Six 20th-century etched bookplates designed by Sara Eugenia Blake.

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Title

Six 20th-century etched bookplates designed by Sara Eugenia Blake.

Subject

Gift of James M. Goode.

Description

Bookplates, also known as ex libris, can be an important part of placing a book’s ownership and use in time and location. Bookplates are labels, usually bearing the owner’s name or initials as well as a decorative or pictorial motif. Shown here are several examples designed by Sara Eugenia Blake (1886–1973), a Tufts University librarian who collected and designed bookplates. Many of Blake’s plates were produced via etching, and she created them for her friends and family, often borrowing pictorial and decorative elements from other artists.

Source

From the collection of Rare Book School