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plural bookplates
A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft. quotations examples
By the bed there was a bookcase with old French novels, left-behind Frederick Forsyths, odd leather-bound volumes of history and memoirs with the coroneted Kessler bookplate.
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing
third-person singular simple present bookplates, present participle bookplating, simple past and past participle bookplated
(transitive) To affix a bookplate to (a book). examples