Bookplate - noun

As a way to kill some time before my next post, and it shoukld be a good one, here is dictionary.com's definition of a bookplate:

book·plate [book-pleyt] – noun

a label bearing the owner's name and often a design, coat of arms, or the like, for pasting on the front end paper of a book.

Origin:
1785–95

 

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