{"id":3473,"date":"2010-03-26T02:58:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T10:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2010-03-26T03:04:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T11:04:13","slug":"book-plate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=3473","title":{"rendered":"Book-Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This stereotype <q>ex libris<\/q> book-plate <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/simunek_obratil_445x592.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"592\" alt=\"[image of woman, naked but for shoes and a hat, straddling a book]\" style=\"display: block ; border: 0 ; margin-top: 1em ; margin-bottom: 1em ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/> would probably not be of much interest to me except that it was designed by Karel &Scaron;im&#367;nek (1869 &ndash; 1942), the very same artist who did this lithographic book-plate <a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Simunek_bookplate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Simunek_bookplate_450x419.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"421\" alt=\"[image of young woman reading on couch, in an early 20th-Century undergarment, stockings, and one red shoe]\" style=\"display: block ; border: 0 ; margin-top: 1em ; margin-bottom: 1em ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"?p=1923\">a copy of which I acquired on 16 July<\/a>.<\/p> <p>I prefer the lithograph, in part because what the woman in the stereotype appears to be doing cannot be good for the book.  And, while raised bands on the spine of a book might have peculiar <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">u&#382;ite&#269;nost<\/span> to a <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">nemrava<\/span>, they were an artefact of better-quality book-binding (though sometimes false bands are used to counterfeit such book-binding), and hence of what may be expected to be a more valuable volume.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This stereotype ex libris book-plate would probably not be of much interest to me except that it was designed by Karel &Scaron;im&#367;nek (1869 &ndash; 1942), the very same artist who did this lithographic book-plate a copy of which I acquired on 16 July. I prefer the lithograph, in part because what the woman in the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,5,4],"tags":[654,653,639,655,481,656,657,791],"class_list":["post-3473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-personal","category-public","tag-book-plate","tag-bookplate","tag-erotica","tag-ex-libris","tag-illustration","tag-karel-simunek","tag-karl-simunek","tag-stereotype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}