bookplate

[ boo k-pleyt ]

/ ˈbʊkˌpleɪt /

a label bearing the owner's name and often a design, coat of arms, or the like, for pasting on the front end paper of a book.

Origin of bookplate

First recorded in 1785–95; book + plate¹

If there be a bookplate, soak it off, and when dry paste it inside the end cover.

The Book-Hunter at Home |P. B. M. Allan
The allusion was to Cooper's bookplate, a red serpent about a golden staff.

The Patient Observer |Simeon Strunsky
Sentiment is seldom in place, but on a bookplate it is peculiarly odious.

In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays |Augustine Birrell
His bookplate (Fig. 739) is one of the earliest Scottish dated plates.

A Complete Guide to Heraldry |Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

He had a bookplate and he had also a coat of arms on his carriage-door.

Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) |Elbert Hubbard

bookplate

/ (ˈbʊkˌpleɪt) /

a label bearing the owner's name and an individual design or coat of arms, pasted into a book