bookplate

exlibris A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.
2005 : By the bed there was a bookcase with old French novels, left-behind Frederick Forsyths, odd leather-bound volumes of history and memoirs with the coroneted Kessler bookplate. - w:Alan Hollinghurst|Alan Hollinghurst, w:The Line of Beauty|The Line of Beauty, (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, 259)