A number of collectors
use the Stanley Gibbons "Devon" loose-leaf binders for mounting their bookplates. These albums are now available in maroon, dark blue and dark green (but no longer in black), and may
be ordered from the Society. An album with 75 sheets of squared paper costs £28.50 plus postage. Additional paper can be ordered. The albums can also be supplied
without paper. To request fuller details, or to confirm the cost including postage, please write to members@bookplatesociety.org.
The microfilm (10 reels) of the British Museum's Franks Collection of 36,000 British
and American bookplates is available at a price of about $875 from Mr Felix Moore, Mindata Ltd,
Bathwick Hill, BATH BA2 6LA Tel: +44 1225 466447 Fax: +44 1225 482 841 Email: mindata@onetel.net.uk If you wish the
microfilm but are willing to wait, please let us know your interest and a better price may be possible if several
orders are placed at the same time. Other microfilms available from Mindata include the Banks Collection of Trade Cards
(6,000 images; 19 reels) and the Sir Ambrose Heal Collection of Trade Cards (16,000 images; 27 reels).
Boxwood and lemonwood blocks for engravers are made by Society of Wood Engravers member Chris Daunt, 1 Monkridge Gardens, Dunston, Gateshead NE11 9XE Tel: 0191 420
8975 Email: chris_daunt@blueyonder.co.uk Website: www.chrisdauntwoodengravingblocks.co.uk
[After several generations of manufacturing engravers' blocks, T N Lawrence & Son Ltd now only sells artists' supplies, from
208 Portland Road, Hove BN3 5QT Tel: 0845 644 3232 (+44 1273 260260)
Email: artbox@lawrence.co.uk Website: http://www.lawrence.co.uk]
A large selection of British bookplates is stocked for sale by James Wilson, 22 Castle Street, Berkhamsted, Herts HP4 2DW.
Tel: +44 1442 873396. He is also able to supply secondhand books about bookplates.
A dealer who often lists a limited number of British wood-engraved bookplates in her catalogue of prints and illustrated books is Geraldine Waddington, 3 West Street, Oundle, Northamptonshire PE8 4EJ Tel/Fax: +44 1832 275028 Email: g.waddington@dial.pipex.com
Other dealers who issue catalogues (mainly of Continental European bookplates) include:
Marcela Groeneveld, Stromarkt 11, 7411 PJ Deventer, The Netherlands Tel/Fax: +31-570-641098 Email: marcela@worldonline.nl Website: E-L-G (Exlibris Groeneveld)
Claus Wittal, Fliednerstrasse 27, 65191 Wiesbaden, Germany Tel: +49 611 502907 Fax: +49 611 503021 Email: cw@exlibrisart.com Website: Ex Libris Art
Niels Witte, Nürburgstr. 68, D- 53945 Blankenheim, Germany Tel (also Fax): + 49 2449 919654 Email: nwitte@gmx.net
Some suppliers of standard bookplate designs, on which your name can be printed, are:
Bookplate Ink, run by Karen Gardner (kgardner@bookplateink.com Tel: +1.866.483.3830)
also offer printing of custom designs. Most designs were acquired in the 1980s from Antioch.
Dan DeFrance's www.bookplates.com
Colorful Images
Claus Wittal
Antioch Publishing Mass-produced bookplates (unpersonalized) for retail sale, primarily.
No longer prints bookplates with the customer's name included.