New Flickr gallery: Bookplates

Michael Widener

The latest addition to the Rare Book Collection’s Flickr galleries is a set dedicated to bookplates. The Bookplates set is a project of Drew Adan, Library Services Assistant in our Collections & Access department. He will be adding more images of bookplates in the coming weeks and months.

The set includes bookplates of the famous, such as the bookplate of Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780), author of Commentaries of the Laws of England, the most influential book in the history of Anglo-American common law. His bookplate is in a copy of John Locke’s Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (4th ed.; London 1700), which we recently acquired for our Blackstone Collection:

We will also seek help in identifying bookplates, such as this colorful one found in the Summa aurea of Hostiensis (Lyon 1556):


MIKE WIDENER

Rare Book Librarian


Related News

The Lillian Goldman Law Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of a four-volume set of lecture notes kept by James Hammond, a Maryland student...
Rare Books Blog
FLOWERS AT LAMBACH An exhibition on view in the Lillian Goldman Law Library Rare Book Exhibition Space, Library Level 3 January 13 – May 25, 2025 Read...
Rare Books Blog
Max & Trix Max and Beatrix Farrand: Memory and Landscape at Yale An Exhibit at the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Lower Level 2 January 13 - May 25...