bookplate

Etymology

From book +‎ plate.

Noun

bookplate (plural bookplates)

1. 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.
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     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.

Verb

bookplate (third-person singular simple present bookplates, present participle bookplating, simple past and past participle bookplated)

1. (transitive) To affix a bookplate to (a book).