This is the third and final part of my blog posts on the latest edition of the Bookplate Journal. In Bookplate identification: an aid to provenance in a current research project Danijela Bucher talks about her research project regarding the prints of the Schweizer Kleinmeister, who were artists in Switzerland between 1750 and 1850. They sold their work to British aristocrats on their Grand Tour of Europe. Subsequently many of their prints are not to be found in Switzerland, b

I recently received my copy of The Bookplate Journal and wanted to write a post about it as this particular issue seems to be a good starting point for people who want to know more about bookplates. The editorial does a nice job summing it up with the opening words of: "This issue of the Journal seeks to answer the questions of why and how bookplates are collected and studied." The first article: Why collect bookplates? by Bryan Welch, was of particular appeal to me as my per