Ralph B. Sipper is a Santa Barbara rare book dealer. Once upon a time in America -- if you were a book person -- you would commission an artisan to emboss on a block of soft wood your family name ...

There could be an exhibition featuring bookplates in any visual arts venue and it would work just fine – if the selection were as diverse and interesting as this one at Recspec Gallery. But since ...

There’s something intimate and slightly thrilling about opening a book and finding a bookplate pasted inside the cover. These small prints give us a glimpse of the owner through an illustration of the ...

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Signed, 28/40; (there were also 15 artist's proofs of the deluxe book, and a trade edition of 300) ...

Liu Shuohai (left), a woodblock-print artisan, establishes China's first ex-libris museum, the Shuohai International Ex-Libris (Graphic) Arts Collection Museum in Tianjin.[Photo provided to China ...

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