx + 151 pp, 21 x 15 cm. Published price £50. £29.00
A DICTIONARY OF BOOKPLATES OF IRISH MEDICAL DOCTORS with [277] short biographies, by Dr Edward A. Martin, xiv + 160 pp, 271 b&w ills, hardbound in dustjacket, Dublin, De Búrca, 2003. £25.00
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