Bookplates

Set of five custom linocut personalized bookplates designed by British illustrator and printmaker, Hannah Cousins. 

The earliest-known bookplates belonged to a Carthusian monk in the fifteenth-century. For hundreds of years since, readers have used beautifully crafted bookplates to mark book ownership.

This design features Clerestory's signature arch in light blue with flowers spilling through. These flowers - iris, lily of the valley, poppy, tweedia, and ivy - represent themes in the stories of our work. "Ex Libris," in English, means "from the library of" and each bookplate includes blank space for your name.