Visitors to Oxford are getting an opportunity to view four bookplate exhibitions during the International Ex Libris Congress. – Vintage Photograph

Oxford is playing host to the International Ex Libris Congress, giving visitors the chance to view four bookplate exhibitions. For Anthony Pincott, a committee member of the British branch of The Bookplate Society, it’s a return to the city where his love of bookplates began. With bookplates, even those without a lot of money can commission a personal work of art. The Bookplate Society holds a list of artists who accept commissions and whose standards are known to be high. The exhibitions have been selected for their beauty and interest to a group of 200 eager collectors and experts, who assemble every two years to look, discuss and listen to lectures.Oxford is playing host to the International Ex Libris Congress, giving visitors the chance to view four bookplate exhibitions. For Anthony Pincott, a committee member of the British branch of The Bookplate Society, it’s a return to the city where his love of bookplates began. With bookplates, even those without a lot of money can commission a personal work of art. The Bookplate Society holds a list of artists who accept commissions and whose standards are known to be high. The exhibitions have been selected for their beauty and interest to a group of 200 eager collectors and experts, who assemble every two years to look, discuss and listen to lectures.

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Ex Libris GW THATCHER name glaring up at them reproachfully. Beneath them But bookplates are far more than that. Over the centuries great and minor artists, from Durer onwards, have not thought it beneath them to design bookplates, and many fine artists have helped create a small, exquisite art form. We are getting an excellent chance to see just how exquisite, because this month Oxford is playing host to the International Ex Libris Congress, and no less than four bookplate exhibitions are running in the city right now. For Anthony Pincott, a committee member of the British branch of The Bookplate Society, it’s a return to the city where his love of bookplates began. Now he runs a company based in Antwerp, but he remembers his days as a biochemistry undergraduate at Trinity: “going into the Turl bookshop, buying armfuls of old books and going home and steaming the bookplates off! I thought I was the only person who collected them.” It was the stationery shop in Broad Street which revealed to him that he wasn’t. “I went in for a file to put them in and I was told there was a Tour pun va to their particular interests. And it can still be done today. It’s one area where someone without a lot of cash to throw about can put themselves in the position of a patron of the arts in the 18th commissioning a century manner, personal work of art. High standards “The Bookplate Society holds a list of artists who accept commissions and whose standards we know to be high,” says Mr Pincott. “I should say that for between 20 and 50 you could get something nice, and above that something extremely nice. Not, perhaps, in the class of the book- plates which will be on show in Oxford- (details of where and when at the foot of -because these have been the column) selected for their beauty and interest to a group of 200 eager collectors and experts, who assemble every two years to look, discuss and listen to lectures. “The last one was in Linz in Austria and the next one will be in Wiemar in East says Mr Pincott. “But we’re Germany, absolutely delighted to be in Oxford this time. il bonus on Thursday at M2 2/6