Crossword-Solution: BOOKPLATES
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| Set of ex libris | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ACEEMZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BOOKPLATES (5)
Time and again I have fished musty books out of bins in front of bookstalls, bought them and borne them home with me simply because they had upon their covers the bookplates of their former owners.
His enthusiasm thoroughly aroused, Win examined volume after volume, lingering over the quaint bookplates.
The name labels or bookplates found in English libraries range from the early dated plates of the close of the seventeenth century to the present day.
Still, always provided the game attracts him, the hobby-horseman has fair chances, and is inspired by motives hardly less noble than those which distinguish the pursuit of bookplates (_ex libris_), postage-stamps and other objects which have attracted men to devote not only their leisure and their spare cash, but often their whole energy and nearly all their resources.
Thus in 1593 Theodor de Bry issued an emblem book _Emblemata nobilitati et vulgo scitu digna_ (text in Latin and German), in which each emblem is enclosed in an engraved border, mostly quite meaningless and bad as regards composition, but of a brilliancy in the "goldsmiths' style" which to lovers of bookplates will suggest the best work of Sherborn or French.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1988).