Ex Libris (Bookplate)
蔵書票 / 15th century– / Style / Book Arts
The small print of ownership pasted inside a book. Since Dürer, heraldry, allegory and the collector's precise self-image engraved into centimeters — the private graphic where book culture and printmaking cross.
The EX LIBRIS formula / Heraldry and allegory / Precise miniature engraving / The owner's self-image
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Dürer's bookplates / Japan's bookplate movement / the international federation FISAE