After such a wonderful interview yesterday with Antiquarian Book Dealer, Kenneth Gloss, I thought it'd be fun to follow it up with a quick profile of Lew Jaffe's bookplate blog. Lew started collecting bookplates about 30 years ago. At the time he was collecting bookmarks, and began noticing bookplates, he recently told me. The collection evolved and ultimately became an obsession as so many collections do.
I asked Lew to recommend a resource for beginner bookplate collectors. He says to start with A Treasury of Bookplates from the Renaissance to the Present
by Fridolf Johnson, and, of course, he recommends becoming a regular reader of Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie.
