bookplate
noun
- label affixed to a book to indicate ownership
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: From book + plate.
- A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.
“By the bed there was a bookcase with old French novels, left-behind Frederick Forsyths, odd leather-bound volumes of history and memoirs with the coroneted Kessler bookplate.”
verb
Etymology: From book + plate.
- To affix a bookplate to (a book).