Bookplate Looking for Owner

Decorative script C. Comes with fancy cap. Available within.
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Top: Bookplate from Library Mistress' Photostream. Middle: From Los Angeles Public Central Library, Bookplate Collection. Designed by "Binner".  Lastly: Ex Libris from Los Angeles Public Central Library, Bookplate Collection. Design by A.R., 1919.

Boss Bookplate

My guess this bookplate was found in a copy of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The sixties were very unkind to Cooper Black, but somehow it seems fitting here. Talk about being typecast in a decade! 

:: From the Crossett Library Bennington College.  

Experimental Ex Libris

There is no date on this great bookplate for Frederic J. Libbie, but it is from a Flickr set of the Pratt Institute Libraries Special Collection and most others in this set range in date from 1730 to 1901. I found one other bookplate for Mr. Libbie in this set which is dated 1895, although it is far more ornate. If you look carefully at the Garamond type pattern on this one, the designer, or printer for that matter, began in the center of the diamond shape and spelled out his name so it is right-reading, and then reversed the order of the letters to the left. They then repeated this pattern reading up and down from the center until an E creates the entire border of the diamond-shaped pattern. Probably designed by a printer who had a lot of E's and I's at his disposal or they just couldn't bear doing another Victorian style bookplate with fat cherubs sitting atop a stack of books. One thing about typographical patterns...they seldom go out of style.

Czech Bookplates

From my own bookplate collection. Wish I knew the artists, but sadly do not. I just bought them from a paper dealer several years ago.

Update: I received a message on good authority that the Vancura bookplate is designed by an artist named Dvorak (sorry, don't have a 1st name), and the third one for Pleskot was by an artist named Frantisek Vincenc Danijelka (1911- ) who was well known as an oil painter.

This Book Belongs To_______

Ex Libris bookplates printed by young Japanese children. Sorry I cannot provide more detailed information and credits. Does anyone happen to know more?