bookplate

noun, verb — 2 senses

noun

Etymology From book + plate.

A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.

By the bed there was a bookcase with old French novels, left-behind Frederick Forsyths, odd leather-bound volumes of history and memoirs with the coroneted Kessler bookplate.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

verb

Etymology From book + plate.

To affix a bookplate to (a book).

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