Bibliophemera

I heard today from Gregg Silvis at the University of Delaware Library, who had seen my post about John Stuart Groves' bookplate and Delawareana. He thought their digital bookplate collection, William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection , would be of interest to readers on this blog. It certainly was to me. In addition to the bookplate collection, try the University of Delaware Library Digital Collections link and have fun with that visual feast of history. This also ties in neatly with something else I wrote earlier this year, some thoughts on digital ephemera , after receiving a digital copy of a bookplate. Quoting from the William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection , here' the scoop on William Augustus Brewer and his wonderful collection: Reverend William Augustus Brewer was an avid bookplate collector. His wife, Augusta LaMotte Brewer, bequeathed his collection to the University of Delaware Library after her husband’s death. The William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collect...