Ex Libris Chronicle: The International Collector

CHAPEAU...! COCK YOUR HAT - ANGLES ARE ATTITUDES (SINATRA)  By Heinz Decker Hats seem to stimulate the imagination; maybe because they are a prolongation of the head. You wear them as ...

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THE EX LIBRIS OF HRISTO KERIN BY JAMES P. KEENAN When I entered the beautiful world of ex libris I met many important artists, collectors and connoisseurs. I soon realized that ex libri...

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Australian Personal Bookplates: A Review By Richard H. Schimmelpfeng Mr. Peake’s work is a very welcome addition to bookplate literature in general and for Australia in particular. Pri...

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Armorial Ex Libris By Lars C. Stolt Heraldry is closely related to ex libris as the great bibliophiles during 17th-19th centuries often were armigerous and of course wished to show their...

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Not unexpectedly the majority of the armorial plates are British. A fine example of the great plates from the 18th century and a typical royal bookplate is one of the ex libris of the great...

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A later master of copper engraving is George William Eve (1855-1914). A fine plate by him was engraved in 1903 for Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, KCB, (ill. 7). It is typical example of the t...

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The other plate by Krahl is printed in heliogravure and shows the arms and the villa of Dr. Hans and Helene Bretschneider von Rechttreu with an interior view from the villa (ill. 9) . The...

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One of the greatest ex libris engravers was the German-Danish artist Friedrich Britze (1870-1956). One of his plates of seal-type was engraved in copper in 1934 for count Reinhold Stenbock (...

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The most famous Swedish heraldic artist Jan Raneke (1914- ) has made hundreds of ex libris. The plate for Folke Lindskog (1916-1999), a business man in Gothenburg, was drawn in 1980 and ...

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The Dutch heraldic artist Daniel de Bruin (1950- ) is unconventional in his art. The coat of arms designed by him has challenged many heraldists, being often three-dimensional with shades...

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The Czech heraldist Václav Filip (Wenceslai Wocc), now living in Italy, has an unorthodox approach to the subject of heraldry - sometimes with erotoheraldic motifs. He is represented by a ...

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The fact that the common ex libris of today is the paper ex libris to be pasted into the book does not mean that the super ex libris or supralibros are not used nowadays. A modern super ex lib...

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Antioch Bookplate Company By Edith Anderson Rights Suddenly my attention has been focused on the Antioch Publishing Company (formerly the Antioch Bookplate Company) a concern with whic...

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Recently in inspecting the Notre Dame University’s online bookplate registry online, I found that collection (created probably around 1945) contained about 70 Antioch bookplates of that p...

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With permission from the college, the students named their venture The Antioch Bookplate Company. Eventually Kahoe sold his interest to Morgan; while Morgan continued his education during d...

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The opening page of this 1944 catalog illustrated, for the first time, the reproduction of Spitzweg’s “The Bookworm” that shows an elderly gentleman standing on the top of a library st...

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The catalog of 1959 also illustrated four of eight designs (printed in brown) created in the 1950s by a new artist Benton Ferguson; in 2001 the series was labeled ‘The Young Moderns’ and...

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The catalog of the 1990s covered Antioch Publishing Company’s expanded product line, relegating its bookplate coverage to pages 41 through 47, with thirteen new bookplate offerings among t...

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The (undated) enclosure in an Antioch bookplate box promised that “If, for any reason, you are disappointed with the bookplates you order we shall consider it a favor to have them returned...

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Jazz and Exlibris - An Introduction By Thomas I. Roman (1948-2004) This summer of 2002 there is a unique exhibition taking place in the town of Sori in Italy. It is a first of its kind, an...

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It could also be a tribute to a certain musical number or a riff that somehow stays with you forever. Or maybe the little drawing or doodle you did on a napkin at the club, that came from the...

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The Ex Libris lies closer to the heart and soul. It is also a way of expressing gratitude for jazz music, and all it does for us. It touches our lives so individually and intimately, mends t...

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The “Wiener Werkstatte” and its Ex Libris Artists The Vienna Workshop By Heinrich R. Scheffer When the Oestereichische Exlibris Gesellschaft (Austrian Ex Libris Society) was established...

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Japanese sensibilities for art and form strongly influenced Viennese artists around the turn of the century. They saw that the art of space, the usefulness and use of material were not only rec...

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EX LIBRIS ARTISTS The pool from which artists for the WW were acquired was for most part the “Kunstgewerbeschule” (School for Applied Arts), which was affiliated with the Austrian Museum f...

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