Skeleton letterpress bookplates

Manifesto Letterpress sells a lovely set of twelve letterpress bookplates in a nice box, now on sale for $9.95. Dreade Of Death Bookplates (Manifesto)

• [Lady Katey]

  Holy cow, I printed those, when I was with that company.

  Acid free paper!

• [meek]

  Whoa, I just drew a skeleton bookplate for a friend this summer!

  http://line-weight.com/exlibristhinked.jpg

  Do people still use bookplates? I think they’re awesome, but the only people I’ve run into who use them are classicists…and you don’t run into too many of those.

• [wolfiesma]

  I usually give my books away the minute I finish reading them, but the bookplates give me pause for thought. I really love getting used books that have other people’s templates in them (though none so cool as these dia de los muertos ones.)

• [adonai]

  My books don’t have bookplates, but I think now they might have to…

• [simplewonder]

  These go on ye olde xmas list along with stuff from BlueQ and PopInk for folks I have no fucking ideas whatsoever. Merry Holidays, boingboing.

• [Lady Katey]

  There are also matching coasters. Or were, maybe they sold out by now.

  Fun fact for Boing Boing readers: Manifesto Press is located right down the hall from R Stevens’ studio.

• [neurolux]

  Twelve for 10 bucks? For the size of my library, it’d be cheaper to get a set of rubber stamps.

• [wolfiesma]

  It looks like the skeleton is clinging to a boob on the tree.

• [Beanolini]

  The one of the skeleton playing the zither/dulcimer is from Holbein’s Dances of Death, which can be seen in full online.

• [David Pescovitz]

  Is that so hard to fathom? ; )