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Show Earliest Booh Plate It probably was because books wen so few and precious In that early dawn of bookmaklng and printing and Illustrating Illus-trating that the first book plates were not as book plates are today. A king or queen or lord or lady did not have printed a mere tag, reading : "This book belongs to Beatrice Aragon." Instead, Beatrice of Aragon, for her book plate, had her picture together with the picture pic-ture of her husband, Matthias L Corn-lnus, Corn-lnus, king of Hungary 1443-90, at the foot of page two la their Joint book. "De Splrltu Sanctu," written by Slgis-mundus Slgis-mundus de Slglsmundas and illuminated illuminat-ed by Attavante deil AttavsntL All In all, those early days of books had much In tbelr favor. You didn't have to worry much about borrowed volumes. You had no worries, either, about sectional bookcases. Your one volume was per se a first edition. |