Bookplate

Origin

book + plate

Full definition of bookplate

Noun

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.
• 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. - Alan Hollinghurst, , (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, 259)