Classic Bookplates
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Lasting Impressions
When you use bookplates, you are doing more than reminding borrowers to return your books to you — you are also honoring the books that shape your life and immortalizing your library for posterity.
Bookplates.com classic bookplates are printed with dense black lithographic ink onto high quality book paper with eggshell finish, and include acid free Coccoina paste.
These traditional ex libris in black and white use offset lithography, archivable materials, and may be suitibly enclosed, tipped, or pasted into keepsake collections.
Classic bookplate orders ship as complete kits with all of the necessary accessories. You will receive your bookplates packaged in a storage box along with the paste and brush, a burnisher, and some tips on bookplating. Each additional 250 bookplates is packaged as an additional kit of accessories, so if you order a set of 500 bookplates, you will receive a second canister of paste and other extras; if you order 750, you will receive a third kit.
To print classic bookoplates, we use offset lithography with recyclable aluminum plates and dense black printer's ink (not powdered toner as in copy machines and digital presses). The paper we use is a very bright and opaque white; an archival and acid free stock that is used in fine-art limited-edition books and prints. Each set of bookplates is seperately shrink-wrapped and packaged in a box that along with paste, burnisher, and bookplating instructions. Fine bookplates are made to be used with paste, and the tin of acid-free Italian-made Coccoina paste comes with the brush cleverly encased inside the canister as it did in 1921.
