He often had books and manuscripts inscribed by these artists and writers.

We take our highly-polished books scholastically inscribed in a little crabbed hand.

Finally, King Coyote's library included some books inscribed in the King's own hand, containing designs for his greatest masterpieces.

For the ancients it was a sacred book inscribed in the heavens, a key to predicting the future of king and state.

Thereupon, he said, he saw a vision of angels bearing a book with all his sins inscribed.

On his election as vice president, he sent Woodrow Wilson a book, inscribed "From your only Vice."

Collectors can be "hungry," he added, for anything to do with a favorite author "even if, as with Hemingway, it's a book inscribed by one of his wives."

He holds a book inscribed with the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, Alpha and Omega, between which all human thought is contained.

Winged saints armed with stone swords held aloft books inscribed with the names and occupations of the dead.

Like a book inscribed with a few words of Latin.