Preliminary Guide to the Bookplate Collection
Processed by D. Tambo
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library
© 2006
University of California
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Title: Bookplate Collection
Date (inclusive): ca. 1800s-mid 1900s
Collection number: Printers Mss 34
Extent: 1.1 linear feet (2 document boxes and 1 oversize box)
Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical location: Boxes 1-2 (Del Sur); Box 3 (Del Sur Oversize)
Language of Material: Collection materials in English
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Bookplate Collection. Printers Mss 34. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Multiple donations and purchase, ca. 1960s-1980s.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains bookplates purchased or donated by various individuals over a period of years from about the 1960s
to 1980s. Most of the bookplates are 20th century American, including a number from Santa Barbara and other parts of California.
Included are works by artists/designers such as Marc Chagall. Some of the bookplates are in the Arts & Crafts style of the
early 20th century. Represented in the collection are bookplates for a number of well-known individuals such as Edward Borein,
Charlie Chaplin, Sally Fields, and Tom Mix.
Box 1 - 3
Bookplates