Bookplates or Ex-Libris, whatever you call them, these little prints denoting book ownership are delightful and are wonderful vehicles for artists to express themselves and also to reveal something ...

Ralph B. Sipper is a Santa Barbara rare book dealer. Once upon a time in America -- if you were a book person -- you would commission an artisan to emboss on a block of soft wood your family name ...

Name-labels and mottoes -- Armorial book-plates -- Pictorial and allegorical book-plates and plates of colleges, libraries and societies -- Book-plates of special interest -- Early American book-plate ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...