Oscar Wilde bookplate

Whilst my current bookplate designs are under development, here is an example of one I made several years ago. Based on a poem by Oscar Wilde and reproduced from one of my linocuts, the bookplate comes in packets of 20. 

From this week, a limited number of Oscar Wilde bookplates will available through Playing in the Attic, 119a Sturt Street, Ballarat, Vic 3350. Phone: 0428 580 309. The shop also stocks a selection of Moth Woman Press books and zines and is open from Wednesday - Saturday.

The Facebook page of Playing in the Attic, which includes updates on opening hours during COVID-19, is HERE.

Oscar Wilde according to Dorothy Parker

Oscar Wilde Bookplate, 1987,  linocut

Here is one from the vault. Pictured above is of my early bookplates, which incorporates a short verse by the venerable Oscar Wilde. A poet, prose writer and playwright par excellence, he was also a celebrated wit, as was once observed by Dorothy Parker, herself no slouch in that department:

Oscar Wilde

If, with the literate I am

Impelled to write an epigram,

I never seek to take the credit

We all assume that Oscar said it.

From The Portable Dorothy Parker, Penguin Classics, Deluxe Edition (paperback) 2006. Original edition first published in 1944.