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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 318922, member: 5833&quot;]I&#039;m in for FR Peters, owner.&nbsp; Have frequently seen owners&#039; names, in script, written on the fly leaf of books.&nbsp; Once people learned cursive writing, they did not tend to print, particularly not their own name. People also used to sometimes write their location, such as New York, N.Y., under their name, also in cursive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Authors, when signing only their name or a very short &#039;To so &amp; so&#039; + signature, tend to put it on the title page, near their name there.&nbsp; They use the flyleaf mainly if they want to write something longer, as Angell did here:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]106007[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>You seem to be equating &#039;signature&#039; with &#039;autograph&#039; &amp; restricting &#039;autograph&#039; to the signature of the author.&nbsp; Signing a book &amp; putting your name in it can also be the same thing.&nbsp; I have spent, &amp; no doubt will continue to spend, my fair share of time researching something in the hope that the item is more valuable than it turns out to be, so have at it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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