In Oxford this August the Bookplate Society is organizing the nineteenth FISAE International Ex-Libris Congress, and with this special issue of the journal we bid welcome to all our visitors from overseas.

Editorial.

Visitors to Oxford Ashmolean Museum this August may have seen an unfamiliar sight: a gallery displaying several hundred smallish pieces of paper containing pictorial designs, some of admittedly inferior workmanship and a number in less than pristine condition.

Pictorial bookplates in Britain.