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Skeleton letterpress bookplates

David Pescovitz at 2:58 pm Thu, Sep 18, 2008

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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)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • 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? ; )