Large, high-quality collection of bookplates. Europe, USA and Palestine, the 20th century (dozens of earlier bookplates).

The collection comprises some 1700 bookplates, many of them were designed by artists, and many of them are prints, woodcuts and engravings. Including bookplates made by Hermann Struck, Ilya Schor, Yaakov Steinhardt, Joseph Budko and many others. A number of bookplates were designed by Leonid Kuris.
The collection includes bookplates made for universities, public institutions and libraries – the Hebrew University, The Weizmann Institute of Science, the Technion, the Jewish National and University Library (now the National Library of Israel), the Ben Zvi Institute (Yad Ben Zvi), the Israel Museum, and more; hundreds of bookplates of community libraries, synagogue libraries, school libraries and more, from Jewish communities all over the USA, Canada and elsewhere; and more. In addition, the collection contains several large sub-collections of bookplates, made by various artists for the libraries of bookplate collectors, including Raphael Grunzweig, Toivo Asikainen, Dr. Hermann Wiese and Mario de Filippis.
Numerous duplicate copies.

Enclosed: • Exhibition catalogue, "Bookplates from the Collection of Raphael Grunzweig" (Hebrew). Ra'anana: Raphael Grunzweig and the Ra'anana Municipality, Department of Culture, 1995. • List of exhibits in the exhibition "Leonid Kuris, Ex-Libris Exhibition" (Hebrew), held at the Tel Aviv University, the Sourasky Central Library. Tel Aviv, 1994. • Advertising posters of both exhibitions. • Letters by the owners and representatives of the libraries of some of the bookplates.

Size and condition vary. Good to fair condition. Many of the bookplates mounted on paper leaves (taped).

Provenance: The Raphael Grunzweig Collection.