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An autograph book (also known as an autograph album, a memory album or friendship album) [1] is a book for collecting the autographs of others. Traditionally they were exchanged among friends, colleagues, and classmates to fill with poems , drawings, personal messages, small pieces of verse, and other mementos .
An autograph is a person's own handwriting or signature. The word autograph comes from Ancient Greek (αὐτός, autós, "self" and γράφω, gráphō, "write"), and can mean more specifically: [1] [2] a manuscript written by the author of its content. [1] [2] In this meaning the term autograph can often be used interchangeably with ...
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The earliest known examples of printed bookplates are German, and date from the 15th century. One of the best known is a small hand-coloured woodcut representing a shield of arms supported by an angel, which was pasted into books presented to the Carthusian monastery of Buxheim by Brother Hildebrand Brandenburg of Biberach , about the year 1480 ...
An autograph or holograph is a manuscript or document written in its author's or composer's hand. The meaning of "autograph" as a document penned entirely by the author of its content (as opposed to a typeset document or one written by a copyist or scribe other than the author) overlaps with that of "holograph".
Pete Rose, who died Monday, is in a wheelchair surrounded by former Cincinnati Reds teammates Dave Concepcion, George Foster, Tony Perez and Ken Griffey Sr. at the Music City sports collectibles ...
Autograph collecting is the practice of collecting autographs of famous persons. Some of the most popular categories of autograph subjects are politicians, military soldiers, athletes, movie stars, artists, social and religious leaders, scientists, astronauts, and authors.