Feb 2, 2017

Can you smell the books?

Hilprand Brandenburg of Biberach was the first person who personalized his books with a bookplate, in 1480. I lost mine unfortunately. But mine wasn't as beautiful as the ones in this post on Hyperallergic. With a bit of imagination you can smell the books.

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This the the one from 1480:


And some other examples:




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