> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 07:43:44 -0400
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> Subject: Re: Copperplates
> From: Germaine Warkentin <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Library History List <[log in to unmask]>
> Is it possible that copper plates made to a customer's order
> (bookplates, visiting cards, "informals" etc.) were handed over to the
> customers once plates or cards had been printed off? This was certainly
> the custom for certain classes of stationery in my mother's generation.
> In fact I still have the copperplate for my own informals, purchased for
> my own wedding some years ago (I still have the informals too -- their
> use was definitely a dying custom!). If so, Mark Purcell's suggestion
> that "Ex Libris" copperplates might be tracked in the possession of
> private libraries and great house librarians (rather than the engravers
> themselves) would make good sense.
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> Germaine Warkentin // [log in to unmask]
> English (Emeritus), Victoria College, University of Toronto,
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I am sure that Germaine Warkentin is right; which being so, surviving
plates are more likely to be found among business archives than in
the libraries themselves. The caches of spare bookplate labels
are mostly kept in the library for pasting into books in situ, but
the printing (and reprinting) of the labels would be a matter for the
administration of the estate, college or society. Perhaps we are
looking for the plates in the wrong places.
Peter Freshwater
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