Learn English – “a label for a book identifying its owner” called

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What do you call the thing – a small imprinted piece of paper – that an owner attaches inside the front of a book to mark it as his own?

Best Answer

It’s a book-plate, in the OED’s definition:

A label, usually pasted inside the front cover of a book, bearing the name or crest of the owner, or other device indicating ownership, position in a library, etc.