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Ex Libris: The Art of Bookplates by Martin Hopkinson (Paperback, 2011)

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The first books were highly valuable and prestigious objects to own, hence the first bookplates usually incorporated the decorative coats of arms of the fabulously wealthy. By the late nineteenth century, bookplates had developed into a highly imaginative form of the engraver's and printmaker's art in miniature.