Bookplate Archive

For 29 years, Libraries & Culture and the Journal of Library History published a bookplate on the cover of each issue and an article inside explaining its origin and design, and giving the history of the collection that used that bookplate.

Currently Libraries & the Cultural Record publishes bookplates — as well as other representations of collections in libraries, archives, and museums — and accompanying articles under the inside feature, "Cultural Record Keepers." We encourage readers to submit representations of bookplates, stamps, posters or other visual images relating to a library or collection for consideration for publication.