Following my previous post of my parents’ bookplates, I was commissioned to create a personal bookplate by one of the readers of the Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie blog! Designing someone’s personal bookplate is always an honor – it’s a little piece of art that aims to be a personal reflection of the client, and one that will hopefully be utilized for many years.

The content of this piece made it particularly fun to design. This twisty creature is a salamander, and it is part of a finial found topping a building of significance to Mr. Griffin. The building itself was erected in the Victorian era, and this fellow was put on top to protect the structure from fire (salamanders themselves being a symbol of fire), which he has done admirably. Twin columns of delicate ginkgo leaves and the curvy fluted roof were some of my favorite parts to draw!

Many thanks to Mark for contacting me to design his bookplate!

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