I found an old stamp at the thrift store today that allows for up to six lines of personlized text and I figured it might be a fun way to mark the books in my collection. I thrift most of my books and love finding writing or stamps in them, especially if it makes me laugh, so why not add some of my own?
So I turn to reddit for some inspiration. If you could stamp any text into your books, what funny/parctical/absurd/wicked text would you choose?
Before bookplates, there were book curses. Books were so valuable that the owners didn’t just mark them with their name, they put in a curse to deter thieves and people not returning borrowed books.
It goes back all the way to tablets from ancient Assyria and Babylonia where book thieves were held to be equally despicable to murderers and blasphemers.
They got a little more concise during the middle ages.
I have my own book plate. Although I still want to rework the illustration sometime from a paper paste-in to something I can have carved as a stamp.