Skeleton letterpress bookplates

Posted by David Pescovitz, September 18, 2008 2:52 PM | permalink

Manifesto Letterpress sells a lovely set of twelve letterpress bookplates in a nice box, now on sale for $9.95. Dreade Of Death Bookplates (Manifesto)

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#1 posted by wolfiesma , September 18, 2008 4:05 PM

It looks like the skeleton is clinging to a boob on the tree.

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#2 posted by David Pescovitz , September 18, 2008 4:43 PM

Is that so hard to fathom? ; )

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#3 posted by Lady Katey

, September 18, 2008 5:13 PM

Holy cow, I printed those, when I was with that company.

Acid free paper!

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#4 posted by meek , September 18, 2008 5:39 PM

Whoa, I just drew a skeleton bookplate for a friend this summer!

http://line-weight.com/exlibristhinked.jpg

Do people still use bookplates? I think they're awesome, but the only people I've run into who use them are classicists...and you don't run into too many of those.

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#5 posted by wolfiesma , September 18, 2008 6:22 PM

I usually give my books away the minute I finish reading them, but the bookplates give me pause for thought. I really love getting used books that have other people's templates in them (though none so cool as these dia de los muertos ones.)

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#6 posted by adonai , September 18, 2008 6:34 PM

My books don't have bookplates, but I think now they might have to...

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#7 posted by Lady Katey

, September 18, 2008 9:13 PM

There are also matching coasters. Or were, maybe they sold out by now.

Fun fact for Boing Boing readers: Manifesto Press is located right down the hall from R Stevens' studio.

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#8 posted by neurolux , September 18, 2008 9:37 PM

Twelve for 10 bucks? For the size of my library, it'd be cheaper to get a set of rubber stamps.

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