bookplates Vintage Bookplates.

This is a vintage Antioch Ex Libris Gnome bookplate.  Bookplates are labels placed in books to indicate ownership, with Ex Libris being Latin for from the library of.  The gnome design was created by artist John Huchthausen for the Antioch Bookplate Company in the early 1940s.  The bookplates are gummed or self-adhesive labels that can be applied to books.