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Do's and don'ts to keep your bookplates safe.
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Mounted on a paper sheet.Bookplates may have much different sizes. Most of them however fit on a 23 x 16 cm paper sheet.
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Unknown (Hungarian?) artist.
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However, signing a print was not customary before the 18th century. So we often do not know who the artist was. Even in illustrated books the name of the artist was not always mentioned.
For example the splendid interpretation of 'Leda and the Swan' alongside, is one of the more than 450 copper engravings from the scarce book 'Metamorphoses d'Ovide en Rondeaux', published in Amsterdam by Abraham Wolfgang in 1679. The artist's name is neither mentioned on the plates nor in the book work. Moreover, for realizing such a huge assignment it was not unusual to appeal to several artists and/or engravers. |
