BRIAN NORTH LEE ; Bookplate historian and collector

From: The Independent - London | Date: March 5, 2007| Author: John Blatchly | Copyright information

Brian North Lee was an indefatigable scholar and historian of bookplates, producing a stream of books on the subject. "There is something beguiling," he wrote, "in the prospect of an exploration which could fill lifetimes of leisure", and he argued cogently not only for the value of his work in exploring the history of collecting and the taste (and genealogy) of collectors, but also for the importance of bookplates and book labels as, often, artistic examples of printed ephemera. In 1972 he w...

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