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Black ink on white paper. Thin, double-lined black border with rounded corners surrounds the bookplate. The background is filled in with vertical thin black stripes. At the top of the bookplate is printed capitalized sans-serif block text filled with horizontal black stripes. Some of the text is obscured by the top of a feather quill, which extends from the top right corner down to the bottom left corner. On top of the center of the quill is an open scroll with the top and bottom ends still rolled. The bookplate creator’s initials are printed in black sans-serif font on the curl of the paper at the top of the scroll. Cursive sentence case black font is printed on the scroll. The bottom of the scroll just grazes the bookplate author’s name, which is printed in the same large sans-serif block font with the horizontal stripes that is used for the text at the top of the bookplate.

Private libraries; Quotations; Scrolls (Visual works)

Prints

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The quote on the bookplate is attributed to Maeterlinck, namely the Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck. Maeterlinck primarily wrote lyrical drama, but also wrote poetry and prose. He was born in 1862 and died in 1949. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911.
References:
1) Frenz, H. (Ed.). (1969). Maurice Maeterlinck - Biographical. In Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. Retrieved from http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1911/maeterlinck-bio.html

RBSC Bookplates

2017-04-13

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