Also known as book tickets, there are words and pictures in them, which integrate painting, carving and printing. They can be classified as seal cutting and printmaking art, and people often call them "gems on paper" and "microprinting".
A mark used by bibliophiles to mark the ownership of books and express personal interests. Also known as book printing. Seal script appeared in China in the Western Han Dynasty. In order to identify the ownership of books, ancient bibliophiles often put seals on books. The seal is generally engraved with name, person, serial number, hometown, ancestral home, library, official position, logo, giving and receiving, warning, notes, statement, etc.
The seal of ancient books in China is of great value for future generations to understand the collection and circulation of documents and to identify the versions of ancient books.
Modern libraries often stamp their books and materials. The full names are "Peking University Library Collection" and "Beijing Library Collection". Some books have dates or designs on them. Others use colorless steel seals. The collection chapter of a book is usually covered in the bottom center of the title page, which also has a seal. One page is fixed in the book, and the last page has a chapter in the bottom center. Periodicals and other materials often cover their books on the cover.
Book stamps are mostly square and rectangular in shape, and there are other irregular shapes. The stamps collected in modern libraries have various shapes, including rectangles and squares, circles, triangles, prisms and ellipses. There are many kinds of materials for book stamps, such as wood, stone, metal, animal bones, ivory, plastic, plexiglass and so on.
Book stamps: Compared with printed collections such as stamps, China's book stamps have several characteristics: most of them are hand-made, hand-printed, and color matching. Generally, only dozens of stamps are printed, and their technology and rarity are not comparable to those of machine-made printed materials. Many tickets were written by famous artists in China, such as Li Hua, Li Hua, Gu Yuan, Wu Ming, Chen, and so on. They design, carve and print by themselves, so that each book ticket becomes an independent print work. In particular, some of their book tickets are specially made for famous writers and artists. For example, Mr. Wu Ming made them for the poet Ai Qing, and Ms. Chen made them for Duanmu Hongliang. They are all famous writers and ticket owners. These book tickets are particularly artistic, with strong culture and bookish atmosphere. According to the convention, the creator of the book ticket should personally sign each book ticket, so that you can kill two birds with one stone by collecting the artist's signature as well as a book ticket! The original book tickets were printed by hand with printmaking technology. From the picture or back of the book ticket, you can see the board marks and impressions left in the printing process, which can not be achieved by batch printing. Generally, the simulated printed book tickets are not signed by the author, so there will be no impression. For example, Peking University and Nankai University respectively publish tickets for anniversary commemorative books. Book tickets are well designed, the patterns are of historical value, and the publishing house handles them fairly. So it was sold out in a few days, which undoubtedly did a good thing for the popularization of the art form of book tickets, but from the collection value, it was only a set of limited printing. We should also establish a sense of quality when collecting books tickets, and pay attention to collecting books tickets of famous artists or celebrities. For example, Li Ruihuan and Qian Zhongshu all commissioned printmakers to make and use book tickets, which are often more valuable for collection after a long time. In addition, we must constantly improve our artistic appreciation ability in the collection practice in order to collect real book tickets. Stick to it, I believe I will have endless fun in the collection process.