Sherlock Holmes items from Guymon collection at California Antiquarian Book Fair.

Ned Guymon with his
first wife, Ernestine, in 1923.

There will be an exhibition featuring Sherlock Holmes materials from Occidental College's Ned Guymon Collection of Mystery and Detective Fiction during the 55th California International Antiquarian Book Fair on February 10–12, 2023, in Pasadena. The collection is composed of some 16,000 items; one item is an 1887 copy of A Study in Scarlet (also includes Guymon's bookplate).

 There also is a Guymon collection at Bowling Green State University.

Bookplate collections.

Bookplate, LAPL

The Library of Congress has created a Flickr album of bookplates from one of its collections, which includes those of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Charlie Chaplin, Jack London, spy and mystery fan Woodrow Wilson, artist Francis Millet (who died on the Titanic), and "the doctor for weak railroads" Newman Erb (which includes an illustration of Edgar Allan Poe, left).

Harvard's Houghton Library has a nifty collection, featuring items such as the Alice in Wonderland bookplate of Harcourt Amory. Another bookplate collection is housed at the Los Angeles Public Library.

U-DE bookplates: Houdini et al.

Calimedico Library
bookplate, UC-Berkeley
William Augustus Brewer
Bookplate Collection

Among the approximately 3,000 items in the online William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection from University of Delaware Library (which will eventually number 13,000 items), bookplates from the following individuals are represented:

• Calvin Coolidge
• Harry Houdini
• Illustrator Howard Pyle (teacher of N. C. Wyeth)
• Eleanor Roosevelt and FDR
• Theodore Roosevelt

(Hat tip to PhiloBiblos)

Bookplates at Yale.

The March/April 2010 issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine has a piece on the "psychology of the bookplate" by Alex Beam. Accompanying it are two neat slideshows of bookplates in Yale's collection.

(Hat tip to the Fine Books blog. About the image: A bookplate we can all relate to, from Carl H. Getz, copyright Yale's Arts of the Book Collection)

Mystery-related bookplates.

Lewis Jaffe, on his blog Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie, has a few mystery-related ones posted:

• E. V. and Laura Vanderstoep's bookplates with fingerprints

• S. Davis Levin's Conan Doyle Collection

• Sherlock Holmes-related bookplates here and here from bookseller-publisher Helan Halbach

• One for Muriel Clark Corby with a raven, which seems Poe-inspired to me.

• Arthur Conan Doyle's bookplate

• H. P. Lovecraft's bookplate

• Erle Stanley Gardner bookplates

And there's also the "Insane Department" at Philadelphia Hospital.

As I'm a Noel Coward fan, be sure to check out Sir Noel's bookplate.

About the image: Sherlockian Bookplates by William E. Butler, published by Primrose Hill Press

Bookplate design.

The online exhibition "Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera" from the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine division includes bookplates with medically related subjects. Go here to see sample bookplates from individuals such as Danish actor-book collector Jean Hersholt and physician-writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

About the image: Jean Hersholt, NYPL.