Collections

This collection contains over 200 ex-libris designs by J. Winfred Spenceley (1865-1908), an artist and engraver active during the so-called "golden age" of American bookplate design.

This collection includes bookplates and other graphic works by Mark Severin (1906-1987), a Belgian artist and graphic designer.

This collection contains early American bookplates designed and engraved by Nathaniel Hurd (1730-1777), a silversmith and engraver born in Boston. His armorial bookplate designs are in the Jacobean and Chippendale styles, following the English fashion.

This collection comprises a small number of bookplates by Rex Whistler as well as a few related materials, including correspondence and ephemera.

The collection contains bookplates by the English engraver Robert Osmond (1874-1959).

The collection contains bookplates designed by Stephen Gooden (1892-1955). It also includes process materials—e.g., original sketches, trial proofs, and engraved plates—as well as correspondence and ephemera.

The collection includes bookplates designed by Timothy Cole for both individual and institutional patrons.

The collection contains 121 unused bookplate specimens designed by Vytautas O. Virkau, including ex-libris for both individual and institutional patrons.

This collection contains bookplates by William Edgar Fisher. Many of these bookplates, which were designed for both individual and institutional patrons, are prints signed and numbered by the artist; many are hand-colored as well. The collection also includes some correspondence by Fisher as well as letters exchanged by later collectors of his work.

This collection contains bookplates by the Dutch artist Wim Zwiers. Many are signed proofs or numbered prints.