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The Book Pharmacy, based in Berlin, aims as much to bring readers the right books—like a personal librarian—as to tack an “Rx” to ex libris.

It was very nice of you to write me such an extensive letter upon finding a book on your bookshelf with the ex libris of my daughter, Margot.

These are literally derived “ex libris,” and the business cannot be indulged, as a general thing, without in some sense despoiling books.

Our copy is in the original full calf gold stamped binding, with the ex libris of James Maidment.

We had always thought that the first of these phrases was plain sailing, and that the second meant, "this a book of John's books—or, one of John's books," ex libris Joannis.