What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 12

Having looked at a number of ideas for using your coat of arms in your office, today we're going to start a two-part look at using heraldry in your library.

Please keep in mind that while the examples we are going to present here are usages that relate specifically to a library area, many of the suggestions we have made for other parts of the house could be just as appropriately used in the library as well.

So, to begin:

The most obvious feature of a library is, naturally enough, the books contained within it.

One particularly nice, albeit very expensive, way to include your coat of arms is to have them painted into an old-fashioned book of hours, like this:

Or to have your heraldry tooled or engraved on the covers of books.

But those two methods, however appropriate, are generally in excess of the budgetary constraints that most of us have.

Still, do you know what is a great way to heraldically mark your ownership of these books? Why, armorial bookplates, of course!

Heraldic bookplates can and do take many different forms. The examples given below are from a range of years and of several different styles, but here, too, their formatting is really limited only by your own imagination. So let's look at these as a starting place for inspiration, and not limit ourselves to just those types we see here.

These last three examples are ones that I have done for myself, by customizing some heraldic clipart that I purchased on-line.

Do you find any of these examples to be a source of inspiration for how you might use your own coat of arms to create one or more designs for heraldic bookplates?