04-06-2018 08:51 AM
Hi,
can someone tell me what an original bookplate print is? Would that be a page torn from a book? Or a print of a page from a book? I like an item w that description but not sure i want to spend $$ on a repro print from a book. Thanks!
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04-06-2018 12:03 PM - edited 04-06-2018 12:04 PM
@yooner-ama wrote:
Its on ebay. The seller has many original bookplate prints from this particular artist
Robert Broderson
OK. So I found the listings. No useful info at all. Nothing to tell you what you're getting. Not even dimensions. Ask the seller what the things are, if you don't mind doing business with someone that slapdash.
04-06-2018 09:29 AM - edited 04-06-2018 09:30 AM
With that rather vague information from you, I guess I'd take it to mean that the bookplate is custom designed, made, printed. If it's in a book you'll find that sometimes a bookplate adds value to a book, and sometimes it reduces the value. It all depends on the book and on the bookplate.
Some people collect bookplates, sans the books.
I'm assuming you know what a bookplate is: A sort of owner's label that's pasted inside a book, with a pretty design, the owner's name, and often the words "Ex Libris" ("from the library"), like these:
But maybe you're talking about something else altogether, not a bookplate at all.
04-06-2018 09:48 AM
Is it listed on ebay?
04-06-2018 10:22 AM
04-06-2018 11:03 AM - edited 04-06-2018 11:04 AM
Ask the seller what they understand it to mean.
04-06-2018 12:03 PM - edited 04-06-2018 12:04 PM
@yooner-ama wrote:
Its on ebay. The seller has many original bookplate prints from this particular artist
Robert Broderson
OK. So I found the listings. No useful info at all. Nothing to tell you what you're getting. Not even dimensions. Ask the seller what the things are, if you don't mind doing business with someone that slapdash.
04-06-2018 04:57 PM
The listings I found with "original bookplate print" are from a seller in UK and refer to plates of printed engravings or gravures that were removed from a book according to the description. So not bookplates but book plates.
Rita
04-06-2018 05:08 PM - edited 04-06-2018 05:11 PM
No, that is not the listing because OP said it is for work by Robert Broderson. Here's one of the listings:
OP said they are "bookplates" by "Robert Boderson" and an advanced search brought up that one and all these by the same seller:
04-06-2018 05:32 PM - edited 04-06-2018 05:36 PM
I came across one site selling artists' prints which insists that the term "bookplate print" properly refers to art used as bookplates, and which rails against eBay sellers who use it to describe pages torn from books. But the phrase itself seems kind of odd and equivocal. Anyway, a good seller should be happy to clarify exactly what it is they are offering, and if they're reluctant to do so for any reason then people can draw their own conclusions.
04-06-2018 05:43 PM
Oh ok. I just put "original bookplate print" in the search box and that's what popped up. The listings in your links are for 9 x 12 inch plates from books so I guess that 's what the OP is looking for, and not bookplates as we generally use the term.
Rita
04-06-2018 05:53 PM - edited 04-06-2018 05:54 PM
Where to do you find the dimensions in those listings? I looked and looked and there are no item specifics and the entire description for each is: "Up For Sale is a vintage bookplate art print: Robert Broderson. Drawing: [title]. Year: 19[XX]." I find no other description. I guess I'm blinder than I thought.
I mean, I don't think they're bookplates, either, but I couldn't say so from that description, or say what they may be.
04-06-2018 05:57 PM - edited 04-06-2018 06:01 PM
@argon38 wrote:Anyway, a good seller should be happy to clarify exactly what it is they are offering, and if they're reluctant to do so for any reason then people can draw their own conclusions.
In fairness, I see the seller in question has been on eBay since 2002 and has 100% positive feedback. I feel sure a query from the OP would resolve any uncertainty.
04-06-2018 05:58 PM - edited 04-06-2018 05:59 PM
@argon38 wrote:
@argon38 wrote:Anyway, a good seller should be happy to clarify exactly what it is they are offering, and if they're reluctant to do so for any reason then people can draw their own conclusions.
In fairness, I see the seller in question has been on eBay since 2002 and has 100% positive feedback. I'm sure a query from the OP would resolve any uncertainty.
I agree. And I think OP agrees. This secondary discussion is the result of Rita seeing things I just cannot find. Frustrating.
04-06-2018 06:02 PM
04-06-2018 06:13 PM
@argon38 wrote:
@maxine*j wrote:I agree. And I think OP agrees. This secondary discussion is the result of Rita seeing things I just cannot find. Frustrating.
I can see the dimensions too. Are you viewing the listing on a phone?
No, but your asking gave me an idea. I just temporarily suspended one security setting and -- bingo! Scroll bar works, and I now see the rest of the description, including the dimensions. Whew! I'm neither blind nor barmy!