Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie: My Tenth Year of Blogging Has Begun

Thursday, January 14, 2016

My Tenth Year of Blogging Has Begun

I never fully realized how addictive my computer had become until it went through a mid life crisis earlier this week at the same time that the neighborhood computer guru left for a ten day trip to California..
In any event I am getting back on track now and playing catch up.

Here are some odds and ends that have piled up.

Fellow collector/dealer Gabe Konrad bought a large number of bookplate reference books and is in the process of printing a catalog.

Cover of Catalog

If you'd like to receive a copy of this print catalog, please email him at bayleafbooks@sbcglobal.net or call (231) 652-2665.

Bay Leaf Used & Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB/IOBA
Gabe and Melanie Konrád
79 State Rd. (M-37)
Newaygo, MI 49337

Mystery Leather Bookplate

This is one of the nicest leather bookplates I have ever had.

I no nothing about the owner nor the country he lived in.

Any input would be appreciated.

Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com

The Wonders of The Internet

One of my favorite bookplate artists is Frances Delehanty.Several years ago Richard Schimmelpfeng and I collaborated on a check list of her bookplates .

http://bookplatejunkie.blogspot.com/2013/11/frances-w-delehanty.html

This email arrived recently :

Hello Lew,

My name is David Hildt, and Frances W. Delehanty was my great aunt. I came across your blog after googling FWD, and I was amazed to see your collection of bookplates which she created. I am sending you a copy of the only one in my possession. It is one she made for her younger brother, Thornton Augustin Washington Delehanty, who was also the brother of my grandfather, John Bradley Delehanty.

Our family history hasn't been kept up very well in that last few decades, so your collection has enriched our heritage.

Thank you!

David Hildt