bookplate

Etymology

From book + plate.

bookplate means 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. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

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.“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.”

verb

To affix a bookplate to (a book).