BOOK PLATES

In the days when books were rare and precious, anyone who owned them would want to take particular care that, if they were lent, or borrowed, or taken away by mistake, there was the best chance of them finding their way home again.

Bookplates fell out of fashion as books became more common, less expensive and easier to replace. But there's a long tradition of using them - about four hundred years.

This site offers free book plates you can print to paste it in the next book that you've decided to put in your library. Maybe, a hundred years from now, somebody might open your book and start to wonder who you are.