Lexicon of bookplate artists

The Lexicon of Bookplate Artists is an artist's dictionary on the subject of bookplate , written by the graphic collector Manfred Neureiter (* 1937).

The work was published for the first time in 1998. In 2018 it was published with 674 pages in the fifth, revised, expanded and corrected edition by the Berlin-based publisher Pro Business Digital Printing & Copyservice ,

The work contains brief biographical information on artists with surnames and first names, place of birth and death and their respective dates, nationality and the main activity carried out - for example as a graphic artist - as well as information on monographs or work directories on these artists.

Bibliographical information

• Manfred Neureiter (Hrsg.): Lexicon of ex-libris artists
  • 1st edition. Neureiter, Konstanz 1998.
  • [2. Edition]. Pro Business, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86805-462-0 .
  • 3rd, revised edition. Pro Business, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86386-449-1 .
  • 4th, revised, expanded and corrected edition. Pro Business, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86460-394-5 .
  • 5th, revised, expanded and corrected edition. Pro Business, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96409-034-8 .

literature

• Peter Neumann: Review of: Manfred Neureiter: Register of Ex-Libris Artists in an extended edition . In: From the NF antiquarian bookshop . 7, 2009, No. 6, p. 412.
• Peter Lahusen: Review of Manfred Neureiter: Lexicon of bookplate artists . In: Marginalien 214, 2014, No. 2, pp. 80–82.