After 82 posts (including this one), I need to introduce a new tag. Why, You Ask? Because more Norwegian exlibris exist than the Norwegian Exlibris Catalogue has registered, and it’s become harder for me to track which ones aren’t registered. I quite often write about individual exlibris, either in the category Exlibris Friday/Exlibris of the […]
It looks like I have infected enough people around me with the exlibris virus: they are now actively looking in their own book collections, in their relatives’ collections, in antiquarian shops and at flea markets for exlibris, and when they find something, they often show me a picture of it! A few weeks ago, another […]
🇬🇧 The following text is the manuscript for my evening talk about Norwegian Exlibris for the Norwegian Book and Library History Society, held on 8th September 2026 at the Slottsbibliotek at the National Library of Oslo. The text is written in Norwegian. The reading time is approximately 50 minutes.🇳🇴 Den følgende tekst er skrevet som […]
Let’s look at the other exlibris I have found on Finn.no. Growths Karsten Kristoffersen’s exlibris in the collected works of Knut Hamsun, 1921. The motif shows a lyre growing on a tree branch. I can see there’s an artist’s signature in the bottom right corner, but I cannot quite make out what it says. I […]
It’s been a while since I last updated you on exlibris in books on Finn.no, THE Norwegian second-hand market app. Lists and Favourites I mentioned before that I have an ongoing search for certain exlibris-related terms, and there’s almost daily something popping up, and rarely is it actually exlibris stuff. The ads are mostly from […]
